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Top 10 Performing Stocks To Watch Right Now: Canterbury Park Holding Corporation(CPHC)
Canterbury Park Holding Corporation conducts pari-mutuel wagering operations and hosts unbanked card games at its Canterbury Park racetrack and card room facility in Shakopee, Minnesota. The company operates in three segments: Horse Racing, Card Room, and Concessions. The Horse Racing segment operates year-round pari-mutuel wagering on simulcast horse races, and live thoroughbred and quarter horse races held on a seasonal basis. The Card Room segment offers unbanked card games, which include poker and casino games. The Concessions segment provides food and beverage services for simulcast and live racing, and the card room, as well as for the special events. The company also offers facilities for special events, such as snowmobile races, arts and crafts shows, trade shows, concerts, fundraisers, automobile shows and competitions, vehicle and boat storage, and private parties. In addition, it provides advertising signage space; leases excess parking lot space for various aut omotive activities and vehicle storage; and sells various daily pari-mutuel publications. Canterbury Park Holding Corporation was founded in 1994 and is based in Shakopee, Minnesota.
Top 10 Performing Stocks To Watch Right Now: Garmin Ltd.(GRMN)
Garmin Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets global positioning system (GPS) enabled products and other navigation, communication, and information products for the automotive/mobile, outdoor, fitness, marine, and general aviation markets worldwide. The company offers a range of automotive navigation products, and various products and applications designed for the mobile GPS market; GPS enabled handheld products for hunters, hikers, geocachers, outdoors enthusiasts, cyclists, and golfers; dog tracking systems; tracker systems; and training assistants for athletes. It also provides handhelds, network products and multifunction displays, fixed-mount GPS/chartplotter products, instruments, fish finders, radars, autopilots, VHF radios, marine networking products, and sounder products. In addition, the company offers GPS-enabled navigation, VHF communications transmitters/receivers, multi-function displays, electronic flight instrumen tation systems, automatic flight control systems, traffic advisory systems and traffic collision avoidance systems, terrain awareness and warning systems, instrument landing system receivers, surveillance products, audio panels, and cockpit datalink systems. The company?s sells its products through a network of independent dealers and distributors, as well as through original equipment manufacturers. Garmin Ltd. was founded in 1990 and is based in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Jeff Brown]
Use of GPS devices is soaring, which should be good for an established player like Garmin (symbol GRMN), one of the trailblazers in global positioning system navigation. But Garmin, a leader when GPS mainly served pilots and boat owners, faces growing competition now that navigation chips are embedded in everything from smart phones to tablets to cameras.
The result is a shrinking business
. Sales of automotive and mobile devices, together accounting for about 55% of Garmin's revenue, fell from $1.67 billion in 2010 to $1.49 billion in 2012. Although the Switzerland-based company is pushing hard to increase sales of in-dash navigation systems for vehicles, it warned in its recent annual report that revenues from the critical automotive business, which makes dashboard and portable units for vehicles, are likely to continue falling. Overall, revenues fell by 2% in 2012, and Garmin's earnings of $2.78 per share were far below the $3.51 per share the company made in 2009.The firm's well-regarded high-end products, such as navigation systems
for aircraft, enjoy a relatively secure market because stringent regulation by the federal government keeps new entrants at bay. But those markets are not big enough to offset Garmin's challenges in consumer products. At $34.72, the stock sells for 14 times estimated 2013 profits, which are expected to be down from last year. That's too high. (Share prices are as of April 12.) The shares yield a generous 5.2%, and Garmin has gradually raised its dividend in recent years. Although the company says it is confident that it can maintain its payout, a fall in the share price could easily offset the income from Garmin's dividend. - [By Jonas Elmerraji]
Garmin is a bit of an unlikely name on this list. While the other names are staid blue-chip stocks, Garmin's $6.4 billion market capitalization puts it squarely in mid-cap territory. Even so, the special opportunity in this stock is presenting a big buying opportunity for Garmin right now.
Garmin makes global positioning devices for cars, boats, planes and fitness enthusiasts. That exposure to all corners of the GPS market is significant—and it's the sole differentiator that keeps Garmin head and shoulders above peers. It means that Garmin is able to pour R&D into big-ticket electronics (such as the $50,000 G1000 avionics suite for small planes) and then transition the tech to the more margin-sensitive consumer market. The result is net profit margins that consistently scrape up against the 20 percent mark.
In spite of recent successes for Garmin—namely the growth of its innovative fitness offerings in the last two years—investors don't see how this stock can continue to perform at a high level. That's a big part of why Garmin is consistently one of the most heavily shorted mid-cap names on the Nasdaq. A spotless balance sheet with approximately $3 billion in cash and investment and no debt makes Garmin an exciting opportunity this year. As I write, the firm pays out a 5.43 percent dividend yield—the biggest on this list.
10 Best Insurance Stocks To Invest In 2014: Erg(ERG.MI)
ERG S.p.A., through its subsidiaries, engages in refining and marketing, power and gas, and renewable energy businesses primarily in Italy. Its Refining and Marketing business supplies and processes crude oils, as well as sells refined products; and distributes and markets fuel and specialties, such as lubricants, liquefied petroleum gas, and bitumen through its retail network of approximately 3,300 service stations. The company?s Power and Gas business is involved in the production and marketing of thermoelectric power, steam, and gas. It owns and operates a 528 megawatts capacity power plant fuelled by a gas obtained from a process of gasification of asphalt; and owns the Centrale Nord plant with a capacity of 480 megawatts, including the combined-cycle repowering plant fuelled by natural gas. The company, through a joint venture, also engages in the development of a liquid natural gas regasification plant at Priolo, Sicily. ERG S.p.A.?s Renewable Energy Sources busine ss generates electricity from renewable sources with an installed capacity of 520 megawatts through wind farms, as well as through its photovoltaic plant; and treats solid and liquid waste on behalf of third parties. In addition, the company operates logistics systems; and in the wholesale market through selling refining products, such as diesel, fuel oils, LPG, and bitumens to the retailers. ERG S.p.A. was founded in 1938 and is headquartered in Genoa, Italy. ERG S.p.A. is a subsidiary of San Quirico S.pA.
Top 10 Performing Stocks To Watch Right Now: ANSYS Inc (ANSS.O)
ANSYS, Inc. (ANSYS) develops and globally markets engineering simulation software and services used by engineers, designers, researchers and students across a range of industries and academia, including aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, electronics, biomedical, energy and defense. The Company distributes its ANSYS suite of simulation technologies through a global network of independent resellers and distributors (collectively, channel partners) and direct sales offices in global locations. The Company�� product portfolio consists of ANSYS Workbench, multiphysics product, structural mechanics, fluid dynamics, explicit dynamics, electromagnetic, system simulation, simulation process and data management, academic, high-performance computing (HPC), geometry interfaces, meshing and Apache design low-power electronic solutions. On August 1, 2011, the Company acquired Apache Design, Inc.
ANSYS Workbench
ANSYS Workbench is the framework upon whic h the Company�� suite of advanced engineering simulation technologies is built. The ANSYS Workbench platform delivers productivity, enabling Simulation Driven Product Development.
Multiphysics
The Company�� multiphysics product suite allows engineers and designers to create virtual prototypes of their designs operating under multiphysics conditions. ANSYS multiphysics software enables engineers and scientists to simulate the interactions between structural mechanics, heat transfer, fluid flow and electromagnetics all within a single, engineering simulation environment.
Structural Mechanics
The Company�� structural mechanics product suite offers simulation tools for product design. These tools have capabilities that cover a range of analysis types, elements, contacts, materials, equation solvers and coupled physics capabilities all focused towards understanding and solving complex design problems.
Fluid Dy namics
The Company�� fluid dynamics product! s! uite offers modeling of fluid flow and other related physical phenomena. Fluid flow analysis capabilities provide all the tools needed to design new fluids equipment and to troubleshoot already existing installations. The fluid dynamics product suite contains general-purpose computational fluid dynamics software and specialized products to address specific industry applications.
Explicit Dynamics
The Company�� explicit dynamics product suite simulates events involving short-duration, large-strain, large-deformation, fracture, complete material failure or structural problems with complex interactions. This product suite is used for simulating physical events that occur in a short period of time and may result in material damage or failure.
Electromagnetics
The Company�� electromagnetics product suite provides field simulation software for designing high-performance electronic and electromechanical products. The software streamlines the design process and predicts performance - all prior to building a prototype - of mobile communication and Internet-access devices, broadband networking components and systems, integrated circuits (IC) and printed circuit boards (PCB), as well as electromechanical systems such as automotive components and power electronics equipment.
System Simulation
The Company delivers the ability to perform complete simulation studies as a system for some of the product designs This is accomplished through a complete set of physics solutions that are integrated into a multiphysics capabilities set. A collaborative simulation environment provides modeling scalability for evaluating entire systems, including three dimensional (3-D) high-fidelity models, multibody dynamics, circuit reduced-order models, and any combination of these.
Simulation Process and Data Management
ANSYS Engineering Knowledge Manager (ANSYS EKM) is a solution for simulation-based process and data management! . A! NSYS! EKM ! provides solutions to all levels of a company, enabling an organization to address the issues associated with simulation data, including backup and archival, traceability and audit trail, process automation and intellectual property protection.
Academic
The Company�� academic product suite provides a portfolio of academic products based on several usage tiers: associate, research and teaching. Each tier includes various noncommercial products that bundle a range of physics and advanced coupled field solver capabilities. The academic product suite provides entry-level tools intended for class demonstrations and hands-on instruction. It provides flexible terms of use and more complex analysis suitable for doctoral and post-doctoral research projects. The Company also provides a product suitable for student use at home.
High-Performance Computing
The Company�� HPC product suite enables insight into product performance. The HPC product suite delivers cross-physics parallel processing capabilities for the full spectrum of the Company�� simulation software by supporting structural, fluids, thermal and electromagnetic simulations in a single HPC solution.
Geometry Interfaces
The Company offers geometry handling solutions for engineering simulation in an integrated environment with direct interfaces to all CAD systems, support of additional readers and translators. It also offers an integrated geometry modeler focused on analysis.
Meshing
Creating a mesh that transforms a physical model into a mathematical model is a critical and foundational step in almost every engineering simulation study. The Company�� meshing technology provides a means to balance these requirements, obtaining the right mesh for each simulation in the most automated way possible.
Apache Design Low-Power Electronic Solutions
The Company�� suite of Apache software delivers power analysis and optim! ization! ! platform! s along with integrated methodologies that provide capabilities for managing the power budget, power delivery integrity, and power-induced noise in an electronic design, from initial prototyping to system sign-off. These solutions deliver correlation to silicon measurement, and the capacity to handle an entire electronic system, including IC, package, and PCB.
Top 10 Performing Stocks To Watch Right Now: Essential Energy Services Ltd (ESN.TO)
Essential Energy Services Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides oilfield services that are related to the ongoing servicing of producing wells and new drilling activity for oil and gas producers in western Canada and Colombia. The company operates in two segments, Well Servicing, and Downhole Tools and Rentals. The Well Servicing segment offers well completion and production/workover services through its fleet of coil tubing rigs, nitrogen and fluid pumpers, service rigs, rod rigs, and hybrid drilling rigs. As of March 12, 2012, it had a fleet of 49 coil tubing rigs, 10 nitrogen pumpers, 15 fluid pumpers, 57 service rigs, 14 rod rigs, and 5 hybrid drilling rigs in Canada; and 2 coil tubing rigs, 2 nitrogen pumpers, 2 service rigs, and 3 rod rigs in Colombia. The Downhole Services and Rentals segment engages in the sale and rental of downhole tools, including the Tryton MSFS, retrievable and permanent packers, flow control accessories, liner hanger systems, bridge plugs, casing scrapers, cement retainers, and selective/straddle simulation tools for completion, production, and workover projects. This segment is also involved in the rental of oilfield equipment comprising drill pipe, heavy weight pipe, collars, degassers, blowout preventer rams, spools, pipe racks, handling tools, stabilizers, and reamers. Essential Energy Services Ltd. is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.
Top 10 Performing Stocks To Watch Right Now: Concurrent Computer Corporation(CCUR)
Concurrent Computer Corporation provides solutions that enable the seamless delivery, management, and monetization of video on any screen. Its screen-independent video delivery and media data solutions create a 360 degree view of the consumer video experience, which is built on video firsts and patented technology. The company provides advanced advertising to customers in the cable, telecommunications, wireless, Web, advertising, and content development industries by harnessing the full potential of video. Its video solutions consist of software, hardware, and services for streaming video and collecting media data based on cross services data aggregation, logistics, and intelligence applications; and real-time products consist of Linux and other real-time operating systems, and software development tools to various companies seeking high-performance, real-time computer solutions in the military, aerospace, financial, and automotive markets around the world. Concurrent Comp uter Corporation was founded in 1966 and is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia.
Top 10 Performing Stocks To Watch Right Now: Gwr Resources Inc. (GWQ.V)
GWR Resources Inc., a junior exploration company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in Canada. The company explores gold, copper, and magnetite properties. Its principal property includes the Lac La Hache porphyry copper-gold-silver/skarn copper-magnetite-gold-silver property located in the Quesnel Trough in British Columbia. The company was incorporated in 1987 and is based in Lac La Hache, Canada.
Top 10 Performing Stocks To Watch Right Now: Fab-Form Industries Ltd. (FBF.V)
Fab-Form Industries Ltd. develops, manufactures, and distributes fabric-based technology to form concrete footings, foundations, and walls for building structures. The company manufactures forming products using poly membranes to form and damp-proof concrete. Its products include Fastfoot footing forms, Fastbag point load footing forms, and Fast-Tube column forms. The company operates in Canada and the United States, and Europe. Fab-Form Industries Ltd. was incorporated in 1995 and is headquartered in Surrey, Canada.
Top 10 Performing Stocks To Watch Right Now: (SOTL.NS)
Savita Oil Technologies Limited manufactures and sells petroleum products in India and internationally. The company?s products include transformer oils, liquid paraffin and white oils, lubricating oils/greases, petroleum jellies, optic fiber cable filling compound, emulsifiable polyethylene wax, and waxes, as well as specialty wax emulsion for leather finishing, water based paints, and printing inks. It also generates and sells wind power. The company, formerly known as Savita Chemicals Limited, is based in Mumbai, India.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Quickel]
The company supplies industrial lubricants, waxes and other industrial consumables. It has been showing a scorching growth in net profit for some time now. With a good promoter, sound business model and a great dividend record, it is poised to benefit from industrial growth in the coming year. It is also attractively priced.
Top 10 Performing Stocks To Watch Right Now: Donegal Group Inc.(DGICB)
Donegal Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, offers personal and commercial lines of property and casualty insurance to businesses and individuals in the United States. The company?s personal lines of insurance products include private passenger automobile insurance, which provides protection against liability for bodily injury and property damage arising from automobile accidents, and protection against loss from damage to automobiles owned by the insured; and homeowners insurance that offers coverage for damage to residences and their contents from a range of perils, including fire, lightning, windstorm, and theft, as well as covers liability of the insured arising from injury to other persons or their property. Its commercial lines of insurance products comprise commercial automobile policies that provide protection against liability for bodily injury and property damage arising from automobile accidents, and protection against loss from damage to automobiles owned by the insured; commercial multi-peril policies, which offer protection to businesses against various perils primarily combining liability and physical damage coverages; and workers? compensation policies that provide benefits to employees for injuries sustained during employment. Donegal Group Inc. markets its insurance products through a network of approximately 2,200 independent insurance agencies. As of December 31, 2010, it wrote business in 22 states of the United States. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Marietta, Pennsylvania.
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