Top 10 Diversified Bank Stocks To Own For 2014

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Top 10 Diversified Bank Stocks To Own For 2014: Trinidad Energy Svcs Income(TDG.TO)

Trinidad Drilling Ltd. provides drilling, coring, and barge-drilling services to the oil and natural gas industry in North America. Its fleet consists of 54 land drilling rigs and 20 pre-set and coring rigs operating in Canada; 62 land drilling rigs and 5 barge drilling rigs that operate in the shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico; and 3 drilling rigs operating in Mexico. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Top 10 Diversified Bank Stocks To Own For 2014: Unum Group(UNM)

Unum Group, together with its subsidiaries, provides group and individual disability insurance products primarily in the United States and the United Kingdom. It also provides a portfolio of other insurance products, including employer-and employee-paid group benefits, life insurance, long-term care insurance, and related services. Its products include group long-term and short-term disability; group life and accidental death, and dismemberment; individual disability; group long-term care; voluntary benefits; group life; accident, sickness, and disability; and cancer and critical illness insurance products. The company also provides individual life and corporate-owned life insurance, reinsurance pools and management operations, group pension, health insurance, and individual annuities. Unum Group markets its products primarily to employers interested in providing benefits to their employees. The company sells its products through field sales personnel, independent brokers, consultants, and agency sales force. Unum Group was founded in 1848 and is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Top 5 Performing Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Cameco Corporation(CCJ)

Cameco Corporation operates as a uranium producer, supplier of conversion services, and fuel manufacturer. The company?s Uranium segment is involved in the exploration for, mining, milling, purchase, and sale of uranium concentrate. Its operating uranium properties include the McArthur River and Key Lake, and Rabbit Lake located in Saskatchewan, Canada; the Crow Butte located in Nebraska and the Smith Ranch-Highland located in Wyoming; and the Inkai uranium deposit located in Kazakhstan. Cameco Corporation?s Fuel Services segment engages in the refining, conversion, and fabrication of uranium concentrate; and the purchase and sale of conversion services. Its products include uranium trioxide, uranium hexafluoride, and uranium dioxide. This segment also manufactures fuel bundles, reactor components, and monitoring equipment to Candu reactors; and provides nuclear fuel and consulting services to Candu operators. The company?s Electricity segment engages in the generation and sale of nuclear electricity, through its 31.6% interest in Bruce Power L.P. This segment operates four nuclear reactors at the Bruce B generating station in southern Ontario, Canada. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Saskatoon, Canada.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Mark]

  Canada’s Cameco Corp. (CCJ) is a leading nuclear energy company. As the world’s largest low-cost uranium producer, Cameco satisfies almost 20% of the world’s demand. The company was founded in Saskatoon, Canada, in 1987 and has its roots in gold mining — which still contributes a bit to CCJ’s bottom line.

  Though precious metals are the rage on Wall Street right now, the Cameco’s uranium business is what has the most potential in the current market. As global warming becomes increasingly important to governments around the world, emission-free nuclear power is once again returning to favor.

  President Obama himself made a pitch for nuclear power in a Nevada press stop last week, saying the industry is clean, safe and could create thousands of new jobs. When the U.S. gets behind nuclear power in earnest, it’s sure to mean big things for uranium supplier CCJ.

Top 10 Diversified Bank Stocks To Own For 2014: MedAssets Inc.(MDAS)

MedAssets, Inc. provides technology enabled products and services for hospitals, health systems, and other non-acute healthcare providers in the United States. It operates in two segments, Spend and Clinical Resource Management, and Revenue Cycle Management. The Spend and Clinical Resource Management offers a suite of cost management services, supply chain analytics, and data capabilities; medical device and clinical resource consulting, which includes implantable physician preference items, utilization management, and service line consulting; supply chain outsourcing and procurement services; capital equipment lifecycle management; lean process and workforce optimization solutions; process improvement consulting; business intelligence tools; and performance analytics and data management tools, such as service line analytics, spend analytics and strategic information services, e-commerce, client master item file services, electronic contract portfolio catalog, and decision support services. The Revenue Cycle Management segment provides a suite of products and services spanning the revenue cycle workflow from patient access and financial responsibility; case management, coding, and documentation; charge capture and revenue integrity; strategic pricing; claims processing; denials management and reimbursement integrity; revenue cycle and supply chain integration; revenue recovery and accounts receivable management; and outsourced services. It delivers technology-enabled solutions primarily through the company-hosted software, software-as-a-service, or Web-based applications. As of December 31, 2011, the company served approximately 4,200 acute care hospitals and 100,000 ancillary or non-acute provider locations. MedAssets, Inc. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia.

Top 10 Diversified Bank Stocks To Own For 2014: First Business Financial Services Inc.(FBIZ)

First Business Financial Services, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for First Business Bank and First Business Bank ? Milwaukee that provide commercial banking products and services to small and medium size businesses, business owners, executives, professionals, and high net worth individuals in Wisconsin. It offers various deposits, such as demand deposits, NOW accounts, money markets accounts, and certificates of deposits. The company?s product lines include commercial and consumer treasury management services, commercial lending, commercial real estate lending, equipment financing, and personal loans, as well as various deposit accounts, such as demand deposits, NOW accounts, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit. It also offers trust and investment services, as well as secured lines of credit and term loans on equipment and real estate assets to manufacturers and wholesale distribution companies in the United States. In addition, the company is involved in financing general equipment, as well as holding and liquidating real estate and other assets acquired through foreclosure or other legal proceedings. It has three loan production offices in the northeast region of Wisconsin to serve Appleton, Oshkosh, and Green Bay, as well as their surrounding areas. The company was founded in 1909 and is based in Madison, Wisconsin.

Top 10 Diversified Bank Stocks To Own For 2014: Moody's Corporation(MCO)

Moody?s Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides credit ratings; credit and economic related research, data, and analytical tools; risk management software; and quantitative credit risk measures, credit portfolio management solutions, training, and financial credentialing and certification services worldwide. Its Moody?s Investors Service segment publishes credit ratings on debt obligations, including various corporate and governmental obligations, structured finance securities, and commercial paper programs, as well as the entities that issue such obligations in markets worldwide. This segment provides ratings in approximately 110 countries. Its ratings are disseminated via press releases to the public through print and electronic media, including the Internet and real-time information systems, which is used by securities traders and investors. As of December 31, 2010 this segment had ratings relationships with approximately 11,000 corporate issuers and approximate ly 22,000 public finance issuers. It also rated and monitored ratings on approximately 102,000 structured finance obligations. The company?s Moody?s Analytics segment develops products and services that support the risk management activities of institutional participants in financial markets. It also distributes investor-oriented research and data, including research on debt issuers, industry studies, and commentary on topical events developed by MIS as part of its rating process. In addition, this segment provides economic research, and credit data and analytical tools, such as quantitative credit risk scores; economic and regulatory capital risk management software and implementation services; and quantitative credit risk measures, credit portfolio management solutions, training, and financial credentialing and certification services. It serves approximately 4,100 institutions in approximately 115 countries. The company was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Jim Lowell]

  In Q3 2010, Buffett sold 1,910,120 shares at an average price of $22.96, and in Q4 2010, he sold 458,506 shares at an average price of $26.89. He currently holds 28,415,250 shares at an average price of $26.89.

  In 2010, the company grew revenues by 13.06% to $2.03 billion, and GAAP EPS surged by 27.22% to $2.15. Profit margins also remain high at 70.24%. The next earnings release is on April 27. For Q1 2011, analysts estimate MCO will earn $0.54 per share, an increase of 12.95% over Q1 2010, and generate revenues of $519.9 million, an increase of 9.08% over Q1 2010.

  With the expected issuance of more debt and rising demand for analytical and consulting services, we expect Moody’s revenues to grow handsomely as it did in 2010. However, MCO shares trade above our fair value estimates, and we believe a P/E of 16.4 is highly unjustified for MCO. Sell MCO.

Top 10 Diversified Bank Stocks To Own For 2014: American Superconductor Corporation(AMSC)

American Superconductor Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides wind and power grid products and services primarily in North America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. The company?s Wind segment designs, develops, and licenses engineered wind turbine designs to wind turbine manufactures; provides engineering and customer support services; supplies power electronics and software-based control systems to wind turbine manufactures to regulate voltage, control power flows, and maximize wind turbine efficiency; offers consulting services to the wind industry; and provides products that enhance power quality for industrial operations. This segment serves the transmission and distribution, wind power, and manufacturing industries. Its Grid segment manufactures high-temperature superconductor wire and coils; designs and develops superconductor products, such as power cables, fault current limiters, electric motors, generators, and synchronous condensers; manages large-s cale superconductor projects; and provides transmission planning services that identify power grid congestion, poor power quality, and other risks. This segment?s products enable electric utilities and renewable energy project developers to connect, transmit, and distribute power. Its products include D-VAR systems that provide the reactive power needed to stabilize voltage on the grid, and are used to connect wind farms and solar power plants to the power grid; SolarTie Grid Interconnection Systems, which provide the inversion and reactive compensation necessary to connect megawatt-scale solar photovoltaic power plants to the power grid; superconductor wires for various applications, including motors, generators, fault current limiters, and power cables; and power cable systems that are manufactured by third parties, as well as turnkey project management services to electric utilities. American Superconductor Corporation was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Devens, Massachusetts.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Stephen]

  American Superconductor (AMSC) is a leading provider of the electronics that power wind power systems, where it presents substantial barriers to entry and growth potential is enormous. The company has grown revenues every year of the past decade, its profit margins top 10% and it’s still relatively undiscovered.

Top 10 Diversified Bank Stocks To Own For 2014: Universal Health Services Inc. (UHS)

Universal Health Services, Inc., through its subsidiaries, owns and operates acute care hospitals, behavioral health centers, surgical hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and radiation oncology centers. The company�s hospitals offer various services comprising general and specialty surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics, emergency room care, radiology, oncology, diagnostic care, coronary care, pediatric services, pharmacy services, and/or behavioral health services. As of February 24, 2012, it owned and/or operated 25 acute care hospitals and 198 behavioral health centers located in 36 states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as Washington, D.C. The company also operates six surgical hospitals, and surgery and radiation oncology centers located in four states and Puerto Rico. Universal Health Services, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.

Top 10 Diversified Bank Stocks To Own For 2014: Quiksilver Inc.(ZQK)

Quiksilver, Inc. designs, develops, produces, and distributes apparel, footwear, accessories, and related products. The company offers shirts, walkshorts, T-shirts, fleece, pants, jackets, snowboard wear, footwear, hats, backpacks, wetsuits, watches, eyewear, and other accessories to men, women, boys, girls, toddlers, and infants under the brand Quiksilver. It also provides sportswear, swimwear, footwear, backpacks, snowboard wear, snowboards, bedroom furnishings, and other accessories for girls, toddlers, and infants under the brand Roxy. In addition, the company offers skateboard shoes, snowboard boots, sandals, and apparel for young men and juniors under the brand DC. Further, it provides skateboard products, and snowboards and accessories under the brands Hawk, Lib Technologies, and Gnu. The company sells its products in approximately 90 countries in the Americas, Europe, and the Asia/Pacific, through surf shops, skateboard shops, snowboard shops, select department sto res, independent specialty or active lifestyle stores, and specialty chains, as well as through its 770 owned or licensed company stores. Quiksilver, Inc. was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Huntington Beach, California.

Top 10 Diversified Bank Stocks To Own For 2014: Sol Spa(SOL.MI)

Sol S.p.A. engages in the production, applied research, and distribution of industrial, pure, and medicinal gases in door-to-door medical care, and for related medical equipment primarily in Italy, and other western and central-eastern European countries, as well as in India. The company produces, markets, and distributes oxygen, nitrogen, argon, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, acetylene, nitrous oxide, helium, gas mixtures, refrigerating gases, medicinal gases, special gases, and high purity gases. It offers its products and services in the areas of healthcare, energy and industry, food and agriculture, ecology and environment, scientific research, and carbon dioxide blasting. The company also engages in research, design, construction, and operation of on-site production plants at its clients' plants. In addition, it supplies medical products, including oxygen; and materials and equipment for home-care therapy. The company offers various medical services, such as home-based res piratory care equipment for oxygen therapy, ventilation therapy, and artificial nutrition. Further, it markets and distributes a range of equipments, machines, and materials for welding, metal cutting, and electric arch cutting systems under the brand names of Sol Welding, Join, and e-robot. Sol S.p.A. was founded in 1927 and is based in Monza, Italy.