Best Penny Stocks To Own For 2014

Although we don't believe in timing the market or panicking over market movements, we do like to keep an eye on big changes -- just in case they're material to our investing thesis.

What: Shares of Choice Hotels (NYSE: CHH  ) were getting picked last by investors today, falling 11% after cutting EPS guidance in its quarterly report.

So what: The first-quarter results for the owner of Comfort Inn, Quality Inn, and Econo Lodge actually weren't bad. Choice missed EPS estimates by a penny, delivering earnings of $0.26, while revenue topped expectations by 1.5%, growing 6% to $136.9 million. Still, guidance for the coming year was disappointing, though management didn't offer an explanation for the cut. It now sees EPS of $1.87 to $1.91 versus an earlier projection of $1.96 to $1.98.

Best Penny Stocks To Own For 2014: Hi-p International Limited (H17.SI)

Hi-P International Limited provides design, electromechanical parts, modules, and product manufacturing services to customers in telecommunications, consumer electronics, computing and peripherals, lifestyle, medical, industrial devices, and automotive markets. The company primarily engages in the design and fabrication of mold; precision plastic injection molding; assembly; and precision metal stamping, as well as offering ancillary value-added services, such as surface finishing services. It is also involved in the manufacture of molds and related housing appliance plastic components; plastic injection parts and components; plastic product modules; mold base and components; in-mold decoration lenses; electromechanical components; metal precision components; metal and nonmetal stamping, molds, and electric components; and molds and special tools, as well as provision of spray painting, engineering support, advisory, maintenance, and technology consultation services. In ad dition, the company engages in developing, designing, and manufacturing automated machinery and equipment; manufacturing, assembling, and trading flexible printed circuit boards and flexible rigid printed circuit boards; and manufacturing precision stamped metal components and precision tools, as well as designing and fabricating dies. It has operations primarily in the People's Republic of China, Singapore, Poland, the United States, and rest of the Americas. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Best Penny Stocks To Own For 2014: Caseys General Stores Inc.(CASY)

Casey?s General Stores, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates convenience stores under the Casey?s General Store, HandiMart, and Just Diesel names in 11 Midwestern states, primarily Iowa, Missouri, and Illinois. Its stores offer foods, beverages, dairy and bakery products, sandwiches, fountain drinks, donuts, cookies, brownies, Danish rolls, ham and cheese sandwiches, pork and chicken fritters, sausage sandwiches, chicken tenders, popcorn chicken, breakfast croissants and biscuits, breakfast pizza, hash browns, quarter-pound hamburgers and cheeseburgers, and potato cheese bites. The company?s stores also provide nonfood items, which include tobacco products, health and beauty aids, school supplies, house wares, pet supplies, photo supplies, and automotive products. In addition, it offers gasoline or gasohol for sale on a self-service basis. As of July 31, 2011, the company operated 1,665 stores. The company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Ankeny, Iowa.

Hot Heal Care Companies To Watch In Right Now: IncrediMail Ltd.(MAIL)

Incredimail Ltd. and its subsidiaries design, develop, and market content and media products, principally email products to the consumer and home markets. The company offers an integrated suite of email software products, a graphic add-on to instant messaging software, wallpaper and screensaver software, and software for presenting digital personal photos. Its products include IncrediMail Xe, the flagship product, which is available over the Internet offering various features that the user can apply to email messages; IncrediMail Premium, a Web gallery and voice message recorder; IncrediMail Letter Creator, an application enabling IncrediMail Xe and IncrediMail Premium users to design and create their own personalized email letters and ecards; and The Gold Gallery, a license-based content product that offers content files in the form of email backgrounds, animations, sounds, graphics, and email notifiers. The company?s products also comprise JunkFilter Plus, an anti-spam p roduct; Magentic that enhances computer desktops by adding graphics, which enable users to personalize the working environment; and HiYo, a graphic enhancement tool for instant messaging products. It distributes and sells its products in approximately 100 countries in 10 languages. The company was formerly known as Verticon Ltd. and changed its name to IncrediMail Ltd. in November 2000. IncrediMail Ltd. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Arohan]

  Incredimail is an Israel-based software company that sells the popular Incredimail email software. It also offers a free download of the email software which is monetized by displaying ads. The company has generated 44% EPS growth in the past 5 years and is projecting another double digit growth the next year. At a PE ratio of 5.78, the company is cheap. The company had around $31 million in cash on the books, of which it has used up $25 million in acquiring SmileBox recently with further $15 million in cash payments still to be made pursuant to hitting certain milestones. If Smilebox gets accretive to the earnings fast, the company will likely grow much faster than the current projections suggest.