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Best Long Term Stocks To Invest In 2014: Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc.(WPI)
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, engages in the development, manufacture, marketing, sale, and distribution of generic and brand pharmaceutical products in the United States, western Europe, Canada, Australasia, Asia, South America, and South Africa. The company offers its products for therapeutic categories, such as central nervous system, cardiovascular, hormones and synthetic substitutes, anti-infective agents, and urology. It operates in three segments: Global Generics, Global Brands, and Distribution. The Global Generics segment develops, manufactures, and sells generic pharmaceutical products, as well as distributes generic versions of third parties? brand products. This segment offers various dosage forms, such as oral solids, transdermals, injectables, inhalation products, and transmucosals for indications, including pregnancy prevention, pain management, depression, hypertension, and smoking cessation. The Global Brands segment pr omotes and co-promotes Rapaflo, Gelnique, Trelstar, Androderm, Crinone, ella, INFeD, Generess, sodium ferric gluconate, AndroGel, and Femring branded products; and markets its products through sales professionals. It also sells various non-promoted products. The Distribution segment distributes generic and select brand pharmaceutical products, vaccines, injectables, and over-the-counter medicines to independent pharmacies, alternate care providers, pharmacy chains, and physicians? offices. The company sells its generic and brand pharmaceutical products primarily to drug wholesalers, retailers, and distributors, including national retail drug and food store chains, hospitals, clinics, mail order, government agencies, and managed healthcare providers, such as health maintenance organizations and other institutions. Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey.
Best Long Term Stocks To Invest In 2014: Canadian Energy Exploration Inc (XPL.V)
Canadian Energy Exploration Inc., a junior oil and gas company, engages in the exploration, acquisition, development, and production of oil and natural gas reserves in western Canada. It focuses on the exploration projects located in Alberta and southeast Saskatchewan. The company is headquartered in Calgary, Canada. Canadian Energy Exploration Inc. is a subsidiary of Standard Exploration Ltd.
Top Defensive Companies For 2014: News Corporation(NWSA)
News Corporation operates as a diversified media company worldwide. Its Cable Network Programming segment produces and licenses news, business news, sports, general entertainment, and movie programming for distribution through cable television systems and direct broadcast satellite operators primarily in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. The company?s Filmed Entertainment segment produces and acquires live-action and animated motion pictures for distribution and licensing in entertainment media, as well as produces and licenses television programming worldwide. Its Television segment operates 27 broadcast television stations in the United States. The company?s Direct Broadcast Satellite Television segment distributes programming services via satellite and broadband directly to subscribers in Italy. Its Publishing segment provides newspapers and information services, such as publishing national newspapers in the United Kingdom, approximately 146 newspapers in Australia, and a metropolitan and a national newspaper in the United States; book publishing services, including the publishing of English language books worldwide; and integrated marketing services comprising the publishing of free-standing inserts, which are marketing booklets containing coupons, rebates, and other consumer offers, as well as provides in-store marketing products and services, primarily to consumer packaged goods manufacturers in the United States and Canada. The company also sells advertising, sponsorships, and subscription services on the company?s various digital media properties and outdoor advertising space on various media primarily in Russia and eastern Europe; and provides data systems and professional services that enable teachers to use data to assess student progress and deliver individualized instructions. News Corporation was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Jonas Elmerraji]
Nearest Support: $32
Catalyst: Earnings Beat/SpinoffMedia conglomerate News Corp. (NWSA) is up more than 4% this afternoon following an earnings beat for its third quarter of fiscal 2013 and plans to spin off the firm's publishing arm. News Corp.'s TV unit fared well in the third quarter, buoyed by especially strong performance at cable network Fox News, and shares gapped up before this morning's open as a result. That pushed the $77 billion stock to new 52-week highs.
Making new highs is significant from an investor psychology standpoint because it means that everyone who has bought shares in the last year is sitting on gains. As a result, the "back to even" mentality is less of a concern than it would be for a name with a higher proportion of shareholders sitting on losses. Traders who aren't too risk-averse may want to consider buying NWSA here.
Best Long Term Stocks To Invest In 2014: Jeffersonville Bancorp(JFBC)
Jeffersonville Bancorp operates as the holding company for The First National Bank of Jeffersonville, a national-chartered bank that provides a range of commercial banking services to individuals, businesses, and municipalities. The company accepts various types of deposit products, including demand deposit accounts, interest-bearing transaction accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts. It also offers residential real estate, commercial real estate, commercial business, consumer, and agricultural loans. The company serves customers in the Sullivan County, New York, as well as in some areas of adjacent counties in New York and Pennsylvania. As of December 31, 2010, it operated 11 branch offices in Bloomingburg, Eldred, Liberty, Loch Sheldrake, Monticello, Livingston Manor, Narrowsburg, Callicoon, Wurtsboro, White Lake, and Monticello. The company was founded in 1913 and is headquartered in Jeffersonville, New York.
Best Long Term Stocks To Invest In 2014: Applied Materials Inc.(AMAT)
Applied Materials, Inc. provides manufacturing equipment, services, and software to the semiconductor, flat panel display, solar photovoltaic (PV), and related industries worldwide. The company?s Silicon Systems Group segment offers a range of manufacturing equipment used to fabricate semiconductor chips or integrated circuits. This segment provides systems that perform primary processes used in chip fabrication, including atomic layer deposition, chemical vapor deposition, physical vapor deposition, electrochemical deposition, rapid thermal processing, chemical mechanical planarization, wet cleaning, and wafer metrology and inspection, as well as systems that etch or inspect circuit patterns on masks used in the photolithography process. Its Applied Global Services segment offers products and services designed to enhance the performance and productivity, and reduce the environmental impact of the fab operations of semiconductor, liquid crystal displays (LCDs), and solar P V manufacturers. The company?s Display segment provides products for manufacturing thin film transistor LCDs for televisions, personal computers (PCs), tablet PCs, smartphones, and other consumer-oriented electronic applications. Its Energy and Environmental Solutions segment offers manufacturing systems for the generation and conservation of energy, as well as manufacturing solutions for wafer-based crystalline silicon applications. This segment also provides roll-to-roll vacuum Web coating systems for deposition of a range of films on flexible substrates for functional, aesthetic, or optical properties; and roll-to-roll machine for depositing ultra-thin aluminum films for flexible packaging applications. The company serves manufacturers of semiconductor wafers and chips, flat panel LCDs, solar PV cells and modules, and other electronic devices. Applied Materials, Inc. was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Kevin1977]
Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT): Up 2.22% to $10.59. Applied Materials, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets, and services semiconductor wafer fabrication equipment and related spare parts for the worldwide semiconductor industry. The Company’s customers include semiconductor wafer and integrated circuit manufacturers, flat panel liquid crystal displays, solar photovoltaic cells and modules and other electronic devices manufacturers.
Best Long Term Stocks To Invest In 2014: Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation Limited(APWC)
Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation Limited, through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and distribution of telecommunications, power cable, and enameled wire products primarily in Thailand, China, Singapore, and Australia. The company offers telecommunications cable products, including copper-based and fiber optic cables for telephone and data transmissions; armored and unarmored low voltage power transmission cable, which is used to transmit electricity to and within commercial and residential buildings, as well as to outdoor installations, such as street lights, traffic signals, and other signs; and enameled wire, which is used in the assembly of a range of electrical products, such as oil-filled transformers, refrigerator motors, telephones, radios, televisions, fan motors, air conditioner compressors, and other electric appliances. It also distributes copper rod, and wire and cable products; and offers project engineering services in the supply, delivery, and installation of power cables. The company serves government organizations, electric contracting firms, electrical dealers, and wire and cable factories. Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation Limited was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Asia Pacific Wire & Cable Corporation Limited is a subsidiary of Pacific Electric Wire & Cable Co., Ltd.
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