Will Dunkin’ Brands Break Out?

With shares of Dunkin' Brands (NASDAQ:DNKN) trading around $38 after Dunkin's earnings, is DNKN an OUTPERFORM, WAIT AND SEE or STAY AWAY? Let's analyze the stock with the relevant sections of our CHEAT SHEET investing framework:

T = Trends for a Stock's Movement

Dunkin' Brands owns, operates, and franchises quick service restaurants under the Dunkin'' Donuts and Baskin-Robbins brands worldwide. The company operates in four segments, including Dunkin' Donuts U.S., Dunkin' Donuts International, Baskin-Robbins International, and Baskin-Robbins U.S. Its restaurants offer coffee, donuts, bagels, ice cream, frozen beverages, baked goods, and related products. The increasing popularity that the product offerings being seen by Dunkin' Brands is fueling excellent growth for the company. As consumers continue to enjoy the Dunkin' Brands products, look for the company to see rising profits well into the future.

T = Technicals on the Stock Chart are Strong

Since its initial public offering in 2011, Dunkin' Brands stock has witnessed a wonderful uptrend of higher highs and higher lows. The stock is now trading near all-time highs and shows no signs of slowing just yet. Analyzing the price trend and its strength can be done using key simple moving averages. What are the key moving averages? The 50-day (pink), 100-day (blue), and 200-day (yellow) simple moving averages. As seen in the daily price chart below, Dunkin' Brands is trading above its rising key averages which signal neutral to bullish price action in the near-term.

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(Source: Thinkorswim)

Taking a look at the implied volatility (red) and implied volatility skew levels of Dunkin' Brands options may help determine if investors are bullish, neutral, or bearish.

	Implied Volatility (IV)	30-Day IV Percentile	90-Day IV Percentile
Dunkin' Brands Options	24.48%	43%	40%

What does this mean? This means that investors or traders are buying a significant amount of call and put options contracts, as compared to the last 30 and 90 trading days.

	Put IV Skew	Call IV Skew
May Options	Flat	Average
June Options	Flat	Average

As of today, there is an average demand from call buyers or sellers and low demand by put buyers or high demand by put sellers, all neutral to bullish over the next two months. To summarize, investors are buying a significant amount of call and put option contracts and are leaning neutral to bullish over the next two months.

E = Earnings Are Increasing Quarter-Over-Quarter

Rising stock prices are often strongly correlated with rising earnings and revenue growth rates. Also, the last four quarterly earnings announcement reactions help gauge investor sentiment on Dunkin' Brands's stock. What do the last four quarterly earnings and revenue growth (Y-O-Y) figures for Dunkin' Brands look like and more importantly, how did the markets like these numbers?

	2013 Q1	2012 Q4	2012 Q3	2012 Q2
Earnings Growth (Y-O-Y)	16%	131.50%	750%	933%
Revenue Growth (Y-O-Y)	9.45%	-4.04%	5.02%	9.82%
Earnings Reaction	3.66%	2.04%	1.81%	-3.05%

Dunkin' Brands has seen increasing earnings and revenue figures over the last four quarters. From these figures, the markets have been pleased with Dunkin' Brands's recent earnings announcements.

P = Excellent Relative Performance Versus Peers and Sector

How has Dunkin' Brands stock done relative to its peers, Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX), Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM), McDonald's (NYSE:MCD), and sector?

	Dunkin' Brands	Starbucks	Yum! Brands	McDonald's	Sector
Year-to-Date Return	16.73%	13.27%	1.82%	16.04%	Top 5 Energy Stocks To Watch For 2014 14.28%

Dunkin' Brands has been a relative performance leader, year-to-date.

Conclusion

Dunkin' Brands provides products that fulfill the cravings of many consumers and will continue to do so well into the future. The stock has been in a strong uptrend since its initial public offering, just a few years ago. Earnings and revenue figures have been growing at an excellent pace in recent quarters which has really pleased investors. Relative to its peers and sector, Dunkin' Brands is a year-to-date performance leader. Look for Dunkin' Brands to continue to OUTPERFORM.

Pfizer's Earnings Beat Keeps the Dow on a Healthy High

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

Stocks are surging today as earnings season powers on, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average's (DJINDICES: ^DJI  ) push higher has it within 100 points of its all-time high. As of 2:15 p.m. EDT, the Dow has ridden strong momentum all day to gains of more than 90 points. Most blue-chip stocks are up on the index, and Pfizer's (NYSE: PFE  ) strong earnings report has sent this big pharma stock soaring with the Dow's leaders today.

That's a relief to health care investors disappointed with Merck's (NYSE: MRK  ) lackluster earnings release yesterday, although the stock has rebounded slightly today. Here's what you need to know.

Pfizer hits the right marks
Pfizer's stock has risen by 1.7% after the company announced before the opening bell today that its third-quarter diluted earnings came in at $0.58 per share. That pushed the company to raise the lower end of its full-year guidance, impressing investors who have worried about the ongoing sales dive of former best-seller Lipitor and the slow pace of two recently approved drugs, Xeljanz and Eliquis.

Sales still fell 2.5% for the quarter, an expected drop that managed to beat estimates. While Lipitor's been taking a pounding, Pfizer's cancer-fighting drug portfolio is shining for investors. Oncology drug sales jumped by 26% for the quarter, highlighter by the 92% year-over-year revenue gain of small but surging drug Xalkori. If this division can keep up its momentum, it'll help investors to quickly get over the pain of the patent cliff.

Even better for Pfizer investors, the company announced separately today that it will continue its push to get osteoarthritis drug tanezumab to the market. The drug seemed dead a few years ago following the finding that it was linked to the possibility of joint destruction in patients. Fellow Big Pharma giant Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY  ) has signed on to share the costs of kicking up another late-stage trial of the drug, although Pfizer and Eli Lilly have now agreed to share any profits should they get it to the market.

An FDA panel gave the go-ahead last year for trials to start back up using more carefully chosen patients, although it's still a long shot that tanezumab will overcome its risky image. If it does, it's competition for Merck's bone-treating drug hopeful odanacatib, one of the company's best hopes for a future blockbuster from its lackluster pipeline. Merck disappointed investors earlier this year by delaying odanacatib's FDA filing until 2014, although analysts still peg the drug's peak sales near or above $1 billion.

Merck's stock has still risen 0.5% today, but it will need odanacatib -- and any other hopeful that can succeed in phase 3 trials -- to make a big impact on the market as soon as possible. With diabetes drugs Januvia and Janumet slowing down and the patent cliff still taking a big bite out of sales and earnings, Merck's in dire need of a booster shot to its finances.

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Best Dividend Stocks To Watch For 2014

LONDON -- The FTSE 100 (FTSEINDICES: ^FTSE  ) is treading water this morning, up just 12 points to 6,439 as of 9:10 a.m. EDT. Although the formation of a coalition government in Italy has settled some eurozone nerves, recent economic updates have not provided the clarity many were hoping for, and confidence in further stimulation by central banks seems a little weakened.

But even with the FTSE going nowhere, there are still plenty of companies whose shares are on the up. Here are three rising today.

Aberdeen Asset Management
Shares in Aberdeen Asset Management have soared 9.6% this morning after revenue for the six months to March 31 jumped 25% to 516 million pounds. Underlying pre-tax profit is up 37% to 223 million pounds, with underlying earnings per share up 43% to 14.9 pence. This enabled the investment manager to lift its interim dividend by 36% to 6 pence per share.

Chief executive Martin Gilbert said, "We have seen healthy net new business flows which, combined with performance by global markets, has generated strong growth in our revenue and in profit margins," though he remained cautious on market outlook.

Best Dividend Stocks To Watch For 2014: Eaton Corporation(ETN)

Eaton Corporation operates as a power management company worldwide. It provides electrical components and systems for power quality, distribution, and control; hydraulics components, systems, and services for industrial and mobile equipment; aerospace fuel, hydraulics, and pneumatic systems for commercial and military use; and truck and automotive drivetrain, and powertrain systems for performance, fuel economy, and safety. The company also manufactures screw-in cartridge valves, custom-engineered hydraulic valves, and manifold systems; and electrical and electromechanical systems. In addition, it designs, manufactures, and distributes intake and exhaust valves for diesel and gasoline engines; supplies electrical components for commercial and residential building applications and industrial controls for industrial equipment applications; and manufactures human machine interfaces, programmable logic controllers, and input/output devices. Further, the company also operates a s a provider of customized enclosures, rack systems, and air-flow management systems to store, power, and secure mission-critical IT data center electronics; and manufacturer, distributor, and service provider of single-phase and three-phase uninterruptible power supply systems. Eaton Corporation was founded in 1916 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Rich Smith]

  This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on. Today, our headlines feature a pair of new buy ratings for Eaton (NYSE: ETN  ) and FedEx (NYSE: FDX  ) . But the news isn't all good, so before we address those two, let's start with why one analyst thinks...

• [By Alex Planes]

  Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown. The best stocks offer sustainable market-beating gains, with robust and improving financial metrics that support strong price growth. Does Eaton (NYSE: ETN  ) fit the bill? Let's take a look at what its recent results tell us about its potential for future gains.

• [By Teresa Rivas]

  Eaton Corp (ETN) was down 5.5% at recent check, following the machinery parts maker�� downbeat second-quarter earnings and guidance.

  Eaton said it earned $494 million, up from $382 million a year earlier. Per-share earnings fell to $1.04 from $1.12, as there were more shares outstanding in the latest quarter. Excluding one-time items, operating earnings fell to $1.09 from $1.15.

  Revenue climbed 38% to $5.6 billion.

  However, analysts were forecasting earnings of $1.11 a share on $5.77 billion in sales.

  In addition, Eaton cut the top-end of its full-year forecast: It now says earnings will come in a range between $4.05 and $4.25 a share, from its previous view of $4.05 to $4.45. Third-quarter guidance of $1.05 to $1.15 in EPS is also below consensus estimates of $1.22 a share.

  S&P Capital IQ�� Stewart Scharf downgraded the stock from Hold to Sell on the news: ��ollowing disappointing Q2 results, we apply a below-peer forward P/E of near 15X to our ’13 operating EPS estimate, and lower our target price by $12 to $60. We are cutting our operating EPS estimates by $0.25 each to $4.05 in ’13 and to $4.70 in ’14 as ETN lowers guidance. We project less than 1% organic sales growth in ’13, driven by softer electrical end markets mainly in Europe and Asia, and weak demand in the hydraulics and vehicle units. In our view, ETN will focus on execution, cost controls and greater synergies from Cooper Industries, while reducing capital spending.��/p>

  The shares are up more than 58% in the past year, well outpacing the S&P 500�� rise.

Best Dividend Stocks To Watch For 2014: Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc.(FCX)

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. engages in the exploration, mining, and production of mineral resources. The company primarily explores for copper, gold, molybdenum, silver, and cobalt. It holds interests in various properties, located in North and South America; the Grasberg minerals district in Indonesia; and the Tenke Fungurume minerals district in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As of December 31, 2010, the company?s consolidated recoverable proven and probable reserves totaled 120.5 billion pounds of copper, 35.5 million ounces of gold, 3.39 billion pounds of molybdenum, 325.0 million ounces of silver, and 0.75 billion pounds of cobalt. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By John Divine]

  Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (NYSE: FCX  ) rounds out the list of today's laggards, with a 2.3% loss. This is the third straight day of declines for the copper miner, which continues to struggle with market repercussions from a deadly mining disaster at one of its locations in Indonesia. The lost production from the closed mine is estimated to be around $15 million per day.

• [By Matt DiLallo]

  It would make more sense, in my opinion, to have a more diversified miner added to the Dow Jones. In fact, I think the easy choice here is to go with Freeport McMoRan (NYSE: FCX  ) . It's the second-largest copper producer in the world; given the outlook for copper, it's a much better metal to gauge economic growth. In addition to copper, the company mines gold and molybdenum, which is an important metal used in steel production.

Top 10 Biotech Companies To Own For 2014: Simon Property Group Inc.(SPG)

Simon Property Group, Inc. is a real estate investment trust. The firm engages in investment, ownership, and management of properties. It invests in the real estate markets across the globe. The firm?s portfolio includes regional malls, premium outlet centers, the mills, community / lifestyle centers, and international properties. Simon Property Group was founded in 1960 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Jon C. Ogg]

  BMO Capital Markets made a REIT switch in its coverage: It raised Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG) to Outperform from Market Perform based on an attractive entry point now that shares are down 20% or so from the highs, and it downgraded General Growth Properties (NYSE: GGP) to Market Perform from Outperform based on its relative valuation gap having dwindled.

• [By Chris Neiger]

  2. Simon Property Group (NYSE: SPG  ) -- Diversity score of 10: Simon Property is one of the largest real estate companies in the world and was mentioned in the report as an example of a company that treats diversity as a "compliance matter." The study said that Simon Property's diversity policy is treated as a human resources matter and the company isn't as public with its diversity programs or data as others are. Calvert said that companies in this grouping typically don't have strong diversity leadership.

Best Dividend Stocks To Watch For 2014: Wisconsin Energy Corporation (WEC)

Wisconsin Energy Corporation engages in the generation, distribution, and sale of electric energy and steam. The company also involves in the purchase, distribution, and sale of natural gas to retail customers, as well as in the transportation of customer-owned natural gas in Wisconsin. It generates electricity from coal, natural gas, wind, and hydro sources. The company offers its services under ?We Energies? name. It serves approximately 1,120,200 electric customers in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan; approximately 1,064,500 gas customers in Wisconsin; and approximately 460 steam customers in metropolitan Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In addition, the company invests and develops in real estate properties, including business parks and other commercial real estate projects primarily in southeastern Wisconsin. It provides electric utility service to industries, such as mining, paper, foundry, food products, and machinery production, as well as to retail chains. The c ompany was founded in 1981 and is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Chris Hill]

  Our analysts share why they're keeping a close eye on Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL  ) , Wisconsin Energy (NYSE: WEC  ) �and Coach (NYSE: COH  ) .

• [By Larry Smith]

  Wisconsin Energy (WEC) - Wisconsin Energy is the largest electric and gas company in Wisconsin with 1.1 million electric customers and 1 million gas customers. Wisconsin Energy also owns a 26% interest in American Transmission Company, a multistate, transmission only utility. WEC has been named the most reliable utility in the Midwest seven out of the last 10 years and has very high customer satisfaction. I owned WEC briefly and would be willing to own it again at a price under $38.00.

Best Dividend Stocks To Watch For 2014: Regal Beloit Corporation(RBC)

Regal Beloit Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells electric motors and controls, electric generators and controls, and mechanical motion control products primarily in the United States and Asia. The company operates in two segments, Electrical and Mechanical. The Electrical segment manufactures and markets AC and DC commercial, industrial, and commercial refrigeration electric motors and blowers, as well as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) electric motors and blowers. It also provides precision servo motors, electric generators, automatic transfer switches and paralleling switchgear, and control electric power generation equipment; AC and DC variable speed drives and controllers, and other accessories for industrial and commercial applications; and capacitors for use in HVAC systems, high intensity lighting, and other applications. The Mechanical segment manufactures and markets a range of mechanical motion control products, i ncluding worm gears, bevel gears, helical gears, and concentric shaft gearboxes; marine transmissions; after-market automotive transmissions, and ring and pinions; custom gearing; gearmotors; electrical connecting devices; and manual valve actuators, which are used in oil and gas, water distribution and treatment, and chemical processing applications. The company sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and end users through its direct sales people and manufacturer?s representative organizations. Regal Beloit Corporation was founded in 1955 and is based in Beloit, Wisconsin.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Rich Duprey]

  Bank of America's (NYSE: BAC  ) Merrill Lynch division and Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE: RBC  ) have provided HBC with fully committed credit facilities, which, together with the equity commitment provided by the pension plan, is sufficient to close the transaction.

Best Dividend Stocks To Watch For 2014: United Bancshares Inc.(UBOH)

United Bancshares, Inc. operates as a bank holding company for The Union Bank Company that engages in the provision of commercial banking services to small and middle-market businesses and individuals. It accepts various deposit products, including checking accounts, savings and money market accounts, time certificates of deposit, time deposits, and demand deposits. The company also offers various loan products that consist of commercial, consumer, agricultural, residential mortgage, and home equity loans. In addition, it provides automatic teller machine services, safe deposit box rentals, and other personalized banking services. The company serves primarily in the Ohio counties of Allen, Hancock, Putnam, Sandusky, Van Wert, and Wood, as well as with office locations in Bowling Green, Columbus Grove, Delphos, Findlay, Gibsonburg, Kalida, Leipsic, Lima, Ottawa, and Pemberville, Ohio. United Bancshares, Inc. was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Columbus Grove, Ohio.< /p>

Obamacare Exchange Blame Game: Where Does the Buck Stop?

President Harry Truman had a sign on his desk in the Oval Office that read: "The buck stops here."

Based on testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the motto of the contractors that developed much of the federally operated Obamacare health insurance exchanges could be "the buck stops anywhere but here."  The Healthcare.gov website experienced major problems in the first several weeks of its launch. Those problems were someone else's fault, though, according to the consultants that built the Obamacare exchanges.

Source: Harry S. Truman Library and Museum. 

Blame game
Cheryl Campbell, a senior vice president with CGI Group  (NYSE: GIB  ) , the primary contractor for the federal Obamacare exchanges, blamed initial problems on another contractor. She stated that the system component that allowed users to create accounts caused bottlenecks that led to problems for users on the website.

Quality Software Services, which is owned by UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH  ) , was the contractor to which Campbell alluded. However, a key link in the component that Quality Software Services developed came from Oracle (NYSE: ORCL  ) . Early finger-pointing suggested that the Oracle Identity Manager was a cause of the major technical problems. That prompted Oracle to strongly deny that its software wasn't working.

To his credit, UnitedHealth's Andrew Slavitt stated that Quality Software Services took accountability for the account creation function. However, Slavitt also said that his firm found errors in programming code that were made by another contractor. He indicated that these problems were reported to the contractor and to the federal agency directing the efforts, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS.

Two other contractors also testified before the committee. Equifax (NYSE: EFX  ) corporate counsel Lynn Spellecy said that her firm had only a limited role in the overall Obamacare exchange system and that the company's software worked properly. Serco's John Lau emphasized that his company didn't work on the website at all. Serco provides eligibility support services that support processing of paper applications.

Both Campbell from CGI and Slavitt from UnitedHealth agreed on one culprit for the exchange problems: the CMS. Campbell said that the federal agency had the "ultimate responsibility" for the exchange. Slavitt cited a "late decision" by the government to require users to create accounts before browsing for insurance plans contributed to website problems. 

They also concurred that not nearly enough testing was done. When asked how much time was needed, Slavitt responded that "months would be nice." However, the contractors insisted that CMS was responsible for overall end-to-end testing and for the ultimate decision to go live without sufficient testing completed.

Where the buck stops
There will no doubt be plenty more of this blame game in the days ahead. That's to be expected with the politically charged environment in Washington. Aside from the politics, though, there's an investing angle to this story. Should investors put their money into companies that publicly slam their customers?

A battle of cliches seems to be being waged here: "The customer is always right" versus "caveat emptor" (let the buyer beware). CGI and Quality Services are both basically saying that the exchange problems are CMS' fault. That's definitely on the "caveat emptor" side of the battle.

CGI reported nearly $1.34 billion in revenue from the U.S. government in 2012, around 28% of the company's total revenue. Quality Software Services is part of UnitedHealth's OptumInsight business unit, which reported more than $2.88 billion in revenue last year -- much of it from the U.S. government. Is pointing the finger at a huge customer a smart business move for these two companies? If not, should investors stay away?

In answer to the first question, I would argue that CGI and UnitedHealth are actually playing it smart. This is an exceptional case, though. Normally, a business shouldn't bite the hand that feeds it. However, remember that the U.S. government is a multi-headed beast. Contracts with each federal agency are negotiated separately. And those agencies don't always get along with each other.

CGI and Quality Services could very well hurt their chances of getting additional contracts from CMS or other Health and Human Services agencies by throwing some jabs before the congressional committee. However, assuming that the facts are on their side, admitting to a colossal flop that really wasn't your fault could do far more damage financially down the road if other departments and agencies throughout the government think you're incompetent.

As for the second question, I don't think the ongoing debacle will make a difference for either of these companies -- and certainly not for Equifax, Oracle, or Serco. CGI shares traded higher after Cheryl Campbell's appearance before the committee and isn't down much since the exchanges launched on Oct. 1. UnitedHealth's stock is down over 5% since the launch, but that's more related to a disappointing earnings announcement than anything else.

Over the long term, both stocks could be decent investing alternatives. CGI is projected to grow earnings at an annual rate of more than 17% over the next several years. With that kind of growth (which seems reasonable), the stock's current valuation looks attractive. 

UnitedHealth isn't as much of a value play. However, it's the largest health insurer in the nation and boasts a high-growth business with Optum. UnitedHealth has also expanded into Latin America, another nice growth opportunity. 

Leave it to the politicians to sort out who ultimately gets the blame for the Obamacare exchange failures. For ordinary Americans, I have another suggestion as to where the buck should stop: where it makes you the most additional bucks.

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Top 5 High Tech Companies To Own In Right Now

The following video is from Wednesday's Investor Beat, in which host Chris Hill and analysts Jason Moser and Lyons George dissect the hardest-hitting investing stories of the day.

In this installment of Investor Beat, our analysts explain why they're watching JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM  ) and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB  ) .

After the world's most-hyped IPO turned out to be a dud, most investors probably don't even want to think about shares of Facebook. But there are things every investor needs to know about this company. We've outlined them in our newest premium research report. There's a lot more to Facebook than meets the eye, so read up on whether there is anything to "like" about it today, and we'll tell you whether we think Facebook deserves a place in your portfolio. Access your report by clicking here.

The relevant video segment can be found between 0:16 and 2:57.

Top 5 High Tech Companies To Own In Right Now: Exterran Holdings Inc. (EXH)

Exterran Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides operations, maintenance, service, and equipment for oil and natural gas production, processing, and transportation applications. The company�s Contract Operations segment offers natural gas compression and production, and processing services, as well as engages in the engineering, procurement, and on site construction of natural gas compression stations and/or crude oil or natural gas production and processing facilities. As of December 31, 2011, this segment provided contract operations services primarily using a fleet of 8,485 natural gas compression units with an aggregate capacity of approximately 3,632,000 horsepower in North America; and a fleet of 1,063 units with an aggregate capacity of approximately 1,260,000 horsepower internationally. Its Aftermarket Services segment sells parts and components; and provides operation, maintenance, overhaul, and reconfiguration services for compression, productio n, treating, and oilfield power generation equipment. The company�s Fabrication segment engages in the design, engineering, installation, fabrication, and sale of natural gas compression units, and accessories and equipment used in the production, treatment, and processing of crude oil and natural gas; provision of engineering, procurement, and fabrication services primarily related to the manufacturing of critical process equipment for refinery and petrochemical facilities; and fabrication of tank farms, and evaporators and brine heaters for desalination plants. Its products include line heaters, oil and natural gas separators, glycol dehydration units, condensate stabilizers, dewpoint control plants, water treatment, mechanical refrigeration and cryogenic plants, and skid-mounted production packages designed for onshore and offshore production facilities. The company was founded in 1990 and is based in Houston, Texas.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Seth Jayson]

  Exterran Holdings (NYSE: EXH  ) is expected to report Q1 earnings on May 2. Here's what Wall Street wants to see:

  The 10-second takeaway
  Comparing the upcoming quarter to the prior-year quarter, average analyst estimates predict Exterran Holdings's revenues will grow 21.6% and EPS will turn positive

Top 5 High Tech Companies To Own In Right Now: Alimera Sciences Inc.(ALIM)

Alimera Sciences, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the research, development, and commercialization of prescription ophthalmic pharmaceuticals. The company focuses on diseases affecting the back of the eye or retina. The company is developing ILUVIEN, an intravitreal insert in phase-3 clinical trials for the treatment of diabetic macular edema (DME), which is a disease of the retina that affects individuals with diabetes and could lead to severe vision loss and blindness. Its ILUVIEN insert designed to be inserted into the patient?s eye to release a daily dose of fluocinolone acetonide over an anticipated period of 24 to 36 months. The company also conducts phase-2 clinical trials on ILUVIEN for the treatment of the dry form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the wet form of AMD, and retinal vein occlusion. In addition, it conducts testing on two classes of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase inhibitors. Further, the company develops I LUVIEN inserter, a custom insertion system for ILUVIEN. Alimera Sciences, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Smith On Stocks]

  This note focuses on the implications of the complete response letter (CRL) received by Alimera (ALIM) for Iluvien. This product was developed by pSivida (PSDV) but was partnered with Alimera. This report deals only with the investment significance for pSivida.

Top 5 Gold Stocks To Buy For 2014: Argenta Oil & Gas Inc (AZA.V)

Azabache Energy Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of petroleum and natural gas properties in South America. The company holds working interests in the Loma El Divisadero block comprising 33,635 net acres located in the southern part of Mendoza Province, Argentina; the Covunco block consisting of 141,000 net acres located in the Neuqu茅n Province, Argentina; and the El Corte block comprising 71,760 net acres located to the south-west of Neuqu茅n Province, Argentina. It also holds exploration and development rights in the La Mona block that covers an area of 222,280 net acres located in northern Colombia; and the Antares block located in the Upper Magdalena Basin, Colombia. The company was formerly known as Argenta Oil & Gas Inc. and changed its name to Azabache Energy Inc. in January 2010. Azabache Energy Inc. is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Top 5 High Tech Companies To Own In Right Now: Phos (FOS.TO)

PhosCan Chemical Corp., a development stage company, engages in acquiring, exploring, and developing mineral and natural resource properties in Canada. It holds a 100% interest in the Martison Phosphate project consisting of phosphate deposits located in north of Hearst, Ontario. The company was formerly known as MCK Mining Corp. and changed its name to PhosCan Chemical Corp. in July 2006. PhosCan Chemical Corp. was founded in 1994 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Top 5 High Tech Companies To Own In Right Now: LoJack Corporation(LOJN)

LoJack Corporation provides technology products and services for the tracking and recovery of mobile assets, stolen vehicles, motorcycles, construction equipment, cargo, and people at risk. It offers LoJack Unit, a LoJack System component that consists of a high frequency transponder with a hidden antenna, microprocessor, and power supply, as well as a set of codes unique to the unit; and LoJack Early Warning Unit, an optional component that provides notification to vehicle owners in the event of unauthorized user operating the vehicle. The company also licenses LoJack for Laptops, a system to recover the stolen computers; and LoJack InTransit, a cargo and tracking recovery solution. In addition, it provides LoJack SafetyNet system, which comprises a personal locator unit, a search and rescue receiver used by public safety agencies. The company markets its products to owners of commercial equipment and to consumers through its sales force, telemarketing representatives, di rect mail, and automobile dealers. It operates in the United States, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean countries, Canada, and Europe. LoJack Corporation was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Canton, Massachusetts.

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