While not necessarily a household name like other multinational conglomerates, United Technologies (NYSE:UTX) has been a longtime stalwart in the industry. The company recently announced solid second quarter earnings, and the stock is up an impressive 41 percent in the past year.
The stock is currently trading right around its 52-week high of $105.66. Will the company continue to surge upward? Let�� use our CHEAT SHEET investing analysis to decide whether United Technologies is an OUTPERFORM, WAIT AND SEE, or STAY AWAY.
C = Catalysts for the Stock�� MovementUnited Technologies acquired Goodrich ��which manufactures landing gear and engine casings for both commercial and industrial planes ��last July for $16.4 billion. CEO Louis Ch锚nevert believes the acquisition will improve the company�� position within the commercial aviation industry, which has experienced high growth in the last several years.
Pratt & Whitney ��the engines division of United Technologies ��has experienced a rise in orders as the airline industry looks to replace aging engines. Large commercial engine orders increased 15 percent during the quarter. Additionally, Pratt & Whitney is in the process of releasing a new energy-efficient ��eared turbofan engine��to help aircraft companies combat rising fuel costs. However, reduced military spending, as a result of sequestration measures, has offset some of the revenue growth in this division.
Top 10 Rising Stocks To Invest In Right Now: SAFESTORE HLDGS ORD GBP0.01 WI(SAFE.L)
Safestore Holdings plc provides self-storage space and related services for business and personal customers in the United Kingdom and France. It rents self-storage space; and sells ancillary products, which include insurance, as well as storage accessories comprising bubble wrap, boxes, and padlocks. The company offers its services for personal and household, student, and business storage. It operates 12 stores under management in the United Kingdom. As of October 31, 2011, it operated 119 stores, 96 in the U.K. and 23 in Paris under the Safestore and Une Pi�e en Plus brand names. The company is based in Borehamwood, the United Kingdom.
Top 10 Rising Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Precision Castparts Corporation(PCP)
Precision Castparts Corp. (PCC) manufactures and sells metal components and products worldwide. Its Investment Cast Products segment offers aerospace structural and airfoil castings; industrial gas turbine (IGT) castings; artificial hips and knees; parts for satellite launch vehicles; landing gear struts and engine inlets for unmanned aerial vehicles; impellers for pumps and compressors; components for armament systems; and alloys for other manufacturers of investment castings. The company?s Forged Products segment provides forged components for jet engines, including fan discs, compressor discs, turbine discs, seals, spacers, shafts, hubs, and cases; airframe structural components, such as landing gear beams, bulkheads, wing structures, engine mounts, struts, tail flaps, and housings; discs, spacers, and valve components for steam turbine and IGT engines; shafts, cases, and compressor and turbine discs for marine gas engines; mechanical and structural tubular forged produ cts for energy markets; and forged components for propulsion systems on nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers, as well as forgings for pumps, valves, and structural applications. PCC?s Fastener Products segment offers aerospace fasteners comprising bolts, nuts, nut plates, latches, expandable diameter fasteners, quick release pins, hydraulic fittings, bushings, inserts, collars, and other precision components. It also provides refiner plates and screen cylinders for the pulp and paper industry; metal-injection-molded and ThixoFormed components; grinder pumps and components for sewer systems; gas monitoring systems for the power generation industry; and thread-rolling and trimming dies, pins and steel, and carbide forging tools for fastener production. PCC sells its fastener products and services through a network of distributors and independent sales representatives, as well as through a direct sales and marketing staff. The company was founded in 1949 and is based in Por tland, Oregon.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Selena Maranjian]
Precision Castparts (NYSE: PCP ) , up 38%, has been busy. The aerospace components maker recently acquired Permaswage for $600 million, and sold Primus Composites to Triumph Group. Its last quarter featured double-digit revenue and earnings growth, benefiting from the acquisition of Titanium Metals. One catalyst for the company is expected growth in commercial airplane sales.
- [By Jim Jubak]
On July 25, Precision Castparts (PCP) reported earnings for the first (June) quarter of its fiscal year of $2.88 a share. Earnings were up 22.6% from the June quarter of 2012. But the results were two cents a share short of the consensus earnings estimate on Wall Street. Revenue climbed by 20.4% year over year to $2.37 billion. That was below the $2.52 billion consensus.
5 Best Industrial Conglomerate Stocks To Own Right Now: First Niagara Financial Group Inc.(FNFG)
First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. operates as the holding company for First Niagara Bank, N.A. that provides retail and commercial banking, and other financial services to individuals, families, and businesses. It offers retail deposit accounts, which include savings, negotiable order of withdrawal, checking, money market, and certificate of deposit accounts, as well as provides business savings and checking, money market, cash management accounts, and municipal deposit accounts. The company?s loan portfolio comprises commercial real estate and multi-family loans; commercial business loans; residential real estate loans; home equity loans; and consumer loans consisting of indirect mobile home loans, and personal secured and unsecured loans. It also sells insurance products, including commercial and personal insurance, surety bond, life, disability, and long-term care coverage products. In addition, the company offers risk management consulting services comprising altern ative risk and self-insurance services, claims investigation and adjusting services, and third party administration services for self insured workers? compensation plans. Further, it provides employee benefits plan and compensation consulting services. Additionally, First Niagara Financial Group offers wealth management services that manage client funds utilizing various third party investment vehicles consisting of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and annuities, as well as other investment products, such as individual retirement accounts, education savings plans, and retirement plans. As of December 31, 2010 it operated 257 bank branches, including 115 in Upstate New York and 142 branches in Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 1870 and is based in Buffalo, New York.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Eric Volkman]
First Niagara Financial (NASDAQ: FNFG ) will return money to two separate classes of its stockholders. The company has declared quarterly dividends for its common shares and its class B preferreds, both of which will be paid on May 15 to shareholders of record as of May 3.
- [By John Maxfield]
While it's not obvious from the chart, you can separate these institutions into three different buckets. The first bucket concerns the most widely discussed too-big-to-fail banks: JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo. Then comes the unofficial too-big-to-fail lenders (those with assets in excess of $50 billion and thus subject to the Federal Reserve's more stringent stress test process). This group contains U.S. Bank (NYSE: USB ) , PNC Financial (NYSE: PNC ) , and BB&T Bank (NYSE: BBT ) , among others. And the final group encompasses lesser-known banks like First Niagara Financial (NASDAQ: FNFG ) and People's United Financial (NASDAQ: PBCT ) with between $20 billion and $50 billion in assets.
Top 10 Rising Stocks To Invest In Right Now: E-L Financial Corp Com Npv(ELF.TO)
E-L Financial Corporation Limited operates as an investment and insurance holding company in Canada. The company, through its subsidiary, The Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company, provides general insurance, such as automobile, personal and commercial property, and casualty insurance products. E-L Financial Corporation Limited, through its other subsidiary, The Empire Life Insurance Company, offers a range of life insurance, health insurance, wealth management products, employee benefit plans, and financial services to individuals, professionals, and businesses through a network of independent financial advisors, managing general agents, national account firms, and employee benefit brokers and representatives. It also owns investments in stocks and fixed income securities directly, as well as indirectly through pooled funds, closed-end investment companies, and other investment companies. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
Top 10 Rising Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Grand Canyon Education Inc.(LOPE)
Grand Canyon Education, Inc. provides postsecondary education services in the United States and Canada. It focuses on offering graduate and undergraduate degree programs in education, healthcare, business, and liberal arts disciplines. The company provides its courses through traditional ground campus in Phoenix, Arizona; online; and onsite at the facilities of employers. As of December 31, 2011, it had 43,917 students enrolled in its courses. The company was formerly known as Significant Education, Inc and changed its name to Grand Canyon Education, Inc. in May 2008. Grand Canyon Education, Inc. was founded in 1949 and is based in Phoenix, Arizona.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Seth Jayson]
Calling all cash flows
When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on Grand Canyon Education (Nasdaq: LOPE ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.
Top 10 Rising Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida(SBCF)
Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida operates as the holding company for Seacoast National Bank that provides various financial products and services in the United States. It offers an array of deposit accounts and retail banking services; engages in consumer and commercial lending activities; and provides various trust and asset management services, as well as securities and annuity products to its customers. The company also offers marine loans. In addition, it provides Internet banking, and brokerage and annuity services. As of June 17, 2011, the company had 39 offices in South and Central Florida. Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida was founded in 1926 and is based in Stuart, Florida.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Sean Williams]
One that recently crossed my radar as an "avoid" is small-cap bank Seacoast Banking Corp. of Florida (NASDAQ: SBCF ) �(henceforth known here as Seacoast to make our lives easier).
Top 10 Rising Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Sqi Diagnostics Inc (SQD.V)
SQI Diagnostics Inc., a life sciences company, develops and commercializes proprietary technologies and custom products for microarray and multiplexed diagnostics. The company offers SQiDworks diagnostics platform, a multiplex immunoassay instrument that automates the process of sample pipetting, serum dilution, plate incubation, washing, drying, and reporting of various assay marker results for each patient sample; QuantiSpot rheumatoid arthritis assay RA panel; and Celiac IgXPLEX assay, an anti-tissue transglutaminase. Its products under development include SQiDLITE platform and SQiDman analyzer; autoimmune vasculitis 4-plex; autoimmune thyroid panel 3-plex; anti-phospholipid syndrome panel 9-plex; IBD/Crohn�s panel 4-plex; IgX PLEX Lupus panel; IgX PLEX Celiac DGP panel; and IgX PLEX TNF assay, as well as IVDPlus-Plex assays that enables to multiplex diagnostic biomarkers simultaneously with therapeutic markers and drug efficacy markers for the purpose of patient thera peutic monitoring. The company also provides custom array printing, assay development, and scalable automation services. It serves clinical, academic, and diagnostic development laboratories; research laboratories; medical diagnostics manufacturers; and pharmaceutical companies. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
Top 10 Rising Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Henry Schein Inc. (HSIC)
Henry Schein, Inc. distributes healthcare products and services primarily to office-based healthcare practitioners. It operates in two segments, Healthcare Distribution and Technology. The Healthcare Distribution segment offers consumable dental products, dental laboratory products, and small equipment, including X-ray products, infection-control products, handpieces, preventatives, impression materials, composites, anesthetics, teeth, dental implants, gypsum, acrylics, articulators, and abrasives; and large dental equipment comprising dental chairs, delivery units and lights, X-ray equipment, equipment repair, and high-tech equipment. It also provides medical products, including branded and generic pharmaceuticals, vaccines, surgical products, diagnostic tests, infection-control products, and vitamins; and animal health products, such as branded and generic pharmaceuticals, surgical and consumable products and services, and equipment. The Technology segment offers softwar e and related products, and value-added products that primarily include practice management software systems for dental and medical practitioners, and animal health clinics. Its services also consist of financial services and continuing education services for practitioners. Henry Schein, Inc. primarily serves dental practitioners and laboratories, physician practices, and animal health clinics, as well as government and other institutions. It operates in the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Melville, New York.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Charles Mizrahi]
Several stocks in our portfolio will benefit from this trend: Drugstore chain Walgreens (WAG), healthcare products distributor Henry Schein (HSIC), and pharmaceutical maker AstraZeneca (AZN)
Top 10 Rising Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Vantex Resources Ltd (VAX.V)
Vantex Resources Ltd, a junior mining exploration company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, production, and development of gold properties in Canada. It principal project include the Galloway gold project that comprises approximately 2488 hectares, 63 claims, and 3 mining concessions located in the Dasserat Township, Abitibi district of Quebec. The company was formerly known as Vantex Oil, Gas and Minerals Ltd and changed its name to Vantex Resources Ltd in February 2004. Vantex Resources Ltd was founded in 1987 and is based in La Prairie, Canada.
Top 10 Rising Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Amalphi AG (AMI)
Amalphi AG is a Germany-based company that offers multivendor services for the maintenance of hardware and software of all kinds of Information Technology (IT) equipment. Its main activity is the sale of services including quality assurance, whereas the physical services are provided via international service providers. The Company's products include amalphi ip and ip-pack. amalphi ip is a maintenance service concept for IT-, office- and other technical equipment based on electronic components, which include hardware and software maintenance, help desk service, patch management and asset management. ip-pack offers service packs for the OEM with Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for Hewlett-Packard and IBM products. The Company has a sales network throughout Germany. ES Investment GmbH holds approximately a 49%-stake in the Company.Top 10 Rising Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Dajin Resources Corp (DJI)
Dajin Resources Corp. (Dajin) together with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties located in the Province of British Columbia, Canada and Argentina. The Company owns a 100% interest in 29 mineral claims with a 1,500 meter long, linear gold in soils anomaly adjacent to Spanish Mountain Gold Ltd.�� Spanish Mountain gold discovery. The Company also owns a 100% interest in 47 mineral claims in the Addie 2 property which is located south of Quesnel Lake and adjacent to the Frasergold deposit. The Company owns a 65% interest in 32 certain mineral claims and 100% interest in 23 additional minerals claims which make up the Cowtrail Property where Dajin has intersected 1.16 grams per ton gold and 0.043% copper mineralization over 60.0 feet (18.3 meters). The Company holds a 100% interest in concessions or concession applications in Salta and Jujuy Provinces.Top 10 Rising Stocks To Invest In Right Now: World Energy Solutions Inc(DE)
World Energy Solutions, Inc. provides a range of energy management solutions to commercial and industrial businesses, institutions, utilities, and governments. It offers technology-enabled solutions, such as online audits of facilities to identify retrofit options and project management services for retrofit implementation, as well as cross-selling opportunities for commodity auctions. The company primarily focuses on retail and wholesale energy procurement clients via its online auction platforms, including the World Energy Exchange, the World Green Exchange, and the World DR Exchange. The World Energy Exchange enables energy consumers in North America to negotiate for the purchase or sale of electricity, natural gas, and other energy resources from energy suppliers who have agreed to participate on auction platform. The World Green Exchange enables buyers and sellers to negotiate for the purchase or sale of environmental commodities, such as renewable energy certificates , verified emissions reductions, and certified emissions reductions. The World DR Exchange enables curtailment service providers and energy consumers to negotiate in structured auction events designed to yield price transparency. The company was formerly known as World Energy Exchange, Inc. World Energy Solutions, Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Ben Levisohn]
Given Fisher’s mixed message, it shouldn’t come s a surprise that Caterpillar is little changed today at $90.52, even as Terex (TEX) has fallen 0.8% to $41.03 and Joy Global (JOY) has dropped 1.1% to $55.19. Deere has (DE) gained 0.4% to $90.10.
- [By Lauren Pollock]
Among the companies with shares expected to actively trade in Wednesday’s session are J.C. Penney Co.(JCP), Deere(DE) & Co. and Lowe's Cos.(LOW)
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