Top 10 Stocks To Buy For 2014

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Top 10 Stocks To Buy For 2014: QAD Inc.(QADA)

QAD Inc. provides enterprise software applications, and related services and support for manufacturing companies worldwide. The company offers QAD Enterprise Applications, an integrated suite of software applications, which support the business processes. Its QAD Enterprise Applications include suites, such as QAD Financials to manage and control fiscal business processes at various levels; QAD Customer Management suite for manufacturers to acquire new customers and retain customers through service and support; QAD Manufacturing that offers solutions in the areas of planning and scheduling, cost management, material control, shop floor control, and reporting in various mixed-mode manufacturing environments; and QAD Supply Chain that fulfills materials planning and movement requirements. The QAD Enterprise Applications also comprise QAD Service and Support product suite that handles service calls, manages service queues, and organizes mobile field resources, as well as prov ides project management support; QAD Enterprise Asset Management, an integrated plant operation solution to manage assets from inception through operations and replacement; QAD Transportation Management, which addresses the needs of distributors and manufacturers in the areas of global trade management, freight management, and trade compliance; QAD Analytics that helps in analyses, decision-making, and performance management; and QAD QXtend toolset for open interoperability. The company also provides services, including customer support, implementation services, on demand and application management services, migration and upgrade services, and business process management services. It serves various industries, such as automotive, consumer products, food and beverage, high technology, industrial products, and life sciences industries. The company sells its products directly; and through distributors and sales agents. QAD Inc. was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California.

Top 10 Stocks To Buy For 2014: Valgold Resources Ltd. (VAL.V)

ValGold Resources Ltd. engages in the exploration and development of mineral properties in Canada. The company explores for gold, silver, lead, and zinc deposits in Western Ukraine. It holds a 75% interest the MBK Project located in western Ukraine; a 100% interest in the Tower Mountain gold property that comprises 55 claims covering an area of 3,875 acres located in the Shebandowan Gold Belt, northwestern Ontario; and Venezuela Properties that cover a total area of approximately 162,768 acres. ValGold Resources Ltd. was founded in 1987 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Top 5 Canadian Stocks To Invest In Right Now: TCF Financial Corporation(TCB)

TCF Financial Corporation operates as the bank holding company for TCF National Bank that provides various retail and commercial banking products and services in the United States and Canada. Its products and services include consumer, small business, and commercial deposits, as well as interest-bearing checking accounts, money market accounts, regular savings accounts, certificates of deposit, and retirement savings plans; and consumer real estate loans, commercial real estate loans, commercial business loans, and multi-purpose campus cards for colleges, as well as consumer loans for personal, family, or household purposes. The company also offers leasing and equipment finance products for various companies, inventory finance products, auto finance products, and treasury services. As of December 31, 2011, it had 434 retail banking branches, including 196 branches in Illinois, 110 in Minnesota, 53 in Michigan, 36 in Colorado, 26 in Wisconsin, 7 in Arizona, 5 in Indiana, an d 1 in South Dakota. The company was founded in 1923 and is based in Wayzata, Minnesota.

Top 10 Stocks To Buy For 2014: Interm.cap(ICP.L)

Intermediate Capital Group PLC is a private equity firm specializing in mezzanine financing and mid-market investments in growth capital, restructuring, acquisitions, public to private transactions with or without private equity backing, management buyouts and management buyins, development capital, public quoted company finance, off-balance-sheet finance, refinancings and recapitalizations, and pre-IPO financing. The firm does not invest in property companies or start-ups. It seeks to invest in companies whose principal place of business is the European Union, Bulgaria, Romania, North America, and the Asia Pacific, including Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. The firm provides mezzanine financing in the range between ?15 million ($21.43 million) and ?500 million ($714.18 million) to firms with an enterprise values between ?250 million ($338.48 million) and ?1 billion ($1353.94 million). The firm seeks to acquire minority stak es. It generally structures its financing in the form of subordinated loan with equity warrants, as preference shares, convertible loan, leveraged loans, mezzanine loans, and CDOs. The firm provides loans for a maturity period between seven years and ten years with repayments to be made in one payment at final maturity. Its mezzanine investments are usually structured to provide a cash yield between three percent and four percent over the relevant interbank rate, plus an additional return to reflect the risk involved. The firm seeks to invest in debt. The firm is also a manager of third party mezzanine, CDO, and Institutional Client Funds. Intermediate Capital Group PLC was founded in 1989 and is based in London with additional offices across Europe, North America, and Asia.

Top 10 Stocks To Buy For 2014: Powershares Qqq Trust Series 1 (QQQ)

PowerShares QQQ Trust, Series 1, formerly The NASDAQ-100 Trust, Series 1, is a unit investment trust that issues securities called Nasdaq-100 Index Tracking Stock. The Trust holds all of the component securities of the Nasdaq-100 Index. The Trust's investment objective is to provide investment results that generally correspond to the price and yield performance of the Nasdaq-100 Index.

The Trust was created to provide investors with the opportunity to purchase units of beneficial interest in the Trust representing proportionate undivided interests in the portfolio of securities held by the Trust, which consists of substantially all of the securities, in substantially the same weighting, as the component securities of the Nasdaq-100 Index. Nasdaq Global Funds, Inc. is the sponsor of the Trust and The Bank of New York is the trustee of the Trust.

Top 10 Stocks To Buy For 2014: Tennant Creek Gold Ltd(TNG.AX)

TNG Limited engages in the exploration, evaluation, and development of mineral resource projects in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. The company explores for gold, zinc, lead, silver, vanadium, titanium, iron, nickel, cobalt, and copper. It principally holds 100% interest in the Mount Peake project located in the Arunta geological province; and the Manbarrum project located to the north-east of the township of Kununurra in the northern territory. The company is based in Subiaco, Australia.

Top 10 Stocks To Buy For 2014: Goodwin(GDWN.L)

Goodwin PLC, together with its subsidiaries, provides mechanical and refractory engineering solutions. It operates in two segments, Engineering and Refractory Engineering. The Engineering segment offers castings, machining, general engineering design, valves and pumps, and radar antennas, as well as Internet services and communication facilities to mechanical and refractory engineering companies. This segment provides check valves for the oil, gas, and LNG industries, as well as steam valves for the power generation industries. The Refractory Engineering segment manufactures powders and refractory cements; and offers mineral processing services. This segment supplies refractory powders to the jewellery industries. Goodwin PLC offers its products and services primarily in the United Kingdom, rest of Europe, the United States, and the Pacific Basin. The company was formerly known as R. Goodwin & Sons (Engineers) Ltd. and changed its name to Goodwin PLC in February 1982. Good win PLC was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Stoke-on-Trent, the United Kingdom.

Top 10 Stocks To Buy For 2014: Witwatersrand Consol Gold (WGR.TO)

Witwatersrand Consolidated Gold Resources Limited engages in the exploration of gold and uranium properties in South Africa. It is involved in acquiring, preserving, evaluating, developing, and trading prospecting rights for exploration and investment purposes. The company holds 14 prospecting rights covering an area of approximately 1,195 square kilometers in the southern Free State, Potchefstroom, and Klerksdorp goldfields of the Witwatersrand basin, South Africa. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Top 10 Stocks To Buy For 2014: Fidelity Bancorp Inc.(FSBI)

Fidelity Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Fidelity Bank, PaSB that provides a range of banking services in Pennsylvania. It primarily engages in generating deposits and originating loans. The company?s deposit products include savings accounts, demand deposit accounts, NOW accounts, money market deposit accounts, and certificates of deposit, as well as retirement accounts, including individual retirement account certificates and Keogh plan retirement certificates. Its loan portfolio comprises residential real estate loans, commercial and multi-family real estate loans, construction loans, and commercial business loans and leases, as well as installment loans, such as home equity and consumer loans. The company also involves in mortgage securitization transactions. As of September 30, 2010, Fidelity Bancorp provided its services through its main office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as well as 13 branch offices in Allegheny and Butler counties. The company w as founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Top 10 Stocks To Buy For 2014: ZST Digital Networks Inc.(ZSTN)

ZST Digital Networks, Inc. engages in supplying digital and optical network equipment and providing installation services to cable system operators in China, as well as in providing GPS location and tracking services to local logistics and transportation companies in China. It offers a line of IPTV devices that are used to provide bundled cable television, Internet, and telephone services to residential and commercial customers. The company has assisted in the installation and construction of approximately 400 local cable networks in approximately 90 municipal districts, counties, townships, and enterprises. ZST Digital Networks has also launched a commercial line of vehicle tracking devices utilizing its GPS tracking technologies and support services for transport-related enterprises to track, monitor, and optimize their businesses. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Zhengzhou City, the People?s Republic of China.