5 Best Diversified Bank Stocks To Watch Right Now

With strong consumer sentiment numbers at its back today, stocks again shot higher, finishing out their fourth straight positive week with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI  ) climbing 121 points, or 0.8%, to finish at 15,354.

In recent days, the Dow hasn't needed much of a reason to propel it higher as markets have moved up simply on bullish projections from insiders, but today investors got some hard evidence that better times may be ahead. The consumer confidence index from the University of Michigan hit a nearly six-year high, jumping to 83.7. That figure was up from 76.4 a month ago, and experts had predicted an increase to just 78.5. The numbers are particularly promising: Just a few months ago, consumer confidence was floundering as average Americans worried about the effects of the payroll tax hike and sequestration. Consumers seem encouraged by the stock market rally, and improvements in the housing and labor markets.

5 Best Diversified Bank Stocks To Watch Right Now: Mohawk Industries Inc. (MHK)

Mohawk Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production and sale of floor covering products for residential and commercial applications primarily in the United States and Europe. The company operates through three segments: Mohawk, Dal-Tile, and Unilin. The Mohawk segment designs, manufactures, sources, distributes, and markets floor covering product lines, which include carpets, ceramic tiles, laminates, rugs, carpet pads, hardwood, and resilient. This segment offers its products under the brand names of Mohawk, Aladdin, Mohawk ColorCenters, Mohawk Floorscapes, Portico, Mohawk Home, Bigelow, Durkan, Horizon, Karastan, Lees, and Merit. In addition, this segment markets and distributes its soft and hard surface products through independent floor covering retailers, home centers, mass merchandisers, department stores, commercial dealers, and commercial end users, as well as through private labeling programs. The Dal-Tile segment designs, manufactur es, sources, distributes, and markets a line of ceramic tile, porcelain tile, and natural stone products. This segment offers its products primarily under the Dal-Tile and American Olean brand names through company-owned service centers, independent distributors, home center retailers, tile and flooring retailers, and contractors. The Unilin segment offers laminate and hardwood flooring under the brand names of Quick-Step, Columbia Flooring, Century Flooring, and Universal Flooring through retailers, independent distributors, and home centers. This segment also produces roofing systems, insulation panels, and other wood products. Mohawk Industries, Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Calhoun, Georgia.

5 Best Diversified Bank Stocks To Watch Right Now: CTPartners Executive Search Inc. (CTP)

CTPartners Executive Search Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides retained executive search services to clients worldwide. It facilitates the recruitment and hiring of C-level executives, such as chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief legal officers, chief marketing officers, and chief human resource officers; other senior executives; and board members. The company also offers board advisory services. It primarily serves various industry verticals, including financial services, professional services, life sciences, technology/media/telecom, and consumer/industrial. The company was founded in 1980 and is based in New York, New York.

Top Oil Companies To Own For 2014: Gefran Spa(GE.MI)

Gefran S.p.A., together with its subsidiaries, offers various products and solutions for industrial automation segments. Its sensors business offers a range of products for the measurement of temperature, pressure, position, force, and relative humidity, as well as a calibration services. The company's sensor products include linear position sensors, load cells, melt pressure sensors, pressure transducers, and resistance thermometers. Its automation components business provides electronic controllers, indicators, static switches, and power relays, as well as central control units, operator interfaces, input/output systems, programmable logic controllers, and industrial PCs. The company's drives business provides drives, which are used to control the electric motors, primarily used for speed regulation of AC, DC, and brushless motors. Its products include inverters, brushless servo-drives, regenerative power supply units, power supplies, digital armature converters, and ind uction-positioning-motors. The company serves original equipment manufacturers, system integrators, and end users in the rubber and plastic, packaging, food, glass, pharma, wood, iron and steel, and textile industries. It operates in Europe, North America, South America, Asia, and rest of the world. The company is headquartered in Provaglio d'Iseo, Italy. Gefran S.p.A. is a subsidairy of Fingefran Srl.

5 Best Diversified Bank Stocks To Watch Right Now: Urastar Energy Inc(URS.V)

Urastar Gold Corp., a mining exploration and development company, focuses on gold exploration in the Sierra Madre gold belt targeting areas, Mexico. It holds interests in the Black Point project located approximately eight miles to the northeast of Eureka, Nevada, the United States; the El Antimonio property situated in northwest Sonora, Mexico; and the Jabali property located in the Sahuarita Sonora Mexico municipal region. The company was formerly known as Urastar Energy Inc. and changed its name to Urastar Gold Corp. in August 2011. Urastar Gold Corp. is based in Vancouver, Canada.

5 Best Diversified Bank Stocks To Watch Right Now: Accretive Health Inc. (AH)

Accretive Health, Inc. provides revenue cycle management services for hospitals and healthcare providers in the United States. It offers integrated revenue cycle management services that help healthcare providers to manage their revenue cycles, which encompass patient registration, insurance and benefit verification, medical treatment documentation and coding, bill preparation, and collections; quality and total cost of care services, which enable healthcare providers to manage the health of a defined patient population by identifying those individuals who are most likely to experience an adverse health event; and physician advisory services. Accretive Health, Inc. serves multi-hospital systems, including faith-based or community healthcare systems, academic medical centers, independent ambulatory clinics, and physician practice groups. The company was formerly known as Healthcare Services, Inc. and changed its name to Accretive Health, Inc. in August 2009. Accretive Healt h, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.