Top 10 Healthcare Technology Companies To Buy For 2014

Tidewater (NYSE: TDW  ) results for Q4 and fiscal 2013 have been released. For the quarter, revenues totaled $328 million, up from the $289 million in the same period the previous year. Net profit was significantly higher, at $46.6 million ($0.95 per diluted share) from Q4 2012's $33.6 million ($0.66). �

For the most recent quarter, analysts had expected revenue of $318 million and EPS of $0.61.

For the full year, top line was $1.24 billion, which topped the 2012 figure of $1.07 billion. Net profit was notably more robust, at $150.8 million ($3.03 per diluted share) for the year against 2012's $87.4 million ($1.70).

In terms of operations, the company's average total vessel count of 265 was unchanged on a year-over-year basis in Q4 2013. Vessel utilization, however, increased to 69.4% from Q4 2012's 65.4%. Average day rates were also up, standing at $16,378 for the most recent quarter compared to $14,140 in the year-ago period.

Top 10 Healthcare Technology Companies To Buy For 2014: North Valley Bancorp(NOVB)

North Valley Bancorp operates as a bank holding company North Valley Bank that provides commercial and retail banking services to businesses and middle income individuals in California. The company accepts various deposit products, including demand deposits, interest bearing demand deposits, regular savings, money market deposit accounts, non-interest bearing deposits, and time deposits. It also provides various loan products comprising commercial loans; real estate commercial, construction, and mortgage loans; installment loans; consumer loans; and home equity loans. In addition, the company issues cashier?s checks and money orders; and sells travelers checks, as well as offers safe deposit boxes and other customary banking services. It operates 25 commercial banking offices in Shasta, Trinity, Humboldt, Del Norte, Yolo, Sonoma, Placer, and Mendocino counties. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Redding, California.

Top 10 Healthcare Technology Companies To Buy For 2014: Advanced Energy Industries Inc.(AEIS)

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, sells, and supports power conversion products that transform power into various usable forms. It offers thin-film deposition power conversion systems, including direct current (DC), pulsed DC mid frequency, and radio frequency (RF) power supplies, as well as matching networks and RF instrumentation; and thermal instrumentation products that provide temperature measurement solutions for applications in which time-temperature cycles affect material properties, productivity, and yield. The company also offers solar power inverters, which provide a transformer-based or transformerless grid-tie photovoltaic (PV) solution to convert renewable solar power into electrical power, as well as integrated monitoring and performance measurement of PV installations. Its power conversion systems are used by semiconductor, solar panel, and similar thin-film manufacturers, such as flat panel display, da ta storage, and architectural glass manufacturers; thermal instrumentation products are used in rapid thermal processing, chemical vapor deposition, and other semiconductor and solar applications requiring non-contact temperature measurement by the semiconductor, solar panels, and LED industries; and solar inverters are used in the residential, commercial, and utility-scale solar projects and installations. In addition, the company provides repair services, conversions, upgrades, and refurbishment services, as well as operations and maintenance service plans for individual PV sites. Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. sells its products through direct sales force, sales representatives, and distributors in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Hot Construction Stocks To Own For 2014: Vermillion Inc.(VRML)

Vermillion, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of diagnostics tests that help physicians to diagnose, treat, and improve outcomes for patients. It develops diagnostic tests in the fields of oncology, hematology, cardiology, and women?s health with the initial focus on ovarian cancer. The company?s lead product includes OVA1, an ovarian tumor triage test that enables pre-surgical identification of women who are at high risk of having a malignant ovarian tumor. It is also developing various programs in other clinical aspects of ovarian cancer, as well as in peripheral arterial disease. The company has strategic alliance agreement with Quest Diagnostics Incorporated; and collaborations with various academic and research institutions to develop and commercialize diagnostic tests. It serves clinical reference laboratories, hospital laboratories, and physician offices. The company was formerly known as Ciphergen B iosystems, Inc. and changed its name to Vermillion, Inc. in August 2007. Vermillion, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Top 10 Healthcare Technology Companies To Buy For 2014: Nestle SA (NESN)

Nestle SA is a Swiss Company engaged in the nutrition, health and wellness sectors. It is the holding company of the Nestle Group, which comprises subsidiaries, associated companies and joint ventures throughout the world. It has such business units as Food and Beverage, Nestle Waters and Nestle Nutrition. It is also active in the pharmaceutical sector. It divides its products into Powdered and liquid beverages, Water, Milk products and Ice cream, Nutrition, Prepared dishes and cooking aids, Confectionery, PetCare and Pharmaceutical products. In February 2011, the Company acquired CM&D Pharma Ltd.

Top 10 Healthcare Technology Companies To Buy For 2014: BanColombia S.A. (CIB)

Bancolombia S.A., a full service financial institution, provides various banking products and services to individual and corporate customers in Colombia, as well as in Panama, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, the Cayman Islands, Peru, Brazil, the United States, and Spain. The company offers savings and checking accounts, fixed term deposits, and investment products; and trade financing, loans funded by domestic development banks, working capital loans, credit cards, personal loans, vehicle loans, payroll loans, and overdrafts. It also provides mortgage banking, factoring, treasury, cash management, foreign currency, and bancassurance and insurance; and asset management and trust services that comprise money market accounts, mutual and pension funds, private equity funds, payment trust, custody services, and corporate trust. In addition, the company offers brokerage, investment advisory, and private banking services, including selling and distributing equities, futures, foreign cu rrencies, fixed income securities, mutual funds, and structured products; and investment banking services, including advising and assisting companies from various economic sectors in project finance, capital markets, capital investments, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and corporate lending. Further, it provides financial and operational leases, including cross-border and international leasing services; and pension plan administration services. The company offers its services through a traditional branch network, and sales and customer representatives, as well as through mobile branches, non-banking correspondents, an ATM network, online and computer banking, telephone and mobile phone banking, and electronic funds transfer at point of sale (PACs). As of September 30, 2012, it had 978 branches and 3,703 ATMs. Bancolombia S.A. was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Medellin, Colombia.

Top 10 Healthcare Technology Companies To Buy For 2014: BofI Holding Inc.(BOFI)

BofI Holding, Inc. operates as the holding company for BofI Federal Bank that provides various consumer and wholesale banking services primarily through the Internet in the United States. It accepts various deposit products, including demand deposit, savings, and certificates of deposit accounts. It also provides loan products, which consist of single family loans, home equity loans, multifamily loans, commercial real estate loans, recreational vehicle and automobile loans, and overdraft lines of credit In addition, the company offers online bill payment, interbank transfer, mobile banking, text message banking, ATM cards or VISA debit cards, and overdraft protection services. It serves approximately 36,000 retail deposit and loan customers across 50 states. BofI Holding, Inc. was incorporated in 1999 and is based in San Diego, California.

Top 10 Healthcare Technology Companies To Buy For 2014: Mallett(MAE.L)

Mallett plc operates as an antiques dealer primarily in the United Kingdom and the United States. The company involves in restoration and dealing in antique furniture and works of art; and designing and manufacturing contemporary furniture and works of art. Its products include furniture products, such as cabinet furniture, fire wares, mirrors, seating, and tables and desks; pictures comprising oil and watercolor paints, as well as oriental and photography products; lightings, which consists of candlesticks, chandeliers, lamps, lanterns, and wall lights; modern products, such as coffee tables, lighting, and two tier tables; and textiles comprising needlework, and rugs and carpets. The company also offers various other objects, including ceramic, clocks and scientific, glass, ivory and tortoiseshell, and metalware products. It sells its products to private individuals and museums. The company was founded in 1865 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

Top 10 Healthcare Technology Companies To Buy For 2014: Chemring(CHG.L)

Chemring Group PLC, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells energetic material products and countermeasures for the defense, security, and safety markets primarily in the United Kingdom and other European countries, the United States, Australia, the Far East, and the Middle East. It operates through four divisions: Munitions, Countermeasures, Counter-IED, and Pyrotechnics. The Munitions division provides energetic materials, components, and subsystems, which include propellants and rocket motors, fuze and safe/arm units, flight termination systems, pyro-mechanisms and actuators, warheads and charges, primers and initiators, medium and large calibre ammunition, fuzes, base high explosives, insensitive HE material, and 40mm grenades to contractors. The Countermeasures division is involved in the design, development, and manufacture of expendable countermeasures and countermeasure suites for protecting air, sea, and land platforms against guided missile threats , such as flare countermeasures, conventional flare countermeasures, IR devices, special material decoys, chaff, and RF and IR decoys. The Counter-IED division provides vehicle-mounted ground penetrating radar detection systems, counter-IED electronic countermeasures, RF and hard-wired electrical initiators, percussion initiators, detonators and charges, mine detection systems, recoilless de-armers/disrupters, ROV weapon carriers, C-IED tools and equipments, demolition stores, and chemical and biological threat detection systems. The Pyrotechnics division offers smokes and flares, fire suppression devices, battlefield illumination, distraction and screening grenades, markers, smoke payloads and illumination, battlefield simulation products, impulse cartridges, rockets, line throwers, rocket propellants, canopy cutting charges, linear explosives, cartridge-actuated devices, and propellant-actuated devices. Chemring Group PLC was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Fareham , the United Kingdom.

Top 10 Healthcare Technology Companies To Buy For 2014: Celadon Group Inc.(CGI)

Celadon Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides transportation services between the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It offers a range of truckload transportation services, including long-haul, regional, less-than-truckload, intermodal, and logistics services. The company transports various types of freight comprising tobacco, consumer goods, automotive parts, home products and fixtures, lawn tractors and assorted equipment, light bulbs, and various parts for engines. It also operates an e-commerce business that provides discounted fuel, tires, insurance, and other products and services to small and medium-sized trucking companies through its website, www.truckersb2b.com. In addition, the company provides warehousing and trucking services, as well as freight brokerage services. Celadon Group, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Advisors' Opinion:

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  Celadon Group, Inc. is engaged in the business of truckload carriers. As a dry van truckload carrier, the Company transports full trailer loads of freight from origin to destination without intermediate stops or handling. Its EPS forecast for the current year is 0.61 and next year is 0.93. According to consensus estimates, its topline is expected to grow 6.56% current year and 11.07% next year. It is trading at a forward P/E of 17.96. Out of 10 analysts covering the company, eight are positive and have buy recommendations, one has a sell recommendation and one has a hold rating.

Top 10 Healthcare Technology Companies To Buy For 2014: Northrock Resources Inc (NRK.V)

Bama Gold Corp., an exploration stage company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in Canada. It holds interest in the Turner Lake Gold property that consists of the HA 1-4 mineral claims, which cover an area of approximately 29 sq km located near Bathurst Inlet, Nunavut. The company was formerly known as Northrock Resources Inc. and changed its name to Bama Gold Corp. in December 2011. Bama Gold Corp. was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.