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Top 10 Long Term Stocks To Watch Right Now: Zix Corporation(ZIXI)
Zix Corporation provides Internet-based applications in software as a service model that enables the use of secure email for sensitive information exchange primarily in the healthcare, financial services, insurance, and government sectors in the United States. It offers email encryption service, a secure messaging service, which allows an enterprise to use policy-driven rules to determine which emails should be sent securely to comply with regulations or policies. The company also provides a solution that analyzes and encrypts email communications. Its services offer users the ability to deliver encrypted email to any email user at any email address by using the ZixCorp Best Method of Delivery protocol that automatically determines the direct and appropriate means of delivery, based on the sender?s and recipient?s communications environment and preferences. Zix Corporation sells its services through a direct sales force, and a network of resellers and other distribution partners. The company was formerly known as ZixIt Corporation and changed its name to Zix Corporation in 2002. Zix Corporation was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Fernandez]
ZixCorp(NASDAQ: ZIXI) (as the company refers to itself) is a leading provider of easy-to-use-and-deploy email encryption and e-prescribing services that connect entities with their customers and partners to protect and deliver sensitive information in the healthcare, finance, insurance and government industries.
ZixCorp’s hosted Email Encryption Service provides an easy and cost-effective way to ensure customer privacy and regulatory compliance for corporate email and its Pocketscript® e-prescribing service saves lives and saves money by automating the prescription process between payors, doctors, and pharmacies.
Zix Corp and its largest competitor Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) provide e-prescribing technologies, which have pending legislation in the House and Senate to provide financial incentives to promote the adoption of the technology.
e-prescribing is basically when you go to a doctor and they use a little handheld PDA to enter your prescription information, and then send it off to the pharmacy of your choice without having to write anything out on paper.
This is a quicker and more streamlined way of doing business and has the added affect of catching any potential allergic or drug interactions through the cross-referencing capabilities of the software that is used.
Zix has been a company that I have been looking into for over a year, but their stock price and fundamentals did not synch up.
I still have to do more diligence and determine whether or not Allscripts or Zix have a better product, and more than that, if doctors without financial incentives, will adopt the e-prescribing interface, even though in the long run, it would save them money.
Because of the legislative mandates and Zix’s recent announcements with large insurance providers like Aetna (NYSE: AET) in New Jersey and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama, I believe that we are in the beginning stages of this technology taking off and being accepted at more and more docto! r’s offices and that it will become mainstream in no time at all.
The email encryption part of Zix’s business is just another revenue stream that acts as a corollary to their e-prescribing business and right now, accounts for the vast majority of their revenue.
Why I Like the Company: Technology that is being pushed by legislature and will likely become widely adopted in the years to come providing the company a broad spectrum of runway in terms of future revenue growth; Valuation that has come in line with the company’s fundamentals; Possible merger/takeover target for their IP and applications/customer base; Improving fundamentals, including cash flow positive quarter has company on the verge of solid profitability
Top 10 Long Term Stocks To Watch Right Now: Atlantic Tele-Network Inc.(ATNI)
Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. provides telecommunications services to rural, niche, and other under-served markets and geographies in the United States, Bermuda, and the Caribbean. The company, through its subsidiaries, provides wireless and wireline connectivity to residential and business customers, including wireless voice and data services to retail customers under the Alltel name in rural markets located principally in the Southeast and the Midwest; wholesale wireless voice and data roaming services to national, regional, local, and selected international wireless carriers in rural markets located principally in the Southwest and Midwest United States; wireless voice and data services to retail customers under the Cellink name in Guyana, as well as under the CellularOne name in other smaller markets in the Caribbean and the United States; domestic wireline local and long distance telephone services in Guyana; and international voice and data communications in Guyana and internationally. It also offers facilities-based integrated voice and data communications services to enterprise and residential customers in New England primarily in Vermont; and wholesale transport services in New York State. In addition, the company owns and operates terrestrial and submarine fiber optic transport systems. Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts.
Best Medical Stocks To Own For 2014: Viterra Inc (VT.TO)
Viterra Inc. operates as an integrated agri-business company in Canada and internationally. The company�s Grain Handling and Marketing segment sells commodities comprising grains, oilseeds, and special crops; and provides related ancillary services, such as grain handling, blending, cleaning, and storage. Its Agri-Products segment manufactures, distributes, and retails fertilizers, crop protection products, and seed and seed treatments; and sells private label and third-party crop protection products, including herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides, as well as general merchandise, small agricultural equipment, general merchandise, and wool through a network of retail locations. This segment also offers various financial services, which include loans to feed products customers to purchase feeder cattle, as well as related feed inputs; and distributes bulk fuel. The company�s Processing segment manufactures and markets food ingredients associated with pasta, oats, canol a, wheat, and malt barley, as well as feed products and other related products for consumer products companies and food processors. Viterra Inc. was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Regina, Canada. As of December 15, 2012, Viterra, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Glencore International plc.
Top 10 Long Term Stocks To Watch Right Now: Full Metal Minerals Ltd. (FMM.V)
Full Metal Minerals Ltd., a junior exploration company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of resource properties primarily in Alaska. The company primarily explores for gold, copper, silver, lead, zinc, and molybdenum ores. Its principal properties include the Pyramid copper-gold-molybdenum porphyry property; and the Pebble South copper property comprising 2 contiguous blocks consisting of an area of 420 square kilometers located in Alaska. Full Metal Minerals Ltd. was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Top 10 Long Term Stocks To Watch Right Now: IP Group(IPO.L)
IP Group plc, Formerly known as IP2IPO Group plc, is a private equity and venture capital firm specializing in seed, early stage, and mature financing. The firm also provides seed capital financing to spin out companies from the universities. It seeks to invest in the life sciences, physical sciences, energy & renewables, medical equipment and supplies, intellectual property, pharmaceuticals & biotechnology, information technology & communications, and chemicals & materials. It also provides support for its university partners' intellectual property commercialization activities, as well as in the identification of intellectual property and in return takes equity positions in its portfolio companies. IP Group plc was founded in 2001 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Top 10 Long Term Stocks To Watch Right Now: China Yida Holding Co.(CNYD)
China Yida Holding, Co. operates as a diversified entertainment company in the People?s Republic of China. The company operates in two segments, Advertisement and Tourism. Its Advertisement segment operates and manages the Fujian Education Television Channel, a television channel in Fujian; and an outdoor on-train programming, including the Journey through China on the Train programming on China?s railway networks. This segment manages the content and re-sells airtime to advertisers and agencies for the television channel, and produces the content for outdoor on-train programming. The Tourism segment develops, operates, manages, and markets tourist destinations comprising natural, cultural, and historical tourist destinations and theme parks. This segment also creates/designs and constructs tourist concepts, attractions, and properties for its tourist destinations. This segment operates the Great Golden Lake tourist destination, Yunding Recreational Park tourist destinatio n, and Hua?An Tulou cluster tourist destination. The company is headquartered in Fuzhou City, the People's Republic of China.
Top 10 Long Term Stocks To Watch Right Now: Gold World Resources Inc (GDW.V)
Gold World Resources Inc., an exploration stage company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and mining of mineral resource properties in Canada. The company primarily explores for gold and silver deposits. It holds a 100% interest in the Mount Anderson Yukon gold/silver, polymetallic project located in the Wheaton River District in Yukon, Canada. The company was formerly known as Strikezone Minerals (Canada) Ltd. and changed its name to Gold World Resources Inc. in January 2006. Gold World Resources Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
Top 10 Long Term Stocks To Watch Right Now: PURE Bioscience Inc.(PURE)
Pure Bioscience, Inc. engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of bioscience products principally in the United States. The company offers silver dihydrogen citrate (SDC) based antimicrobials. The silver dihydrogen citrate technology is an electrochemical process that allows the generation of ionized silver in the presence of organic acid. It provides PURE Hard Surface, a hard surface disinfectant and food contact surface sanitizer for use in food processing equipment, machinery, and utensils; Axen30, a hard surface disinfectant; Silv�ion, an antimicrobial formulation used as a raw material in the manufacturing of personal care products; and Axenohl, an antimicrobial formulation for use as a raw material in the manufacturing of environmental protection agency-registered products. The company also offers research and development services in food processing, agriculture, water treatment, pharmaceuticals, and oil and gas projects. It sells its products t hrough partners and distributors primarily to industrial and consumer markets. The company, formerly known as Innovative Medical Services, was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in El Cajon, California.
Top 10 Long Term Stocks To Watch Right Now: Micron Technology Inc.(MU)
Micron Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of semiconductor devices worldwide. Its products include dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products that provide data storage and retrieval, which include DDR2 and DDR3; and other specialty DRAM memory products, including DDR, SDRAM, DDR and DDR2 mobile low power DRAM, pseudo-static RAM, and reduced latency DRAM. The company also offers NAND flash memory products, which are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor devices that retain content when power is turned off. In addition, it provides NOR flash memory products that are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor memory devices; phase change memory products; and image sensor products. Micron Technology?s products are used in a range of electronic applications, including personal computers, workstations, network servers, mobile phones, flash memory cards, USB storage devices, digital still c ameras, MP3/4 players, and in automotive applications. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and retailers through internal sales force, independent sales representatives, and distributors, as well as through a Web-based customer direct sales channel. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Jonas Elmerraji]
We're seeing another bottoming pattern forming in shares of Micron Technology (MU). Like Microsoft, Micron has underperformed the broad market this year, barely breaking even between the first trading day of January and today. But a long-term double bottom formation in shares is a sign that shareholders could be getting a reprieve from selling very soon.
A double bottom is a price pattern that's formed by two swing lows that bottom out at approximately the same price level. The two bottoms are separated by a peak that marks that resistance level for the setup -- a breakout above that price (right around $7 for MU) is the buy signal for shares. It's worth noting that resistance in Micron is actually tougher than just a single peak: that $7 barrier has been acting like strong resistance on the last five attempts higher. Believe it or not, that's actually a good thing because it means that a breakout above resistance carries more technical significance for MU.
Remember that this is a long-term pattern -- it's been forming since all the way back in April, so its trading implications are bigger too. The breakout above $7 is likely to come with a long-term shift towards buyers being in control of this stock…
- [By Fitz Gerald]
The company's management has indicated a positive and more-balanced DRAM and NAND flash demand/supply outlook for 2011. The company also indicated a more-resilient near-term business model with low exposure to the weak PC DRAM segment (25 percent of revenues).
Micron also indicated strong demand for NAND flash and price reductions consistent with learning curve cost reductions. With many smartphone and iPad/new Web tablets ramping, Micron management expects the benign pricing environment for NAND flash to continue in 2012.
- [By Jonas Elmerraji]
Nearest Support: $10
Catalyst: Technical SetupMicron Technology (MU) is unlike most of the high-volume names on our list today because it's not an earnings mover. Instead, this large-cap semiconductor stock is seeing huge trading activity thanks to a technical breakout in shares.
Micron has spent the last few months consolidating sideways in a rectangle pattern with resistance at $10 and support at $9. That well-formed rectangle was providing investors with a chance for the stock to bleed off some overbought momentum after rallying more than 100% since the end of November. The breakout above $10 is a buy signal at this point.
Top 10 Long Term Stocks To Watch Right Now: Gentiva Health Services Inc.(GTIV)
Gentiva Health Services, Inc. provides home health services and hospice care in the United States. The company offers skilled nursing and therapy services, paraprofessional nursing services, and homemaker services primarily to adult and elderly patients through licensed and Medicare-certified agencies. It also provides its services through specialty programs comprising Gentiva Orthopedics, which offers individualized home orthopedic rehabilitation services to patients recovering from joint replacement or other major orthopedic surgery; Gentiva Safe Strides that provides therapies for patients with balance issues; and Gentiva Cardiopulmonary, which helps patients and their physicians manage heart and lung health in a home-based environment. In addition, the company offers services through Gentiva Neurorehabilitation, which helps patients who have experienced a neurological injury or condition by removing the obstacles to healing in the patient?s home; Gentiva Senior Health that addresses the needs of patients with age-related diseases and issues; and Rehab Without Walls unit, which provides neurorehabilitation therapies for patients with traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular accident injury, and acquired brain injury. Further, it offers consulting services to home health agencies, which include operational support, billing and collection activities, and on-site agency support and consulting. Additionally, the company provides hospice services primarily in the patient?s home or other residence, such as an assisted living residence or nursing home, as well as in a hospital. Gentiva Health Services, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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