The typical household made up of Americans in the 55-to-64 age range has accumulated only enough retirement assets ��$120,000 ��to produce $400 to $500 of income a month to add to Social Security payments, according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances. If that sounds shockingly low, it is.
You've lost the advantage of time, which helps people in their 20s and 30s to use the power of compounding interest to reach their retirement goals, but you do have other financial tools at your disposal. The most powerful lever: capping or reducing consumption. Every dollar you don't spend in your 50s, after your kids fly the nest, pays you back twofold. Not only can you save it now, you won't feel the need of it later.
Hot Railroad Stocks To Own Right Now: Capital Senior Living Corp (CSU)
Capital Senior Living Corporation, incorporated on October 25, 1996, is an operator of residential communities for senior adults. The Company provides senior living services. Its communities integrate independent living, assisted living and home care services, to provide residents the opportunity to age in place. The Company operated 112 senior living communities in geographically concentrated regions with an aggregate capacity of approximately 14,600 residents.
The Company�� senior living options include independent living, assisted living, memory care and planning resources. The Company�� services include special nutrition counseling, additional housekeeping and laundry, exercise programs, recreation and entertainment, medication reminders and access to a choice of home health agencies.
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 Capital Senior Living (NYSE: CSU ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below. - [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 Capital Senior Living (NYSE: CSU ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.
Best Income Companies To Own For 2014: SuperValu Inc.(SVU)
SUPERVALU INC., together with its subsidiaries, operates retail food stores in the United States. Its stores offer grocery, general merchandise, health and beauty care, pharmacy, and fuel products. The company operates stores under the Acme, Albertsons, Cub Foods, Farm Fresh, Hornbacher?s, Jewel-Osco, Lucky, Shaw?s, Shop ?n Save, Shoppers Food & Pharmacy, and Star Market banners, as well as in-store pharmacies under the Osco and Sav-on banners. It operates approximately 2,394 traditional and hard-discount retail food stores, including 899 licensed Save-A-Lot stores. The company also offers supply chain services, which include wholesale distribution of products to independent retailers, including single and multiple grocery store independent operators, regional and national chains, mass merchants, and the military customers, as well as provides logistics support services. SUPERVALU was founded in 1871 and is based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By John Udovich]
Yesterday after the market closed, small cap supermarket stock The Fresh Market Inc (NASDAQ: TFM) reported earnings and began rising more than 10% in after hours trading, meaning its worth taking a closer look at the stock along with the�performance of other supermarket stocks like SUPERVALU Inc (NYSE: SVU) and Whole Foods Market, Inc (NASDAQ: WFM) that have had or are having their share of troubles.
- [By Ben Levisohn]
Short sellers had a tough time in 2013. William Ackman’s bet again Herbalife (HLF), which has gained 139% this year, went horribly bad, while other heavily shorted stocks, including Supervalu (SVU) and Netflix (NFLX), have posted gains that make that look paltry.
Best Income Companies To Own For 2014: Westmoreland Coal Company(WLB)
Westmoreland Coal Company operates as an energy company in the United States. The company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the production and sale of sub-bituminous coal and lignite to electricity generating plants; and the ownership of power plants in North Carolina. It owns 5 surface coal mines in Montana, North Dakota, and Texas; and 2 coal-fired power generating units with a capacity of approximately 230 megawatts in Weldon, North Carolina. As of December 31, 2010, Westmoreland Coal Company had estimated proven and probable coal reserves of 389.9 million tons. The company was founded in 1854 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Jake L'Ecuyer]
Leading and Lagging Sectors
In trading on Tuesday, energy shares were relative leaders, up on the day by about 1.41 percent. Meanwhile, top gainers in the sector included Stone Energy (NYSE: SGY), up 9 percent, and Westmoreland Coal Co (NYSE: WLB), up 7.8 percent. Industrials services shares gained by just 0.02 percent in Tuesday's trading.
Best Income Companies To Own For 2014: VirnetX Holding Corp(VHC)
VirnetX Holding Corporation engages in developing and commercializing software and technology solutions for securing real-time communications over the Internet. Its software and technology solutions, which include secure domain name registry and GABRIEL Connection Technology, facilitate secure communications and create a secure environment for real-time communication applications, such as instant messaging, voice over Internet protocol, smart phones, eReaders, and video conferencing. The company focuses on commercializing its technology to original equipment manufacturers within the IP-telephony, mobility, fixed-mobile convergence, and unified communications markets. VirnetX Holding Corporation was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Scotts Valley, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Rich Duprey]
Hanging up on mobile growth
If there's been one stock suffering from a bout of manic investor behavior, it's Internet security specialist VirnetX Holdings (NYSEMKT: VHC ) , which has found its stock bouncing all over the market. Following a patent infringement win over Apple late last year, shares soared, only to crash miserably after losing a similar case to Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO ) , with its shares losing nearly a quarter their value. It was as if all the wheels had fallen off the gravy train it was riding to collecting royalties on its wireless patents. - [By Anders Bylund]
Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL ) extremely simple workaround for VirnetX's (NYSEMKT: VHC ) networking patents reveal how easily the company's claims can be ignored. Add in a recent court victory by Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO ) over many of the same VirnetX claims, and the cracks in the patent trolling strategy start to show.
- [By Richard Lomas]
Further declines in profit margins will most likely cause further declines in share price. One key upcoming event could have a significant impact on Apple's profit margin, the setting of a royalty rate for Apple's products that infringe on Virnetx (VHC) patents. Apple was sued by Virnetx for infringing on its data security patents with the trial concluding in November, 2012, with a Virnetx victory. After many motions and negotiations no settlement has been reached between Virnetx and Apple. Judge Davis is expected to rule shortly (probably within the next two weeks) on a royalty rate for the offending products. The royalty rate could be set anywhere between .5% to 1.5% and possibly even more. As this royalty rate will apply to all infringing products, (iPhone, iPad, and others supporting Face Time and iMessage), this will have a direct effect on Apple's profit margin which will also impact stock price.
- [By Evan Niu, CFA]
What: Shares of VirnetX (NYSEMKT: VHC ) have jumped today by as much as 12% after the company announced that it has identified an additional developing specification related to its 3GPP LTE, SAE project.
Best Income Companies To Own For 2014: Destiny Media Technologies Inc (DSNY)
Destiny Media Technologies, Inc. (Destiny), incorporated on August 24, 1998, develops and markets services that enable the secure distribution of digital media content over the Internet. Destiny services are based around security, watermarking and playerless streaming media technologies. The Company carries out its business operations through its wholly owned subsidiary, Destiny Software Productions Inc., MPE Distribution, Inc. and Sonox Digital Inc. The Company�� products include Clipstream Legacy, Clipstream Next Generation, Clipstream Cloud and Play MPE. MPE enables content to be owned the way a recipient might own a digital versatile disc (DVD) or compact disc (CD's). Clipstream enables content to be securely streamed for temporary viewing or listening, similar to television or radio. Clipstream recipients don�� need a player and sites don�� need a streaming server.
Clipstream Legacy
Clipstream powered videos are integrated into video questionnaires for use in market research surveys.
Videos can be secured to play only from authorized uniform resource locator�� and they actively block screenscraping programs that might try to download the video locally. In addition, videos are watermarked, so the source of unauthorized content can be identified.
Clipstream Next Generation
The introduction of new browsers supporting hypertext markup language 5 has created an opportunity where video can be decompressed and rendered directly by the browser. Streaming video encoded in this format can be hosted from any brand of Web server and it plays directly across desktops, laptops, smart phones, tablets, e-book readers, Internet enabled television�� and other devices, including future devices still under development.
Clipstream Cloud
The cloud is managed by servers at one or more Destiny controlled facilities. The actual location where the content is stored and hosted is open ended. The Company is partnered with Amazon's! cloud services to provide hosting services, but some or all of the content can be moved in the future to other providers, including Destiny's own facilities. The business model is usage based. Users purchase a monthly package through an automated credit card sale, which limits the amount of transfer they are allowed in a month.
Play MPE
Play MPE is a digital delivery service for securely moving broadcast quality audio, video, images, promotional information and other digital content securely through the Internet. The system is used by the recording industry for transferring pre-release broadcast quality music, radio shows, and music videos to trusted recipients such as radio stations, media reviewers, very important person (VIP's),, disc jockey��(DJ's), film and telivision personnel, sports stadiums and retailers. The system replaces the physical distribution (mail, courier or hand delivery) of Compact discs.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Tom Bemis]
Few major companies are reporting after Monday�� bell. Results are expected from Destiny Media Technologies (DSNY) �, Stanley Furniture Co. (STLY) � and Peregrine Pharmaceuticals. (PPHM) �.
Best Income Companies To Own For 2014: Vuzix Corp (VUZI)
Vuzix Corporation, incorporated in 1997, is engaged in the design, manufacture, marketing and sale of products for uses in the defense, consumer, and media and entertainment markets. The Company's products, known commercially as Video Eyewear (also referred to as head mounted displays, wearable displays, personal viewers, and near eye displays) are worn like eyeglasses and contain video displays that enable the user to view video and digital content, such as movies, computer data, the Internet or video games. It produces both monocular and binocular Video Eyewear devices. Its Video Eyewear are used in tactical, training and education, general entertainment, virtual reality and augmented reality applications. The Company focuses on two markets, such as consumer markets for gaming, entertainment and mobile video and the market for rugged mobile displays for defense markets. Its Virtual and Augmented Reality products are sold in the consumer, defense, industrial, commercial, academic and medical markets. Video Eyewear are designed to work with mobile electronic devices, such as cell phones, laptop computers, portable media players and gaming systems, as well as unmanned vehicles and sighting systems. In June 2012, the Company sold its business assets, which consisted of the Company's Tactical Display Group (TDG).
The Company has licensed and is developing thin optics that enables miniature display engines to be mounted in the temples of the HMDs. Its Video Eyewear products all employ micro displays that are smaller than one-inch diagonally, with some as small as one-quarter of an inch. They can display an image with a resolution of up to 12801080 pixels (High Definition (HD)). Images are viewed through the Company's optics. Using these optics and displays, its Video Eyewear provide an image that appears similar to the image on a full size computer screen in an office desktop environment or the image on a large flat panel television viewed from normal home television viewing distances.
The Company's Video Eyewear products can also be used for a number of industrial applications, including for use as remote camera viewfinder displays and wearable computer displays, for viewing of industrial thermal signature systems, for providing hands-free access to manuals and other information and for on-site, in-the-field maintenance, servicing, training and education. It offers products that enable development and deployment of augmented reality (AR) applications. This type of Video Eyewear enables its wearer to see computer-generated information, graphics or images projected into the real world environment or upon an object that the user is observing.
Binocular Video Eyewear Products
The Company's binocular Video Eyewear products contain two microdisplays (a separate display for each eye), typically mounted in a frame attached to eyeglass-style temples. These products enable mobile and hands-free private viewing of video content on screens that simulate home theater-sized screens. For the consumer markets, it produces a line of binocular Video Eyewear products, all of which support three-dimensional (3D) applications.
The Company offers three models, differentiated primarily by their native resolution and virtual apparent displays size. Wrap 310XL has WQVGA (420x240 three-color pixels) resolution, which simulates a 55-inch screen viewed at 10 feet. Wrap 920 has VGA (640x480 three-color pixels) resolution, which simulates a 67-inch screen viewed at 10 feet. Wrap 1200 has WVGA (852x480 three-color pixels) resolution, which simulates a 75-inch screen viewed at 10 feet.
The Company�� Wrap AR and VR Viewers include Wrap 920VR and Wrap 1200VR, Wrap 920AR and Star 1200. Wrap 920VR and Wrap 1200VR contain the Company's three degrees of freedom head tracking technology, which enables the user to look around the environment being viewed by moving his or her head. Wrap 920AR is designed to plug into a computer�� universal serial bus (USB) and ! video por! ts. Star 1200 is the Company's first AR Video Eyewear product with see-thru technology that enables the user to see the real world directly through and around its transparent wide video graphics array (WVGA) widescreen video displays. Computer content, such as text, images and video can be overlaid on the displays in full color two dimensional (2D) or 3D.
Monocular Video Eyewear Products
The Company's Tac-Eye monocular (single eye) high-resolution Video Eyewear models are ruggedized and designed to clip onto a pair of ballistic sunglasses, helmets or conventional safety goggles. Tac-Eye enables users to have wearable, private, secure and hands-free access to high-resolution content or information. It can be used with the large installed base of rugged laptops, unmanned vehicles, video based radio receivers, security and night vision cameras and thermal night vision sights, including those systems, which the Company supply as a subcontractor to the United States Defense Department.
Defense Sub-Assembly, Custom Solutions and Engineering Solutions
The Company is part of contracting teams that produce display drive electronic subassemblies for light, medium, and heavy weights thermal weapon systems for United States and allied defense forces. The Company is also a supplier of light engine subassemblies for Clip-on Thermal Imagers (COTI). The COTI is designed to clip onto existing image intensifier night vision goggles to give them thermal imaging capabilities. It provides full optics systems, including head mounted displays, human computer interface devices, and wearable computers as prototypes under multiple armed services test programs. These are being tested, and in some cases deployed, in applications, such as the remote control of unmanned vehicles and virtual and augmented defense equipment training systems.
The Company competes with Motorola, Inc., Nokia Corporation, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Research In Motion Limited, Sa! msung Ele! ctronics Co., Ltd., LG Electronics, Apple Inc., Liteye Systems, Inc., Lumus, Shimadzu Corporation, Microvision, Kopin, Creative Display Systems, LLC, OASYS Technology, LLC, Rockwell Collins, Inc., Kaiser and Microvision Corporation.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Bryan Murphy]
Although the market seems to be losing traction, and even losing ground now, the same can't be said of every single stock. A handful of stocks like China Jo-Jo Drugstores Inc. (NASDAQ:CJJD), Vuzix Corp. (OTCBB:VUZI), and Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corp. (NASDAQ:ADMP) are forging ahead, doling out gains against the grain. Not that moving higher while other names are moving lower is a sure sign that ADMP, VUZI, and CJJD will remain in their uptrends indefinitely, but it sure doesn't hurt their odds. Here's a closer look at each one and why you'd want to add them to your watchlist.
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