Rallying to a fourth straight record close, the S&P 500 Index (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC ) remained in undeniably bullish form Wednesday. Wall Street has managed to get good mileage out of two recent decisions by central banks to decrease interest rates. To be fair, when the European Central Bank slashes rates to record lows one week and Australia's central bank cuts rates the next, it can give off an optimistic vibe. But "optimistic vibe" may be a foreign phrase to investors in the three following companies, which were some of the S&P's severest decliners today.
Freight services and logistics company CH Robinson Worldwide (NASDAQ: CHRW ) cratered 7% after shareholders failed to be impressed with the company's quarterly results. Sales came in barely higher than expected, gaining 17% year over year. Earnings, however, were down 2% from the same quarter last year. With operating expenses rising to 63% of revenue from a 59% rate last year, it's not hard to see what held back profits.
Top 10 Freight Stocks To Watch Right Now: Standex International Corporation(SXI)
Standex International Corporation manufactures and sells products and services for various industrial markets worldwide. It provides commercial food service equipment, including refrigerated cabinets, cases, display units, and walk-in coolers and freezers; commercial ranges, ovens, griddles, char broilers, holding cabinets, and toasters; custom-fabricated food service counter systems, buffet tables, and cabinets; cook and hold units, rotisseries, pressure fryers, and baking equipment; merchandizing display cases; and rotary vane pumps used in beverage and industrial fluid handling applications. The company offers commercial food service equipment to restaurants, convenience stores, quick-service restaurants, supermarkets, drug stores, hotels, casinos, and corporate and school cafeterias, as well as health science and medical markets. It also provides metal ducts and fittings for residential heating, ventilating, and air conditioning applications; provides texturizing servi ces for molds used in producing plastic components; produces embossed and engraved rolls and plates; and process tooling and machinery for various industries. In addition, the company offers customized solutions in the fabrication and machining of engineered components to aerospace, energy, defense, marine, aviation, healthcare, medical, oil and gas, and general industrial markets; and single and double acting telescopic and piston rod hydraulic cylinders for the manufacture of dump truck and dump trailers, and other material handling applications. Further, it manufactures reed switches, electrical connectors, sensors, toroids and relays, fixed and variable inductors and electronic assemblies, fluid sensors, tunable inductors, transformers, and magnetic components to automotive, white goods, lighting, HVAC, aerospace, military, medical, security, and general industrial applications. Standex International Corporation was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Salem, New Hamp shire.
Top 10 Freight Stocks To Watch Right Now: Sara Lee Corporation(SLE)
Sara Lee Corporation engages in the manufacture and marketing of a range of branded packaged meat, bakery, and beverage products worldwide. Its packaged meat products include hot dogs and corn dogs, breakfast sausages, sandwiches and bowls, smoked and dinner sausages, premium deli and luncheon meats, bacon, beef, turkey, and cooked ham. It also offers frozen baked products, which comprise frozen pies, cakes, cheesecakes, pastries, and other desserts. In addition, Sara Lee provides roast, ground, and liquid coffee; cappuccinos; lattes; and hot and iced teas, as well as refrigerated dough products. The company sells its products under Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Jimmy Dean, Sara Lee, State Fair, Douwe Egberts, Senseo, Maison du Caf Advisors' Opinion:
- [By Carlson]
Director of Sara Lee Corp., James S Crown, bought 37,500 shares on 9/12/2011 at an average price of $17.5. Sara Lee Corporation is a global manufacturer and marketer of high-quality, brand-name products for consumers throughout the world. Sara Lee Corp. has a market cap of $10.24 billion; its shares were traded at around $17.5 with a P/E ratio of 19.9 and P/S ratio of 1.2. The dividend yield of Sara Lee Corp. stocks is 2.7%.
On August 11, Sara Lee Corp. reported earnings for the fourth quarter 2011. The fourth quarter included an 8% increase in adjusted net sales from continuing operations to $2.3 billion; 9% reported net sales increase, 40% increase in adjusted operating income to $189 million; and reported operating income increase of 19%.
Last week, Director James S Crown bought 37,500 shares of SLE stock. Executive Chairman Jan Bennink bought 58,400 shares in August.
5 Best China Stocks To Own Right Now: Linktone Ltd.(LTON)
Linktone Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides entertainment-oriented telecom value-added services and content to mobile phone users over mobile telecommunications networks in China and Indonesia, as well as the 3G mobile telecommunications network in Indonesia. The company specializes in the development, aggregation, marketing, and distribution of user wireless content and applications for access by mobile phone users through three mobile network operators in China and nine mobile network operators in Indonesia. Its 2G short messaging service (SMS)-based services include ringtones, icons and screen savers, interactive SMS messaging in certain television programs, adventure, action, trivia and fortune-telling games, lunar and Western horoscopes, jokes, fan clubs, and event-driven or entertainment news updates. The company?s 2.5G services comprise multimedia messaging services, such as animated cartoons and screensavers, comic strips, magazine-style ?mobile articles? on various topics, and event-driven news updates; and WAP services, which consist of WAP-based ringtones, screensavers, games and dating services, and advanced Java games. It also offers audio-related services, including color ring-back tones; and interactive voice response services that allow users to listen to songs, jokes, stories, and coverage of various events. In addition, Linktone is launching 3G services in Indonesia, including e-paper/e-reading; video-on-demand on tablet devices and smart TVs; and radio streaming on mobile applications. Further, it distributes and sells home entertainment products, such as VCDs/DVDs/Blu-ray discs and video-on-demand in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia; and engages in the theatrical distribution of movies, karaoke video licensing, karaoke system rental, and providing a karaoke-on-demand channel on Pay TV platforms. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Shanghai, China. Linktone Ltd. is a subsidiary of MNC International Li mited.
Top 10 Freight Stocks To Watch Right Now: qinetiq group ord gbp0(QQ.L)
QinetiQ Group plc provides technical support, training, test and evaluation, and know-how to customers in the defense, aerospace, and security markets primarily in the United Kingdom and North America. The company offers various services, such as test and evaluation of land, sea, and air equipment; technical and information services; electro-magnetic compatibility and environmental testing; network engineering and communications solutions; cyber operations; software solutions; systems engineering; facility management and range design; military, aviation, and cyber and software training; and aerospace engineering that include design, simulate, instrument, embody, and evaluate aircraft and equipment. Its products include OptaSense to gather information from linear assets; Zephyr, an unmanned air vehicle to support payloads for surveillance or communications; X-Net, a vehicle arresting system to bring vehicles to a safe non-lethal stop; Q-Net to protect tactical and lightly a rmored vehicles from rocket-propelled grenades. The company also provides military robotics comprising Dragon Runner, a small unmanned ground vehicle (UGV); Dragon Runner 10, a micro UGV; Rascal, a sensor-carrying small ground robot; TALON, a man-portable robot; MAARS, a modular ground robot system; and Rangemaster for operations running on diesel engine. QinetiQ Group plc is based in Farnborough, the United Kingdom.
Top 10 Freight Stocks To Watch Right Now: Vanguard Natural Resources LLC(VNR)
Vanguard Natural Resources, LLC, through its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas properties in the United States. Its properties are located in the southern portion of the Appalachian Basin, primarily in southeast Kentucky and northeast Tennessee; the Permian Basin, primarily in west Texas and southeastern New Mexico; and south Texas. As of December 31, 2010, the company had estimated proved reserves of 69.3 million barrels of oil equivalent, as well as working interests in 2,270 net productive wells. Vanguard Natural Resources, LLC was founded in 2006 and is based in Houston, Texas.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Energy Stock Channel]
Vanguard Natural Resource is engaged in the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas properties. Co. owns properties and oil and natural gas reserves in: the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico; the Big Horn Basin in Wyoming and Montana; the southern portion of the Appalachian Basin, primarily in southeast Kentucky and northeast Tennessee; South Texas; the Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana; Mississippi; and the Arkoma Basin in Arkansas and Oklahoma. At Dec 31 2011, Co.'s estimated proved developed and undeveloped reserves for crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids were 44.8 million barrels, 163.00 billion cubic feet, and 7.4 million barrels, respectively.
Top 10 Freight Stocks To Watch Right Now: Voyager Oil & Gas Inc.(VOG)
Voyager Oil & Gas, Inc. engages in the exploration and production of oil and gas in the United States. It primarily focuses on oil shale resource prospects in Montana, North Dakota, Colorado, and Wyoming. As of May 17, 2011, the company controlled approximately 141,500 net acres in the five primary prospect areas comprising 28,000 net acres targeting the Bakken/Three Forks in North Dakota and Montana; 14,200 net acres targeting the Niobrara formation in Colorado and Wyoming; 800 net acres targeting a Red River prospect in Montana; 33,500 net acres in a joint venture targeting the Heath Shale formation in Musselshell, Petroleum, Garfield, and Fergus counties of Montana; and 65,000 net acres in a joint venture in the Tiger Ridge gas field in Blaine, Hill, and Chouteau counties of Montana. It supplies energy and fuel for industrial, commercial, and individual consumers. The company is based in Billings, Montana.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By SmallCap Investor]
Shares of this explorer, which has operations in the Western U.S., crossed back above $3 and have risen 40 percent in the past month, amid increasing investor interest in companies drilling in the Bakken region.
Top 10 Freight Stocks To Watch Right Now: SUPERGLASS HLDGS PLC ORD GBP0.01(SPGH.L)
Superglass Holdings Plc engages in the manufacture and sale of glass fiber insulation materials in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and internationally. The company offers a range of thermal and acoustic mineral wool products for the construction industry. Its products are used in roofs and ceilings, external walls, ground floors, party walls/partitions, profiled metal clad buildings, cavity fire barriers, blown cavity insulation, and internal floors separation applications. The company markets its products through distributors and builder merchants. Superglass Holdings Plc was founded in 1987 and is based in Stirling, the United Kingdom.
Top 10 Freight Stocks To Watch Right Now: Noman Building Solutions Ltd (NOD.AX)
Nomad Building Solutions Limited, through its subsidiaries, engages in the construction, manufacturing, and property development management businesses in Australia. The company engages in the manufacture of modular transportable buildings; project management and installation; housing construction and property development management; and refurbishment of existing homes and buildings. It designs, manufactures, and constructs various buildings, including bunkhouses, bungalows, chalets, camp housing, transportable offices, kitchens, diners, wet messes, dry messes, lunchrooms, cribs, ice rooms, first aid rooms, laboratories, communications buildings, dirty rooms and clean rooms, toilets and ablution blocks, gyms and TV rooms, and classrooms. The company also builds cottages, cabins, chalets, bungalows, houses, offices, and amenities buildings for clients in a range of industries, such as mining and resources, tourism, education, retirement, construction, and commercial industri es. Nomad Building Solutions Limited is based in Burswood, Australia.
Top 10 Freight Stocks To Watch Right Now: Ikanos Communications Inc.(IKAN)
Ikanos Communications, Inc. provides broadband semiconductor and software products for the digital home. The company develops and markets end-to-end products for the last mile and the digital home, which enable carriers to offer triple play services, including voice, video, and data. It offers broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) products, such as high-density and low-power asymmetric DSL, and very-high-bit rate DSL products; communications processors that support various wide area network topologies, including passive optical network, DSL, wireless broadband, and Ethernet; and other products for access infrastructure and customer premises equipment (CPE) to network equipment manufacturers and telecommunications service providers. The company?s products comprise digital subscriber line access multiplexers, optical network terminals, concentrators, modems, voice over Internet protocol terminal adapters, integrated access devices, and residential gateways. It primarily s erves original design manufacturers, contract manufacturers, network equipment manufacturers, and original equipment manufacturers through direct sales and third-party sales representatives worldwide. The company was formerly known as Velocity Communications and changed its name to Ikanos Communications, Inc. in December 2000. Ikanos Communications, Inc. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.
Top 10 Freight Stocks To Watch Right Now: Downer EDI Ltd(DOW.AX)
Downer EDI Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides engineering and infrastructure management services to the public and private minerals and metals, oil and gas, power, transport infrastructure, communications, property, and water sectors in Australia, New Zealand, the Asia Pacific, and the United Kingdom. It offers engineering and consulting services, including design and consulting, project management, procurement, construction, manufacturing, specialist services, asset maintenance, and shutdowns and turnarounds; and mining services, such as exploration management, exploration drilling, open-cut mining, underground mining, blasting services, tire management, crushing services, rehabilitation, specialist services, and transport infrastructure. The company also provides design, build, fit-out, and maintenance of passenger rolling stock and freight rolling stock, including locomotives, rail wagons, freight wagons, and light rails; and importing and commissioning l ocomotives units for use in the resources sector. In addition, it engages in the development, management, and maintenance of roads, highways, and rail infrastructure. Further, the company offers utility services, such as ground works for power, gas, and telecommunications, as well as provides maintenance services for water supply and wastewater treatment. Downer EDI Limited is headquartered in North Ryde, Australia.
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