American consumers have a lot to smile about these days. That means things are looking up for consumer stocks, too. The stocks typically do well in the early stages of an economic recovery, and this one has been no exception. Stocks of companies that make or sell things that we want but don�� necessarily need��o-called consumer-discretionary stocks��ave been the stock market�� top-performing sector over the past five years. And although the group has lagged the market this year, the odds are good that the stocks will rebound in 2015.
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The signs of consumer strength are multiplying. The economy has added at least 200,000 jobs a month since February, while households have whittled debt as a percentage of disposable income from a peak of 135% in 2007 to 108% today. Wage increases have been modest, but purchasing power has improved. ��he drop in commodity prices and interest rates has greatly reduced the costs associated with mortgages, food and gasoline, putting more money back in consumer pockets despite recent wage slack,��says Brian Belski, chief investment strategist at BMO Capital Markets.
Hot Income Stocks To Own Right Now: Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co KGaA (FME)
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co KGaA is a Germany-based holding and kidney dialysis company, operating in the fields of dialysis products and dialysis services. Its dialysis business is vertically integrated, providing dialysis treatment at its own dialysis clinics and supplying these clinics with a range of products. In addition, the Company sells dialysis products to other dialysis service providers. The Company operates in two business segments: North America and International. The North America segment consists of Renal Therapy Group and Fresenius Medical Services. The International segment consists of Europe and Latin America and one Asia-Pacific unit. During the year ended December 31, 2010, the Company's subsidiary, U.S. Vascular Access Holdings, LLC, completed the acquisition of National Vascular Care Inc.; it acquired a total of 168 existing clinics, and acquired Gambro AB�� peritoneal dialysis (PD) business. The Company has a total of 1000 subsidiaries worldwide. Advisors' Opinion:- [By Alex Wayne]
Fresenius Medical Care AG (FME) fell the most in more than four years in Frankfurt after the U.S. government proposed cutting payments to kidney dialysis center operators by 9.4 percent next year.
Top 5 Performing Stocks To Invest In 2014: Intrawest Resorts Holdings Inc (SNOW)
Intrawest Resorts Holdings, Inc. (New Intrawest), incorporated on August 30, 2013, is a North American mountain resort and adventure company. The Company owns interests in seven four-season mountain resorts with more than 11,000 skiable acres and more than 1,150 acres of land available for real estate development. The Company�� mountain resorts are geographically diversified across North America�� ski regions, including the Eastern United States, the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Southwest and Canada. As of January 21, 2014, its portfolio of resorts received more than six million visitors from all 50 states and more than 100 countries. The Company also operates an adventure travel business, Canadian Mountain Holidays (CMH), the heli-skiing adventure company in North America. CMH provides helicopter accessed skiing, mountaineering and hiking. New Intrawest operates a real estate business through which it manages, markets and sells vacation club properties; manages condominium hotel properties, and sells and markets residential real estate. The Company operates in three segments: Mountain, Adventure and Real Estate.
The Company�� Mountain segment includes its mountain resort and lodging operations at Steamboat Ski & Resort, Winter Park Resort, Mont Tremblant Resort, Stratton Mountain Resort and Snowshoe Mountain Resort. It also holds a 50% interest in Blue Mountain Ski Resort within its Mountain segment. The Adventure segment includes its CMH business. Within its Adventure segment, the Company also owns and operates aviation businesses that support CMH and provide services to third parties. New Intrawest�� Real Estate segment includes its real estate development activities, as well as its real estate management, marketing and sales businesses, including Intrawest Resort Club Group (IRCG), Intrawest Hospitality Management (IHM) and Playground. Its mountain resorts offer activities for individuals of all ages that combine outdoor adventure and fitness with a variety of resort-based se! rvices and amenities, including retail, equipment rental, dining, lodging, ski school, spa services, golf, mountain biking and other summer activities.
The Company�� Steamboat Ski & Resort is located in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, 157 miles northwest of Denver. The Winter Park Resort is located in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, 67 miles west of Denver. The resort is comprised of Winter Park Mountain, Mary Jane Mountain, Vasquez Cirque and Vasquez Ridge. The Mont Tremblant Resort is located in Quebec. The Stratton Mountain Resort is located in Southern Vermont, approximately 220 miles north of New York City and approximately 150 miles northwest of Boston. The Snowshoe Mountain Resort is located in West Virginia and is a ski resorts in the Southeast region of the United States.
In the Blue Mountain Ski Resort the Company owns a 50% equity interest and is located in Ontario, approximately 90 miles northwest of Toronto. Blue Mountain also operates a year round conference center and offers a summer amenities, including an 18-hole golf course, an open-air gondola, a mountain biking facility and a waterfront park. The Company�� Mammoth Mountain, of which the Company owns a 15% equity interest, is located south of Yosemite National Park in California and primarily draws customers from Southern California�� approximately 22.0 million residents. The Company also owns a 50% equity interest in Mammoth Hospitality Management, LLC, which runs the hospitality and lodging operations at Mammoth. The Company�� other business interests at Mammoth include managing the commercial village, as well as the Westin Monache Resort at Mammoth Lakes, California. CMH provides helicopter-accessed skiing, mountaineering and hiking on 3.1 million powder-filled acres of terrain in British Columbia. The Company has a portfolio of more than 1,150 acres of development parcels surrounding the bases of its Steamboat, Winter Park, Tremblant, Stratton and Snowshoe resorts, much of which is located adjacent ! or proxim! ate to the ski trails, including ski-in ski-out parcels.
The Company�� competes with Breckenridge Ski Resort, Park City Mountain Resort, Copper Mountain Resort, Keystone Resort, Mont-Sainte-Anne, Mont Blanc, Le Massif, Mont Saint-Sauveur, Okemo, Mount Snow, Killington Resort, Seven Springs Mountain Resort, Bryce Resort, Wintergreen Resort, Horseshoe Valley Resort, Mount St. Louis and Holiday Valley Resort.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By John Udovich]
If you are a ski enthusiast hitting the slopes this winter, you might want to check out ski stocks�like mid cap Vail Resorts, Inc (NYSE: MTN) and small caps Peak Resorts Inc (NASDAQ: SKIS) and Intrawest Resorts Holdings Inc (NYSE: SNOW) which own or operate ski resorts. However, two of these ski stocks are recent IPOs with small cap Peak Resorts Inc having an IPO about a month ago while Intrawest Resorts Holdings debuted at the end of January. With that in mind, here is what you need to know as an investor before you hit the slopes with these ski stocks:
- [By Monica Gerson]
Intrawest Resorts Holdings (NYSE: SNOW) is expected to post its Q3 earnings at $2.69 per share on revenue of $294.89 million.
Cosan (NYSE: CZZ) is estimated to post its Q1 earnings at $0.16 per share.
Top 5 Performing Stocks To Invest In 2014: Telular Corporation(WRLS)
Telular Corporation designs, develops, and distributes products and services that utilize wireless networks to provide data and voice connectivity among people and machines primarily in the United States and internationally. It provides machine-to-machine and event monitoring services, including Telguard that comprises a specialized terminal unit, which interfaces with commercial security control panels and communicates with event processing servers to provide real-time transport of alarm signals from residential and commercial locations to an alarm company?s central monitoring station; and TankLink solution that combines a cellular communicator, wireless data services, and a Web-based application into a single offering, which allows end-users to monitor the product level in a given tank vessel. The company also offers fixed cellular terminals for voice, fax, and Internet access over the wireless networks. It sells its products to security equipment distributors, cellular carriers, and value added resellers. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Eric Volkman]
Telular (NASDAQ: WRLS ) will most likely soon be an asset belonging to another company. It has entered into an agreement to be bought by private equity firm Avista Capital Partners for total consideration of $253 million. This consists of $12.61 per share in cash and roughly $18.5 million in assumed debt.
Top 5 Performing Stocks To Invest In 2014: Tenet Healthcare Corporation(THC)
Tenet Healthcare Corporation, an investor-owned health care services company, operates acute care hospitals and related health care facilities. The company?s general hospitals offer acute care services, operating and recovery rooms, radiology services, respiratory therapy services, clinical laboratories, and pharmacies. It also provides intensive care, critical care and/or coronary care units, physical therapy; and orthopedic, oncology, and outpatient services; tertiary care services, such as open-heart surgery, neonatal intensive care, and neuroscience; quaternary care in areas, including heart, liver, kidney, and bone marrow transplants for children; gamma-knife brain surgery; and cyberknife surgery for tumors and lesions in the brain, lung, neck, and spine. As of June 30, 2011, it operated 49 acute care hospitals, and a critical access hospital with a combined total of 13,420 licensed beds primarily serving urban and suburban communities in 11 states of the United State s. The company also owns an interest in a health maintenance organization and operate various related health care facilities, including a long-term acute care hospital and various medical office buildings; revenue cycle management and patient communications services businesses; physician practices; captive insurance companies; and other ancillary health care businesses, such as including ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers, and occupational and rural health care clinics. In addition, Tenet Healthcare Corporation owns an interest in a management services subsidiary that provides network development, utilization management, claims processing, and contract negotiation services to physician organizations and hospitals that assume managed care risk. Tenet Healthcare Corporation was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Ben Levisohn]
Just 14 stocks in the S&P 500 have gained today at 12:15 p.m. Tenet Healthcare (THC) has jumped 6.4% to $46.70–Fitch reaffirmed its credit rating yesterday. Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) after it launched a swap-trading platform.
- [By Roberto Pedone]
One healthcare player that insiders are snapping up a huge amount of stock in here is Tenet Healthcare (THC), which mainly operates acute care hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic imaging centers and related health care facilities. Insiders are buying this stock into solid strength, since shares have spiked higher by 26% in 2013.
Tenet Healthcare has a market cap of $4.07 billion and an enterprise value of $9.8 billion. This stock trades at a reasonable valuation, with a forward price-to-earnings of 15.19. Its estimated growth rate for this year is 2.3%, and for next year it's pegged at 52.5%. This is not a cash-rich company, since the total cash position on its balance sheet is $82 million and its total debt is a whopping $5.82 billion.
A beneficial owner just bought 248,910 shares, or about $9.9 million worth of stock, at $39.79 per share. This same beneficial owner also just bought 644,582 shares, or about $25.74 million worth of stock, at $39.78 per share.
From a technical perspective, THC is currently trending below both its 50-day and 200-day moving averages, which is bearish. This stock has been downtrending over the last two months, with shares moving lower from its high of $48.48 to its recent low of $38.71 a share. During that downtrend, shares of THC have been making mostly lower highs and lower lows, which is bearish technical price action.
If you're bullish on THC, then I would look for long-biased trades as long as this stock is trending above its recent low of $38.71, and then once it breaks out above some near-term overhead resistance $41.32 a share with high volume. Look for a sustained move or close above that level with volume that hits near or above its three-month average volume of 1.91 million shares. If that breakout hits soon, then THC will set up to re-test or possibly take out its next major overhead resistance levels at its 50-day of $42.99 to its 200-day at $43.50 a share. Any hig
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