We've already had a quick look at some companies�reporting quarterly earnings�next week. But there are a lot of�FTSE 100�firms with first quarters ending in March, and a good number of them are due to report in the coming days. Here are three bringing us Q1 figures, all next Thursday:
Royal Dutch Shell
Valued at 140 billion pounds,�Royal Dutch Shell� (LSE: RDSB ) (NYSE: RDS-B ) �is the biggest company in the FTSE -- and�it might also be the cheapest. The Shell share price has gone nowhere over the past year, currently standing at 2,226 pence. And that is likely to be, in part at least, due to forecasts of falling earnings per share, or EPS, for this year, which follow on from a drop in reported earnings for 2012.
But those forecasts put the shares on a forward price to earnings, or P/E, �ratio of only a little over eight, which is way below the long-term FTSE average of around 14. And there are dividends too -- last year, Shell provided shareholders with a 5.1% yield, and with a rise expected this year, City analysts are predicting 5.4%.
Top Cheapest Stocks For 2014: Birner Dental Management Services Inc.(BDMS)
Birner Dental Management Services, Inc., a dental business service company, provides dental practice management services to dental practice networks in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. The company offers business services to 64 dental practice offices that include 38 acquired offices and 26 internally developed ?de novo Offices?. Its affiliated dentist offices provide general dentistry services, including crowns and bridges, fillings, and aesthetic procedures, such as porcelain veneers and bleaching; cleanings and periodontal services, including root planning and scaling; and specialty dental services, such as orthodontics, oral surgery, pediatrics, endodontics, and periodontics at some of its offices. The company serves dentists, patients, and third-party payors. Birner Dental Management Services, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Denver, Colorado.
Top Cheapest Stocks For 2014: Tso3 Inc Com Npv(TOS.TO)
TSO3 Inc. engages in the research, development, commercialization, and licensing of sterilization processes and accessories for heat-sensitive medical devices. Its sterilization products include 3M OPTREOZ 125-Z Sterilizer, which is an ozone and hydrogen peroxide sterilizer system that offers 3 sterilizing cycles of 46, 56, and 100 minutes each and is intended for the reprocessing of general instrumentation, rigid channel instruments, single/multi-channel rigid endoscopes, and short and long single/multi-channel flexible endoscopes; and 25L Ozone Sterilizer, an ozone-based sterilization system that runs a 4.5-hour sterilizing cycle and is intended for the reprocessing of general stainless steel instruments and rigid endoscopes. The company?s 3M OPTREOZ 125-Z Sterilizer consists of a 125 liter stainless steel chamber, an ozone generator, a humidifier, a vacuum pump, and a catalytic converter for residual ozone. Its sterilization systems are used in central sterilization de partments and operating rooms within acute care facilities in Canada and internationally. The company also provides 3M OPTREOZ 125-280 Solution that is used to supply the required dosage of hydrogen peroxide per cycle; validation indicators, including chemical and biological indicators that are used to verify the parameters of the cycle in order to guarantee the success of the process; and sterilization pouches. In addition, it offers product development services to medical device manufacturers that include hydrogen peroxide and ozone sterilization validation, compatibility testing, medical devices cleaning method development, and medical packaging compatibility verification. TSO3 Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Quebec, Canada.
Top 10 High Tech Companies To Watch For 2014: Parametric Technology Corporation(PMTC)
Parametric Technology Corporation develops, markets, and supports product lifecycle management (PLM) software solutions and services that help companies design products, manage product information, and enhance product development processes worldwide. Its PLM solutions comprise Windchill, an Internet-based content and process management solution for managing data and relationships, processes, and publications; Arbortext, an enterprise solution to manage complex information assets that enhance their customer support and service center information delivery processes; Creo View, which enables enterprise-wide visualization, verification, annotation, and automated comparison of various product development data formats; and Integrity that coordinates and manages various activities and artifacts associated with developing software-intensive products. The company?s desktop solutions include Creo Parametric, a family of three-dimensional product design solutions based on a parametr ic, feature-based solid modeler that enables changes made during the design process to be associatively updated throughout the design; Creo Elements/Direct, a family of computer aided design and collaboration software used for customers to meet short design cycles and to create product designs; Mathcad, an engineering calculation software solution, which combines a computational engine, accessed through conventional math notation, and with a full-featured word processor and graphing tools; and Arbortext to help customers improve documentation accuracy, speed time to market, reduce translation requirements, and lower publishing costs. In addition, it provides consulting, implementation, training, maintenance, and computer-based training products. Parametric Technology sells its products and services through direct sales force and third-party resellers and other strategic partners. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Needham, Massachusetts.
Top Cheapest Stocks For 2014: Great Basin Gold Ltd.(GBG)
Great Basin Gold Ltd. engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of precious metal deposits. It explores for gold, silver, and aggregate. The company has two material projects, including the Hollister gold project consisting of a total of 950 unpatented, federal mining claims, covering approximately 69 square kilometers located in Ivanhoe Mining District, Elko County, Nevada; and the Burnstone gold mine comprising mineral rights covering approximately 35,000 hectares located in the Witwatersrand Basin goldfields in South Africa. It also holds interests in early stage mineral prospects, such as the Tsetsera Property in Mozambique; and properties in Tanzania and the island of Kurils in eastern Russia. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Sandton, South Africa.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Hutchinson]
Great Basin Gold, Ltd. Common (AMEX:GBG): This equity had 13,465,632 shares sold short as of Aug 31st, as compared to 13,107,877 on Aug 15th, which represents a change of 357,755 shares, or 2.7%. Days to cover for this company is 5 and average daily trading volume is 2,917,536. About the equity: Great Basin Gold Limited explores and develops gold properties. The Company prospects for gold in the Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa and the Carlin Trend in Nevada.
- [By Louis Navellier]
The last penny stock on our list, Great Basin Gold Ltd. (AMEX: GBG), focuses on the acquisition, exploration, development and trial mining of precious metal deposits. In the past three months, this stock has climbed 5%, and it is up 46% in the last 12 months. GBG is now trading right in the middle of its 52-week range of $1.56 to $3.32. Buy this penny stock now before it heads back up.
Top Cheapest Stocks For 2014: Valassis Communications Inc.(VCI)
Valassis Communications, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a media and marketing services company primarily in the United States and Europe. Its Shared Mail segment combines the individual print advertisements of various clients into a single shared mail package and distributes the shared mail advertising products to approximately 70 million U.S. households primarily on a weekly basis through the United States Postal Service (USPS). This segment also offers solo mail and other products and services, including list procurement, addressing, processing, and the distribution of brochures and circulars; ancillary services, such as list rentals; and direct mail advertising solutions for local neighborhood businesses. It primarily serves grocers, restaurants, drug stores, discount and department stores, home furnishing stores, and other retailers. The company?s Neighborhood Targeted segment is involved in the print and media placement of traditional free-standing solo insert formats and specialty print promotion products; offers newspaper-delivered or direct-to-door sampling products that give manufacturers the ability to cover approximately 60 million households; and helps clients to run their promotional advertising directly on the pages of newspapers by brokering advertising space. The company?s Free-standing Inserts segment prints and distributes four-color booklets containing promotions, primarily coupons from multiple clients through newspapers and shared mails. Its International, Digital Media, and Services segment provides coupon clearing, analytical promotion information management products, and marketing services for retailers and consumer-packaged goods manufacturers; and promotion security and consulting services, as well as produces direct-mail programs based on multiple data sources, including frequent shopper card data. Valassis Communications, Inc. was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Livonia, Michigan.
Top Cheapest Stocks For 2014: Exactech Inc.(EXAC)
Exactech, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells orthopaedic implant devices, and related surgical instrumentation and biologic services. It offers knee implants that address orthopedic surgeons? concerns for contact stress, patellar tracking, polyethylene wear, joint stability, bone preservation, and instrumentation; and hip implants for hip arthroplasty, hip fractures, and primary hip surgery. The company also provides biologics and spine products for the healing and regeneration of bone and soft tissue; and allograft tissue implants for oral and dental applications. In addition, it offers shoulder systems for the treatment of degenerative disease and trauma; hip, knee, and shoulder spacers that are used in two stage revision procedures; and an air-driven impact handpiece that surgeons could use during joint implant revision procedures to remove failed prostheses and bone cement. The company markets its orthopedic implant products through a network of independent sales agencies, direct sales representatives, and independent distributors to hospitals, surgeons and other physicians, and clinics in the United States and internationally. It has a strategic partnership with Genzyme Biosurgery Corporation for the development of polymer-based synthetic biomaterials. The company was founded in 1985 and is based in Gainesville, Florida.
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