Best Healthcare Equipment Companies To Own For 2014

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Best Healthcare Equipment Companies To Own For 2014: Home Federal Bancorp Inc.(HOME)

Home Federal Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Home Federal Bank that provides financial products and services to consumers and businesses. The company?s deposit products include checking accounts, money market deposit accounts, savings accounts, and certificates of deposits. Its loan products portfolio comprises one-to-four family residential real estate, real estate construction, and commercial and multifamily real estate loans; commercial business loans for various business purposes, such as working capital and equipment financing, and capital and general investment; and consumer loans, including home equity loans and lines of credit, savings account loans, automobile loans, recreational vehicle loans, and personal unsecured loans. The company offers its products and services in the Treasure Valley region of southwestern Idaho, including Ada, Canyon, Elmore, and Gem counties; the Tri-County region of Central Oregon comprising the counties of Crook, Desc hutes, and Jefferson, as well as the communities of Eugene, Grants Pass, and Medford; and Lane, Josephine, Jackson, and Multnomah counties in Western Oregon. As of January 27, 2012, it operated 28 full-service banking offices. The company was founded in 1920 and is headquartered in Nampa, Idaho.

Best Healthcare Equipment Companies To Own For 2014: Hikma Pharmaceuticals(HIK.L)

Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of a range of generic and in-licensed pharmaceutical products in solid, semi-solid, liquid, and injectable final dosage forms. It operates in three segments: Branded Pharmaceuticals, Injectable Pharmaceuticals, and Generic Pharmaceuticals. The Branded Pharmaceuticals segment offers 253 products in 485 dosage strengths and forms, which lie in the anti-infective, cardiovascular, central nervous system (CNS), and diabetes therapeutic areas. The Injectable Pharmaceuticals segment markets 120 branded and non-branded injectable products in 215 dosage strengths and forms with a focus on anti-infectives, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, and oncological therapeutic areas. This segment provides powder, liquid, and lyophilized injectables. The Generic Pharmaceuticals segment offers 50 generic compounds in 117 dosage forms and strengths for various indications, such as analgesic, anti-infective, anti-infl ammatory, cardiovascular, CNS, respiratory, and hormonal and others in the form of tablets, capsules, solutions, and suspensions. This segment markets its products to chain stores, wholesalers, distributors, health systems, and governmental agencies. The company also manufacturers pharmaceutical packaging products; and conducts bio-equivalency studies. It has operations primarily in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and north Africa. The company was founded in 1978 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

5 Best Gold Stocks To Watch Right Now: (TATASTEEL.NS)

Tata Steel Limited manufactures and sells steel products in India and internationally. The company provides steel products to vehicle manufacturers and component suppliers, and aerospace sector; structural frames, infrastructure, building envelope, and internal fit out application products used for heating and ventilation, and partition walls; hot rolled coil products and high-gloss pre-finished steel perforated blanks primarily for use in domestic appliances, lighting, furniture and office equipment, racking and shelving, battery cases, bake-ware, enamel-coated applications, and decorative pre-finished metals; hot rolled and cold rolled sheets, wire rod and wire, sections, plate, bearings, and tubes for engineering companies; agricultural implements; wire products for use in farming and fencing; and engineering services, including testing, erection, and commissioning, and business consulting services. It also offers tinplate, ECCS, and Protact polymer-coated steel product s for canmaking industry; formable steels for large and intermediary steel drums, and small pails for industrial packaging sector; strip and coil, quenched and tempered plate, and special profiles for track shoe and forklift masts, as well as engineered steel bars and tubes for lifting and excavating sector; welded pipeline packages and prefabricated structural products for wind, and oil and gas structures; light fabricated systems for solar farm foundations; semi finished steel components for drilling and power generation; plates, bulb flats, angles, tubes, sections, and bars for shipbuilding; rail sections sizes, steel sleeper, noise reduction systems, other specialised track, and rail products for rail sector; steel plate and sections, armoured steel, blast protective structures, perimeter security, and anti-attack vehicle barriers, as well as engineering consultancy and solutions to defense and security sector. The company was founded in 1907 and is headquartered in Mumb ai, India.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Cutler]

  Neither JSW nor Steel Authority of India has the kind of raw material arrangements that Tata Steel enjoys. The company is 100 percent self-reliant and will not be affected by price increases in iron ore or coking coal. At the same time, it will fully benefit from increase in steel prices. This will lead to improved profitability. It is also the cheapest steel stock among its peers.

Best Healthcare Equipment Companies To Own For 2014: The Hanover Insurance Group Inc.(THG)

The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, underwrites commercial and personal property, and casualty insurance coverage in the United States. It operates in three segments: Commercial Lines, Personal Lines, and Other Property and Casualty. The Commercial Lines segment provides coverage for commercial multiple peril; commercial automobile; workers? compensation; and other commercial coverages, including specialty program business, inland marine, and bonds, as well as umbrella, general liability, fire, specialty property, and professional and management liability. The Personal Lines segment offers coverage for personal automobile, homeowners, and other personal lines, such as inland marine, umbrella, fire, personal watercraft, and earthquake. The Other Property and Casualty segment provides investment advisory services; and manages assets for unaffiliated institutions, such as insurance companies, retirement plans, and foundations. The company sells its p roducts and services through a network of independent agents. The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. was founded in 1844 and is headquartered in Worcester, Massachusetts.