At the Consumer Electronics Show back in January, graphics-chip specialist NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA ) showed off a new portable gaming device that it called Project Shield. As my colleagues Eric Bleeker and Austin Smith discussed at the time, creating Shield was an odd move for NVIDIA.
After all, NVIDIA's core competency is building graphics chips: particularly for hardcore gamers. More recently, it has moved to become a major player in the mobile processor market. While it's understandable that NVIDIA wants to encourage a "marriage" of gaming and mobile computing, building its own portable gaming system could make investors wonder whether the company is losing focus.
On Wednesday afternoon, investors got another reason to worry. With Shield scheduled to go on sale the following day, NVIDIA announced that shipments will be delayed until July because of a third-party mechanical component that did not meet NVIDIA's standards. Is NVIDIA in trouble, or is this a minor incident that will have no lasting impact on the company?
10 Best Healthcare Technology Stocks To Own Right Now: Exall Energy Corp Com Npv(EE.TO)
Exall Energy Corporation, a junior oil and gas exploration and production company, engages in the exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas properties primarily in the western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Alberta. It holds interests in the Mitsue, Jayar, and Bow Island properties in Alberta. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.
10 Best Healthcare Technology Stocks To Own Right Now: Perceptron Inc.(PRCP)
Perceptron, Inc. develops, produces, and sells non-contact measurement and inspection solutions in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. It offers AutoGauge systems that are used in the assembly and fabrication plants of automotive manufacturers; AutoGauge Plus, which offers freeform surface scanning and discrete feature measurement in one solution; AutoFit systems that are used in automotive manufacturing plants to contain, correct, and control the fit of exterior body panels; AutoScan systems, which provide a non-contact method of gathering data for the analysis of the surface contour of a part or product; and AutoGuide systems to calculate the difference between theoretical and actual relationships of a robot and the part being assembled, and send compensation data in six degrees of freedom to the robot. The company also offers ScanWorks, a hardware/software component set that allows customers to add digitizing capabilities to their machines or systems; ScanWorks xyz, a 3D sc anning solution designed for retrofitting 3-axis machines; ToolKit, a software solution for CMM manufacturers, system integrators, and application software developers; WheelWorks software and sensors that offer a non-contact method of measuring wheel position for use in automated or manual wheel alignment machines in automotive assembly plants; and Multi-line Sensors for use in automotive assembly plant wheel alignment systems. In addition, it manufactures visual inspection devices and accessories for the mechanical market; plumbing diagnostic equipment, meter imager systems, line detector accessories, and handheld inspection devices for the plumbing market; optical inspection devices for the construction and DIY market; and imaging solutions for the electrical market, as well as offers value-added services, including training, field services, launch support, consulting, maintenance agreements, repairs, and software tools. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Plymouth, Michigan.
Top 10 European Companies To Own In Right Now: Qube Logistics(QUB.AX)
Qube Logistics Holdings Limited, through its subsidiaries, engages in investing and managing logistics supply chain businesses in Australia. The company operates in three divisions: Automotive, Bulk, and General Stevedoring; Landside Logistics; and Strategic Development Assets. The Automotive, Bulk, and General Stevedoring division engages in various activities, including the stevedoring of motor vehicles, bulk commodities, and break bulk commodities; processing and storage of motor vehicles; and provision of facilities and related services to third party stevedores. The Landside Logistics division provides import and export logistics services, including road and rail transport, warehousing and distribution, container parks, and related services, as well as intermodal logistics hubs, such as rail terminals and international freight forwarding services. The Strategic Development Assets division is involved in the operation of inland rail terminals, as well as related logist ics activities, which include warehousing, distribution, customs, and quarantine processing on site. Qube Logistics Holdings Limited is based in Sydney, Australia.
10 Best Healthcare Technology Stocks To Own Right Now: Putnam Premier Income Trust(PPT)
Putnam Premier Income Trust is a closed ended fixed income mutual fund launched and managed by Putnam Investment Management, LLC. The fund is co-managed by Putnam Investments (U.K.) Limited and The Putnam Advisory Company, LLC. It invests in the public fixed income markets across the globe. The fund primarily invests in U.S. high-grade and high-yield bonds with an average credit quality of BBB by S&P Corporation. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Barclays Capital Government Bond Index. Putnam Premier Income Trust was formed on February 29, 1988 and is domiciled in the United States.
10 Best Healthcare Technology Stocks To Own Right Now: Nautilus Minerals Com Npv (NUS.TO)
Nautilus Minerals Inc., an exploration stage company, engages in the exploration and development of the ocean floor for copper, gold, silver, and zinc deposits in Australasia. The company holds interest in Solwara 1, a seafloor copper-gold project located at 1600 meters water depth in the Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea. As of March 26, 2012, it had approximately 600,000 square kilometers of prospective exploration acreage in the western Pacific; and in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, and Tonga, as well as in the eastern Pacific. The company has a strategic partnership agreement with Harren & Partner to own and operate a production support vessel that would serve as the operational base to extract copper and gold in the Solwara 1 project. Minerals Inc. is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
10 Best Healthcare Technology Stocks To Own Right Now: Intuit Inc.(INTU)
Intuit Inc. provides business and financial management solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, consumers, accounting professionals, and financial institutions primarily in the United States, Canada, India, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. The company offers QuickBooks financial and business management software and services, technical support, financial supplies, and Web site design and hosting services for small and medium-sized businesses; and payroll products and services, as well as merchant services comprising credit and debit card processing, electronic check conversion, and automated clearing house services for small businesses. It also provides TurboTax income tax preparation products and services for consumers and small business owners; Lacerte and ProSeries professional tax products and services; and QuickBooks Premier Accountant Edition and the QuickBooks ProAdvisor Program for accounting professionals. In addition, the company offers outsourced online financial management solutions for banks and credit unions; Quicken personal finance products and services; Mint.com online personal finance services; and Intuit Health online patient-to-provider communication solutions. It sells its products and services through various sales and distribution channels, including Websites, promotions, retail channels, and call centers, as well as through alliance partners, principally consisting of banks, credit unions, and securities and investment firms. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Fitz Gerald]
As workers start waiting for their W-2s, Intuit (INTU) is waiting for its opportunity to start collecting cash. Intuit is the standard bearer in the tax-prep software business with its TurboTax franchise, in addition to its successful accounting and personal finance software titles.
In the last several years, Intuit has carved out the No. 1 role in the tax software duopoly that it shares with H&R Block (HRB), a position that’s been bolstered by tight integration between the firms accounting and finance titles and its TurboTax software. Integration has been a key element of Intuit’s growth strategy; by offering complementary services such as payroll management, payment processing, and lending, the company is able to leverage its existing Rolodex to expand its bottom line.
Intuit isn’t without risks. Competition is fierce in the tax prep software space, and all it would take is a major flub (in the form of a security breach or tax return mistakes) for Intuit to cede market share to one of its rivals.
Still, investors should like the fact that the company is still generating increasing returns — after all, analysts are already paying attention to Intuit this year.
- [By Guru Focus]
SVP and CFO of Intuit Inc. (INTU) R Neil Williams sold 122,142 shares on 09/13/2011 at an average price of $46.61. Intuit's mission is to revolutionize how people manage their financial activities. Intuit Inc. has a market cap of $14.99 billion; its shares were traded at around $49.31 with a P/E ratio of 22.6 and P/S ratio of 4. Intuit Inc. had an annual average earnings growth of 15.8% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated Intuit Inc. the business predictability rank of 4-star.
During its fourth quarter 2011, Intuit Inc. reported a 10% increase in revenue from prior year quarter – to $593 million. This quarter was the first profitable quarter of the company in recent history – with Non-GAAP EPS of $0.02.
SVP and CFO R Neil Williams sold 122,142 shares of INTU stock on 09/13/2011 at the average price of 46.61. R Neil Williams owns at least 13,021 shares after this. The price of the stock has increased by 5.79% since. Director David H Batchelder sold a total of 5,562,500 shares of INTU during the past week.
10 Best Healthcare Technology Stocks To Own Right Now: National Research Corporation(NRCI)
National Research Corporation provides performance measurement and improvement services, healthcare analytics, and governance education to the healthcare industry in the United States and Canada. The company?s services include data collection, best practice identification, and delivery of value-added business intelligence. Its performance measurement and improvement services enable its clients to collect, analyze, and utilize meaningful business intelligence to improve performance relative to satisfaction, quality, cost, clinical outcomes, and other key performance metrics; Web-based electronic delivery systems provide clients the ability to review results and reports online, independently analyze data, query data sets, customize various reports, and distribute reports electronically; and business intelligence solutions provide clients with current key metric results, as well as best practice benchmarking information. The company also provides assessments, including consu mer quality perceptions, product-line preferences, service use, and visit satisfaction for approximately 4,900 hospitals and health systems. In addition, it offers subscription-based governance education services to the boards of directors and medical leadership of hospital and healthcare systems. The company provides information regarding organization governance, as well as emerging healthcare issues through online content, publications, periodicals, reference books, and associated videos through its resource catalog; and produces various executive healthcare leadership conferences. It primarily serves senior care profession and home health markets. National Research Corporation was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska.
10 Best Healthcare Technology Stocks To Own Right Now: China Great Land Holdings Ltd. (D50.SI)
China Great Land Holdings Ltd., an investment holding company, engages in the manufacture and sale of pre-stressed high strength concrete (PHC) piles, as well as the provision of piling services for construction projects in the People�s Republic of China. Its PHC piles are used in industrial and civil construction primarily in the areas with soft soil near water regions. The company also manufactures and sells aerated concrete, a building material for walls and partitions. It principally serves property developers and government bodies. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Singapore.
10 Best Healthcare Technology Stocks To Own Right Now: Mondelez International Inc (MDLZ.O)
Mondelez International, Inc. (Mondelez International), formerly Kraft Foods Inc., incorporated on December 7, 2000, is a maker of chocolate, biscuits, gum, candy, coffee and powdered beverages. The Company consists of the global snacking and food brands. Mondelez International's portfolio includes several brands, such as Cadbury and Milka chocolate, Jacobs coffee, LU, Nabisco and Oreo biscuits, Tang powdered beverages and Trident gums. The Company�� products include chocolates, cookies, gums, beverages and crackers. Alpen Gold is a chocolate brand in Russia. Alpen Gold is available in chocolate bars, boxed chocolates and creamy, mouth-watering pralines. Its markets include Poland, Russia and Ukraine. Bubbaloo is a gum brand sold in more than 25 countries and three different continents, including India, Mexico, Portugal and Spain. Belvita are breakfast biscuits made with wholegrain, cereals and fiber. It is sold in Belgium, France, Netherlands, United Kingdom and the U nited States.
The Cadbury Creme Egg brand is available annually from New Year�� Day to Easter Day. It is sold in Australia, Canada, New Zealand the United Kingdom and the United States. Carte Noire is the coffee brand in France. It is sold in France, Ireland, Russia, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. Chips Ahoy! cookies are chocolate chip cookies packed with chocolate chips. It is sold in Brazil, Canada, China, Ecuador, Mexico, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain, the United States and Venezuela. Club Social is a cracker in Brazil and Latin America. The newest addition to the Club Social family is Club Social chips in Argentina, available in original, parmesano, and cream and onion flavors. Cote d'Or is a chocolate brand sold in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Middle East, Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Cadbury Dairy Milk is a milk chocolate bar sold in 33 countries, including Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, and available in more ! t! han 23 varieties, like fruit and nut, WholeNut, Snack, Caramello and Breakaway. Dentyne is a gum to aid in oral hygiene sold in Canada and the United States.
Cadbury Flake is chocolate bars sold in Australia, Egypt, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Gevalia brand offers more than 50 varieties of coffee and 20 choices of tea, and sold in the United States, Denmark, Finland, Sweden and the United States. Grand Mere coffee brand is sold at France. Green & Black�� is a chocolate brand and also includes gift chocolates, ice cream, biscuits and hot beverages. Halls is sold as a cold relief product. Halls is used as a refreshing candy. Halls products are available in more than 26 flavors.
Hollywood gum is a chewing gum in France. Jacobs coffee is sold throughout Europe and the Middle East, and in Austria, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Ukraine. Jacobs is available in roast and ground, whole beans, soluble crystals, coffee pods and flavored mixes. Kenco coffee is a coffee brand sold in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Lacta is a chocolate in Brazil. It also includes Bis chocolate wafers, Sonho de Valsa pralines and Lacta white chocolate.
LU biscuits are available in 100 countries. Other international brands under the LU name include Petit Dejuener, Mikado, Pepito (Mini Stars), Cracotte, Ourson and Tuc. Milka is a European chocolate. Marabou is a chocolate brand in Sweden. Nabisco�� brands include cookies and crackers. Nabisco 100 Calorie Packs includes 12 varieties, such as Chips Ahoy! Thin Crisps, Oreo Thin Crisps, Lorna Doone Shortbread Cookie Crisps, Ritz Snack Mix, Planters Peanut Butter Cookie Crisps, Kraft Cheese Nips Thin Crisps, Wheat Thins Multigrain Chips, Ritz Chips, Honey Maid Cinnamon Thin Crisps, Mini Teddy Grahams Cinnamon Cubs, Alpha-Bits Mini Cookies and Barnum�� Animals Choco Crackers.
Nutter Butter are sandwich cookies sold in the United States. Nill a wafers include original, reduced-fat and mini wafers. ! Newt! ons! are w! holesome snack made with real fruit. It also offers Newtons Fruit Thins and Fruit Crisps. The Natural Confectionery Company is a candy product. Onko offers coffee mixes in cappuccino flavors.
Oreo is a milk favorite cookie. Oreo is available in many flavors and varieties, such as chocolate covered, wafers, pie crusts and soft snack cakes. Premium saltine crackers come in six varieties, including unsalted tops, original, fat-free, low-sodium, soup and oyster and multi-grain. Prince biscuits are available in more than eight countries, including Algeria, Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Netherlands and Spain. Prince biscuits come in creme-filled sandwiches, rolls and chocolate-covered varieties.
Stimorol is a chewing gum brand in Northern Europe, as well as 40 other markets from Greenland to Fiji. Simmenthal is a canned meat in jelly. Simmenthal�� products include beef in jelly with chili and chicken in jelly with curry. Tang is available in more than 30 countries and is a powdered beverage. Tassimo is a hot beverage system, which helps in making coffee, tea, hot chocolate, cappuccino, espresso and lattes. Toblerone is a Swiss chocolate bar made with honey and almond nougat. Trakinas is a creme-filled sandwich cookie.
Trident is a chewing gum brand in the world. Triscuit varieties include original, reduced fat, cheddar, cracked pepper and olive oil, fire roasted tomato and olive oil, garden herb, deli-style rye, roasted garlic, thin crisps, and rosemary and olive oil. Wheat Thins are wheat crackers in a variety of flavors, including sundried tomato and basil, multigrain and parmesan basil.
10 Best Healthcare Technology Stocks To Own Right Now: SPX Corporation(SPW)
SPX Corporation provides flow technology products, test and measurement products, thermal equipment and services, and industrial products and services worldwide. The company?s Flow Technology segment provides products and solutions that are used to process, blend, filter, dry, meter, and transport fluids. This segment?s primary offerings include engineered pumps, mixers, process systems, heat exchangers, valves, and dehydration and drying technologies for food and beverage, general industrial, and power and energy markets. Its Test and Measurement segment provides diagnostic service tools, fare-collection systems, and portable cable and pipe locators for the transportation, telecommunications, and utility industries. The company?s Thermal Equipment and Services segment engineers, manufactures, and services cooling, heating, and ventilation products, including dry, wet, and hybrid cooling systems for the power generation, refrigeration, HVAC, and industrial markets, as well as boilers, heating, and ventilation products for the commercial and residential markets. This segment also provides thermal components and engineered services. Its Industrial Products and Services segment designs, manufactures, and markets power systems; industrial tools and hydraulic units; precision machine components for the aerospace industry; crystal growing machines for the solar power generation market; television, radio, and cell phone and data transmission broadcast antenna systems; communications and signal monitoring systems; and precision controlled industrial ovens and chambers. SPX Corporation markets its products through various channels, including stocking distributors, manufacturing representatives, third-party distributors, direct sales, and retailers. The company was formerly known as Piston Ring Company and changed its name to SPX Corporation in 1988. SPX Corporation was founded in 1911 and is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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