Hot Forestry Companies To Buy For 2014

Zions Bancorp's (NASDAQ: ZION) first quarter earnings of $0.48 per share�were good enough to push the stock up just over 2% in early trading this morning, but that earnings tally is in the past. What's really important about Zions' release was what it says about the future, and I think that investors have three reasons it is now an even better buy than it was before.

1. Continued asset quality improvement
At the end of the fourth quarter, nonperforming lending-related assets were $745.6 million, accounting for just under 2% of total loans and leases on the balance sheet. Both of these numbers declined again during the first quarter, with total nonperforming lending-related assets down 8% to $684 million, or 1.8% of total loans and leases. Lending activity during the quarter also helped to improve the nonperforming loan ratio, with total loans and leases increasing a�increasing a modest $148 million.

Hot Forestry Companies To Buy For 2014: Full House Resorts Inc.(FLL)

Full House Resorts, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manages, invests in, and owns gaming-related enterprises. The company holds interest in Gaming Entertainment (Delaware), LLC, a joint venture with Harrington Raceway, Inc., which has a management contract with Harrington Raceway and Casino that has approximately 1,800 slot machines and 40 table games, a 450-seat buffet, a dining restaurant, a 50-seat diner, and an entertainment lounge area located in Harrington, Delaware. It also owns and operates Stockman?s Casino, which has approximately 264 slot machines, 4 table games, and keno, as well as a bar, a dining restaurant, and a coffee shop situated in Fallon, Nevada. In addition, the company holds interests in Gaming Entertainment Michigan, LLC that has a joint venture with RAM Entertainment, LLC, which has a management agreement with the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians for the development and management of the FireKeepers Casino in Battle Cre ek, Michigan. Full House Resorts, Inc. was founded in 1987 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Hot Forestry Companies To Buy For 2014: Cleveland BioLabs Inc.(CBLI)

Cleveland BioLabs, Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of products for cancer treatment, and protection of normal tissues from radiation and other acute stresses. Its products include Protectan CBLB502, a radioprotectant molecule with multiple medical and defense applications for reducing injury from acute stresses, such as radiation and chemotherapy by mobilizing various natural cell protecting mechanisms, including inhibition of apoptosis, reduction of oxidative damage, and induction of factors that induce protection and regeneration of stem cells in bone marrow and the intestines; Protectan CBLB612, a modified lipopeptide mycoplasma that acts as a stimulator and mobilizer of hematopoietic stem cells to peripheral blood, providing hematopoietic recovery during chemotherapy and during donor preparation for bone marrow transplantation; and Curaxins, which are small molecules intended to destroy tumor cells by simultan eously targeting two regulators of apoptosis. The company has a strategic research partnership with Roswell Park Cancer Institute to develop its anticancer and radioprotectant drug candidates; a strategic partnership with ChemBridge Corporation to access a chemical library of 214,000 compounds; and a strategic alliance with The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF). It also has a cooperative research and development agreement with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc.; and CCF to evaluate its radioprotective drug candidates and their effects on intracellular and extracellular signaling pathways. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Buffalo, New York.

Hot Cheap Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Microbix Biosystem Com Npv(MBX.TO)

Microbix Biosystems Inc. engages in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of cell based products and technology in the United States, Europe, and Asia. It offers cell culture-based microbiological products, such as viral products; and licenses cell culture based technologies. The company develops a portfolio of biological technologies comprising VIRUSMAX, a virus yield enhancement technology; LumiSort, a semen sexing technology; and KinlyticR, a thrombolytic drug. It also develops, manufactures, and distributes infectious disease antigens, including viral, bacterial, and parasitic products for use in various applications consisting of immunodiagnostic assays; basic and applied research in virology, microbiology, cell biology, molecular biology, immunology, and pathology; as controls and calibrators for a range of medical devices; and for vaccine and antiviral research and development. In addition, the company offers adenovirus vectors, cells, and services to bio pharmaceutical and biotechnology researchers and companies; and water based products, such as WFI and USP quality waters. Further, it provides facility, technical, and production personnel for contract research and development. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

Hot Forestry Companies To Buy For 2014: SAGICOR FINANCIAL CORP COM NPV(SFI.L)

Sagicor Financial Corporation, through its subsidiaries, provides a range of financial products and services in the Caribbean, Latin America, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Its Life Inc segment offers life and health insurance, retirement accumulation savings, annuities, mortgages, and pension investment and pension administration services in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, the Eastern and Dutch Caribbean Islands, Belize, and Panama. The company?s Life Jamaica segment conducts insurance business under the Sagicor brand, and banking and other financial services under the PanCaribbean Financial Services brand in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. This segment?s principal products and services include life insurance, critical illness and health insurance, annuities, pension administration, investment management, securities dealing, and commercial banking. Its Europe segment offers property and casualty insurance products principally consisting of personal accident, property, liability, and motor vehicle policies primarily in the United Kingdom. The company?s USA segment provides single premium life insurance and annuity products in the United States. Sagicor Financial Corporation also involves in loan and lease financing, deposit taking, farming and real estate development, mutual fund, property and casualty reinsurance, and insurance agency businesses. The company was founded in 1840 and is based in St. Michael, Barbados.

Hot Forestry Companies To Buy For 2014: Interactive Intelligence Inc.(ININ)

Interactive Intelligence, Inc. provides software application suites for voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) business communications to enterprises in the United States and internationally. The company offers software products and services for contact center, enterprise IP telephony, multichannel contact management, and business process automation. Its solutions include Interactive Intelligence Customer Interaction Center that provides contact centers and enterprises a single platform and a pre-integrated all-in-one application solution for IP telephony, including phone calls, faxes, e-mails, and Web interactions; Interactive Intelligence Customer Interaction Center for the Enterprise, an IP PBX phone and communications system for SIP-supported VoIP for mid-sized and larger enterprises, as well as offers real-time presence management and remote access with unified messaging, IVR and interaction client integrations for Microsoft applications; Interaction Process Automation t hat allows an organization to capture, prioritize, route, escalate, and track each step in a work process; and Interaction Content Management solution. The company also provides professional, managed, education, and support services. Its solutions are used by businesses and organizations that employ remote and mobile workers in teleservices, financial services, insurance, higher education, utilities, healthcare, retail, technology, government, and business services industries. The company distributes its products through partners and direct arrangements with end-user customers. Interactive Intelligence, Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Hot Forestry Companies To Buy For 2014: Blueknight Energy(BKEP)

Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P., together with its subsidiaries, provides integrated terminalling, storage, processing, gathering, and transportation services for companies engaged in the production, distribution and marketing of crude oil and asphalt products in the United States. The company offers crude oil terminalling and storage services, which enables it customers to manage their crude oil inventories, marketing, and operating activities, as well as asphalt services that enables its customers to manage their asphalt product storage and processing, and marketing activities. It also provides crude oil pipeline and crude oil trucking services. In addition, the company offers producer field services, including gathering condensates by way of bobtail trucks for natural gas companies to hauling produced water to disposal wells; provision of hot and cold fresh water; chemical and down hole well treatment services; wet oil clean up services; and building and maintaining se paration facilities. As of July 19, 2011, it owned and operated a portfolio of midstream energy assets consisting of approximately 8.1 million barrels of crude oil storage facilities located in Oklahoma and Texas; approximately 1,285 miles of crude oil pipeline network located primarily in Oklahoma and Texas; approximately 300 crude oil transportation and oilfield services vehicles deployed in Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas; and approximately 7.4 million barrels of combined asphalt product and residual fuel oil storage facilities located at 45 terminals in 22 states. The company was formerly known as SemGroup Energy Partners, L.P. Blueknight Energy Partners, L.P. is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.