Top 5 Stock Investments For 2014

The Edison Electrical Institute (EEI), an 80-year-old organization of U.S. shareholder-owned electric companies,�announced�its finalists for its 2013 Edison Award this week. With leadership, innovation, and progress�as the criteria, let's take a look at their top two publicly traded picks to see if there might be growth opportunities in this dividend stock sector.

American Electric Power

AEP� (NYSE: AEP  ) �elated EEI with the successful completion of its "clean coal" John Turk, Jr. Power Plant. The 600 MW $1.7 billion facility is no small investment, but this dividend stock expects it to pay dividends in the coming years.

With its "advanced ultra-supercritical steam cycle technology" (an award-attracting name if I've ever heard one), the facility will squeeze more power (39% efficiency) out of low-sulfur coal to keep carbon emissions to a minimum.

Source: AEP.com.�

Top 5 Stock Investments For 2014: American National Insurance Company (ANAT)

American National Insurance Company, together with its subsidiaries, provides insurance products and services in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa. The company operates in five segments: Life, Annuity, Health, Property and Casualty, and Corporate and Other. The Life segment offers individual and group life insurance products, including universal life, variable universal life, whole life, and term life; and credit life insurance. The Annuity segment provides fixed annuities comprising single premium immediate annuities, deferred annuities, and equity-indexed annuities, as well as variable annuities to individuals and institutional investors. The Health segment offers medicare supplement, supplemental insurance, medical expense, stop-loss, and credit disability insurance. The Property and Casualty segment provides auto insurance, homeowners insurance, agribusiness and commercial insurance, and credit property and casualty insu rance. The Corporate and Other segment offers investment advisory products and services. The company also invests in mortgage loans and real estate properties. It distributes its products through multiple-line agents, career agents, independent agents, third party marketing organizations, and direct sales to the public. The company was founded in 1905 and is headquartered in Galveston, Texas.

Top 5 Stock Investments For 2014: Neogenomics Inc (NEO.PH)

NeoGenomics, Inc. (NeoGenomics) operates a network of cancer-focused testing laboratories. The Company offers testing services, including Cytogenetics testing, which is the study of normal and abnormal chromosomes and their relationship to disease; fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) testing, which is a branch of cancer genetics that focuses on detecting and locating the presence or absence of specific deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) sequences and genes on chromosomes; flow cytometry testing, which is a way to measure the characteristics of cell populations; immunohistochemistry (IHC) testing, this is the process of identifying cell proteins in a tissue section utilizing the principle of antibodies binding specifically to antigens, and molecular testing, which is a cancer diagnostic tool focusing on the analysis of DNA and ribonucleic acid (RNA), as well as the structure and function of genes at a molecular level.

The cancer testing services, that the Com pany offers to community-based pathologists are designed to be a natural extension of, and complementary to, the services that they perform within their own practices. In areas where the Company does not provide services to community-based pathology practices, it may directly serve oncology, dermatology, urology and other clinician practices that prefer to have a direct relationship with a laboratory for cancer-related genetic and molecular testing services. NeoGenomics services these types of clients with a global service offering where it performs both the technical and professional components of the tests ordered.

The Company offers tech-only flow cytometry and immunohistochemistry testing services. These types of testing services generally allow the professional interpretation component of a test to be billed separately from the technical component. Its NeoFISH, NeoFLOW and other tech-only service offerings allow properly trained and credentialed community- based pathologists to extend their own practices by perfor! mi! ng professional interpretations services.

The Company's tech-only services are designed to give pathologists the option to choose, on a case by case basis, whether they want to order just the technical information and images relating to a specific test so they can perform the professional interpretation, or order global services and receive a test report, which includes a NeoGenomics Pathologist�� interpretation of the test results.

The Company also offers a set of global services to meet the needs of those clients who are not credentialed and trained in interpreting genetic tests and who are looking for specialists to interpret the testing results for them. In its global service offerings, its lab performs the technical component of the tests and its doctor of medicine (M.D.s) and doctor of philosophy (Ph.D) s to provide the interpretation services. Its genetic pathology solutions (GPS) report summarizes all relevant case data from its global ser vices on one summary report.

The Company competes with General Electric Healthcare Services and Novartis, A.G.

Best China Companies To Invest In 2014: lime energy co.(LIME)

Lime Energy Co. provides energy engineering, consulting, and implementation solutions to the commercial, industrial, utilities, governmental, and energy services markets in the United States. The company?s energy efficiency solutions enable its clients to reduce energy-related expenditures and the impact of their energy use on the environment. Its services include energy consulting, integrated energy engineering, and multi-measure project development and implementation; mechanical/electrical upgrade services; water conservation; weatherization; and renewables across a range of facilities, including office buildings, manufacturing plants, retail sites, mixed use complexes, and large government sites. The company?s energy consulting and technical services comprise utility program management and implementation, energy project development, energy engineering, consulting, and planning. Lime Energy Co. also provides energy asset development and management services comprising p roject feasibility and technology assessment; sourcing, qualifying, and structuring investment opportunities; project financing; design and construction process management; and asset management. Its customers include commercial and industrial businesses, property owners and managers, utilities, energy service companies, government entities, and educational institutions. The company was formerly known as Electric City Corp. and changed its name to Lime Energy Co. in September 2006. Lime Energy Co. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Huntersville, North Carolina.

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  Lime Energy Co. (NASDAQ:LIME) reported their addition to NSTAR�� Municipal Program, which incentivizes municipalities to implement energy efficiency measures. The pre-selection of energy efficiency contractors is intended to streamline the procurement process for the municipalities that NSTAR currently serves.

Top 5 Stock Investments For 2014: Monster Uranium Corp(MU.V)

Monster Uranium Corp. engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of natural resource properties. It holds a 50% interest in the Broken-Hill Leo property that comprises 53 mineral claims in the Kamloops mining division of British Columbia. The company was formerly known as VMX Resources Inc. and changed its name to Monster Uranium Corp. in September 2007. Monster Uranium Corp. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Top 5 Stock Investments For 2014: Torch Energy Royalty Trust(TRU)

Torch Energy Royalty Trust, a grantor trust, holds net profits interests, to receive payments from the working interest owners. Its working interest owners include Torch Royalty Company, Torch E&P Company, Samson Lone Star Limited Partnership, and Constellation Energy Partners LLC. The trust is entitled to receive 95% of the net proceeds attributable to oil and natural gas produced and sold from wells on the underlying properties, including Chalkley Field in Louisiana; the Robinson?s Bend Field in the Black Warrior Basin in Alabama; Cotton Valley Fields in Texas; and Austin Chalk Fields in central Texas. Torch Energy Royalty Trust was founded in 1993 and is based in Wilmington, Delaware.