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Top Warren Buffett Companies For 2015: STR Holdings Inc(STRI)

STR Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells encapsulants for the solar industry worldwide. Its encapsulants protect the embedded semiconductor circuits of solar panels. The company sells its products to crystalline silicon and thin-film solar module manufacturers. STR Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Enfield, Connecticut.

Top Warren Buffett Companies For 2015: Cornerstone OnDemand Inc.(CSOD)

Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. provides learning and talent management solution delivered as software-as-a-service. The company offers three integrated cloud-based solutions for learning management, performance management, and extended enterprise. Its Cornerstone Learning Cloud helps clients deliver and manage enterprise training and development programs, as well as links employee development to other parts of the talent management lifecycle, including performance management and succession planning. The company?s Cornerstone Performance Cloud allows clients to direct and measure performance at the individual, departmental, and organizational level through competency management, organizational goal setting, performance appraisal, compensation management, and development planning. Its Cornerstone Extended Enterprise Cloud helps clients extend learning and talent management to their customers, vendors, and distributors. The company also offers consulting services comprising impl ementation, integration, content, business consulting, and educational services; and account services, as well as resells third-party e-learning content. Its clients include multi-national corporations, large domestic enterprises, mid-market companies, public sector organizations, higher education institutions, and non-profit entities. The company sells its solution and services directly through its own sales force in North America and Europe; and indirectly through domestic and international network of distributors. Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Monica, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Lee Jackson]

  Cornerstone OnDemand Inc. (NASDAQ: CSOD) is a company that provides talent management on the cloud via recruiting, learning, performance and outreach. During its most recent quarter, sales grew 66% year-over-year, but looking ahead, the company expects top line growth of 56% this year. Deutsche Bank has not started coverage, however the consensus target is at $55.

Hot Cheap Companies To Buy For 2015: GenVec Inc.(GNVC)

GenVec, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company that uses differentiated, proprietary technologies to create therapeutics and vaccines. The company principally develops and commercializes its product candidates through collaborations. GenVec is working with various companies and organizations, such as Novartis, Merial, and the U.S. Government to support a portfolio of product programs that address the prevention and treatment of human and animal health concerns. Its development programs addresses various therapeutic areas, including hearing loss, balance disorders, and cancer; and vaccines against infectious diseases, which include respiratory syncytial virus, herpes simplex virus type 2, dengue fever, influenza, malaria, and human immunodeficiency virus. In the area of animal health, the company is developing vaccines against foot-and-mouth disease. GenVec was founded in 1992 and is based in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

Top Warren Buffett Companies For 2015: Orion Marine Group Inc(ORN)

Orion Marine Group, Inc. operates as a marine specialty contractor serving the heavy civil marine infrastructure market. The company provides a range of marine construction and specialty services on, over, and under the water along the Gulf Coast, the Atlantic Seaboard, the West Coast, Canada, the Caribbean Basin, and the Pacific Northwest. The company?s marine construction services include construction of marine transportation facilities, marine pipelines, bridges and causeways, and marine environmental structures. Its marine transportation facility construction projects comprise public port facilities for container ship loading and unloading; cruise ship port facilities; private terminals; recreational use marinas and docks; and other marine-based facilities. Orion Marine Group?s marine pipeline service projects consist of the installation and removal of underwater buried pipeline transmission lines; installation of pipeline intakes and outfalls for industrial facilities ; construction of pipeline outfalls for wastewater and industrial discharges; river crossing and directional drilling; and creation of hot taps and tie-ins. Its bridge and causeway projects include the construction, repair, and maintenance of bridges and causeways, as well as the development of fendering systems in marine environments; and marine environmental structure projects primarily comprise the installation of concrete mattresses to ensure erosion protection, and the installation of geotubes for wetlands and island creation. In addition, the company offers dredging services; specialty services, including salvage, demolition, surveying, towing, diving and underwater inspection, excavation, and repair; and survey services comprising surveying pipelines and performing hydrographic surveys. Its customers include federal, state, and municipal governments, as well as private commercial and industrial enterprises. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Houst on, Texas.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Seth Jayson]

  When judging a company's prospects, how quickly it turns cash outflows into cash inflows can be just as important as how much profit it's booking in the accounting fantasy world we call "earnings." This is one of the first metrics I check when I'm hunting for the market's best stocks. Today, we'll see how it applies to Orion Marine Group (NYSE: ORN  ) .

Top Warren Buffett Companies For 2015: Providence Capital Corp(PV.V)

Providence Resources Corp., a junior mining exploration company, engages in the evaluation, acquisition, exploration, and development of precious and base mineral properties. The company focuses on exploring for copper, gold, silver, lead-zinc, and iron-oxide copper-gold metals. It holds an option to acquire a 60% interest in the Iron Range property located in south‐eastern British Columbia near the community of Creston. The company was formerly known as Providence Capital Corp. and changed its name to Providence Resources Corp. in January 2011. Providence Resources Corp. was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Top Warren Buffett Companies For 2015: China Pharma Holdings Inc.(CPHI)

China Pharma Holdings, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets generic and branded pharmaceutical products primarily to hospitals and private retailers in the People?s Republic of China. Its products include Bumetanide to treat edema diseases; Gastrodin injection for tiredness, loss of concentration, poor sleep, and traumatic syndromes of brain; Cerebroprotein Hydroloysate injection for the treatment of memory decline and attention deficit; Buflomedil Hydrochloride for blood vessel diseases; Propylgallate and Ozagrel Sodium for the treatment of cerebral thrombosis, coronary heart disease, and thrombus deep phlebitis; and Alginic Sodium Diester injection for ischemic heart, cerebrovascular, and lipoprotein blood diseases. The company also offers Cefaclor Dispersible tablets for tympanitis, lower respiratory tract, urinary tract, and skin/skin tissue infection; Roxithromycin dispersible tablets for pharyngitis and tonsillitis; Clarithromycin granules and capsules for nasoph arynx, respiratory tract, and skin tissue infections; Naproxen Sodium and Pseudophedrine Hydrochloride Sustained Release tablets to relieve cold, sinus, and flu symptoms; Cefalexin capsules for acute tonsillitis; and Anhydroandrographolide for ischemic heart, cerebrovascular, and lipoprotein blood diseases. In addition, it provides Hepatocyte growth-promoting factor to treat viral hepatitis symptoms; Tiopronin to treat acute chronic Hepatitis B and relieve liver injury; Omeprazole to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease; Granisetron Hydrochloride injection for nausea and vomiting; Vitamin B6, an vitamin supplement; Thymopolypetides injection for treating diseases and tumors of various cells with reduced immunological function; and Recombined Human Fibroblast Growth Factor for the production of cosmetics. The company distributes its products through independent regional distributors and sales representatives. China Pharma Holdings, Inc. is based in Haikou, the People?s Repub lic of China.

Top Warren Buffett Companies For 2015: Heijmans NV (HEIJM)

Heijmans NV is a Netherlands-based engineering and construction company that provides solutions ranging from concept and design to maintenance and management. It divides its activities into five divisions: Property Development, Residential Building, Non-Residential Building, Technical Services, and Roads and Civil. The Property Development division focuses on the development of projects, as well as develops and sells housing. The Residential Building division includes new build developments, as well as the reconstruction and renovation of housing. The Non-residential Building division is engaged in the reconstruction and renovation of schools, care institutions, airports and offices. The Technical Services activity is operated by the subsidiary Burgers Ergon BV. This company develops and maintains electrical engineering and mechanical systems. The Roads and Civil division�� activities involve designing and maintaining infrastructure above and below the ground.

Top Warren Buffett Companies For 2015: Hasbro Inc.(HAS)

Hasbro, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of games and toys. The company principally provides children?s and family leisure time and entertainment products and services. It offers various games, including traditional board, card, hand-held electronic, trading card, roleplaying, and DVD games, as well as electronic learning aids and puzzles. Hasbro?s toy products include boy?s action figures, vehicles and playsets, girl?s toys, electronic toys, plush products, preschool toys and infant products, electronic interactive products, creative play products, and toy related specialty products. The company also licenses certain of its trademarks, characters, and other property rights to third parties for use in connection with consumer promotions and for the sale of noncompeting toys and games, and non-toy products. It offers its products primarily under PLAYSKOOL, TRANSFORMERS, NERF, MY LITTLE PONY, LITTLEST PET SHOP, TONKA, G.I. JOE, SUPER SOAKER, MILTON BRAD LEY, PARKER BROTHERS, CRANIUM, AVALON HILL, TIGER, FURREAL FRIENDS, BABY ALIVE, STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE, and WIZARDS OF THE COAST brand names. The company markets its products to various customers, including wholesalers, distributors, chain stores, discount stores, mail order houses, catalog stores, department stores, and other retailers, as well as Internet-based e-tailers. It has a strategic licensing agreement with Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), which provides EA with the worldwide rights to create digital games for various platforms, including mobile phones, personal computers, and game consoles, as well as; and a strategic relationship with Universal Pictures to produce approximately three motion pictures based on certain of company?s brands. Hasbro sells its products through its own sales force and distributors primarily in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, and South America. The company was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Paw tucket, Rhode Island.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Eric Volkman]

  Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS  ) is rolling the dice on mobile gaming. The company announced that it has bought a 70% stake in Backflip Studios, a Colorado-based producer of titles for that segment of the market. The price was $112 million in cash.

• [By Dan Caplinger]

  Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS  )
  Hasbro shares many of the same features that Mattel sports, including a 29% average rate of annual dividend increases over the past 10 years and a current yield of 3.4%. If anything, Hasbro's prospects are even brighter than Mattel's, because Hasbro has done a better job of connecting with the highly popular Marvel line of movies and related entertainment. In addition, plans to reenergize the popular Star Wars franchise could lead to a brand-new wave of toy sales for Hasbro.

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  There’s no toying with Hasbro (HAS)–at least not its stock.

  European Pressphoto Agency

  Shares of Hasbro have surged 5.5% to $49.84 after the toy maker reported better than forecast earnings. Hasbro reported a profit of $1.31, beating expectations of $1.29, while revenue also beat.

  The Wall Street Journal reports that the good news was all overseas:

  Hasbro today said U.S. sales were down 5%, while international sales grew 11%, thanks to brand-hungry consumers in Latin America, Russia and Turkey…

  ��he two toughest areas around the world I�� say from a consumer sentiment continue to be Australia and the U.S.,��Hasbro Chief Executive Brian Goldner said on Monday�� conference call to discuss a 17% jump in profit. ��e��e seeing enthusiasm in Latin America and major areas of Europe particularly in Russia and Turkey.��/p>

  Girl’s toys also saw big gains, as My Little Pony helped that division grow by 29%. PiperJaffray’s Stephanie Wissink and Maria Vizuete explain why toys for boys could be the big driver of growth in 2014:

  The boys category exhibits more variability year to year based on key licensed properties, which account for near 40% of total sales. The category declined 17% in Q3 with the two year comparables to 2011 still reflected in recalibration back to more normalized revenue rates. The outlook for 2014 continues to support significant upside to models, in our view, with total boys category revenues modeled (currently) to be 40% less than 2011 – the last peak movie year – despite 2014 bearing significantly more box office tie-ins with Transformers, 3 Marvel properties, and what we think could be early sales in holiday 2014 of Star Wars (movie release 2015).

  Hasbro’s strength hasn’t necessarily translated into gains for other toy makers. Mattel (MAT) has fallen 0.5% to $42.50, while Build-a-Bear Workshop (BBW) has dropped 2.1% to $7.03. LeapFrog

Top Warren Buffett Companies For 2015: Powerwave Technologies Inc.(PWAV)

Powerwave Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets end-to-end wireless solutions for wireless communications networks worldwide. It offers antennas, boosters, combiners, cabinets, shelters, filters, radio frequency power amplifiers, remote radio head transceivers, repeaters, tower-mounted amplifiers, and coverage solutions to improve coverage, capacity, and data speed in cellular, PCS, 3G, and 4G wireless communications networks. The company sells its products to wireless original equipment manufacturers and individual wireless network operators through its direct sales force, independent sales representatives, and resellers. The company was formerly known as Milcom International, Inc. and changed its name to Powerwave Technologies, Inc. in June 1996. Powerwave Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Santa Ana, California.

Top Warren Buffett Companies For 2015: Capital Radio (CAP.L)

Capital Radio, broadcasting all across Great BritainCapital FM is the most listened-to radio station in the British capital. It is the flagship of the Capital Radio group.The group operates a total of 19 radio frequencies all across the national territory. Looking to the future, it is also working on building a digital network, and already owns one digital frequency, Life.On the other hand, it broadcasts the output of its stations over the Internet, through its subsidiary Capital interactive, and has set up its own on-line music store, MusicCapital.com. It has also forged several partnerships enabling it to branch out further: For example with Emap, it has obtained multiplexing licenses (to broadcast several different channels on one network), and with Telstar it has taken over the record label Wildstar.Finally, it also sells advertising space via its subsidiary Capital Radio Interactive.

Top Warren Buffett Companies For 2015: Black Hills Corporation (BKH)

Black Hills Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a diversified energy company in the United States. The company’s Electric Utilities segment generates, transmits, and distributes electricity to approximately 202,000 electric customers in South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, and Montana; and distributes natural gas to approximately 35,000 gas utility customers in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It owns 859 Megawatts of generation capacity and 8,530 miles of electric transmission and distribution lines. The company’s Gas Utilities segment distributes natural gas to approximately 532,000 natural gas utility customers in Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas. It owns 624 miles of intrastate gas transmission pipelines and 19,979 miles of gas distribution mains and service lines. The company’s Oil and Gas segment is involved in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of crude oil and natural gas primarily in the Rocky Mountain region. This s egment’s principal assets include the operating interests in the properties in the San Juan basin, the Powder River basin, and the Piceance basin; and non-operated interests in wells located in the Williston, Wind River, Bear Paw Uplift, Arkoma, Anadarko, and Sacramento basins. As of December 31, 2012, it had total reserves of approximately 81 billion cubic feet equivalent of natural gas and crude oil. The company’s Power Generation segment produces electric power and sells the electric capacity and energy primarily to other utilities under long-term contracts. Its Coal Mining segment produces coal at its coal mine located near Gillette, Wyoming. The company also provides appliance repair services to approximately 62,000 residential customers; and constructs gas infrastructure facilities for gas transportation customers. Black Hills Corporation was founded in 1941 and is headquartered in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Laura Brodbeck]

  Monday

  Earnings Releases Expected: Black Hills Corporation (NYSE: BKH), CME Group Inc. (NASDAQ: CME), Leapfrog Enterprises (NYSE: LF), Hill International, Inc. (NYSE: HIL) Economic Releases Expected: eurozone manufacturing PMI, British construction PMI, US factory orders, Chinese services PMI, Indian services PMI

  Tuesday

Top Warren Buffett Companies For 2015: MICRO FOCUS ORD GBP0(MCRO.L)

Micro Focus International plc provides enterprise application management solutions worldwide. The company offers software that allows companies to develop, test, deploy, assess, and modernize business-critical enterprise applications. Its product portfolio includes i.Sight, an application portfolio management and analysis tool that enable strategic planning, and application overhaul and modernization; Caliber, a enterprise software requirements definition and management tool, which is used to drive the development and testing of applications to the exact and changing needs of end users; and Rumba, a terminal emulation and user interface modernization tool that streamlines and modernizes key business processes. The company also offers Enterprise, a platform modernization tool, which modernizes application portfolios and platforms; StarTeam, a software change and configuration management tool that tracks changes across the software development lifecycle; and VisiBroker, a CO RBA middleware and application server. In addition, it provides Micro Focus Developer COBOL and software developer tools to modernize business-critical enterprise applications; and Silk software test management, test automation, and performance testing suite. Further, the company offers professional services comprising value profile day services; test process, portfolio, language, platform, and resource modernization services; test data management; value assurance; health check; field development solutions; software process improvement; project review services; customer care and education; and training services. Micro Focus International plc was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Newbury, the United Kingdom.

Top Warren Buffett Companies For 2015: First Niagara Financial Group Inc.(FNFG)

First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. operates as the holding company for First Niagara Bank, N.A. that provides retail and commercial banking, and other financial services to individuals, families, and businesses. It offers retail deposit accounts, which include savings, negotiable order of withdrawal, checking, money market, and certificate of deposit accounts, as well as provides business savings and checking, money market, cash management accounts, and municipal deposit accounts. The company?s loan portfolio comprises commercial real estate and multi-family loans; commercial business loans; residential real estate loans; home equity loans; and consumer loans consisting of indirect mobile home loans, and personal secured and unsecured loans. It also sells insurance products, including commercial and personal insurance, surety bond, life, disability, and long-term care coverage products. In addition, the company offers risk management consulting services comprising altern ative risk and self-insurance services, claims investigation and adjusting services, and third party administration services for self insured workers? compensation plans. Further, it provides employee benefits plan and compensation consulting services. Additionally, First Niagara Financial Group offers wealth management services that manage client funds utilizing various third party investment vehicles consisting of stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and annuities, as well as other investment products, such as individual retirement accounts, education savings plans, and retirement plans. As of December 31, 2010 it operated 257 bank branches, including 115 in Upstate New York and 142 branches in Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 1870 and is based in Buffalo, New York.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By John Maxfield]

  Given that you clicked on this article, it seems safe to assume you either own stock in First Niagara Financial (NASDAQ: FNFG  ) or are considering buying shares in the near future. If so, then you've come to the right place. The table below reveals the nine most critical numbers investors need to know about First Niagara Financial stock before deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold it.

• [By Jake L'Ecuyer]

  First Niagara Financial Group (NASDAQ: FNFG) was down, falling 9.86 percent to $9.32 on Q4 results. The company issued weak FY14 earnings outlook.

  Commodities
  In commodity news, oil traded down 0.70 percent to $96.64, while gold traded up 0.23 percent to $1,265.20.

Top Warren Buffett Companies For 2015: American Municipal Income Portfolio(XAA)

American Municipal Income Portfolio, Inc is a closed ended fixed income mutual fund launched and managed by FAF Advisors, Inc. It is co-managed by Nuveen Fund Advisors, Inc. and Nuveen Asset Management, LLC. The fund invests in fixed income markets. It seeks to invest in fixed income securities including various municipal securities, which include municipal derivative securities, such as inverse floating rate and inverse interest-only municipal securities. The fund also invests in futures contracts, options on futures contracts, and options, as well as interest rate swaps, caps, and floors. American Municipal Income Portfolio, Inc was formed on June 25, 1993 and is domiciled in United States.

Top Warren Buffett Companies For 2015: AutoNavi Holdings Limited(AMAP)

AutoNavi Holdings Limited provides digital map content, and navigation and location-based solutions in the People?s Republic of China (PRC). The company offers digital map data to various automobile manufacturers for in-dash navigation systems; and navigation solutions for use in in-dash navigation system to portable navigation device manufacturers based on their specific needs, which range from digital map data only to a digital map data, a navigation engine, and an user interface. It provides mobile/Internet location-based solutions to a mobile operator; mobile and Internet-based map application solutions that allow Web sites to embed location-based services capabilities into their Internet and enterprise applications; and MiniMap, an user-end map application software. The company also offers aerial digital maps and 3-D modeling applications to certain PRC government agencies and enterprises to meet their land usage survey, specific needs for 3-D geographic information, and other needs pursuant to a service contract arrangement. In addition, it has collaboration with certain mobile phone and tablet computer manufacturers and mobile operators to pre-install its navigation solutions. The company is headquartered in Beijing, China.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Belinda Cao]

  The Bloomberg US-China gauge climbed 0.3 percent May 3 to 92.48 in New York, capping its second weekly advance. AutoNavi Holdings Ltd. (AMAP), a digital map content provider based in Beijing, led gains on the index, climbing 15 percent in the week to a three-month high of $12.03.

• [By Sean Williams]

  I think we're lost
  I'm not sure if anyone's told China yet, but the navigation market is so last decade! Shares of China-based AutoNavi Holdings (NASDAQ: AMAP  ) have soared over the past week on essentially no news despite the glaring fact that its product portfolio is in a highly commoditized and easily replaceable industry.

Top Warren Buffett Companies For 2015: FutureFuel Corp. (FF)

FutureFuel Corp., through its subsidiary, FutureFuel Chemical Company, engages in the manufacture and sale of specialty chemicals and bio-based products primarily in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Chemicals and Biofuels. The Chemicals segment provides custom chemical manufacturing services for specific customers, such as bleach activators for detergent and consumer products manufacturers; proprietary herbicide and intermediates for life sciences companies; agrochemicals; and industrial and consumer products, such as cosmetics and personal care products, ink colorants, adhesion promoters, polymer additives, polymer and specialty dyes, specialty polymers, photographic and imaging chemicals, and food additives. This segment also manufactures and sells a range of performance chemicals, including a family of polymer (nylon) modifiers and small-volume specialty chemicals for various applications; a family of acetal-based solvents, consisting of diethoxy methane, dimethoxymethane, dibutoxymethane, and glycerol formal; and phenol sulfonic acid that build on sulfonations technology. Its chemical products are used in various markets and end uses, including detergents, agrochemicals, automotive, photographic imaging, coatings, nutrition, and polymer additives. The Biofuels segment produces and sells biodiesel, as well as petrodiesel in blends with or without biodiesel. This segment also operates a granary in central Arkansas that involves in the purchase and sale of agricultural commodities, primarily soybeans, rice, and corn. This segment markets its biodiesel products by truck and rail directly to customers. FutureFuel Corp. was formerly known as Viceroy Acquisition Corporation and changed its name to FutureFuel Corp. in 2006. FutureFuel Corp. was incorporated in 2005 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Maxx Chatsko]

  3. Focus on efficiency
  A combination of factors plays a role in efficiently producing biodiesel. FutureFuel (NYSE: FF  ) , which owns an annual capacity of 59 million gallons to complement its niche chemical business, relies heavily on location. The company's two biorefineries don't have a nationwide infrastructure to aid in getting product to the market and are dependent on rail and barge access. Despite the FutureFuel's amazing progress is improving its process -- annual capacity jumped from just 35 million gallons in 2011 to 59 million gallons today -- the company admits that its relatively small operations may cease to exist given changes in feedstock prices, government mandates, and tax credits. �