Poor Bank of America (NYSE: BAC ) . After seeing its share price rise spectacularly in the week prior to its first-quarter earnings report, the stock took a real drubbing immediately after that report was issued. Today, it is getting beat up anew, and I think it is still feeling the consternation of investors about its less-than-sparkly earnings announcement.
Was the report really that bad? Sure, there were weak points, such as mortgage banking malaise, as well as continuing legal hassles in regards to its Countrywide smudge pot of stinky legacy loans. But there were bright spots, too: The streamlining process is working, and B of A has reduced nonperforming assets by $5 billion year over year. Plus, its Bank of America Merrill Lynch division is kicking butt, bringing home the bacon to the tune of $3.68 billion�-- a 7% boost from the year-ago quarter's $3.44 billion.
So, why is the share price still falling by mid-morning, having lost 0.68% since the opening bell? Softness in the financial sector as a whole is surely at work here, as the Dow (DJINDICES: ^DJI ) has been somewhat grumpy itself this Monday morning and now sits 0.12% lower than it did at the open of business today.
Top 10 Performing Companies To Invest In Right Now: Intek Spa(TEKI.MI)
Intek SpA engages in acquiring and managing companies. It invests in a portfolio of investments in companies that focuses on industrial, financial, and services areas. The company is headquartered in Ivrea, Italy.
Top 10 Performing Companies To Invest In Right Now: Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation(VTSS)
Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of semiconductor products to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of carrier and enterprise networking products, and data center infrastructure systems worldwide. It offers a line of Ethernet switching products consisting of carrier Ethernet switch engines for customer premise equipment, access network equipment, wireless base stations, mobile access equipment, fiber and microwave wireless backhaul equipment, and metro networking equipment; and Ethernet switches that enable desktop, workgroup, and LAN infrastructure. The company also provides Ethernet media access controllers that offer addressing and channel control mechanisms and are used in enterprise class modular Ethernet switch platforms, as well as in Ethernet-over-SONET/SDH and Ethernet-over-OTN systems used in access, metro, and long-haul carrier networking systems; Ethernet transceivers, including single, quad, and octal devices that allow the transmission of 10/100/1000 BASE-T data over category 5 copper cable and fiber optic cabling for use in personal computers, home electronics, and LAN applications; and Ethernet transceivers with packet timing and synchronization capabilities. In addition, it provides a line of connectivity products, which comprise mixed-signal physical media devices, physical layer devices, crosspoint switches, and signal integrity devices that are used for the connection of systems via optical fiber, copper cable, or backplanes. Further, the company offers a range of transport processing products, such as framers, mappers, and switches, which support data rates up to 10 Gbps for SONET/SDH, EoS, and OTN applications. It markets and sells its products directly to OEMs and original design manufacturers, as well as through third-party electronic component distributors and manufacturing service providers. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Camar illo, California.
Top 5 Oil Companies To Buy Right Now: Pulaski Financial Corp.(PULB)
Pulaski Financial Corp. operates as the holding company for Pulaski Bank that provides a range of financial products and services for businesses and retail customers. The company offers savings deposits, certificates of deposits, commercial papers, short-term money market securities, and other corporate and government securities. Its loan portfolio includes residential mortgage loans; home equity lines of credit; one- to four-family residential construction loans; residential or commercial real estate loans; multi-family residential loans; commercial and industrial loans; and consumer and other loans. The company also provides title insurance products and services, including owner?s policies of insurance, lender?s policies of insurance, and miscellaneous title information products, such as letter reports for residential and commercial transactions; and insurance products and annuities. In addition, it offers appraisal services to mortgage loan customers. Pulaski Financia l Corp. serves customers throughout the St. Louis and Kansas City metropolitan areas and Wichita, Kansas. As of January 17, 2012, it operated 13 full-service branch offices and 6 loan production offices. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.
Top 10 Performing Companies To Invest In Right Now: Ripper Oil And Gas Inc. (RIP.V)
Ripper Oil and Gas Inc. does not have significant operations. The company is in negotiations for the proposed reverse take-over with Xogen Technologies Inc. Previously, it was engaged in the exploration and production of oil and natural gas in Canada. The company was formerly known as Old Sun Resources Ltd. and changed its name to Ripper Oil and Gas Inc. in June 2001. Ripper Oil and Gas Inc. was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.
Top 10 Performing Companies To Invest In Right Now: Metabolix Inc.(MBLX)
Metabolix, Inc., a bioscience company, develops and commercializes technologies for the production of polymers and chemicals in plants and in microbes. It offers a proprietary microbial fermentation system to produce a family of polymers known as polyhydroxyalkanoates under the Mirel brand. Mirel holds biodegradability characteristics; and would be used in a range of commercial applications, including products used in agriculture and horticulture, compost and organic waste diversion bags, marine and aquatic applications, consumer products, business equipment and durable goods, and general packaging materials. The company also develops a proprietary platform technology for co-producing plastics, chemicals, and energy from crops, such as switchgrass, oilseeds, and sugarcane. It has a strategic alliance with ADM Polymer Corporation. The company was founded in 1992 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By James E. Brumley]
If you'd rather spend your hard-earned dollars on some bargain-priced stocks rather than face the Black Friday mania at the malls (wise choice, by the way), then you've come to the right place. And, you may want to start you bargain hunt with Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ:MBLX) and Unwired Planet Inc. (NASDAQ:UPIP). Both names have been unduly beaten up in recent weeks, and better still, it looks like UPIP and MBLX, are ready to recover... in spades. That's an important detail, as a bargain is only a bargain if it's something actually worth owning. Take a look.
Top 10 Performing Companies To Invest In Right Now: Resource America Inc.(REXI)
Resource America, Inc. operates as an asset management company. The company, through its subsidiaries, operates in three segments: Financial Fund Management; Real Estate; and Equipment Finance. The Financial Fund Management segment engages in the formation and collateral management of structured financial products and of issuers of collateralized debt obligations, such as trust preferred securities, asset backed securities, leveraged loans, private equity, commercial mortgage backed securities, residential mortgage backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, and home equity loans. The Real Estate segment focuses on the acquisition of multifamily properties on behalf of the limited partnership investment funds it sponsors. The Equipment Finance segment offers small ticket equipment leases to the small to mid-sized business market through the formation of strategic marketing alliances. Resource America, Inc. was founded in 1966 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylva nia.
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Box Ships Inc. owns and operates containerships. As of August 16, 2011, it operated a fleet of 7 containerships with a total carrying capacity of 33,237 twenty-foot equivalent units. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Athens, Greece.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Eric Volkman]
TearLab (NYSE: TEU ) is looking to widen its capital base by more than $32 million in an underwritten public offering of its common stock. The company is floating 2.6 million shares at a price of $13.50 apiece. Additionally, the company's underwriters have been granted a 30-day purchase option for up to an additional 15% of the total number of shares to cover overallotments.
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TAL International Group (TAL) is one of the world's largest lessors of intermodal freight containers for the shipping business with 17 offices in 11 countries and approximately 230 third-party container depot facilities in 40 countries. TAL's fleet consists of approximately 1,238,000 containers and 2,031,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU).
Top 10 Performing Companies To Invest In Right Now: ResMed Inc (USA CUFS)
ResMed Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the development, manufacture, and distribution of medical equipment for treating, diagnosing, and managing sleep-disordered breathing and other respiratory disorders. It offers various products for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea and other respiratory disorders, including airflow generators, diagnostic products, mask systems, headgear products, and ventilation devices, as well as other optional accessories, such as cold passover humidifiers, carry bags, and breathing circuits. The company also provides data communications and data control products consisting of EasyCare, ResLink, ResControl, ResControl II, TxControl, ResScan, and ResTraxx modules that facilitate the transfer of data and other information to and from the flow generators. ResMed Inc. markets its products to sleep clinics, home healthcare dealers, and third-party payers. The company sells its products through a network of distributors, independent man ufacturers, representatives, and direct sales force in approximately 70 countries primarily in the United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Australia, Japan, Norway, and Sweden. ResMed Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in San Diego, California.
Top 10 Performing Companies To Invest In Right Now: Powell Industries Inc.(POWL)
Powell Industries, Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and servicing of custom engineered-to-order equipment and systems for the management and control of electrical energy and other critical processes in transportation, environmental, energy, industrial, and utility industries. The company operates in two segments, Electrical Power Products and Process Control Systems. The Electrical Power Products segment offers electrical power distribution and control systems that are used to distribute, monitor, and control the flow of electrical energy, as well as to provide protection to motors, transformers, and other electrically-powered equipment. It offers power control room substation packages, traditional and arc-resistant distribution switchgear, medium-voltage circuit breakers, offshore generator and control modules, monitoring and control communications systems, motor control centers, and bus duct systems directly to end-users or to engineering, procuremen t, and construction firms. This segment serves oil and gas producers, oil and gas pipelines, refineries, petrochemical plants, electrical power generators, public and private utilities, co-generation facilities, mining/metals operations, pulp and paper plants, transportation authorities, governmental agencies, and other industrial customers. The Process Control Systems provides technology solutions, including instrumentation, computer controls, and communications and data management systems to control and manage critical processes and facilities; and technical services to deliver these systems. This segment sells its products and services directly to end-users in transportation, environmental, and energy sectors. The company has operations in Europe, the Far East, the Middle East, Africa, North America, South America, and Central America. Powell Industries, Inc. was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Top 10 Performing Companies To Invest In Right Now: SDL PLC(SDL.L)
SDL plc provides global information management software and services to multinational businesses. Its Web content management, ecommerce, structured content and language technologies, and language services are used for content creation, management, translation, and publishing. The company operates through three segments: Language Services, Language Technologies, and Content Management Technologies. The Language Services segment provides translation services to customer?s multilingual content in multiple languages. The Language Technologies segment engages in the sale of enterprise, desktop, and statistical machine translation technology developed to help automate and manage multilingual assets, as well as provides associated consultancy and other services. The Content Management Technologies segment involves in the sale of content management technologies developed to help automate and manage content to deliver an interactive and personalized customer experience in multiple languages across Websites, documentation, and channels. The company serves aerospace, automotive, chemicals, oil and gas, electronics and high technology, fast moving consumer goods, finance, industrial goods, IT consulting, life science, media and publishing, public sector, services, software, telecoms, travel and tourism, and translation industries. SDL plc has a strategic partnership with Sapient. The company was founded in 1992 and is based in Maidenhead, the United Kingdom.
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