After falling 136 points on Monday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI ) reversed course Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, when it rose by more than 365 points, yet it still managed to end the week on a down note as the blue-chip index lost 114 points on Friday. But despite moving lower two of the five days by more than 100 points each session, the Dow still came out ahead for the week, by gaining 110 points, or 0.74%. The other major indexes also closed higher for the week, as the S&P 500 added 13.85 points, or 0.87%, and the Nasdaq increased by 1.37%.
Before we hit the Dow losers, let's look at this week's best performing component: Home Depot, whose shares rose by 4.94% this past week. On Thursday the National Association of Realtors reported that pending home sales hit their highest level in more than six years in May. This is just the latest economic data indicating that the housing market is strengthening, as earlier in the week the Case-Schiller index showed that home prices rose another 2.5% in April. Further, of the 20 cities the index tracks, only one, Detroit, experienced a price decline, while a number of areas experienced gains of as much as 20%. Both of the reports this week were great signs for both the U.S. economy and the home-improvement retailer. �
Top 10 Performing Companies To Invest In 2014: SmartTrans Holdings Ltd(SMA.AX)
SmartTrans Holdings Limited provides online transport systems, software, and consulting services in Australia and China. The company offers SmartTrans e-Route, which plans deliveries; SmartTrans e-PoD, a real-time mobile solution to manage delivery functions; SmartTrans e-Track, a GPS tracking solution to enable fleet operations and provide real-time data; and SmartTrans EventTrack, a location-based service to enable the enjoyment and security of visitors at events. It also provides SmartTrans applications management platform, a modular technology suite that enables telecommunications, application, and content service providers to deliver various applications and content, and to push content onto handsets or smartphones. In addition, the company provides intelligent transport solutions for companies with vehicle fleets or field staff, including transport companies, manufacturers, service agencies, and security companies. SmartTrans Holdings Limited also offers the Greentra c Desktop Power Management Solution, an enterprise product that enables people to reduce the energy used by their computers at work or home by giving them feedback on the amount of energy they waste each day. Further, it explores for minerals in Mount Mackenzie, Waitara, and Riversleigh properties in Queensland focusing on zinc, lead, silver, copper, gold, and molybdenum deposits. SmartTrans Holdings Limited is headquartered in Leederville, Australia.
Top 10 Performing Companies To Invest In 2014: United Industrial Corp Ltd (U06.SI)
United Industrial Corporation Limited, an investment holding company, engages in the development of and investment in properties in Singapore and China. It operates in four segments: Property Investment, Property Trading, Hotel Operations, and Technologies. The Property Investment segment leases commercial office property; provides property management services; and invests in retail centers. The Property Trading segment develops properties for trading. The Hotel Operations segment operates hotels and restaurants. The Technologies segment distributes computers and related products; and provides systems integration and networking infrastructure services. The company also operates food courts. The company was incorporated in 1963 and is based in Singapore.
Top 5 China Companies To Own In Right Now: Kola Mining Corp(KM.V)
Kola Mining Corp., a junior mineral exploration company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in the Russian Federation. Its principal project includes the Souker property, which hosts nickel and copper deposits located in the Pechanga district of Murmansk Oblast, Russia. The company was formerly known as Centrasia Mining Corp. and changed its name to Kola Mining Corp. in 2008. Kola Mining Corp. was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Top 10 Performing Companies To Invest In 2014: United Bancshares Inc.(UBOH)
United Bancshares, Inc. operates as a bank holding company for The Union Bank Company that engages in the provision of commercial banking services to small and middle-market businesses and individuals. It accepts various deposit products, including checking accounts, savings and money market accounts, time certificates of deposit, time deposits, and demand deposits. The company also offers various loan products that consist of commercial, consumer, agricultural, residential mortgage, and home equity loans. In addition, it provides automatic teller machine services, safe deposit box rentals, and other personalized banking services. The company serves primarily in the Ohio counties of Allen, Hancock, Putnam, Sandusky, Van Wert, and Wood, as well as with office locations in Bowling Green, Columbus Grove, Delphos, Findlay, Gibsonburg, Kalida, Leipsic, Lima, Ottawa, and Pemberville, Ohio. United Bancshares, Inc. was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Columbus Grove, Ohio.< /p>
Top 10 Performing Companies To Invest In 2014: (TCS.NS)
Tata Consultancy Services Limited provides information technology (IT) services, business solutions, and outsourcing services primarily in the Americas, Europe, and India. The company offers IT services, including custom application development and management, migration and re-engineering, system integration, testing, and performance engineering; and IT infrastructure services comprising IT service desk, data center and end user computing services, application management services, managed security services, converged network services, enterprise system management, IT service management, and transformation solutions. It also provides enterprise solutions consisting of supply chain and customer relationship management, as well as RFID, call management, Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP; and consulting services. In addition, the company offers business process outsourcing services; platform BPO solutions; business intelligence and performance management; engineering and industrial s ervices; assurance services; asset leveraged solutions; and eco-sustainability services, as well as various services to small and medium businesses. Further, it provides various software products, which include financial solutions under TCS BaNCS brand name; technology products; and other products for enterprises in the insurance, health, and life science industries. The company serves banking and financial services, energy, resources, utilities, government, health care and life sciences, high tech, insurance, manufacturing, media and information services, retail and consumer products, telecom, travel, transportation, and hospitality industries. It has strategic partnership with Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, EMC, Google Enterprise, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, NetApp, RIM, and SAP, as well as with JDA Software Group, Inc., Sun Microsystems, Inc., and Xerox Corporation. The company was founded in 1968 and is based in Mumbai, India. Tata Consultancy Services Limited is a subsidiary of Tata Sons Limited.
Top 10 Performing Companies To Invest In 2014: NBT Bancorp Inc.(NBTB)
NBT Bancorp Inc., a financial holding company, provides commercial banking and financial services to individuals, corporations, and municipalities in central and upstate New York, northeastern Pennsylvania, and the greater Burlington, Vermont area. The company accepts various deposit products that include demand deposit accounts, savings accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, money market deposit accounts, and certificate of deposit accounts. Its loan portfolio comprises residential real estate mortgages, commercial loans, commercial real estate loans, real estate construction and development loans, agricultural and agricultural real estate loans, consumer loans, home equity loans, and lease financing. NBT Bancorp also provides retirement plan consulting and recordkeeping services; and trust and investment, financial planning, and life insurance services, as well as enables customers to check balances, transfer funds, pay bills, view statements, apply for loans , and access various other product and service information online. As of December 31, 2010, the NBT Bank division had 86 divisional offices and 114 automated teller machines (ATMs) located primarily in central and upstate New York and Burlington, Vermont; and the Pennstar Bank division had 37 divisional offices and 50 ATMs located primarily in northeastern Pennsylvania. The company was founded in 1856 and is headquartered in Norwich, New York.
Top 10 Performing Companies To Invest In 2014: Hooker Furniture Corporation(HOFT)
Hooker Furniture Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, imports, and markets residential wood, metal, and upholstered furniture products in North America. The company offers wood furniture products, including home entertainment, home office, accent, dining, bedroom, and bath furniture in the upper-medium price points sold under the Hooker Furniture brand, and sold at moderate price points under the Envision Lifestyle Collections by Hooker Furniture brand. It also provides youth bedroom furniture under the Opus Designs by Hooker brand; and motion and stationary leather furniture. In addition, the company offers various residential leather and fabric upholstered furniture under the Bradington-Young and Seven Seas upholstery brand; specializes in leather reclining and motion chairs, sofas, club chairs, and executive desk chairs; and offers upscale occasional chairs and other seating under the Sam Moore upholstery brand. It serves retailers of resident ial home furnishings, including independent furniture stores, specialty retailers, department stores, catalog and Internet merchants, interior designers, and national and regional retail chains. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Martinsville, Virginia.
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Memberships and Peers: LEG is a member of the S&P 500, a Dividend Aristocrat, a member of the Broad Dividend Achievers��Index and a Dividend Champion. The company's peer group includes: Hooker Furniture Corp. (HOFT) with a 2.4% yield, Flexsteel Industries Inc. (FLXS) with a 2.7% yield and Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. (ETH) with a 1.4% yield.
Top 10 Performing Companies To Invest In 2014: Hillenbrand Inc(HI)
Hillenbrand, Inc. designs, manufactures, distributes, and sells funeral service products to licensed funeral directors operating licensed funeral homes. The company?s products include burial caskets, cremation caskets, containers, vaults, urns, and selection room display fixturing for funeral homes, as well as other personalization and memorialization products and services, including Web-based applications, and the creation and hosting of Websites for licensed funeral homes. It markets its products under the Batesville and Options brand name through direct sales force in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and Australia. The company also designs, produces, markets, sells, and services bulk solids material handling equipment and systems for various industrial markets, including plastics, food, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, power generation, coal mining, pulp and paper, frac sand, industrial minerals, agribusiness, recycling, wood and forest pr oducts, and biomass energy generation. It offers feeders and pneumatic conveying equipment under the K-Tron brand name; and size reduction equipment, such as hammer mills, double-roll crushers, wood and bark hogs, chip sizers, screening equipment, pneumatic and mechanical conveying systems, storage/reclamation systems, and specialty crushers and other equipment under the Pennsylvania Crusher, Gundlach, and Jeffrey Rader brand names. In addition, the company manufactures dry material separation machines that sort dry, granular products based on the particle?s size serving various industries, including frac sand, potash, urea, phosphates, chemical, agricultural, plastics, and food processing. The company sells its material handling equipment and systems worldwide through a combination of a direct sales force, and a network of independent sales representatives and distributors. Hillenbrand, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Batesville, Indiana.
Top 10 Performing Companies To Invest In 2014: Heritage Financial Group(HBOS)
Heritage Financial Group, Inc. operates as the holding company for HeritageBank of the South that provides retail and commercial banking services in southwest Georgia and north central Florida. It offers savings and checking accounts, money market deposit accounts, NOW and demand accounts, and certificates of deposit. The company?s loan portfolio consists of one- to four-family residential real estate loans; commercial and multi-family real estate loans; farmland loans; construction and development loans; commercial business loans; and consumer loans, including home equity lines of credit, new and used auto loans, boat and recreational vehicle loans, and loans secured by deposit accounts. In addition, it engages in the sale of securities and insurance products to customers through an agreement with a third-party broker-dealer. The company was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Albany, Georgia.
Top 10 Performing Companies To Invest In 2014: ChinaCast Education Corporation(CAST)
ChinaCast Education Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides post-secondary education and e-learning services in China. The company operates in two segments, E-learning and Training Service Group and Traditional University Group. The E-learning and Training Service Group provides post secondary education distance learning services that enable universities and other higher learning institutions to provide nationwide real-time distance learning services. It also provides K-12 educational services, such as broadcast multimedia educational content services to primary, middle, and high schools; and vocational/career training services. The Traditional University Group segment operates private residential universities that offer four-year bachelor?s degree and three-year diploma programs in finance, economics, trade, tourism, advertising, IT, music, foreign languages, tourism, hospitality, computer engineering, law, and art. The company also provides logistic service s. ChinaCast Education Corporation was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Central, Hong Kong.
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