In a company blog post, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT ) today confirmed additional details about its upcoming software update to Windows 8.
According to the blog post, Microsoft executive Tami Reller spoke at a JPMorgan tech conference today, saying that the update will be called Windows 8.1. The version was previously known as "Windows Blue."
Windows 8.1 will be available as a free update to users of Windows 8, and the software will be distributed through the Windows Store. Reller noted that the company's goal will be to deliver continual updates to Microsoft's flagship operating system, and that Windows 8 is just the first phase that started last fall.
Microsoft added that it now has more than 70,000 apps available in the Windows Store, including high-profile titles like Twitter, eBay, and Netflix, among others. The company is planning to release a public preview of Windows 8.1 on June 26, during its Build developer conference.
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Top 5 Net Payout Yield Stocks To Own Right Now: Wuxi Pharmatech(Cayman)
Wuxi PharmaTech (Cayman) Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device research and development outsourcing company primarily in the People?s Republic of China and the United States. It operates in two segments, Laboratory Services and Manufacturing Services. The Laboratory Services segment offers laboratory services for pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, such as discovery and medicinal chemistry, analytical chemistry, discovery biology, safety pharmacology, DMPK/ADME, bio analytical services, process research, formulation, and toxicology, as well as testing and development services for biologics, medical devices, and combination products. The Manufacturing Services segment provides manufacturing process development services for the production of advanced intermediates and active pharmaceutical ingredients for use in preclinical and clinical trials. The company offers its services to support research and developme nt for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies. It sells its products directly, and through Internet Websites and participation in trade conferences, shows, and scientific conferences. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People?s Republic of China.
Top 5 Net Payout Yield Stocks To Own Right Now: Aquila Resources Com Npv (AQA.TO)
Aquila Resources Inc., a natural resource company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in the United States. The company principally holds a 49% interest in the Back Forty property comprising approximately 9,615 acres of mineral lands located in Menominee county, Michigan. It primarily explores for gold, silver, copper, and zinc deposits. The company also has a strategic exploration alliance with HudBay Minerals Inc. to explore for base metals in Michigan. Aquila Resources Inc. is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
10 Best Dividend Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Derma Sciences Inc.(DSCI)
Derma Sciences, Inc. operates as a medical technology company. The company provides advanced wound care products, including Medihoney dressings that are used for the management of non-chronic and hard-to-heal wounds, such as chronic ulcers, burns, and post-operative wounds; Bioguard dressings that are used for prophylactic use in the prevention of hospital or community acquired infections through wound sites; Algicell Ag, antimicrobial dressings; Xtrasorb dressings that convert fluid within the dressings to a gel and lock the exudates into the dressings; TCC-EZ, a dressing system for the management of diabetic foot ulcers; and occlusive dressings, such as hydrocolloids, foams, hydrogels, alginates, additional silver antimicrobial dressings, cleansers, and Dermagran products. It also offers traditional wound care products, such as of gauze sponges and bandages, non-adherent impregnated dressings, retention devices, paste bandages, and other compression devices, as well as a dhesive bandages and related first aid products. In addition, the company provides pharmaceutical wound care products, including DSC127, an angiotensin analog for use in wound healing and scar reduction. It markets wound closure strips, nasal tube and catheter fasteners, barrier creams and ointments, antibacterial cleansing foams and sprays, shampoos and body washes, hand sanitizers, bath additives, body oils, and moisturizers to doctors, clinics, nursing homes, hospitals, home healthcare agencies, and other institutions. The company sells its products to health care providers, such as wound care centers, extended care facilities, acute care facilities, home health care agencies, and physicians? offices through direct sales representatives in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom; retail channels; manufacturers? representatives and independent distributors in international markets. Derma Sciences, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By John Udovich]
Small cap stocks Derma Sciences Inc (NASDAQ: DSCI), Oculus Innovative Sciences, Inc (NASDAQ: OCLS)�and Arch Therapeutics Inc (OTCBB: ARTH) specialize or have a focus on wound care���a medical problem that has plagued mankind since the dawn of time. After all and think back to our Civil War when disease along with infections resulting from improper wound care probably killed more soldiers than actual battles. Even today, infection after surgery or after receiving a wound or injury of any kind is still a constant threat. And then there is the scaring that can result from any sort of invasive surgery or injury. With those thoughts in mind, here are three small cap wound care stocks trying address these problems:
- [By Seth Jayson]
Calling all cash flows
When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on Derma Sciences (Nasdaq: DSCI ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.
Top 5 Net Payout Yield Stocks To Own Right Now: National-Oilwell Inc.(NOV)
National Oilwell Varco, Inc. designs, constructs, manufactures, and sells systems, components, and products used in oil and gas drilling and production; provides oilfield services and supplies; and distributes products, and provides supply chain integration services to the upstream oil and gas industry worldwide. Its Rig Technology segment offers offshore and onshore drilling rigs; derricks; pipe lifting, racking, rotating, and assembly systems; rig instrumentation systems; coiled tubing equipment and pressure pumping units; well workover rigs; wireline winches; wireline trucks; cranes; and turret mooring systems and other products for floating production, storage and offloading vessels, and other offshore vessels and terminals. The company?s Petroleum Services & Supplies segment provides various consumable goods and services to drill, complete, remediate, and workover oil and gas wells and service pipelines, flowlines, and other oilfield tubular goods. It also manufacture s, rents, and sells products and equipment for drilling operations, including drill pipe, wired drill pipe, transfer pumps, solids control systems, drilling motors, drilling fluids, drill bits, reamers and other downhole tools, and mud pump consumables. In addition, this segment provides oilfield tubular services comprising the provision of inspection and internal coating services; equipment for drill pipe, line pipe, tubing, casing, and pipelines; and coiled tubing pipes and composite pipes. Its Distribution Services segment sells maintenance, repair and operating supplies, and spare parts to drill site and production locations. The company primarily serves drilling contractors, shipyards and other rig fabricators, well servicing companies, pressure pumping companies, oil and gas companies, supply stores, and pipe-running service providers. National Oilwell Varco, Inc. was founded in 1862 and is based in Houston, Texas.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Brian Pacampara]
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, oilfield services specialist National Oilwell Varco (NYSE: NOV ) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.
- [By Arjun Sreekumar]
As oil and gas companies continue to venture into these harder-to-reach oil and gas frontiers, the complexity of the drilling process will continue to rise. National Oilwell Varco (NYSE: NOV ) , as the single biggest supplier of rig equipment with a whopping 60% market share, is aptly positioned to capitalize on this trend.
- [By Harlan Kessler]
Whenever you see a company that is undervalued with plenty of competitive advantages and financial strength, you are looking at a winner. The company that meets these specifications in the energy business is National Oilwell Varco (NOV). The company supplies drillers and producers with anything they need ranging from rigs to drilling parts and also provides a range of services, whether it is piping inspection or the training of drilling crew in the use of sophisticated systems. It exerts such a profound influence that, according to a Morningstar estimate, it has a 60% share in the market for rig equipment and 90% of all rigs carry some of its equipment. It also operates in over 700 locations across the world. We should remember that the folks who made the real money in the Gold Rush were the suppliers of picks and shovels.
Top 5 Net Payout Yield Stocks To Own Right Now: Global Clean Energy Inc (GCEI)
Global Clean Energy, Inc. (GCE), incorporated on November 8, 2007, develops and markets technology in waste to energy management. The Company focuses on organic waste recovery. GCE has developed two complementary technologies to salvage and reform waste from a range of sources to produce different clean energy byproducts. GCE�� AirPump utilizes Vortex technology to separate waste and recover carbon from extracted material. The G2G Steam Reformer is a hybrid steam gasifier.
The AirPump
The AirPump is lightweight and easily attached to the end of solid or flexible pipe, making it relatively simple to deploy or redirect, posing little or no safety hazard to the operator. The design of the AirPump makes it an investment for any industry requiring extraction-based clean up. The AirPump has been used by United Kingdom Coal to empty an accumulation of coal slurry lagoons for land recovery, redevelopment and biofuel production.
The G2G Steam Reformer - the future of pyrolytic gasification
Gasification, a thermal process by which feedstock (i.e. fossil fuels, plastics, solid wastes and biomass) is converted to synthetic fuel gas (syngas), has been used in some form for as a viable waste-to-energy (WtE) technology. The existing gasification plants use air or oxygen to combust feedstock, releasing toxic nitrogen and sulfur compounds. G2G is designed to accept and process a range of carbonaceous materials, including coal, plastic, rubber, Municipal Solid Waste (MSW).
The Company competes with Intrinergy, Blue Fire Ethanol, Range fuels and Plasco.
Top 5 Net Payout Yield Stocks To Own Right Now: Real Goods Solar Inc.(RSOL)
Real Goods Solar, Inc. operates as a residential and commercial solar energy integrator primarily in California and Colorado. The company provides engineering, procurement, and construction services. It offers various turnkey solar energy services, including design, procurement, permitting, build-out, grid connection, financing referrals, and warranty and customer satisfaction services. The company installs residential and small commercial systems that range between 3 kilowatts and 1 megawatt output. It also engages in the retail sale of renewable energy products. The company was founded in 1978 and is based in Louisville, Colorado.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Bryan Murphy]
If you were lucky enough to be in an American Community (OTCMKTS:ACYD) position anytime before October 8th, then congratulations - you're up big. Now get out. Instead, use freed-up that capital to take on a position in Real Goods Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:RSOL), which looks like it's at the beginning of a good-sized rally.
- [By John Udovich]
Small cap solar stock Andalay Solar Inc (OTCMKTS: WEST) has largely cratered for investors�verses solar stock peers Real Goods Solar, Inc (NASDAQ: RSOL) and SolarCity Corp (NASDAQ: SCTY), but is the company finally turning itself around after a failed deal to be acquired?
- [By Bryan Murphy]
Three weeks ago, I recommended Real Goods Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:RSOL) as a buy. Though the stock was still drifting in the shadow of a huge May pullback - from a high of $7.17 to a low of $2.13 by mid-June - RSOL was finding some support at key moving average lines, and even pushing up and off of them. Not many of you (and I'm using "you" interchangeably with "investors in general") seemed to care. So why am I looking at Real Goods Solar again now? Because, with competitors LDK Solar Co., Ltd (NYSE:LDK) and ReneSola Ltd. (NYSE:SOL) seeing their shares surge today, odds are good RSOL is going to get swept up in that move. Real Goods Solar shares are a better bet, however, in that - unlike SOL and LDK - they aren't overbought yet.
Top 5 Net Payout Yield Stocks To Own Right Now: Solitaire Minerals Corp. (SLT.V)
Pistol Bay Mining Inc., a diversified junior mineral exploration company, engages in the exploration and development of precious and base metal properties in North America. The company primarily focuses on exploration for gold, uranium, copper, silver, and iron ore deposits. It focuses on projects in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Quebec. The company was formerly known as Solitaire Minerals Corp. and changed its name to Pistol Bay Mining Inc. in November 2012. Pistol Bay Mining Inc. is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Top 5 Net Payout Yield Stocks To Own Right Now: Applied Industrial Technologies Inc. (AIT)
Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. distributes industrial products for maintenance, repair, and operational needs, as well as original equipment manufacturing applications primarily in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. The company offers bearings, power transmission components, fluid power components and systems, industrial rubber products, linear motion components, tools, safety products, and other industrial supplies; and fluid power products, such as hydraulic, pneumatic, lubrication, and filtration components and systems. It also operates regional fabricated rubber shops, which modify and repair conveyor belts and make hose assemblies; and rubber service field crews to install and repair belts and rubber linings at customer locations. In addition, the company assembles fluid power systems and components; performs equipment repair; offers technical advice to customers; and provides maintenance training, and inventory and stor eroom management solutions. It serves various industries, such as agriculture and food processing, automotive, chemical processing, forest products, industrial machinery and equipment, mining, primary metals, transportation, and utilities, as well as to government entities. The company offers industrial products through a network of service centers; and fluid power products directly to customers. Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Dividends4Life]
Fair Value: In calculating fair value, I consider the NPV MMA Differential Fair Value along with these four calculations of fair value, see page 2 of the linked PDF for a detailed description:
1. Avg. High Yield Price
2. 20-Year DCF Price
3. Avg. P/E Price
4. Graham Number
GWW is trading at a premium to all four valuations above. The stock is trading at a 10.0% premium to its calculated fair value of $219.95. GWW did not earn any Stars in this section.
Dividend Analytical Data: In this section there are three possible Stars and three key metrics, see page 2 of the linked PDF for a detailed description:
1. Free Cash Flow Payout
2. Debt To Total Capital
3. Key Metrics
4. Dividend Growth Rate
5. Years of Div. Growth
6. Rolling 4-yr Div. > 15%
GWW earned three Stars in this section for 1.), 2.) and 3.) above. A Star was earned since the Free Cash Flow payout ratio was less than 60% and there were no negative Free Cash Flows over the last 10 years. The stock earned a Star as a result of its most recent Debt to Total Capital being less than 45%. GWW earned a Star for having an acceptable score in at least two of the four Key Metrics measured.
Rolling 4-yr Div. > 15% means that dividends grew on average in excess of 15% for each consecutive 4 year period over the last 10 years (2003-2006, 2004-2007, 2005-2008, etc.) I consider this a key metric since dividends will double every 5 years if they grow by 15%. The company has paid a cash dividend to shareholders every year since 1965 and has increased its dividend payments for 42 consecutive years.
Dividend Income vs. MMA: Why would you assume the equity risk and invest in a dividend stock if you could earn a better return in a much less risky money market account (MMA) or Treasury bond? This section compares the earning ability of this stock with a high yield MMA. Two items are considered in this section, see page 2 of the linked - [By Rich Duprey]
Industrial distributor�Applied Industrial Technologies� (NYSE: AIT ) announced today its third-quarter dividend of $0.23�per share, the same rate it's paid for the past two quarters after raising the payout 9.5% from $0.21 per share.
- [By Marc Bastow]
Industrial components distributor Applied Industrial Technologies (AIT) raised its quarterly dividend 8.7% to 25 cents per share, payable on Feb. 28 to shareholders of record as of Feb. 14.
AIT Dividend Yield: 1.98%
Top 5 Net Payout Yield Stocks To Own Right Now: Tasman Metals Ltd (TSM.V)
Tasman Metals Ltd., a junior resource company, engages in the acquisition and exploration of rare earth elements in Scandinavia. The company owns 100% interest in 124 claims and claim applications for strategic metals, including rare earth elements in Sweden, Finland, and Norway; and various interests in 4 iron ore exploration claims in the Kiruna district of Sweden. Its flagship project is the Norra K盲rr project located in southern Sweden. Tasman Metals Ltd. is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Top 5 Net Payout Yield Stocks To Own Right Now: Telecom Italia S.P.A.(TI)
Telecom Italia S.p.A., together with its subsidiaries, provides fixed-line and mobile telecommunications, Internet, and media services. The company also operates in office and system solutions. Its portfolio ranges from consumer-focused convergent communications services to business-oriented advanced ICT solutions. The company?s integrated range of offerings, proprietary platforms, and network architecture leverage the potential of fixed-line and mobile broadband to offer convergent solutions for communication, Web surfing, always-in-touch services, and serve as a gateway to the digital world from the home, the office, and on the move, from fixed-line telephone, cell phone, PC, or TV. Its business portfolio covers various categories of business needs, from freelance professionals to SMEs, corporations, institutions, and public government bodies. The company?s Web offerings combine Italy?s Virgilio portal with Web 2.0 ventures, such as Yalp!, a TV community where users p ublish their own content and create their own TV channels. Its media operations span traditional broadcasting over analogue and digital networks, and mobile broadcasting through TIM/MTV partnership vehicle, MTV Mobile. The company has operations in Italy, Latin America, Germany, Holland, and the Mediterranean basin. As of December 31, 2009, it provided fixed telecommunications services with approximately 16.1 million physical accesses in Italy. The company?s wholesale customer portfolio consisted of approximately 6.2 million accesses for telephone services; and broadband portfolio had approximately 8.7 million accesses in Italy, as well as 30.8 million mobile telephone lines. Telecom Italia was founded in 1908 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Jon C. Ogg]
Telecom Italia (NYSE: TI) was started as Buy at Goldman Sachs, just a day after J.P. Morgan raised it to Neutral from Underperform.
Under Armour Inc. (NYSE: UA) was raised to Neutral from Underweight at J.P. Morgan.
- [By Sean Williams]
Don't forget the cash flow
With austerity measures hitting home in Europe, it's fairly easy to understand why Telecom Italia (NYSE: TI ) (NYSE: TI-A ) , Italy's largest telephone service provider, has struggled mightily. Unlike in the U.S., where a landline or cell phone are viewed as practical necessities, consumers in Italy have had no problem giving up their landlines, or businesses postponing their network expansion, until Italy's economy improves. In fact, in Telecom Italia's first-quarter report, we saw EBITDA decline 10%, to $3.5 billion, and overall sales dip 8%.
Top 5 Net Payout Yield Stocks To Own Right Now: Quickstep Holdings Ltd(QHL.AX)
Quickstep Holdings Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture of aerospace-grade composite components, as well as related technology transfer for the aerospace, defense, and automotive industries. The company undertakes manufacturing contracts utilizing various manufacturing solutions, including autoclaves and Quickstep Process. It also licenses Quickstep Process technology to original equipment manufacturers and their suppliers; and provides Quickstep machines and support services. The Quickstep Process technology is used on high volume automotive manufacturing or specialist thick parts, such as spars and wing skins in large defense and commercial aircraft. The company also conducts research and development on Quickstep and associated technologies on behalf of customers to validate its suitability for their needs, and/or develop the technology to meet their specific requirements. Quickstep Holdings Limited offers its products and services in Germa ny and the United States. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in North Coogee, Australia.
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