Top 10 Companies To Own In Right Now

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI  ) closed the day down 36 points, or 0.24%, and now sits at 15,512 while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq also slide lower. The tech-heavy index lost 0.39% while the S&P 500 gave back 0.37% of its value during today's session. The main catalyst for the markets' decline was the disappointing pending home sales report from the National Association of Realtors. June's pending homes sales or the number of contracts signed to purchase an existing home in June declined 0.4% from May's results when the number hit a six year-high. Despite the slight decline, June's homes sales number was still more than 105 higher than were it was in June of 2012, but everyone is now concerned that May's sudden interest rate jump has scared off potential buyers and that the housing industry may see slower growth in the coming months. �

Now let's take a look at a few of today's big Dow losers.

Shares of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT  ) were downgraded this morning by Atlantic Equities from overweigh to neutral. The stock fell 0.25% today on the news as the price target was also lowered from $35 per share to $33. The firm stated that structural headwinds are greater than what had previously been expected. The discounts now being offered for Windows and slow growth in the server business caused the firm to make the downgrade. Although the stock did decline more than 10% just a few weeks ago, shares are still up 18.08% year to date and that's not including the 2.9% dividend yield while the Dow is up 18.45% over the same time frame. Investors should sit tight while the future of the PC plays out and see if the company can gain any ground in the mobile arena.

Top 10 Companies To Own In Right Now: Conquest Resources Limited (CQR.V)

Conquest Resources Limited, a development stage junior exploration company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and operation of mineral properties primarily in Canada. It explores for gold properties in Ontario, Canada. The company holds interest in the Alexander gold project located in the northwestern Ontario's Red Lake gold mining district. The company, through its joint venture with Detour Gold Corporation, also holds interests in the Sunday Lake property comprising 13 square kilometers of prospective mineral leases situated at Detour Lake, Ontario. In addition, it has interest in the Smith Lake Gold project located at Missanabie. The company was formerly known as Conquest Yellowknife Resources Ltd. and changed its name to Conquest Resources Limited in January 2000. Conquest Resources Limited was incorporated in 1945 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Top 10 Companies To Own In Right Now: Vecta Energy Corporation (VER.V)

Vecta Energy Corporation, a junior oil and gas company, engages in the exploration and production of petroleum and natural gas reserves in Canada. It has working interests in approximately 16,000 acres of lands in the foothills of Alberta and North east British Columbia; and approximately 20 barrels per day of oil equivalent production from the Brewster area. The company was formerly known as Kroes Energy Inc. and changed its name to Kroes Energy Inc. in June 2009. Vecta Energy Corporation is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Top 5 Clean Energy Stocks To Invest In 2014: Donegal Group Inc. (DGICA)

Donegal Group Inc., an insurance holding company, offers property and casualty insurance to businesses and individuals in the Mid-Atlantic, Midwestern, New England, and southern states. It operates in two segments, Personal Lines of Insurance and Commercial Lines of Insurance. The Personal Lines of Insurance segment offers private passenger automobile policies that provide protection against liability for bodily injury and property damage arising from automobile accidents, as well as protection against loss from damage to automobiles. This segment also provides homeowners policies, which offer coverage for damage to residences and their contents from fire, lightning, windstorm, and theft; and liability of the insured arising from injury to other persons. The Commercial Lines of Insurance segment offers commercial automobile policies that provide protection against liability for bodily injury and property damage arising from automobile accidents, and protection against loss from damage to automobiles owned by the insured; commercial multi-peril policies, which offer protection to businesses against various perils, primarily combining liability and physical damage coverages; and workers� compensation policies that offer benefits to employees for injuries sustained during employment. The company markets its insurance products through a network of approximately 2,500 independent insurance agencies. Donegal Group Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Marietta, Pennsylvania.

Top 10 Companies To Own In Right Now: Sina Corporation(SINA)

SINA Corporation provides online media and mobile value-added services (MVAS) in the People?s Republic of China. It provides advertising, non-advertising, and free services through SINA.com, Weibo.com, and SINA Mobile. SINA.com offers free interest-based channels that provide region-focused format and content, including news, sports, automobile-related news, finance, entertainment, luxury, technology, digital, tools, collectibles, video, music, and wireless application protocol, as well as interactive platform for fashion-conscious users to share comments and ideas on a range of topics, such as health, cosmetics, and beauty. The company's microblogging platform, Weibo.com, enables its users to follow the hottest topics being discussed online, as well as discussions related to people they know. Weibo accounts consist of celebrities, commercial enterprises, government entities, and grass root Internet users. Its SINA Mobile service allows users to receive news and informatio n, download ring tones, mobile games and pictures, and participate in dating and friendship communities. The company also offers SINA Game, which serves as an interactive platform that provides users with downloads and gateway access to popular online games; SINA eReading, a shop for book reviews; SINA.net, an enterprise solutions platform to assist businesses and government bodies; and SINA Mall, an online shopping Website. In addition, it provides a platform for Chinese bloggers; photo-sharing platform; free email, VIP mail, and corporate email for enterprise users; audio and video-based instant messaging tools; proprietary search technology; and classified advertising services, as well as hosts topic-specific discussion forums in Chinese language; and creates user-maintained and supported online communities. The company has strategic cooperation agreement with China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited. SINA Corporation was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the Peop le?s Republic of China.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Kevin Chen]

  While the media continues to call SINA� (NASDAQ: SINA  ) Weibo China's main Twitter-like service, saying it doesn't make it so. Digging deeper into the numbers and looking at the broader social networking market, it seems like SINA stock will continue its two-year-and-counting decline.

• [By Kevin Chen]

  Even when foreign companies like Yahoo!�have been forthcoming in self-censoring themselves, Beijing seems to put up obstacles to favor its domestic companies like SINA� (NASDAQ: SINA  ) , which ultimate profit.

Top 10 Companies To Own In Right Now: Wee Hur Holdings Ltd. (E3B.SI)

Wee Hur Holdings Ltd., an investment holding company, engages in the construction and property development businesses in Singapore. The company offers various construction services, including new construction, additions and alterations of existing buildings, refurbishment and upgrading of existing buildings, and restoration and conservation of heritage buildings to customers. Its projects comprise residential projects, such as condominiums, apartment buildings, landed housing, and public housing; commercial projects, which include office buildings, hotels and shopping complexes; institutional projects comprising schools, tertiary institutions, community clubs, and hospitals; industrial projects consisting of factories and warehouses; religious buildings that include churches and temples; and heritage and conservation buildings. The company is also involved in the property investment and property development activities, such as property related investments, the holding of i nvestments in property related assets, and trading in and the development of property. In addition, it engages in the construction and sale of residential and commercial properties. The company was founded in 1980 and is based in Singapore.

Top 10 Companies To Own In Right Now: Sprint Nextel Corp (S.C)

Sprint Nextel Corporation (Sprint), incorporated on November 15, 1938, is a holding company, with its operations primarily conducted by its subsidiaries. The Company operates in two segments: Wireless and Wireline. Sprint is a communications company offering a range of wireless and wireline communications products and services that are designed to meet the needs of individual consumers, businesses, government subscribers and resellers. Its operations are organized to meet the needs of its targeted subscriber groups through focused communications solutions that incorporate the capabilities of its wireless and wireline services. Its services are provided through its ownership of extensive wireless networks, an all-digital global long distance network. The Company offers wireless and wireline voice and data transmission services to subscribers in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands under the Sprint corporate brand, which includes its retail brands of Sprint, Nextel, Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, and Assurance Wireless on networks that utilize third generation (3G) code division multiple access (CDMA), integrated Digital Enhanced Network (iDEN), or Internet protocol (IP) technologies. The Company also offers fourth generation (4G) services utilizing Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) technology through its mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) wholesale relationship with Clearwire Corporation and its subsidiary Clearwire Communications LLC (together Clearwire) and, in October 2011, it announced its focus to deploy Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology as part of its network modernization plan, Network Vision. As of October 19, 2012, the Company controls 50.8% interest in Clearwire Corp.

Wireless

The Company offers wireless services on a postpaid and prepaid payment basis to retail subscribers and also on a wholesale and affiliate basis, which includes the sale of wireless services that utilize the Sprint network but are sold under! the wholesaler's brand. The Company supports the open development of applications, content, and devices on its network platforms through products and services, such as Google Voice, which allows for functionality, such as one phone number for all devices (home, wireless and office), routing calls between devices, and in-call options to switch between devices during a call and Google Wallet, which provides the ability to store loyalty, gift and credit cards, and to tap and pay while the customer shop using their wireless device. The Company has also launched multiple Sprint ID packs that download applications, widgets and other content related to a person's interest at the push of a button. In addition, it enables a variety of business and consumer third-party relationships, through its portfolio of machine-to-machine solutions, which it offers on a retail postpaid and wholesale basis. Its machine-to-machine solutions portfolio provides a secure, real-time and reliable wireless two-way data connection across a range of connected devices, including original equipment manufacturer (OEM) devices and after-market in-vehicle connectivity and electric vehicle charging stations, point-of-sale systems, kiosks and vending machines, asset tracking, digital signage, security, smartgrid utilities, medical equipment and a variety of other consumer electronics and appliances.

The Company offers price plans tailored to business subscribers, such as Business Advantage, which allows for the mix and match plans that include voice, voice and messaging, or voice, messaging and data to meet individual business needs and which also includes its Any Mobile Anytime feature with certain plans. Its prepaid portfolio includes multiple brands, each designed to appeal to specific subscriber segments. Virgin Mobile serves subscribers who are device and data-oriented with Beyond Talk plans and its broadband plan, Broadband2Go, that offer subscribers control and connectivity through various communication vehicles. Assuran! ce Wirele! ss provides eligible subscribers, who meet income requirements or are receiving government assistance, with a free wireless phone and 250 free minutes of local and long distance monthly service. Wireless data communications services include mobile productivity applications, such as Internet access, messaging and email services; wireless photo and video offerings; location-based capabilities, including asset and fleet management, dispatch services and navigation tools, and mobile entertainment applications, including the ability to view live television, listen to satellite radio, download and listen to music, and game play with full-color graphics and polyphonic and real-music sounds from a wireless handset.

Wireless voice communications services include basic local and long distance wireless voice services throughout the United States, as well as voicemail, call waiting, three-way calling, caller identification, directory assistance and call forwarding. It also provides voice and data services to areas in numerous countries outside of the United States through roaming arrangements. It offers customized design, development, implementation and support for wireless services provided to companies and government agencies. Its services are provided using a variety of multi-functional devices, including smartphones, mobile broadband devices, such as air cards and hotspots, and embedded tablets and laptops manufactured by various suppliers for use with its voice and data services. It sells accessories, such as carrying cases, hands-free devices, batteries, battery chargers and other items to subscribers, and it sells devices and accessories to agents and other third-party distributors for resale.

The Company delivers wireless services to subscribers primarily through its existing networks or as a reseller of 4G services through its MVNO wholesale relationship with Clearwire. Its Sprint platform, an all-digital wireless network with spectrum licenses that allows the Company to provide! service ! in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands, uses a single frequency band and a digital spread-spectrum wireless technology, code division multiple access (CDMA), that allows a number of users to access the band by assigning a code to all voice and data bits, sending a scrambled transmission of the encoded bits over the air and reassembling the voice and data into its original format. It provides nationwide service through a combination of operating its own digital network in United States metropolitan areas and rural connecting routes, affiliations under commercial arrangements with third-party affiliates (Affiliates) and roaming on other providers' networks.

The Company markets its postpaid services under the Sprint and Nextel brands. It offers these services on a contract basis typically for one or two-year periods, with services billed on a monthly basis according to the applicable pricing plan. As it deploy Network Vision, it will continue to focus on the Sprint platform postpaid subscriber base, including the migration of existing Nextel platform subscribers to other offerings on its Sprint platform, which includes future offerings on its multi-mode network, such as Sprint Direct Connect. It markets its prepaid services under the Boost Mobile, Virgin Mobile, and Assurance Wireless brands as a means to provide value-driven prepaid service plans to particular markets. Its wholesale customers are resellers of its wireless services rather than end-use subscribers and market their products and services using their brands.

The Company competes with AT&T, Verizon Wireless (Verizon), T-Mobile, Metro PCS Communications, Inc., Leap Wireless International, Inc. and TracFone Wireless.

Wireline

The Company provides a suite of wireline voice and data communications services to other communications companies and targeted business and consumer subscribers. In addition, it provides voice, data and IP communication services to its Wireles! s segment! , and IP and other services to cable Multiple System Operators (MSOs). Cable MSOs resell its local and long distance services and use its back office systems and network assets in support of their telephone service provided over cable facilities primarily to residential end-user subscribers. The Company is a provider of long distance services and operate all-digital global long distance and Tier 1 IP networks.

The Company�� services and products include domestic and international data communications using various protocols such as multiprotocol label switching technologies (MPLS), IP, managed network services, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Session Initiated Protocol (SIP) and traditional voice services. Its IP services can also be combined with wireless services. Such services include its Sprint Mobile Integration service, which enables a wireless handset to operate as part of a subscriber's wireline voice network, and its DataLinkSM service, which uses its wireless networks to connect a subscriber location into their primarily wireline wide-area IP/MPLS data network.

The Company also provides wholesale voice local and long distance services to cable MSOs, which they offer as part of their bundled service offerings, as well as traditional voice and data services for their enterprise use. The Company also continues to provide voice services to residential consumers. Its Wireline segment markets and sells its services primarily through direct sales representatives. It offers VoIP-based services to business subscribers and transport VoIP-originated traffic for various cable companies.

The Company competes with AT&T, Verizon Communications, CenturyLink and Level 3 Communications, Inc.

Top 10 Companies To Own In Right Now: Industrial Services of America Inc.(IDSA)

Industrial Services of America, Inc. engages in recycling stainless steel, ferrous, and non-ferrous scrap, as well as provides waste services. The company operates in two segments, Recycling and Waste Services. The Recycling segment collects, purchases, processes, and sells stainless steel, and ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal to steel mini-mills, integrated steel makers, foundries, and refineries. It purchases ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metals from industrial and commercial generators of steel, iron, aluminum, copper, stainless steel, and other metals, as well as from scrap dealers and retail customers who deliver these materials directly to the company?s facilities. This segment also processes scrap metal through its sorting, shearing, shredding, cutting, and baling operations. In addition, it purchases, processes, and sells stainless steel, nickel-based, and high-temperature alloys. Further, this segment?s scrap recycling operations consist of collecting, sortin g, and processing various grades of copper, aluminum, and brass. The Waste Services segment provides waste management services, including contract negotiations with service providers, centralized billing, invoice auditing, and centralized dispatching. It also rents, leases, sells, and services waste handling and recycling equipment. This segment represents contracts with retail, commercial, and industrial businesses to handle their waste disposal needs, primarily by subcontracting with commercial waste hauling and disposal companies. The company offers its services primarily in the United States and Canada. Industrial Services of America, Inc. was founded in 1953 and is headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky.

Top 10 Companies To Own In Right Now: El En(ELN.MI)

El.En S.p.A., through its subsidiaries, engages in the research, development, manufacture, distribution, and sale of laser systems in Europe and internationally. It offers laser systems for medical applications, including aesthetics, surgical, physiotherapy, dermatology, surgery, cosmetics, dentistry, and gynaecology. The company also provides laser systems for industrial applications, such as cutting, marking, and welding of metals, wood, plastic, and glass, as well as in the decoration of leather and fabric, and the conservative restoration of works of art; and systems for scientific applications and research. In addition, it offers after-sales service, including support for the installation and maintenance of its laser systems; and spare parts, consumables, and technical assistance services. The company sells its products through its subsidiaries, as well as through a network of distributors. El.En S.p.A. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Calenzano, Italy.

Top 10 Companies To Own In Right Now: ScanSource Inc.(SCSC)

ScanSource, Inc. engages in the wholesale distribution of specialty technology products to technology resellers and integrators in North America, Latin America, and Europe. It offers automatic identification and data capture (AIDC) and point-of-sale (POS) products, which interface with computer systems that automate the collection, processing, and communication of information for commercial and industrial applications, including retail sales, distribution, shipping, inventory control, materials handling, and warehouse management. The company?s ADIC products comprise bar code printers, hand-held and fixed-mount laser scanners, mobile and wireless data collection devices, and magnetic stripe readers; and POS products include computer-based terminals, monitors, receipt printers, pole displays, cash drawers, keyboards, peripheral equipment, and fully integrated processing units. It also sells products that attach to the POS network in the store comprising kiosks, network acce ss points, routers, and digital signage displays. In addition, the company offers voice and data products, such as private branch exchanges (PBX), key systems, and telephone handsets and components for use in voice, fax, data, voice recognition, call center management, and IP communication applications; and converged communications products, including telephone and IP network interfaces, VoIP systems, PBX integration products, and carrier-class board systems-level products. Further, it provides communications solutions, including video and audio conferencing and networking products; telephony solutions, including voice over IP; and computer telephony building blocks. Additionally, the company distributes electronic security equipment, such as identification, access control, video surveillance, intrusion- related products, and wireless infrastructure products. ScanSource, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina.

Top 10 Companies To Own In Right Now: Genting Singapore Plc (G13.SI)

Genting Singapore PLC, an investment holding company, engages in the development and operation of integrated resorts. It operates casinos; hotels with approximately 1500 rooms; approximately 22 beach villas; and a marine life park. The company is also involved in the provision of sales and marketing support services to leisure and hospitality related businesses; online gaming operations; and the food street business. It has operations in Europe and the Asia Pacific. The company was incorporated in 1984 and is headquartered in Singapore. Genting Singapore PLC is a subsidiary of Genting Overseas Holdings Limited.