Top 10 Stocks For 2014

Shares in�European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. climb 3% in early trade Monday after its unit Airbus announced several orders for its A380 superjumbo and new long-range A350 at the Dubai Air Show over the weekend.

Hometown carrier Emirates Airline ordered another 50 A380s, bringing its total order book for the world’s largest passenger plane to 140 units–or almost half of all A380s on order.

Next-door rival Etihad Airways from Abu Dhabi said Sunday it placed a firm order for 87 Airbus aircraft with purchase rights for a further 30. Including the related engines, the order was worth $26.9 billion at list prices, it said at the air show.

And today Airbus announced it has signed a memorandum of understanding with newly-launched Libyan Wings for three wide-bodied A350-900 airliners as well as four single-aisle A320neos in an order that’s potentially worth $1.26 billion on the basis of Airbus’s list prices if it is transformed into a firm purchase agreement.

Top 10 Stocks For 2014: Arch Capital Group Ltd.(ACGL)

Arch Capital Group Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, provides insurance and reinsurance products worldwide. It operates in two segments, Insurance and Reinsurance. The Insurance segment offers casualty; construction; executive assurance; healthcare; collateral protection, debt cancellation, and service contract reimbursement products; national accounts casualty; professional liability; programs; property, energy, marine, and aviation; surety; and travel and accident insurance products. It also provides other insurance products, such as excess workers compensation and employers' liability insurance coverages for qualified self-insured groups, associations, and trusts; captive insurance programs; and accident, disability, and medical plan insurance coverages for employer groups, medical plan members, students, and other participant groups. This segment markets its products through a network of licensed independent retail and wholesale brokers. The Reinsurance segment rei nsures third party liability and worker?s compensation exposures; individual property risks that include personal lines and commercial property exposures; other specialty lines, including surety, accident and health, workers' compensation catastrophe, multi-peril crop, trade credit, and political risk; catastrophic perils, such as hurricane, earthquake, flood, tornado, hail, and fire; marine business, which includes coverage for hull, cargo, and transit and offshore oil and gas operations, as well as aviation business that comprises coverage for airline and general aviation risks; and non-traditional business to provide insurers with risk management solutions. This segment markets its reinsurance products through brokers, as well as directly with the ceding companies. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Holly LaFon]

  Arch Capital (ACGL)'s Dinos Iordanu recently described to our analysts how he met me in 2001. Before we invested in his business, we asked him all sorts of personal questions about how he came to America from Cyprus; whether or not his wife had a job; and how big was his house? He told our analysts that "Ron was trying to get a sense of me. He wanted to understand how I viewed risk. No one else asked us such questions. They were the right questions since you were investing in our business, which was assuming underwriting risk on your behalf. "We got it right with Dinos and have about quadrupled our money in the past twelve years, not exactly the most propitious time to invest in stocks! Of course, there can be no assurance that future investments will be as profitable��lthough you can be assured that we will continue to work hard to try to achieve similar results.

Top 10 Stocks For 2014: Hill & Smith Hdg(HILS.L)

Hill & Smith Holdings PLC engages in the manufacture and supply of infrastructure, building, and construction products, as well as in the provision of galvanizing services. The company operates through three segments: Infrastructure Products, Galvanizing Services, and Building and Construction Products. The Infrastructure Products segment offers a range of products, including permanent and temporary road safety barriers, fencing, overhead sign gantries, street lighting columns, bridge parapets, demountable car parks, glass reinforced plastic railway platforms, variable road messaging solutions, traffic data collection systems, plastic drainage pipes, pipe supports for the power and liquid natural gas markets, energy grid components, and security fencing. It serves roads and utilities markets. The Galvanizing Services segment provides zinc and other coating services for a range of products comprising fencing, lighting columns, structural steel work, bridges, agricultural, a nd other products for the infrastructure and construction sectors. The Building and Construction Products segment offers roofing systems, safety handrails and flooring, lintels, and doors in steel and composite materials for the infrastructure projects, such as schools, and other public and industrial buildings. The company offers its products in the United Kingdom, France, the United States, Thailand, and China. Hill & Smith Holdings PLC is based in Solihull, the United Kingdom.

10 Best Stocks For 2014: Spectra Energy Corp(SE)

Spectra Energy Corp, through its subsidiaries, engages in the ownership and operation of a portfolio of complementary natural gas-related energy assets in the United States and Canada. The company operates in four segments: U.S. Transmission, Distribution, Western Canada Transmission and Processing, and Field Services. The U.S. Transmission segment engages in the transportation and storage of natural gas for customers in various regions of the northeastern and southeastern United States and the Maritime Provinces in Canada. Its natural gas pipeline systems consist of approximately 19,000 miles of transmission pipelines; and storage capacity comprises 305 billion cubic feet in the United States and Canada. The Distribution segment engages in the natural gas storage, transmission, and distribution in Western Canada and the United States. This segment has approximately 37,600 miles of distribution main and service pipelines serving approximately 1.3 million residential, comme rcial, and industrial customers. The Western Canada Transmission and Processing segment provides natural gas transportation, and gas gathering and processing services; and provides services to natural gas producers to remove impurities from the raw gas stream including water, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and other substances. This segment serves local distribution companies, end-use industrial and commercial customers, marketers, and exploration and production companies. The Field Services segment gathers and processes natural gas, as well as fractionates, markets, and trades natural gas liquids. It engages in gathering raw natural gas through gathering systems located in nine natural gas producing regions consisting of the Mid-Continent, Rocky Mountain, east Texas-north Louisiana, Barnett Shale, Gulf Coast, South Texas, Central Texas, Antrim Shale, and Permian Basin. The company is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Aimee Duffy]

  Outside of Dominion and Energy Transfer Partners, Royal Dutch Shell and El Paso Pipeline Partners are teaming up to convert EPB's import terminal on Elba Island, just off the Savannah coast, to an export facility. ExxonMobil and Sempra Energy (NYSE: SE  ) , among others, have also thrown their hats in the ring. Both companies would export from the U.S. Gulf Coast.

• [By Rich Duprey]

  Spectra Energy's (NYSE: SE  ) �1,717-mile Express-Platte System�is one of just three major pipeline systems moving crude oil from western�Canada�to U.S. refining markets in the Rockies area and the Midwest.

Top 10 Stocks For 2014: Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.(CMG)

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. develops and operates fast-casual, fresh Mexican food restaurants in the United States, Canada, and England. Its restaurants primarily offer burritos, tacos, burrito bowls, and salads. As of December 31, 2011, it operated 1,230 restaurants, which includes 1 ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen. Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is based in Denver, Colorado.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Michael Lewis]

  Now, obviously this is the market predicting Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG  ) , version 2.0. But as Barron's recently pointed out, Noodles isn't quite Chipotle. Last year's same-store sales were up 5.4% and in the last quarter up 2.2%. In the year before Chipotle's IPO, same-store sales jumped 10.2%, and the company was earning much more per restaurant.

• [By Rick Aristotle Munarriz]

  Alamy McDonald's (MCD) has been struggling to heat up its sales for more than a year, but let's not assume that all fast food chains are in the same boat. In fact, as McDonald's tries to upgrade its menu with premium-priced items and update its eateries with fancy decor, free Wi-Fi, and barista-brewed coffee beverages, a much smaller rival is doing just fine with a throwback business model and menu. At a time when many of its more modern peers are struggling to ring up sales, Sonic (SONC) -- the chain of drive-in restaurants where some orders are still delivered to parked cars by carhops on roller skates -- is doing just fine. Retro Chic Sonic reported another solid quarter on Monday. Same-restaurant sales rose 2.2 percent for its fiscal quarter ending in November. Margins improved to the point where adjusted earnings per share climbed 18 percent with the help of an aggressive share buyback plan. McDonald's doesn't operate on the same fiscal calendar, but we know that same-restaurant sales in the U.S. declined 0.8 percent in November and were up a mere 0.2 percent in October. McDonald's is the world's largest burger chain, but it's had several months since Oct. 2012 where it failed to drum up more sales than it did a year earlier. Meanwhile, Sonic is on a roll. This isn't a fluke. Sonic posted a 5.9 percent surge in same-restaurant sales during its summer quarter. Zigging When McDonald's Zags Sonic and McDonald's both serve cheap burgers, but what's more interesting to consider is where the two companies are going in different directions. McDonald's has been on a health kick lately. It's been promoting its grilled chicken salads and recently added breakfast sandwiches made with egg whites. Sonic, on the other hand, is crediting no small part of the success of its most recent quarter to its milkshakes and new Cheesecake Bites. Consumers may talk about eating healthier, but they do something else when they're eating out. We're seeing this in the chain

• [By Rick Munarriz]

  Both stocks hit new highs, posting positive comps along the way. You don't see that very often these days among publicly traded casual-dining chains as the hungry flock to fast-casual establishments led by Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG  ) .

• [By Rick Munarriz]

  Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG  ) has a plan to boost its moribund comps.

  The fast-growing restaurant chain will be adding premium margaritas -- handmade with Patron silver tequila, triple sec, agave nectar, and fresh lime -- to more than half of its restaurants next week.

Top 10 Stocks For 2014: Poseidon Nickel Ltd (POS)

Poseidon Nickel Limited is an Australia-based company engaged in exploration, mining and production of Nickel and other minerals. The Company�� Windarra nickel project, includes an implied ore reserve (mineable resource) of 3,446,000 ore tons at an average grade of 1.79% nickel for 61,500 nickel metal tons and has a mine life of six years. Cerberus is closely located to Poseidon�� existing operations approximately 10.5 kilometers south of the Mt Windarra nickel mine. In September 2011, Poseidon entered into an earn-in agreement with Magma Metals Limited (Magma) for nickel, copper and PGE rights to a tenement package adjoining its Windarra Nickel Project (WNP). The new tenements cover 203 square kilometers. The Company�� subsidiaries include Poseidon Nickel Atlantis Operations Pty Ltd, Poseidon Nickel Olympia Operations Pty Ltd and Wells Gold Corporation (International) Pty Ltd.

Top 10 Stocks For 2014: RM Plc(RM.L)

RM plc provides educational products and services for schools, colleges, universities, and local government and central government departments and agencies in the United Kingdom and internationally. The company offers learning technologies, education resources, and assessment and data services. Its learning technologies products consist of classroom technology comprising learning platforms, computer systems, and interactive teaching equipment; and infrastructure and managed services, including systems, networking, and MIS. The company?s education resources comprise curriculum-focused products, such as teaching equipment and materials, furniture, and software. Its assessment and data services consist of systems, platforms, and outsourcing for testing and qualifications; and data analysis and dissemination services for teachers, parents, and policy makers. The company offers various products and services through its Web site, including application software and educational s oftware; laptops, and desktop and mobile PCs; peripherals and electronic products, such as printers and scanners, monitors, TVs, digital signage, mice and keyboards, cameras and camcorders, and audio-visual and music devices; notebook and printer accessories; storage and media products; PC components and memory products; monitor and display accessories; and cables and connectors. Its other products comprise networking and communication products and services, which include network cables and accessories, Internet and email, and servers, storage, and backup products; educational/teaching products; and office products and furniture for teaching and learning environment. The company also offers training, support services, insurance and warranty, collection and disposal services, and RM UtilEyes monitors, as well as involves in leasing servers, software, and furniture. RM plc was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

Top 10 Stocks For 2014: KDR Industrials Ltd (KDR)

KDR Industrials Ltd., formerly North American Medical Services Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiaries, North American Medical Services Inc. (NAMS-Nevada), NuCelle Inc. (NuCelle) and N.A.M.S. Capital Corp. (NAMS-CC), is engaged in the manufacture and sale of skin treatment formulations, products, and systems bearing brand of NuCelle and Mandelic Marine Complex. NuCelle�� provides skin care formulations for all skin types, sensitive, ethnic, trouble-prone, and aging. The Company operates two product lines: NuCelle Rx and NuCelle Mandelic Marine Complex. Its NuCelle Rx, physician only line of products, is formulated for, and distributed to physicians and medical professionals. Its NuCelle Mandelic Marine Complex, the aesthetician only line of products, consists of a five step regimen, including Mandelic Wash, Mandelic Mint Scrub, Mandelic Toner, Mandelic Laser-lift Serum and Mandelic Anti-Oxidant Treatment Moisturizer.

Top 10 Stocks For 2014: Class Editori(CLE.MI)

Class Editori SpA engages in newspapers, magazines, digital satellite television (TV), digital terrestrial TV, radio, and electronic publishing businesses. The company publishes newspapers that provide news, features, and information of interest to economists, lawyers, tax specialists, bankers, and other professionals; and various magazines for business professionals and consumers. It also operates Class CNBC, an Italian business TV channel, which provides activities and events of Italian stock exchange and Davos world economic forum; Class TV Msnbc, a terrestrial digital information TV channel that offers information on the lives of Italians and weather news; ClassHorseTV, which provides horse events; and Class TV Moda, an Italian fashion channel that offers international events, fashion shows, and interviews with fashion celebrities and VIP guests at fashion shows, as well as other TV channels, such as Class Life. In addition, the company provides a mix of classical musi c and Italian, and international financial news. Further, it supplies data, information, and financial news through various platforms, including cable, satellite, Intranet, and the Internet. Class Editori SpA was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

Top 10 Stocks For 2014: Lender Processing Services Inc (LPS)

Lender Processing Services, Inc. provides integrated technology, data, and services to the mortgage lending industry in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Technology, Data, and Analytics; and Transaction Services. Its Technology, Data, and Analytics segment offers software systems and information solutions that facilitate and automate various business processes across the life cycle of a mortgage. This segment�s primary applications and services include mortgage servicing platform, an application that automates loan servicing, including loan setup and ongoing processing, customer service, accounting and reporting to the secondary mortgage market, and federal regulatory reporting; Desktop, a Web-based workflow information system that can be used for managing and automating various workflow processes; and other software applications and services that automate and facilitate the origination of mortgage loans. It also provides data and analytics services , such as alternative valuation services, and data and information. The company�s Transaction Services segment offers customized outsourced business process and information solutions. Its origination services include settlement and title agency services comprising centralized title agency and closing services; appraisal services; and other origination services, such as federal flood zone certifications and monitoring services. This segment also provides default management services, consisting of foreclosure administrative services, property inspection and preservation; default title and settlement services; and alternative property valuation services. The company serves mortgage originators and servicers, other financial institutions, investors, attorneys, trustees, and real estate professionals. Lender Processing Services, Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.

Top 10 Stocks For 2014: Halfords Group Ord 1p(HFD.L)

Halfords Group plc engages in retailing automotive, leisure, and cycling products. It offers car maintenance products, including car parts, servicing consumables, workshop tools, and body repair equipment; and car enhancement comprising in-car entertainment systems, cleaning products, accessories, interior and exterior car styling products, navigation systems, and alloy wheels. The company also sells new cycles; cycle accessories, such as lights, locks, and cycle safety helmets; car travel equipment, which include roof boxes and cycle carriers; travel accessories that comprise batteries, safety equipment, and child car seats; and outdoor leisure equipment. It sells its products through operating 473 stores in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, as well as through its halfords.com and halfords.ie Web sites; and provides car servicing and repairs through its 240 car servicing centers in the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1892 and is headquartered in R edditch, the United Kingdom.