Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, regional freight railroad operator Genesee & Wyoming (NYSE: GWR ) has earned a respected four-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Genesee & Wyoming, and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Genesee & Wyoming facts
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Headquarters (founded)
Greenwich, Conn. (1899)
Market Cap
$4.8 billion
Industry
Railroads
Hot Freight Stocks To Own For 2014: FSA Group Ltd (FSA.AX)
FSA Group Limited provides debt solutions and direct lending services to individuals and businesses in Australia. The company operates in three segments: Services, Home Loans, and Small Business. The Services segment offers debt agreement proposal preparation and administration, trustee, and other related services. The Home Loans segment provides mortgage finance, home loan broking, and mortgage management services. The Small Business segment offers corporate consultancy services, as well as bridging finance, factoring finance, and other related services. FSA Group Limited is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
Hot Freight Stocks To Own For 2014: Texas Roadhouse Inc.(TXRH)
Texas Roadhouse, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates a full-service casual dining restaurant chain. It operates restaurants under the Texas Roadhouse and Aspen Creek names. The company also provides supervisory and administrative services for other license and franchise restaurants. As of December 27, 2011, it owned and operated 294 restaurants; and franchised and licensed an additional 72 restaurants in 47 states in the United States, and Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in Louisville, Kentucky.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Seth Jayson]
Texas Roadhouse (Nasdaq: TXRH ) is expected to report Q2 earnings on July 29. Here's what Wall Street wants to see:
The 10-second takeaway
Comparing the upcoming quarter to the prior-year quarter, average analyst estimates predict Texas Roadhouse's revenues will grow 10.7% and EPS will increase 3.6%. - [By Seth Jayson]
When judging a company's prospects, how quickly it turns cash outflows into cash inflows can be just as important as how much profit it's booking in the accounting fantasy world we call "earnings." This is one of the first metrics I check when I'm hunting for the market's best stocks. Today, we'll see how it applies to Texas Roadhouse (Nasdaq: TXRH ) .
- [By Rick Munarriz]
Shares of Texas Roadhouse (NASDAQ: TXRH ) opened 9% higher today after it clocked in with a strong report last night. The casual steakhouse chain is reporting comps growing 3.5% at company restaurants and 4.5% at franchised locations.
Top 5 Safest Companies To Buy For 2015: Australian Agricultural Company Ltd (AAC.AX)
Australian Agricultural Company Limited provides beef and agricultural products in Australia. It operates through four segments: Finished and Store Cattle, Farming, Wholesale Beef, and Meat Processing. The company engages in the operation of grazing and farming properties; and growing and harvesting of cotton, corn, wheat, sorghum, chickpeas, and other crops. It is also involved in breeding, growing, feedlotting, and trading of beef cattle; and wholesale meat marketing. The company markets Wagyu beef under Master Kobe, Takumi Wagyu, Kobe Cuisine, and Darling Downs Wagyu brands; grass fed beef under the Brunette Downs Grass Fed Beef brand; and grain fed beef under the 1824 Premium Beef brand; and Wagyu burger patties, beef trimmings, and offal items for food service and retail markets. It operates 18 cattle stations, 5 agisted properties, 2 owned feedlots, 5 external feedlots, 2 owned farms, and 2 external farms covering an area of approximately 6.9 million hectares located in Queensland and the Northern Territory. The company also exports its beef products to approximately 20 countries. Australian Agricultural Company Limited was founded in 1824 and is based in Milton, Australia.
Hot Freight Stocks To Own For 2014: Maxwell Technologies Inc.(MXWL)
Maxwell Technologies, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, and markets energy storage and power delivery products, and microelectronic products worldwide. The company offers Ultracapacitors that are energy storage devices to provide energy storage and power delivery solutions for applications in transportation, automotive, information technology, renewable energy, and industrial electronics industries; and CONDIS high-voltage capacitors comprising grading and coupling capacitors, and capacitive voltage dividers used to ensure the safety and reliability of electric utility infrastructure and other applications involving transport, distribution, and measurement of high-voltage electrical energy. It also provides radiation-hardened microelectronic products, including single board computers and components, such as high-density memory and power modules for satellites and spacecraft applications. The company markets and sells its products through direct and indirect sales for integration by original equipment manufacturers into a range of end products. The company was formerly known as Maxwell Laboratories, Inc. and changed its name to Maxwell Technologies, Inc. in 1996. Maxwell Technologies was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Roberto Pedone]
Maxwell Technologies (MXWL) develops, manufactures and markets energy storage and power delivery products for transportation, industrial telecommunications and other applications and microelectronic products for space and satellite applications. This stock closed up 3.7% to $9.50 in Tuesday's trading session.
Tuesday's Range: $9.07-$9.54
52-Week Range: $4.90-$11.08
Tuesday's Volume: 369,000
Three-Month Average Volume: 360,477From a technical perspective, MXWL spiked notably higher here right above some near-term support at $9 with above-average volume. This stock has been consolidating and trending sideways for the last two months, with shares moving between $8.61 on the downside and $10.39 on the upside. Shares of MXWL are now quickly moving within range of triggering a near-term breakout trade above the upper-end of its recent sideways trading chart pattern. That trade will hit if MXWL manages to take out Tuesday' high of $9.54 and then once it clears more near-term overhead resistance at $10.39 with high volume.
Traders should now look for long-biased trades in MXWL as long as it's trending above its 50-day at $8.81 and then once it sustains a move or close above those breakout levels with volume that's near or above 360,477 shares. If that breakout hits soon, then MXWL will set up to re-test or possibly take out its 52-week high at $11.08. Any high-volume move above that level will then give MXWL a chance to tag $12.
- [By Monica Gerson]
Maxwell Technologies (NASDAQ: MXWL) surged 9.20% to $10.21. The volume of Maxwell Technologies shares traded was 325% higher than normal. Maxwell's trailing-twelve-month revenue is $190.57 million.
Hot Freight Stocks To Own For 2014: National Western Life Insurance Company(NWLI)
National Western Life Insurance Company provides life insurance products for the savings and protection needs of policyholders and annuity contracts for the asset accumulation and retirement needs of contract holders. Its life products include universal life insurance and interest-sensitive whole life, as well as traditional products, such as term insurance coverage; and annuity products comprise flexible premium and single premium deferred annuities, fixed indexed annuities, and single premium immediate annuities. The company markets and distributes its insurance products primarily through independent national marketing organizations to residents of various countries in central and South America, the Caribbean, the Pacific Rim, eastern Europe, and Asia. It also engages in small real estate, nursing home, and other investment operations. The company was founded in 1956 and is based in Austin, Texas.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By David Merkel]
The two stocks in question are Stancorp Financial (SFG) and National Western Life Insurance (NWLI). The short cases for both are based on a naive view of how insurance companies work.
- [By Brian Pacampara]
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, life insurance company National Western Life Insurance Company (NASDAQ: NWLI ) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.
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CorVel Corporation provides medical cost containment and managed care services to manage the medical costs of worker?s compensation and auto claims in the United States. It offers network solutions, including bill review, PPO management, professional review, reimbursement, pharmacy, directed care, and clearinghouse services, as well as medicare solutions. The company also provides patient management services comprising claims management, case management, nurse triage, utilization management, vocational rehabilitation, life care planning, disability management, liability claims management, and auto claims management. It provides its services to insurance companies, third-party administrators, employers, and government agencies. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in Irvine, California.
Hot Freight Stocks To Own For 2014: Two Harbors Investment Corp (TWO)
Two Harbors Investment Corp. (Two Harbors), incorporated on May 21, 2009, operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company is focused on investing in, financing and managing residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), residential mortgage loans, residential real properties, and other financial assets. The Company focuses on security selection and implements a relative value investment approach across various sectors within the residential mortgage market. Its target assets include Agency RMBS, Non-Agency RMBS, residential mortgage loans, residential real properties and other financial assets comprising approximately 5% to 10% of the portfolio. The Company has designated certain of its subsidiaries as taxable REIT subsidiaries (TRSs). Capitol Acquisition Corp. (Capitol) is a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Two Harbors. The Company is externally managed and advised by PRCM Advisers LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pine River Capital Management L.P. (Pine River).
The Company invests primarily in mortgage pass-through certificates, collateralized mortgage obligations and other residential mortgage-backed securities representing interests in or obligations backed by pools of mortgage loans issued by Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), and Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA) (collectively GSEs). The Company also invests in residential mortgage-backed securities that are not issued by the GSEs (non-Agency RMBS) and United States Treasuries. At December 31, 2011, the Company had total assets of approximately $8.1 billion, of which $6.2 billion, or 77.1%, represented its RMBS portfolio. At December 31, 2011, $5.1 billion, or 80.9%, of its RMBS portfolio was comprised of Agency RMBS, $0.9 billion, or 14.9%, of its RMBS portfolio was comprised of senior non-Agency RMBS, and the remaining $0.2 billion, or 4.2%, was comprised of other non-Agency RMBS. The remaining $1.9 billion of assets consisted p! rimarily of United States Treasuries classified as trading instruments, cash, restricted cash, mortgage loans held-for-sale, receivables, derivative assets and prepaid assets.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Amanda Alix]
Blood immediately began to flow in the mREIT sector, with Annaly Capital (NYSE: NLY ) dropping by 2.77%, while fellow agency player Armour Residential (NYSE: ARR ) fell by 3.30%. Despite staying high on the day it announced a dividend cut, American Capital Agency (NASDAQ: AGNC ) took a plunge, too, registering a share price loss of 3.55% by the close of trading. Even hybrid Two Harbors (NYSE: TWO ) suffered a sizable dent in its share price, experiencing a plunge of 3.23%.
- [By Amanda Alix]
While these companies are still heavily involved, there is also a new presence on the scene: the single-family home REIT. Last December, mortgage REIT Two Harbors (NYSE: TWO ) spun off Silver Bay Realty (NYSE: SBY ) after selling its stable of 3,100 homes to Silver Bay prior to its initial public offering. Around the same time, Altisource Residential�was also born, spun off from Altisource Portfolio Solutions (NASDAQ: ASPS ) .
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Hot Freight Stocks To Own For 2014: IceWEB Inc (IWEB)
IceWEB, Inc. (IceWEB), incorporated in 1994, manufacture and market unified data storage, purpose built appliances, network and cloud attached storage solutions and deliver on-line cloud computing application services. The Company�� customer base includes the United States government agencies, enterprise companies, and small to medium sized businesses (SMB). The Company has three product offerings: Iceweb Unified Data Network Storage line of products, Purpose Built Network/Data Appliances and Cloud Computing Products/Services. In October 2013, IceWEB Inc completed its acquisition of Computers and Tele-Comm, Inc. and KC-NAP, LLC of Kansas City (collectively CTC).
IceWEB Unified Data Storage line of products
IceWEB is a provider of Unified Data Storage solutions. Its storage systems make it possible to operate and manage files and applications from a single device and consolidate file-based and block-based access in a single storage platform, which supports Fibre Channel SAN, IP-based SAN (iSCSI), and NAS (network attached storage). A unified storage system simultaneously enables storage of file data and handles the block-based I/O (input/output) of enterprise applications. One advantage of unified storage is reduced hardware requirements. The IceWEB Storage System is an all-inclusive storage management system, which includes de-duplication; unlimited snapshots; thin provisioning; local or remote, real-time or scheduled replication; capacity and utilization reporting, and integration with virtual server environments.
Purpose Built Network and Data Appliances
Purpose Built Network and Data Appliances are devices, which provide computing resources (processors and memory), data storage, and specific software for a specific application. The primary appliance products that IceWEB has built have been centered on a single large business partner, ESRI Corporation. IceWEB and ESRI have collaborated to create ultra-high performance IceWEB/ESRI GIS systems tha! t allow customers to access data with speed. ESRI Corporation takes responsibility for marketing to their customers and business partners, via their worldwide sales and consultancy organization.
Cloud Computing Products and Services
Cloud computing products and services consist of cloud computing services and cloud storage appliances. IceWEB provides IceMAIL, a packaged software service that provides network hosted groupware, e-mail, calendaring and collaboration functionality. Online services were expanded to include IcePORTAL, which provides customers with a complete Intranet portal and IceSECURE a hosted e-mail encryption service. Originally such hosted services were referred to as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Such services, hosted across the Internet are commonly referred to as Cloud Computing. A cloud storage appliance is a purpose built storage device configured for either branch office or central site deployment, which allows the housing and delivery of customer data across not only their internal networking infrastructure, but also to make that data available to employees or business partners securely via the Internet (often called the cloud).
The Company competes with EMC, Network Appliance, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Hitachi Data Systems, IBM, Compellent Technologies and Isilon.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Bryan Murphy]
So far the brewing recovery effort from IceWEB, Inc. (OTCBB:IWEB) has remained off most traders' radars. That may be about to change, however. That's why you may want to go ahead and take a speculative plunge on IWEB now, on faith that the clues we're seeing now will indeed end up as they're suggesting.
Hot Freight Stocks To Own For 2014: Wynnstay Properties(WSP.L)
Wynnstay Properties plc engages in the investment, development, and management of properties in the United Kingdom. It owns and manages office, retail, warehouse, and industrial properties in southern England. The company was incorporated in 1886 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.
Hot Freight Stocks To Own For 2014: Super Group Ltd. (S10.SI)
Super Group Ltd, an investment holding company, engages in manufacture and distribution of beverages and food products. Its products include instant coffee mixes, soluble coffee powder, instant cereal, instant soymilk, instant tea-mixes, instant cup noodles, canned drinks, and non-dairy creamers. It also manufactures and distributes botanical herbal extracts; and provides vending machine services. Super Group Ltd offers its products under the brand names of Super, Caf茅 Nova, Super Power, Owl, Y茅 Y茅, Coffee King, Gold Eagle, Negresco, Eagle King, Superkids�, and Liang Bao primarily in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, and the People�s Republic of China. The company, formerly known as Super Coffeemix Manufacturing Ltd, was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Singapore.
Hot Freight Stocks To Own For 2014: Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.(VNDA)
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the development and commercialization of products for the treatment of central nervous system disorders. Its lead product includes Fanapt for the acute treatment of schizophrenia in adults. The company is also developing Tasimelteon, an orphan medicinal product for the treatment of sleep and mood disorders, including non-24 hour sleep/wake disorder in blind individuals without light perception. It also intends to initiate a Phase IIb/III clinical trial of tasimelteon in patients with major depressive disorder; and conduct additional clinical trials to support the use of tasimelteon as a circadian regulator. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By C.R. Jackson]
On April 18, 2013, Vanda Pharmaceuticals (VNDA) stock reached a 52-week high. Why?
Until recently, many investors had given up on the Washington, DC-based pharmaceutical company. The reason was Fanapt (iloperidone), an atypical antipsychotic for the treatment of schizophrenia, that not only had a rocky regulatory history, but was a big dud at the sales counter.
- [By Roberto Pedone]
Another biotechnology player that looks poised to trigger a big breakout trade is Vanda Pharmaceuticals (VNDA), which is focused on the development and commercialization of clinical-stage drug candidates for central nervous system disorders. This stock has been on fire so far in 2013, with shares up a whopping 258%.
If you take a look at the chart for Vanda Pharmaceuticals, you'll notice that this stock has recently broke out above some near-term overhead resistance levels at $12.34 to $12.66 a share with solid upside volume. So far, this breakout has held and now shares of VNDA are quickly moving within range of triggering an even bigger breakout trade.
Traders should now look for long-biased trades in VNDA if it manages to break out above its 52-week high at $13.30 a share with high volume. Look for a sustained move or close above that level with volume that hits near or above its three-month average action 908,467 shares. If that breakout hits soon, then VNDA will set up to enter new 52-week-high territory, which is bullish technical price action. Some possible upside targets off that breakout are $15 to $17 a share.
Traders can look to buy VNDA off any weakness to anticipate that breakout and simply use a stop that sits right below some near-term support at $12 a share. One could also buy VNDA off strength once it takes out $13.30 a share with volume and then simply use a stop that sits a comfortable percentage from your entry point.
- [By Nathalie Tadena]
Among the companies with shares expected to actively trade in Friday’s session are Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.(VNDA), Kimberly-Clark(KMB) and Cell Therapeutics(CTIC).
- [By Paul Ausick]
Stocks on the Move: Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: VNDA) is up 95.8% at $13.29 on FDA recommendation for approval of its sleep drug for the blind. Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ: SRPT) is down 64.3% at $13.05 following an FDA rejection of the company�� bid to fast-track muscular dystrophy drug. U.S. Airways Group Inc. (NYSE: LCC) is up 1.1% at $23.53 after reaching an agreement with the Department of Justice that will let the company go ahead with its American Airlines merger.
Hot Freight Stocks To Own For 2014: Cohen & Steers Quality Income Realty Fund Inc(RQI)
Cohen & Steers Quality Income Realty Fund Inc. is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed Cohen & Steers Capital Management, Inc. It invests in the public equity markets of the United States. The fund seeks to invest in growth stocks of companies operating in real estate sector. It employs fundamental analysis focusing on underlying potential for success in light of the company?s current financial condition, its industry and sector position, economic and market condition, earnings growth, current ratio of debt to capital and the quality of its management. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the S&P 500 index and the FTSE NAREIT Equity REIT index. It was previously known as Cohen & Steers Income Realty Fund Inc. Cohen & Steers Quality Income Realty Fund Inc was formed on August 22, 2001 and is domiciled in the United States.
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Mesoblast Limited engages in the development and commercialization of biologic products for the field of regenerative medicine. Its lead products target cardiovascular conditions, diabetes, inflammatory conditions of lungs and joints, eye diseases, bone marrow cancers, bone fractures, cartilage degeneration, and musculoskeletal conditions. The company has a strategic alliance with Cephalon Inc. to develop and commercialize its adult stem cell therapeutics for degenerative conditions of the cardiovascular and central nervous systems; and Lonza Group for the production of its off-the-shelf adult stem cell products. Mesoblast Limited was founded in 2004 and is based in Melbourne, Australia.
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Solar Capital Ltd. is a business development company specializing in investments in leveraged companies, including middle market companies. The firm invests in aerospace and defense; automotive; beverage, food and tobacco; broadcasting and entertainment; business services; cable television; cargo transport; chemicals, plastics and rubber; consumer finance; consumer services; containers, packaging and glass; direct marketing; distribution; diversified/conglomerate manufacturing; diversified/conglomerate services; education; electronics; energy, utilities; equipment rental; farming and agriculture; finance; healthcare, education and childcare; home and office furnishing, consumer products; hotels, motels, inns and gaming; industrial; infrastructure; insurance; leisure, motion pictures and entertainment; logistics; machinery; media; mining, steel and non precious metals; oil and gas; personal, food and miscellaneous services; printing, publishing and broadcasting; real estate ; retail stores; specialty finance; technology; telecommunications; and utilities. It invests in the form of senior secured loans, mezzanine loans, and equity securities. It also invests in equity securities, such as preferred stock, common stock, warrants and other equity interests received in connection with its debt investments or through direct investments. The firm also invests in United States government securities, high-quality debt investments that mature in one year or less, high-yield bonds, distressed debt, non-United States investments, or securities of public companies that are not thinly traded. Solar Capital Ltd. was founded in November 2007 and is based in New York, New York.
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