Hiring is one of the toughest parts of running a business. And this is a problem I often hear about.
Most likely you start by interviewing an applicant. But there's a limit to what you can learn from a first impression. Most likely the person you will be interviewing is wearing his "interview personality" for that day. Chances are they did a bit of research on your company and showed up prepared to impress you and tell you things that they think you want to hear. So, it's OK to interview a person more than once.
10 Best Managed Healthcare Stocks To Buy For 2014: MakeMyTrip Limited(MMYT)
MakeMyTrip Limited, an online travel company, provides travel products and solutions in India and the United States. Its products and services include air tickets, hotels, packages, rail tickets, bus tickets, car hire, and ancillary travel requirements, such as travel insurance and visa processing. The company, through its Website, makemytrip.com, allow travelers to research, plan, and book a range of travel services and products in India and internationally. MakeMyTrip Limited also provides its products and services through other technology-enhanced distribution channels, such as call centers, travel stores, and travel agents? network. Its customers comprise leisure travelers and small businesses. The company was formerly known as International Web Travel Private Limited and changed its name to MakeMyTrip Limited in April 2010. MakeMyTrip Limited was founded in 2000 and is based in Gurgaon, India.
10 Best Managed Healthcare Stocks To Buy For 2014: Heijmans NV (HEIJM)
Heijmans NV is a Netherlands-based engineering and construction company that provides solutions ranging from concept and design to maintenance and management. It divides its activities into five divisions: Property Development, Residential Building, Non-Residential Building, Technical Services, and Roads and Civil. The Property Development division focuses on the development of projects, as well as develops and sells housing. The Residential Building division includes new build developments, as well as the reconstruction and renovation of housing. The Non-residential Building division is engaged in the reconstruction and renovation of schools, care institutions, airports and offices. The Technical Services activity is operated by the subsidiary Burgers Ergon BV. This company develops and maintains electrical engineering and mechanical systems. The Roads and Civil division�� activities involve designing and maintaining infrastructure above and below the ground.Top Financial Companies To Watch In Right Now: West Mountain Cap Corp (WMT.V)
West Mountain Capital Corp., through its subsidiary, Phase Separation Solutions, Inc., provides soil remediation services in North America. It uses Thermal Phase Separation Technology for the treatment of contaminated soil, sludge, and solid wastes impacted with chlorinated hydrocarbons, such as PCB�s, dioxins, furans, and pesticides. The company is based in St. John�s, Canada.
10 Best Managed Healthcare Stocks To Buy For 2014: Evolving Systems Inc.(EVOL)
Evolving Systems, Inc. provides software solutions and services to the wireless, wireline, and Internet protocol (IP) cable markets. It offers Dynamic SIM Allocation solution that offers carriers a way to provide wireless services by activating and assigning resources to the wireless device when it is first used; and Tertio, a service activation solution for carriers to activate a new subscriber or to add a new service to an existing subscriber, as well as provides an operating environment to manage their voice, data, and content service needs for their IP networks. The company?s LNP and WNP software solutions comprise OrderPath order entry; NumberManager network provisioning; LNP DataServer data warehousing; VeriPort NPAC testing; and Verify product suite for monitoring carriers? application communications. In addition, the company provides billing mediation products, which include Evident that supports convergent voice, data, and content services, and enables the managem ent of data, allowing reconciliation of data inputs and outputs. Further, it offers network mediation products, including Mediation Central that supports a range of technologies that carriers deploy in their network, and provides support for wireline, broadband, transport, and wireless networks; and Traffic Data Management System, a product for wireline carriers to collect usage data from their circuit switch networks. The company also provides various professional and integration services for the design, customization, integration, and deployment of its products. It operates primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, Indonesia, Greece, and Canada. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.
10 Best Managed Healthcare Stocks To Buy For 2014: Galena International Resources (GTO.V)
Galena International Resources Ltd., an exploration stage company, engages in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties. It holds a 100% interest in the Chaves geothermal project, a geothermal exploration concession that covers an area of 201 square kilometers in Chaves, Portugal. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.
10 Best Managed Healthcare Stocks To Buy For 2014: AK Steel Holding Corp (AKS)
AK Steel Holding Corporation (AK Holding), incorporated on December 20, 1993, is an integrated producer of flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steels and tubular products through its wholly-owned subsidiary, AK Steel Corporation (AK Steel and, together with AK Holding, the Company). The Company�� operations consist primarily of nine steelmaking and finishing plants and tubular production facilities located in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The Company�� operations produce flat-rolled value-added carbon steels, including coated, cold-rolled and hot-rolled carbon steel products, and specialty stainless and electrical steels that are sold in sheet and strip form, as well as carbon and stainless steel that is finished into welded steel tubing. In addition, the Company�� operations include European trading companies that buy and sell steel and steel products and other materials, AK Coal Resources, Inc. (AK Coal), which controls and is developing metallurgical coal reserves in Pennsylvania, and a 49.9% equity interest in Magnetation LLC (Magnetation), a joint venture that produces iron ore concentrate from previously-mined ore reserves.
The Company�� flat-rolled carbon steel products are sold primarily to automotive manufacturers and to customers in the infrastructure and manufacturing market. The infrastructure and manufacturing market includes electrical transmission, heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment, and appliances. The Company also sells coated, cold-rolled, and hot-rolled carbon steel products to distributors, service centers and converters who may further process these products prior to reselling them. The Company sells its stainless steel products to manufacturers and their suppliers in the automotive industry, to manufacturers of food handling, chemical processing, pollution control, medical and health equipment, and to distributors and service centers.
The Company sells its electrical steel products in the infrastructure and m! anufacturing market. These products are sold primarily to manufacturers of power transmission and distribution transformers, both for new and replacement installation. The principal driver in the demand for new transformers is housing starts, while the demand for replacement transformers is driven more by age and obsolescence. The Company also sells electrical steel products for use in the manufacture of electrical motors and generators.
The Company owns its research building located in Middletown, Ohio. Steelmaking, finishing and tubing operations are conducted at nine facilities located in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania. All of these facilities are owned by the Company, either directly or through wholly-owned subsidiaries.
Ashland Works is located in Ashland, Kentucky, and consists of a blast furnace, basic oxygen furnaces and continuous caster for the production of carbon steel. A coating line at Ashland also helps to complete the finishing operation of material processed at the Middletown plant.Butler Works is situated in Butler, Pennsylvania, and produces stainless, electrical and carbon steel. Melting takes place in a new, electric arc furnace that feeds an argon-oxygen decarburization unit for the specialty steels. A new ladle metallurgy furnace feeds two double-strand continuous casters. The Butler Works also includes a hot rolling mill, annealing and pickling units and two fully automated tandem cold rolling mills. It also has various intermediate and finishing operations for both stainless and electrical steels.
Coshocton Works is located in Coshocton, Ohio, and consists of a stainless steel finishing plant containing two Sendzimer mills and two Z-high mills for cold reduction, four annealing and pickling lines, nine bell annealing furnaces, four hydrogen annealing furnaces, two bright annealing lines and other processing equipment, including temper rolling, slitting and packaging facilities.Mansfield Works is located in Mansfield, Ohio, and pro! duces sta! inless steel. Operations include a melt shop with two electric arc furnaces, an argon-oxygen decarburization unit, a thin-slab continuous caster and a six-stand hot rolling mill.
Middletown Works is located in Middletown, Ohio, and consists of a coke facility, blast furnace, basic oxygen furnaces and continuous caster for the production of carbon steel. Also located at the Middletown site are a hot rolling mill, cold rolling mill, two pickling lines, four annealing facilities, two temper mills and three coating lines for finishing the product.Rockport Works is located near Rockport, Indiana, and consists of a continuous cold rolling mill, a continuous hot-dip galvanizing and galvannealing line, a continuous carbon and stainless steel pickling line, a continuous stainless steel annealing and pickling line, hydrogen annealing facilities and a temper mill.
Zanesville Works is located in Zanesville, Ohio, and consists of a finishing plant for some of the stainless and electrical steel produced at Butler Works and Mansfield Works and has a Sendzimer cold rolling mill, annealing and pickling lines, high temperature box anneal and other decarburization and coating units.AK Tube LLC (AK Tube), a Company subsidiary, has a plant in Walbridge, Ohio, which operates six electric resistance weld tube mills and a slitter. AK Tube also has a plant in Columbus, Indiana, which operates eight electric resistance weld and two laser weld tube mills.
The Company�� operations consist primarily of nine steelmaking and finishing plants and tubular production facilities located in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The Company sells its carbon products principally to domestic customers. The Company�� electrical and stainless steel products are sold both domestically and internationally. The Company also produces carbon and stainless steel that is finished into welded steel tubing used in the automotive, truck, industrial and construction markets.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Dan Caplinger]
Nucor has already given investors a flavor of what's coming in its report, as it gave early guidance last month that was well below what analysts had hoped to see. The company usually sees a seasonal uptick in the first quarter as construction season starts, but this year, attempts among many steel companies to boost prices led to restrained demand even though those attempts proved largely unsuccessful. Nucor's guidance was consistent with what AK Steel (NYSE: AKS ) said a week later, as it expected steel shipments to fall by 7%-10% compared to the fourth quarter.
10 Best Managed Healthcare Stocks To Buy For 2014: Northern Shield Resources Inc. (NRN.V)
Northern Shield Resources Inc., a junior mining company, engages in the identification, acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in Canada. The company primarily explores for platinum group elements and associated base-metals, including nickel, chromium, vanadium, copper, zinc, silver, and gold. Its principal properties include the Highbank Lake property that consists of 111 claims covering an area of 252 square kilometers in northern Ontario; the Wabassi property, which includes 146 claims covering an area of 351 square kilometers in north-western Ontario; the Max property that comprises 30 claims covering an area of 98 square kilometers in northwestern Ontario; and Storm property, which comprises 93 claims covering an area of 236 square kilometers. The company�s principal properties also include Lac d�Argent property that covers an area of 29 square kilometers in Quebec; and Idefix property, which covers an area of 13.6 square kilometers in Quebe c. Northern Shield Resources Inc. was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.
10 Best Managed Healthcare Stocks To Buy For 2014: Sparton Corporation(SPA)
Sparton Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, offers electronic manufacturing services primarily for medical device, defense and security systems, and electronic manufacturing services industries worldwide. The company?s Medical segment engages in the contract development, design, production, and distribution of medical related electromechanical devices for the medical OEM and ET customers primarily in the vitro diagnostic and therapeutic device areas. Its EMS segment involves in the contract manufacturing, assembly, design, preproduction, prototyping, and/or box building assemblies, such as flight control systems and fuel control systems for the aerospace, medical diagnostics systems, security systems, detection systems, lighting, and defense. The company?s DSS segment engages in the design, development, and production of electromechanical equipment, such as sonobuoys, an anti-submarine warfare device used by the United States Navy and foreign governments; and perf orms an engineering development function for the United States military and prime defense contractors on advanced technologies for defense products, and replacement of current systems. It also offers non-sonobuoy related manufacturing and services. Sparton Corporation was founded in 1900 and is headquartered in Schaumburg, Illinois.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Emma O��rien]
Futures (SPA) on the Standard & Poor�� 500 Index fell and the yen climbed against the dollar as U.S. lawmakers continued to scrap over raising the debt limit and the government shutdown. Crude oil declined while gold rallied.
- [By Jasmine Ng]
Futures (SPA) on the Standard & Poor�� 500 Index lost 0.3 percent today. The U.S. equities benchmark index dropped 0.3 percent yesterday amid data that showed manufacturing unexpectedly climbed last month and retail spending fell on the weekend after Thanksgiving for the first time since 2009.
- [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 Sparton (NYSE: SPA ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.
10 Best Managed Healthcare Stocks To Buy For 2014: Dialogic Inc.(DLGC)
Dialogic, Inc. provides communications platforms and technology that enable service providers to build Internet protocol (IP) or packet based networks worldwide. It offers IP and IP-enabled products consisting of call control infrastructure and multimedia processing infrastructure products and platforms. The call control infrastructure products comprise next generation network switching, signaling, and signaling transport solutions. The multimedia processing infrastructure solutions consist of multimedia processing server platforms, session border controllers, voice and video gateways, and bandwidth optimized gateways. The company also provides time division multiplexing (TDM) components, such as an array of traditional network and/or media processing boards that range from two-port analog interface boards to octal span T1/E1 media and network interface boards. These products connect to and interact with an enterprise or service provider based circuit switched network, and support a suite of media processing features, including echo cancellation, dual tone multi frequency detection, voice play and record, conferencing, fax, modem, speech integration, and monitoring. Dialogic, Inc. also offers signaling and signaling system number 7 (SS7) components in the form of standards-based boards, and software and 1U platforms that are designed for interface to SS7 and asynchronous transfer mode networks. The company?s products enable service providers to transport, convert, and manage data and voice traffic over both TDM and IP networks while enabling voice over Internet protocol and other multimedia services. It sells its products through direct sale force to service providers, technology equipment manufacturers, and independent software vendors (ISVs), as well as through distributors to ISVs, value added resellers, and systems integrators. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, California.
10 Best Managed Healthcare Stocks To Buy For 2014: Vimicro International Corporation(VIMC)
Vimicro International Corporation, through its subsidiaries, designs, develops, and markets mixed-signal semiconductor products and system-level solutions for the consumer electronics, communications, and surveillance markets in Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong. It provides mixed-signal multimedia processors for personal computer and embedded notebook cameras, as well as for mobile phones. The company also offers system-level solutions that include integrated semiconductors, customizable firmware and software, software development tools, reference designs, and applications support. In addition, it provides security and surveillance products comprising video capturing, compression, transmission, storage, processing, display, and video analysis products. Further, the company involves in packaging, testing, and reselling third party image sensors. It sells its multimedia processor products through direct sales force and distributors to original design manuf acturers, original equipment manufacturers, design houses, and module manufacturers, as well as its security and surveillance products to government entities, telecommunications operators, schools, banks, railway companies, supermarkets, and theaters. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Beijing, the People?s Republic of China.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By John Udovich]
Small cap stocks Vimicro International Corporation (NASDAQ: VIMC), Cohu, Inc (NASDAQ: COHU) and View Systems Inc (OTCBB: VSYM) are also surveillance and security stocks because they�also offer products that can be used to keep an eye on us���for better or for worst. After all and go to any public space (whether its a shopping mall, entertainment venue or even a street corner), you will probably see (or maybe not see) some sort of security or surveillance equipment. With that in mind, here is a look at three small cap surveillance and security stocks you may have overlooked:
- [By John Udovich]
Small cap security and surveillance stocks OSI Systems, Inc (NASDAQ: OSIS), Vimicro International Corporation (NASDAQ: VIMC), Analogic Corporation (NASDAQ: ALOG), Lifelock Inc (NYSE: LOCK) and View Systems Inc (OTCBB: VSYM) have been producing a steady flow of news lately that investors might want to take a closer look at. After all, the whole security and surveillance industry is pretty vast as it would include everything from airport scanners to security cameras to software securing everyone�� personal or online data. With that in mind, here is a look at the latest news from important small cap security and surveillance stocks:
- [By John Udovich]
Small cap security and surveillance stocks like Vimicro International Corporation (NASDAQ: VIMC), TASER International, Inc (NASDAQ: TASR), Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc (NASDAQ: KTOS)�and View Systems Inc (OTCBB: VSYM) have been producing a steady stream of news lately for investors and traders alike to digest. After all, the entire�security and surveillance industry is pretty vast as it would include everything from airport scanners to security cameras or monitoring equipment to actual weapons for domestic or national defense to software securing everyone�� personal or online data to the technology groups like the NSA and other "Big Brother" agencies use to spy on us. With that in mind, here is a look at the latest news from important small cap security and surveillance stocks:
10 Best Managed Healthcare Stocks To Buy For 2014: Yankee Hat Minerals Ltd.(KHT.V)
Yankee Hat Minerals Ltd. engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of precious metal properties primarily in British Columbia and the Yukon, Canada. The company primarily explores for tungsten, rare earth element, gold, and copper. It holds interests in the Fran property located in the Omineca Mining District of British Columbia; the Kidlark, Lancer, and Selwyn properties located in Yukon Territory; and the Union property comprising 16 mineral claims located in the Greenwood mining division of British Columbia. The company was formerly known as Yankee Hat Industries Corp. and changed its name to Yankee Hat Minerals Ltd. in February 2005. Yankee Hat Minerals Ltd. is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
10 Best Managed Healthcare Stocks To Buy For 2014: royal dutch shell `b`shs(RDSB.L)
Royal Dutch Shell plc operates as an oil and gas company worldwide. The company explores for and extracts crude oil and natural gas. It also converts natural gas to liquids to provide cleaner-burning fuels; markets and trades natural gas; extracts bitumen from mined oil sands and convert it to synthetic crude oil; and generates electricity from wind energy. In addition, it converts crude oil into a range of refined products, including gasoline, diesel, heating oil, aviation fuel, marine fuel, lubricants, bitumen, sulphur, and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG); and produces and sells petrochemicals for industrial use. The company holds interests in approximately 30 refineries; approximately 1,500 storage tanks and 150 distribution facilities; and fuels retail network of approximately 43,000 service stations under the Shell brand name. Royal Dutch Shell plc also markets its products under the Shell V-Power and Shell FuelSave brand names. In addition, the company offers lubricant s to the passenger cars, trucks, and coaches, as well as for industrial machinery in manufacturing, mining, power generation, agriculture, and construction industries. Further, it sells fuels, specialty products, and services to commercial customers; offers fuel for approximately 7,000 aircraft every day at 800 airports in 30 countries; provides fuels, lubricants, and related technical services to the marine industry; offers liquefied petroleum gas and related services to retail, commercial, and industrial customers for cooking, heating, lighting, and transport applications; provides transport, industrial, and heating fuels; and supplies approximately 11,000 tonnes of bitumen products. Additionally, the company produces a range of base chemicals, including ethylene, propylene, and aromatics; and intermediate chemicals, such as styrene monomer, propylene oxide, solvents, detergent alcohols, ethylene oxide, and ethylene glycol. Royal Dutch Shell plc is headquartered in The Hag ue, the Netherlands.
10 Best Managed Healthcare Stocks To Buy For 2014: Alexandria Minerals Corporation (AZX.V)
Alexandria Minerals Corporation, a development stage company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral resource properties in Canada. It explores for copper, gold, silver, and zinc ore properties. The company holds interests in 24 mineral properties in 3 areas in the Abitibi Belt in northern Quebec and Ontario. It primarily focuses on exploring the Cadillac Break property group consisting of 21 individual properties covering 12,526 hectares on 675 claims located in Val d�Or, Quebec. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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