Top 5 Cheap Companies For 2015: Whole Foods Market Inc.(WFM)
Whole Foods Market, Inc. engages in the ownership and operation of natural and organic food supermarkets. The company offers produce, seafood, grocery, meat and poultry, bakery, prepared foods and catering, coffee and tea, nutritional supplements, and vitamins. It also provides specialty products, such as beer, wine, and cheese; body care and educational products, such as books; and floral, pet, and household products. As of February 9, 2011, the company operated 302 stores in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Whole Foods Market, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Traders Reserve]
Shares of Whole Foods (WFM) were dumped en masse after earnings were released recently. The stock had no chance, being priced for perfection in an environment that was far from perfect.
- [By Adam J. Wiederman]
Getty Images Bloomberg recently reported that Oracle (ORCL) founder and CEO Larry Ellison saw an 18 percent drop in his pay during fiscal 2013 after he "gave up an annual bonus and the company missed some of its profit targets." This seems even more impressive, considering that Ellison collects a base salary of just $1. But if you dig a little deeper, you'll discover that his pay cut wasn't all that altruistic. You see, he still earned $78.4 million last year. Dissecting Ellison's Pay Stub The bulk of Ellison's pay comes in the form of stock options, which totaled $76.9 million when they were issued last year. Stock options are a common form of CEO compensation. When issued prudently, they can keep an executive's interests aligned with those of shareholders. But Ellison already has a vested interest in Oracle. He founded the company and still owns a hefty 25 percent of it -- a stake currently valued at $36.9 billion. The rest of Ellison's compensation comes via 401(k) contributions ($5,134), benefit plans such as life insurance and long-term disability ($6,122), legal counsel ($2,999), his family's use of aircraft ($85,894), and lastly, security-related costs (more than $1.5 million). Most of these perks are common for CEOs. But, taken together, Ellison's benefits are high -- especially considering his wealth. Ellison holds the title of the third-richest American, according to Forbes. And his name regularly appears near the top of "highest-paid CEOs"lists. Heck, he even owns a Hawaiian island. Needless to say, given Ellison's embarrassment of riches, the extra stock option grants seem excessive. When Enough Is Enough Having the financial priorities of management aligned with the performance of the company is certainly a trait investors like to see. But there is a point where adding any more zeroes to an already-wealthy CEO's paycheck is absurd. There are business leaders who, based on their more shareholder-friendly pay packages, recognize this. Li
Top 5 Cheap Companies For 2015: UnitedHealth Group Incorporated(UNH)
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated provides healthcare services in the United States. Its Health Benefits segment offers consumer-oriented health benefit plans and services to national employers, public sector employers, mid-sized employers, small businesses, and individuals; and non-employer based insurance options for purchase by individuals. It also provides health and well-being services for individuals aged 50 and older; and for services dealing with chronic disease and other specialized issues for older individuals, as well as health plans for the beneficiaries of acute and long-term care Medicaid plans. This segment offers its services through a network of 730,000 physicians and other health care professionals, and 5,300 hospitals. Its OptumHealth segment provides health, financial, and ancillary services and products that assist consumers through personalized health management solutions; benefit administration, and clinical and network management; health-based financi al services; behavioral solutions; and specialty benefits, such as dental, vision, life, critical illness, short-term disability, and stop-loss product offerings. The company?s Ingenix segment offers database and data management services, software products, publications, consulting and actuarial services, business process outsourcing services, and pharmaceutical data consulting and research services. Its Prescription Solutions segment provides integrated pharmacy benefit management services comprising retail network pharmacy contracting and management, claims processing, mail order pharmacy services, specialty pharmacy, benefit design consultation, rebate contracting and management, drug utilization review, formulary management programs, disease therapy management, and adherence programs to employer groups, union trusts, managed care organizations, Medicare-contracted plans, Medicaid plans, and third party administrators. The company was founded in 1974 and is based in Minne tonka, Minnesota.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By WALLSTCHEATSHEET]
UnitedHealth Group is a diversified healthcare company that is seeing increased attention as healthcare concerns take center stage. The stock has been steadily trending higher, and is now trading near all-time high prices. Over the last four quarters, earnings and revenue figures have been on the rise, but investors in the company expected a little more. Relative to its strong peers and sector, UnitedHealth Group has had an average year-to-date performance. Look for UnitedHealth Group to continue to OUTPERFORM.
- [By Daniel Jennings]
The White House was planning a massive Obamacare marketing effort with the help of unions and nonprofit groups. That effort has apparently been put on the backburner.
The Obamacare news didn't help UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH). Its share price fell by .017 percent in mid-day trading on Wednesday. Yet it seemed to help WellPoint (NYSE: WLP). The operator of the Anthem Blue Cross/Blue Shield plans saw its share price rise by .01% on Wednesday . A smaller operator of healthcare plans, Molina Healthcare (NYSE: MOH) saw its share price fall. - [By Ben Levisohn]
The Jones Industrials rose 0.6% to 16,064.77, a record high, while the S&P 500 gained 0.4% to 1.804.76, also an all-time high. Big Dow winners this week include JPMorgan Chase (JPM), which rose 4.7% this week after agreeing to a $13 billion settlement with the government, Chevron (CVX), which gained 3.3% to $124.03 after it suspended a North Sea oil project, and United Health Group (UNH), which advanced 2.6% to $73.74. In the S&P 500, Biogen Idec (BIIB) rose 17% to $285.62 after the European Union protected one of its drugs from competition and Tyson Foods (TSN), finished up 11% at $31.82 after reporting surprisingly good earnings.
Hot Recreation Stocks To Buy For 2015: Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc.(FCX)
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. engages in the exploration, mining, and production of mineral resources. The company primarily explores for copper, gold, molybdenum, silver, and cobalt. It holds interests in various properties, located in North and South America; the Grasberg minerals district in Indonesia; and the Tenke Fungurume minerals district in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As of December 31, 2010, the company?s consolidated recoverable proven and probable reserves totaled 120.5 billion pounds of copper, 35.5 million ounces of gold, 3.39 billion pounds of molybdenum, 325.0 million ounces of silver, and 0.75 billion pounds of cobalt. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Ben Levisohn]
They offer 40 stocks that meet the criteria, with the caveat that investors should “use this screen as a starting point for identifying stocks likely to reverse 2013 underperformance in 1Q 2014,” not as a blanket recommendation. Potential winners include such big names as Ford (F), Wal-Mart (WMT), Target (TGT), Abbott Laboratories (ABT) and Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX).
- [By Brian Pacampara]
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, global mining giant Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (NYSE: FCX ) has earned a respected four-star ranking.
- [By Matthew Smith]
Our bullishness of oil is well documented. The fact that we also like the NGL play in the shales should be no surprise either. These two facts are part of the reason we warmed up to Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) long-term when we did. Admittedly it was not a 'conviction buy' type of call, but we laid out the case for why we liked this diversified miner over other names and ironically the roadmap we laid out for the stock to follow is taking place. Yes, it is taking place much quicker than we anticipated but the fact of the matter is that oil and natural gas prices have remained steady as a whole and the next leg of copper and then gold seems to be taking place. The strength in copper prices has surprised us as we have watched the move over the past few weeks, but the economic data out of China has improved dramatically.
- [By Rich Smith]
This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on. Today, our headlines include new buy ratings for a pair of specialty retailers, Coach (NYSE: COH ) and Aeropostale (NYSE: ARO ) . Meanwhile in mining, Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX ) suffers a downgrade. Let's dive right in, beginning with why...
Top 5 Cheap Companies For 2015: Hewlett-Packard Company(HPQ)
Hewlett-Packard Company and its subsidiaries provide products, technologies, software, solutions, and services to individual consumers and small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), as well as to the government, health, and education sectors worldwide. Its Personal Systems Group segment offers commercial personal computers (PCs), consumer PCs, workstations, calculators and other related accessories, and software and services for the commercial and consumer markets. The company?s Services segment provides consulting, outsourcing, and technology services to infrastructure, applications, and business process domains. Its Imaging and Printing Group segment provides consumer and commercial printer hardware, supplies, media, and scanning devices, such as inkjet and Web solutions, laser jet and enterprise solutions, managed enterprise solutions, graphics solutions, and printer supplies. The company?s Enterprise Servers, Storage, and Networking segment offers industry standard s ervers, business critical systems, storage platforms, and networking products, including switches, routers, wireless LAN, and TippingPoint network security products. Its HP Software segment provides enterprise IT management software, information management solutions, and security intelligence/risk management solutions. The company?s HP Financial Services segment offers leasing, financing, utility programs, and asset recovery services; and financial asset management services for enterprise customers, as well as specialized financial services to SMBs, and educational and governmental entities. Hewlett-Packard Company also provides business intelligence solutions that enable businesses to standardize on consistent data management schemes, connect and share data across the enterprise, and apply analytics, as well as licenses its specific technology to third parties. The company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Victor Reklaitis]
The S&P 500 (SPX) �gained 4.48 points, or nearly 0.3%, to finish at 1,807.23, topping Friday�� record close. Hewlett Packard Co. (HPQ) � fared best among S&P 500 components, jumping 9% after its stronger-than-anticipated quarterly results late Tuesday
- [By Dan Caplinger]
Microsoft's poor showing rippled throughout the tech sector, as Dow component Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ ) also saw substantial losses that amounted to more than 4.5%. As much as HP would like to move away from its PC-heavy hardware business in light of Microsoft's poor showing, the turnaround story there will take a long time to play itself out. In the near term, the same pressures that have hit other PC-related stocks are likely to weigh on HP's results. Nevertheless, if you believe that the company's long-term strategy will be successful, then the already-known bad news from PC demand shouldn't affect your investing thesis, and lower prices should make the stock more attractive.
- [By Myra P. Saefong]
Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) reported fourth-quarter adjusted earnings of $1.01 per share on revenue of $29.1 billion. It was expected to earn $1 a share and revenue of $27.86 billion, according to FactSet estimates.
- [By Dan Carroll]
Finally, Hewlett-Packard is (NYSE: HPQ ) up 0.9% ahead of its quarterly earnings release, due after the closing bell today. Some have expressed optimism about HP's turnaround strategy, particularly as the company looks to diversify away from PC sales into mobile and other more profitable industries. However, personal computers remain a sizable portion of HP's business, and with PC shipments having fallen nearly 14% in the first quarter, don't expect HP's troubles to be over so soon. This stock may be up 70% over the past six months, but until HP's turnaround is complete, expect more challenges to arise.
Top 5 Cheap Companies For 2015: Cloud Peak Energy Inc(CLD)
Cloud Peak Energy Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in coal mining operations in the Powder River Basin of the United States. It produces sub-bituminous steam coal with low sulfur content for electric utilities and industrial customers. The company owns and operates Antelope surface coal mine located to the south of Gillette, Wyoming; the Cordero Rojo surface coal mine located to the south of Gillette, Wyoming; and the Spring Creek surface coal mine located in Montana. It also owns a 50% interest in the Decker surface coal mine located in Montana. As of December 31, 2010, it had approximately 970 million tons of proven and probable reserves. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Gillette, Wyoming.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Aaron Levitt]
Simply put, the coal stocks trio of Peabody Energy (BTU), Alpha Natural Resources (ANR) and Cloud Peak Energy (CLD) could be some of the biggest bargains out all energy stocks.
- [By Ben Levisohn]
Shares of Cloud Peak Energy (CLD) have fallen 3.3%, for instance, while Peabody Energy has dropped 12%, Alpha Natural Resources has plunged and Arch Coal (ACI) has plummeted. Consol Energy (CNX), which is as much a gas company as a coal miner, has gained.
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