Insurance

June 07, 2013

Buy ($175)

Topics covered: Low Profitability and Low Interest Rates, Emerging Market Expansion, Consolidation Trends, Commercial Line Brokers and Underwriters, Commercial & Reinsurance Subsectors, Analysis Of Personal

Companies covered: Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. (NASDAQ:AGII), The Travelers Companies, Inc. (NYSE:TRV), Employers Holdings Inc (NYSE:EIG), Ace Limited (NYSE:ACE), Willis Group Holdings Limited (NYSE:WSH), Stewart Information Services Corporation (NYSE:STC), Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE:FNF), First American Corporation (The) (NYSE:FAF), Brown & Brown, Inc. (NYSE:BRO), Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. (NYSE:AJG), Arch Capital Group Ltd. (NASDAQ:ACGL), Protective Life Corp., XL Group plc (NYSE:XL), Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE:PRU), Progressive Corporation (The) (NYSE:PGR), MetLife, Inc. (NYSE:MET), Lincoln National Corporation (NYSE:LNC), Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (The) (NYSE:HIG), American International Group, Inc. (NYSE:AIG), Allied World Assurance Company Holdings, AG (NYSE:AWH)

Deep Value Investing

June 07, 2013

Buy ($175)

Topics covered: Value Oriented Strategy, Value Investing, Large-Cap, High-Quality Companies, Exposure to Emerging Markets, Deep-Value, Cyclical Sectors, Bottom-Up Stock Selection

Companies covered: Walter Investment Management Corp. (NYSE:WAC), Ocwen Financial Corporation (NYSE:OCN), Nationstar Mortgage Holdings Inc. (NYSE:NSM), Molex Inc., ABM Industries Incorporated (NYSE:ABM), Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU), Kinross Gold Corporation (NYSE:KGC), HP Inc (NYSE:HPQ), BP p.l.c. (NYSE:BP), Yamana Gold Inc. (NYSE:AUY), Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:GOLD)

Business and Application Software

June 07, 2013

Buy ($175)

Topics covered: SaaS and PaaS, Cloud Computing and SaaS Trends, Cloud Computing, Application Software Consolidation Activity

Companies covered: Callidus Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:CALD), Alteva (D/B/A) (AMEX:ALTV), Catamaran Corporation (NASDAQ:CTRX), Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:TYPE), Dot Hill Systems Corporation (NASDAQ:HILL), ACI Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:ACIW), Total System Services, Inc. (NYSE:TSS), Jack Henry & Associates, Inc. (NASDAQ:JKHY), Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. (NYSE:HPY), Global Payments Inc. (NYSE:GPN), Fiserv, Inc. (NYSE:FI), Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (NYSE:FIS), The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:ULTI), Toyota Motor Corp Ltd Ord (NYSE:TM), SAP SE (NYSE:SAP), Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), Netsuite Inc (NYSE:N), Coca-Cola Company (The) (NYSE:KO), International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM), General Motors Company (NYSE:GM), Salesforce.com Inc (NYSE:CRM), Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS), Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ:CHKP), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), Vmware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ:SYMC), Synchronoss Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNCR), Nuance Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:NUAN), NICE Limited (NASDAQ:NICE), j2 Global, Inc. (NASDAQ:JCOM), Sourcefire, Inc., EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC)

Semiconductors

May 24, 2013

Buy ($175)

Topics covered: Semiconductor Inventory Burnoff, Semiconductor Capital Equipment Spending, Semiconductor Capital Equipment, New Computing Platform Demand, Mobile Device Consumer Demand, Improvement from Cyclical Bottom, Cloud Computing

Companies covered: Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM), Avago Technologies Limited (NASDAQ:AVGO), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADI), Altera Corporation (NASDAQ:ALTR), Texas Instruments Incorporated (NASDAQ:TXN), SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA), Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU), Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (NASDAQ:MRVL), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), China Mobile (Hong Kong) Ltd. (NYSE:CHL), Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ:ATML), Netlist, Inc. (NASDAQ:NLST), LSI Corporation, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (NYSE:SMI), Microchip Technology Incorporated (NASDAQ:MCHP), Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (NASDAQ:TSEM), Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX), Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ:MXIM), Linear Technology Corporation (NASDAQ:LLTC), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE:VZ), AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), Semtech Corporation (NASDAQ:SMTC), Sprint Corporation (NYSE:S), ON Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:ON), Mindspeed Technologies Inc., Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:MPWR), Diodes Incorporated (NASDAQ:DIOD), TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc., International Rectifier Corpor, STMicroelectronics N.V. (NYSE:STM), Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:LSCC), Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. (NASDAQ:FCS), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (NYSE:TSM), Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc. (NYSE:ASX), Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO), ARM Holdings plc (NASDAQ:ARM), QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), HJ Heinz Co., Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:CY), Volterra Semiconductor Corpora, Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ:SLAB), Intersil Corporation (NASDAQ:ISIL), Hittite Microwave Corporation, Exar Corporation (NYSE:EXAR), Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:SWKS), RF Micro Devices Inc., Microsemi Corporation (NASDAQ:MSCC), Cree, Inc. (NASDAQ:CREE), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), JDS Uniphase Corporation (NASDAQ:JDSU), Finisar Corporation (NASDAQ:FNSR), ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML), Applied Materials, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMAT), Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. (NASDAQ:NVMI), Nanometrics Incorporated (NASDAQ:NANO), Lam Research Corporation (NASDAQ:LRCX), KLA-Tencor Corporation (NASDAQ:KLAC)

Multicap Value Investing

May 24, 2013

Buy ($175)

Topics covered: Value Investing, Large-Cap Investing, Investing in Financial Services, High-Quality Companies, Bottom-Up Investing, All-Cap Growth Investing

Companies covered: Newmont Corporation (NYSE:NEM), Caterpillar, Inc. (NYSE:CAT), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Ultra Petroleum Corp. (NYSE:UPL), Tecumseh Products Company, Sears Holdings Corporation (OTCMKTS:SHLDQ), Transocean Ltd. (NYSE:RIG), Merck & Company, Inc. (NYSE:MRK), J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (OTCMKTS:JCPNQ), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), Ameris Bancorp (NASDAQ:ABCB), SCBT Financial Corp., J P Morgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM), First Financial Holdings Inc., Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C), TE Connectivity Ltd. (NYSE:TEL), Molex Inc., Bank of America Corporation (NYSE:BAC), Amphenol Corporation (NYSE:APH), Aetna Inc. (NYSE:AET), Fidelity National Financial, Inc. (NYSE:FNF), First American Corporation (The) (NYSE:FAF), MetLife, Inc. (NYSE:MET), Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (The) (NYSE:HIG), Genworth Financial Inc (NYSE:GNW)

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