Large Cap Value

March 01, 2013

Buy ($175)

Topics covered: Value Investing, Long-Term Investing, Large-Cap Investing, Investment Strategies, High-Quality Companies, Global Investing, Bottom-Up Investing

Companies covered: Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX), Tootsie Roll Industries, Inc. (NYSE:TR), Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (The) (NYSE:SMG), Pfizer, Inc. (NYSE:PFE), Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Lennar Corporation (NYSE:LEN), Genuine Parts Company (NYSE:GPC), Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc (NYSE:DPS), Discovery Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:DISCA), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), Crown Media Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWN), Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ:SYMC), PPG Industries, Inc. (NYSE:PPG), Kohl's Corporation (NYSE:KSS), Honda Motor Company, Ltd. (NYSE:HMC), Coach, Inc. (NYSE:COH), Conagra Brands Inc. (NYSE:CAG), Home Depot, Inc. (The) (NYSE:HD), Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY), Denny's Corporation (NASDAQ:DENN), Apollo Education Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:APOL), Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (NASDAQ:MRVL), International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM), HP Inc (NYSE:HPQ), Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW), DeVry Education Group Inc. (NYSE:DV), Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C), Bank of America Corporation (NYSE:BAC), Walmart Inc. (NYSE:WMT), Molson Coors Brewing Company (NYSE:TAP), Hospira Inc (NYSE:HSP), Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST), Bank Of New York Mellon Corporation (The) (NYSE:BK), Allergan, Inc. (NYSE:AGN), Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT), Viewpoint Financial Group, Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE:VLO), Sunoco Logistics Partners LP (NYSE:SXL), Precision Castparts Corporation (NYSE:PCP), ENERGY TRANSFER PARTNERS (NYSE:ETP)

Oil & Gas: Drilling Equipment and Services

February 22, 2013

Buy ($175)

Topics covered: Shale Drilling Dynamics, Shale Drilling Capital Expenditures, Shale, Oil Price Expectations, Oil and Gas Price Divergence, Offshore Deepwater Oil Discoveries, Offshore and Deepwater Drilling, Frontier Exploration and Development, Capital Expenditures and Consolidation Activity

Companies covered: Weatherford International plc (NYSE:WFT), Schlumberger N.V. (NYSE:SLB), Rowan Companies plc (NYSE:RDC), Oceaneering International, Inc. (NYSE:OII), National Oilwell Varco, Inc. (NYSE:NOV), Noble Corporation (NYSE:NE), Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL), FMC Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:FTI), ENSCO plc (NYSE:ESV), Cameron International Corporation (NYSE:CAM), Baker Hughes (NYSE:BKR), Transocean Ltd. (NYSE:RIG), Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:PTEN), Nabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE:NBR), Lufkin Industries Inc., Helmerich & Payne, Inc. (NYSE:HP), Hercules Offshore, Inc. (NASDAQ:HERO), Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (OTCMKTS:DOFSQ), Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK), Atwood Oceanics, Inc. (NYSE:ATW), Hornbeck Offshore Services (NYSE:HOS), Petroleo Brasileiro S.A.- Petrobras (NYSE:PBR), Tidewater Inc. (NYSE:TDW), Key Energy Services, Inc. (NYSE:KEG), Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. (NYSE:HLX), GulfMark Offshore, Inc. (NYSE:GLF), General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), Cal Dive International Inc, Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), Superior Energy Services, Inc. (NYSE:SPN), Oil States International, Inc. (NYSE:OIS), Natural Gas Services Group, Inc. (NYSE:NGS), Basic Energy Services, Inc. (NYSE:BAS)

Investing Strategies

February 15, 2013

Buy ($175)

Topics covered: Value Investing, Longer-Term Investing, Long-Term Investing, Investment Strategies, Investing in Emerging Markets, High-Quality Companies, Global Investing, Emerging Market Growth Dynamics, Bottom-Up Investing, All-Cap Growth Investing

Companies covered: Procter & Gamble Company (The) (NYSE:PG), Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE:LOW), Home Depot, Inc. (The) (NYSE:HD), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), MetLife, Inc. (NYSE:MET), Herbalife LTD. (NYSE:HLF), Walmart Inc. (NYSE:WMT), Markel Corporation (NYSE:MKL), Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST), Brookfield Asset Management Inc (NYSE:BAM), Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM), Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE:VLO), QUALCOMM Incorporated (NASDAQ:QCOM), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), J P Morgan Chase & Co (NYSE:JPM), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The) (NYSE:GS), Enbridge Inc (NYSE:ENB), Boeing Company (The) (NYSE:BA), Sealy Corp., Tempur Sealy International, Inc. (NYSE:TPX), Caterpillar, Inc. (NYSE:CAT)

Alternative Energy

February 15, 2013

Buy ($175)

Topics covered: The Rise of the Energy Efficiency Market, Solar Growth Drivers and Headwinds, Solar Energy Pricing, Long-Term Opportunities in Emerging Markets, LED Adoption in Large-Scale Projects, Grid Parity Timelines for Alternative Energy, Government Subsidies and Regulation, Asia Pacific Demand for Solar Energy, Alternative Energy Generation

Companies covered: EMCORE Corporation (NASDAQ:EMKR), DayStar Technologies Inc., First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLR), EnerNOC, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENOC), Covanta Holding Corporation (NYSE:CVA), Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ:CSIQ), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), American Superconductor Corporation (NASDAQ:AMSC), Trina Solar Limited (NYSE:TSL), Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd, Siemens AG (OTCMKTS:SIEGY), Koninklijke Philips N.V. (NYSE:PHG), LDK Solar Co.Ltd., General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), Emerson Electric Company (NYSE:EMR), Cree, Inc. (NASDAQ:CREE), Colgate-Palmolive Company (NYSE:CL), Acuity Brands Inc (NYSE:AYI), Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:ASTI), Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (NASDAQ:CLNE), Broadwind Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ:BWEN)

Data Hosting Centers and Data Storage

February 08, 2013

Buy ($175)

Topics covered: PCIe Storage, Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing, Internet Infrastructure Build, Flash Memory, Data Hosting Centers, Data Center REITS, Data Center Expansion, Colocation, Cloud Computing Secular Trends, Cloud Computing and the Virtual Desktop, Big Data

Companies covered: Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:BRCD), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Vmware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T), QLogic Corporation (NASDAQ:QLGC), NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTAP), Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ:MLNX), International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM), HP Inc (NYSE:HPQ), EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), CommVault Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CVLT), Coherent, Inc. (NASDAQ:COHR), ASML Holding N.V. (NASDAQ:ASML), Western Digital Corporation (NASDAQ:WDC), Seagate Technology. (NASDAQ:STX), STEC, Inc., Synnex Corporation (NYSE:SNX), SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), Rofin-Sinar Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:RSTI), Newport Corporation (NASDAQ:NEWP), 3M Company (NYSE:MMM), Intevac, Inc. (NASDAQ:IVAC), IPG Photonics Corporation (NASDAQ:IPGP), Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC), Imation Corporation (NYSE:IMN), Hutchinson Technology Incorporated (NASDAQ:HTCH), Cymer Inc., Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ:CMCSA), Time Warner Cable Inc (NYSE:TWC), Internap Corporation (NASDAQ:INAP), Equinix, Inc. (NASDAQ:EQIX), DIRECTV (NASDAQ:DTV), Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR), DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ:DISH), Dupont Fabros Technology, Inc. (NYSE:DFT), CoreSite Realty Corporation (NYSE:COR), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), Molex Inc., Jabil Circuit, Inc. (NYSE:JBL), Amphenol Corporation (NYSE:APH), Tech Data Corporation (NASDAQ:TECD), Teradata Corporation (NYSE:TDC), Rackspace Hosting, Inc (NYSE:RAX), Plexus Corp. (NASDAQ:PLXS), Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL), Lexmark International, Inc. (NYSE:LXK), Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE:IM), Flextronics International Ltd. (NASDAQ:FLEX), Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW), Salesforce.com Inc (NYSE:CRM), Cincinnati Bell Inc (NYSE:CBB), Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CCOI), 8x8 Inc (NASDAQ:EGHT), Windstream Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:WIN), tw telecom inc., ShoreTel, Inc. (NASDAQ:SHOR), Premiere Global Services, Inc. (NYSE:PGI), Level 3 Communications, Inc. (NYSE:LVLT), EarthLink Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ:ELNK), Cbeyond, Inc.

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