Both GM and Honda have more than 1,200 fuel cell patents between them, filed between 2002 and 2012, and experimental vehicle fleets. They are the top two companies in terms of total fuel cell patents according to the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index.
Both companies aim to develop the vehicles by 2020. The alliance will bring down their costs in building this expensive technology by sharing each other�� expertise and suppliers.
Why Fuel Cell Vehicles?
The U.S. mandate requires corporate average fuel economy of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2020 and there is no better competent than fuel cell vehicles. Why? Fuel cells have highly fuel-efficient technology compared to gasoline and electric batteries. Secondly, it has a longer driving range (up to 400 miles) than electric cars but pollutes less than gasoline vehicles.
Top Clean Energy Companies To Invest In Right Now: Hardy Underwriting Group(HDU.L)
Hardy Underwriting Bermuda Limited, through its subsidiaries, engages in underwriting insurance and reinsurance products worldwide. It underwrites aviation, marine, and a range of non-marine risks on reinsurance and direct basis. The company underwrites airlines, space, and general aviation risks; marine risks specializing in fishing vessels, harbor craft, and loss of hire; and cargo and specie risks covering the transportation and storage of various products and commodities. It also insures jewellers block and fine art, as well as writes for small motor account specializing in classic cars and other niche areas. In addition, the company underwrites the reinsurance of property risks on a proportional and non-proportional basis; and non-marine property risks. Further, it underwrites a range of accounts comprising financial institutions, terrorism, political risks, conveyancing, and accident and health, as well as traditional medical products, kidnap and ransom, and PA catas trophe treaty. The company was founded in 1975 and is based in Hamilton, Bermuda.
Top Clean Energy Companies To Invest In Right Now: Ks Energy Limited (578.SI)
KS Energy Limited provides integrated oilfield supplies and services to oil and gas, marine, and petrochemical industries worldwide. The company engages in trading and dealing in hydraulic products, instrumentation, and equipment, including industrial materials, general hardware, welding and cutting equipment and related products, welding consumables, machinery, marine-related products, metal ware, valves, industrial products, spare parts, and corrosion-resistant alloy pipeline components. It is also involved in the engineering design, project management, procurement, and supply of custom-built system equipment for the marine, offshore oil and gas, petrochemical, refinery, and power generation industries; trade of tools and equipment for the marine, oil, and gas industries; and rigging and testing of wire ropes. In addition, it provides marine-related services and ship handling services, as well as testing and certification services for related marine, offshore, and constr uction products; and builds ships and tankers. Further, the company engages in the fabrication and sale of wire ropes; repair and supply of turbo chargers; engineering, manufacture, and distribution of welding automation and industrial equipment, systems, and industrial engineering products; development of business prospects in the onshore/offshore/marine industries and management of accommodation-platforms/rigs; chartering of vessels; provision of transportation and forwarding services; ownership and leasing of equipment, and provision of services to the oil and gas industry; ownership and leasing of jack up rigs; and provision of oilfield support and consultancy, rig rental, and rig management and support services to the oil and gas industry. KS Energy Limited was founded in 1974 and is based in Singapore. As of August 3, 2011, KS Energy Limited operates as a subsidiary of Pacific One Energy Limited.
Top 10 Dividend Companies To Buy For 2014: Intel Corporation(INTC)
Intel Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of integrated circuits for computing and communications industries worldwide. It offers microprocessor products used in notebooks, netbooks, desktops, servers, workstations, storage products, embedded applications, communications products, consumer electronics devices, and handhelds. The company also provides system on chip products that integrate its core processing functionalities with other system components, such as graphics, audio, and video, onto a single chip. In addition, it offers chipset products that send data between the microprocessor and input, display, and storage devices, including keyboard, mouse, monitor, hard drive, and CD, DVD, or Blu-ray drives; motherboards designed for desktop, server, and workstation platforms, and that has connectors for attaching devices to the bus; and wired and wireless connectivity products consisting of network adapters and embedded wireless cards used to translate and transmit data across networks. Further, the company provides NAND flash memory products primarily used in portable memory storage devices, digital camera memory cards, and solid-state drives; software products comprising operating systems, middleware, and tools used to develop, run, and manage various enterprise, consumer, embedded, and handheld devices; and software development tools that enable the creation of applications. Additionally, it develops computing platforms, which are integrated hardware and software computing technologies designed to offer an optimized solution. The company sells its products principally to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, PC components and other products users, and other manufacturers of industrial and communications equipment. It has a strategic alliance with Scientific Conservation Inc. Intel Corporation was founded in 1968 and is based in Santa Clara, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Steve Heller]
Last week, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) announced that its revenue declined by 5.1% year over year in its second quarter, which translated to net income decline of 29%. But what got investors spooked was that Chipzilla lowered its full-year revenue outlook, which it now expects will remain flat compared to last year. As you can imagine, Intel is in a similar predicament as Microsoft, but instead of licenses, its processor business is expected to face revenue pressure as it enters the tablet and lower end computing segment with its upcoming Bay Trail processor. Consequently, Intel's profitability will be lower on a per unit and total dollar basis even with constant profit margins.
- [By John Maxfield]
In the latter case, one is left to conclude that it's the beneficiary of more fundamental economic trends. In Portland, for instance, both Nike (NYSE: NKE ) and Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) have major headquarters. And both are in the process of expanding their Oregon-based operations. Nike is in the process of building 500,000 square feet of office space in the area and hiring 500 new employees. And at the end of last year, it was reported that Intel will add 3.6 million square feet of new construction to one of its manufacturing campuses there.
- [By Dan Caplinger]
Tech companies Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ ) both ended in the green. For Intel, CEO Brian Krzanich met with reporters to discuss the company's strategic vision, with guidance both on mobile and Internet-based television initiatives. By emphasizing the importance of its Atom processor for smartphones and tablets, Intel is trying to make its mark after finally getting a high-profile place for another of its chips in Samsung's Galaxy Tab line of tablets. How Krzanich does in his opening months leading Intel could define the direction the stock moves for the foreseeable future.
- [By Wall Street Sector Selector]
So does "Big Ben" trump everything? Apparently so, as the S&P 500 repeatedly sets new record highs. What has kept stocks flying? NOT QUARTERLY Earnings as the list below clearly demonstrates:
United Parcel Service (UPS) – On July 12, the company announced that it was lowering its profit forecast for the year and that it expects to report earnings of $1.13 per share on July 23. Although analysts were expecting annual EPS to reach $4.98, the company lowered its guidance to a range between $4.65 and $4.85.Yahoo (YHOO) – Although Yahoo's earnings of 35 cents per share beat estimates of 30 cents per share, the company fell short at the top line, reporting quarterly revenue of $1.07 billion, compared with estimates of $1.8 billion.Google – Google reported quarterly earnings of $9.56 per share on net revenue of $11.1 billion, falling short of estimates of $10.80 per share on net revenue of $11.4 billion.Intel (INTC) – Intel reported quarterly EPS of 39 cents on revenue of $12.8 billion, missing estimates of 40 cents per share on revenue of $12.9 billion.Coca-Cola (KO) – Coke reported quarterly EPS of 59 cents on revenue of $12.75 billion, compared with estimates of 63 cents per share on $12.96 billion in revenue.American Micro Devices – AMD reported a "less bad than expected" quarterly loss of 9 cents per share on revenue of $1.16 billion, beating estimates of a 12-cent-per-share loss on revenue of $1.11 billionMicrosoft – Microsoft reported quarterly EPS of 59 cents on revenue of $19.9 billion, missing estimates of 75 cents per share on revenue of $20.73 billion.IBM: Big Blue reported quarterly EPS of $3.91 on revenue of $24.9 billion. Although it beat the EPS estimate of $3.77, it missed the revenue estimate of $25.37 billion.FedEx (FDX) – FedEx beat quarterly EPS estimates of $1.96, reporting earnings of $2.13 per share. However, its quarterly revenue of $11.45 billion fell short of the estima
Top Clean Energy Companies To Invest In Right Now: Gentiva Health Services Inc.(GTIV)
Gentiva Health Services, Inc. provides home health services and hospice care in the United States. The company offers skilled nursing and therapy services, paraprofessional nursing services, and homemaker services primarily to adult and elderly patients through licensed and Medicare-certified agencies. It also provides its services through specialty programs comprising Gentiva Orthopedics, which offers individualized home orthopedic rehabilitation services to patients recovering from joint replacement or other major orthopedic surgery; Gentiva Safe Strides that provides therapies for patients with balance issues; and Gentiva Cardiopulmonary, which helps patients and their physicians manage heart and lung health in a home-based environment. In addition, the company offers services through Gentiva Neurorehabilitation, which helps patients who have experienced a neurological injury or condition by removing the obstacles to healing in the patient?s home; Gentiva Senior Health that addresses the needs of patients with age-related diseases and issues; and Rehab Without Walls unit, which provides neurorehabilitation therapies for patients with traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular accident injury, and acquired brain injury. Further, it offers consulting services to home health agencies, which include operational support, billing and collection activities, and on-site agency support and consulting. Additionally, the company provides hospice services primarily in the patient?s home or other residence, such as an assisted living residence or nursing home, as well as in a hospital. Gentiva Health Services, Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Sean Williams]
What: Shares of home health providers Amedisys (NASDAQ: AMED ) , Gentiva Health Services (NASDAQ: GTIV ) , and�LHC Group (NASDAQ: LHCG ) �swooned as much as 28%, 20%, and 15%, respectively, following a public proposal by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, late yesterday that in-home health care reimbursements be cut by 1.5% in 2014.
Top Clean Energy Companies To Invest In Right Now: Rudolph Technologies Inc.(RTEC)
Rudolph Technologies, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells process control defect inspection, metrology, and process control software systems to microelectronics device manufacturers. The company provides yield management solutions for use in wafer processing and final manufacturing through a range of standalone systems for macro-defect inspection, test systems, and transparent and opaque thin film measurements. It also offers a range of process control software solutions for semiconductor, solar, and LED manufacturing. It provides products for various applications in the areas of macro-defect detection and classification, diffusion, etch, lithography, CVD, PVD, and CMP. The company sells its products and solutions to logic, memory, data storage, and application-specific integrated circuit device manufacturers. It sells its products in the United States, Taiwan, China, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, and Europe. The company was founded in 1940 and is based in Fla nders, New Jersey.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Ben Axler]
In the table below, we've listed a sample of small-cap semiconductor capital equipment stocks such as Entegris (ENTG), Advanced Energy Industries (AEIS), ATMI Inc. (ATMI), MKS Instruments (MKSI), Photronics Inc. (PLAB), Rudolph Technologies (RTEC),FormFactor (FORM) and Mattson Technology (MTSN). The peers trade at approximately 1.0x and 15.5x 2014E revenues and EPS, respectively. Furthermore, the average peer trades at 2.1x tangible book value. However, these multiples are based on average 2014E industry revenue and earnings growth of 18% and 119%, respectively. Axcelis is poised to grow at a rate substantially above the industry average.
- [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 Rudolph Technologies (Nasdaq: RTEC ) .
- [By John Emerson]
Orbotech (ORBK) and Rudolph Technologies (RTEC) Sizable Net-Nets in the AOI Sector
As noted previously, I rode the elevator up and then back down on Camtek (CAMT), a tiny Israeli automated optical inspection (AOI) company. By late 2008 the company had fallen to below $1 per share. Both of Camtek�� larger rivals, RTEC and ORBK, had dropped to absurdly low levels by November 2008. I used the opportunity to switch out of CAMT and some of my other losing propositions in favor of these superior companies. In the process, I created a large amount of tax loss carry-forwards which would allow me to minimize my future taxation when I decided to sell these cyclical entities.
Top Clean Energy Companies To Invest In Right Now: Fossil Inc.(FOSL)
Fossil, Inc. designs, develops, markets, and distributes fashion accessories worldwide. It offers a line of fashion watches under its proprietary brands, such as FOSSIL, MICHELE, RELIC, and ZODIAC; and through licensed brands, including ADIDAS, BURBERRY, DIESEL, DKNY, EMPORIO ARMANI, MARC BY MARC JACOBS, and MICHAEL KORS. The company designs, markets, and arranges for the manufacture of watches and accessories on behalf of certain mass market retailers, companies, and organizations as private label products or as premium and incentive items for use in various corporate events. It also provides various fashion accessories for men and women, including handbags, belts, small leather goods, jewelry, and sunglasses through company owned retail stores, department stores, and specialty retail stores, as well as over the Internet and through catalogs. In addition, the company sells a line of soft accessories, such as hats, gloves, and scarves, as well as a handbag collection. Furt her, it offers apparel comprising jeans, outerwear, fashion tops and bottoms, and tee shirts for men and women through company-owned stores, as well as over the Internet and through catalogs. Additionally, the company provides footwear products, including sport court sneakers, authentic casuals, dress classics, and boots for men, as well as fashionable flats, heels, wedges, and boots for women. Fossil, Inc., through a license agreement with the Safilo Group, manufactures, markets, and sells optical frames under the FOSSIL and RELIC brand names in the United States and Canada. As of August 9, 2011, it had approximately 360 company-owned and operated retail stores. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Richardson, Texas.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Sean Williams]
The most obvious selection in the space is Fossil (NASDAQ: FOSL ) , which makes an array of electronic movement watches typically in the $40-$125 range. This reasonable range was a perfect trigger point for consumers who wanted to make a fashion statement with an easily recognizable brand name without causing them financial distress with the price tag.
- [By Andrew Marder]
I can't remember exactly where designer watches come in Maslow's hierarchy of needs, but I'm sure they're in there somewhere. That might explain how Fossil (NASDAQ: FOSL ) has managed to make such a strong and extended run. The stock is up 12% this year, and 50% over the last 12 months. All that growth has pushed Fossil's P/E to 18, but it's still substantially cheaper than many of the luxury brands it mingles with.
- [By Jeremy Bowman]
What: Shares of Fossil (NASDAQ: FOSL ) were ticking higher today, climbing as much as 10% after a strong earnings report.
So what: The watch-and-accessories maker saw earnings jump 24%, up to $1.21 per share, cruising past estimates of just $0.97 a share. Revenue rose 15.5% to $680.9 million, also well ahead of expectations of just $651.9 million. Third-party sales growth was strong in all regions, jumping at least 13% in North America, Europe, and Asia. Direct sales through the company's own stores and websites, which bring in a higher margin, were up 22.7%. Fossil's outlook for the current quarter, however, was below analyst projections. �
- [By Andrew Marder]
In addition to its normal line of fashion, Burch has recently entered into an agreement with Fossil (NASDAQ: FOSL ) for the sale of Burch-branded watches. Fossil is the maker behind Kors timepieces, and the company has said that the high-end designers are both big drivers of future growth. Basically, I see Burch as a way to re-create the magic of Kors -- and that hasn't been a bad thing.
Top Clean Energy Companies To Invest In Right Now: Rugby Mining Limited(RUG.V)
Rugby Mining Limited engages in the identification, acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral resource properties. The company primarily explores for porphyry gold-copper, silver, and iron ores. It has options to acquire a 90% interest in the Hawkwood project located in Queensland, Australia; an 80% interest in the Mabuhay project situated in the Philippines; a 60% interest in the Comita project located in the western cordillera of Colombia; and a 100% interest in the Interceptor project situated in Catamarca Province, Argentina. The company was formerly known as Carlyle Mining Corp. and changed its name to Rugby Mining Limited in March 2009. Rugby Mining Limited is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Top Clean Energy Companies To Invest In Right Now: Liuyang Fireworks Limited (FWK.V)
Liuyang Fireworks Limited engages in the development, manufacture, and distribution of fireworks and related products in the People's Republic of China and internationally. The company is based in Liuyang City, the People's Republic of China.
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