Top 10 High Tech Companies To Invest In 2014

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- There has been a new way for global aircraft to take flight, with Kenny Dichter, founder and CEO of Wheels Up, and Thomas Flohr, founder and CEO of VistaJet.

Flohr has built a long-range network over Europe, Asia, and Africa, and as the two chief executive officers told TheStreet's Jill Malandrino, the service is now making its way into the United States.

Flohr said the U.S. has the largest market in the world, with 10,000 jets, compared with 8,000 in the rest of the world.

Although it's typically a complex task, renting a luxury airliner has become somewhat easy. With just a three-page contract, clients pay hourly to use the jet service, with a 100-hour minimum over a three-year span, Flohr said. He added that there is an unprecedented demand for global transportation and that many U.S. corporations already use this service overseas. VistaJet uses only new aircrafts, which are still covered by the manufacturer's guarantee. The executives concluded that they should sell out about 5,000-hours within three to four months with 40 to 50 clients and have plans for similar sales, if not more, in 2014. The current arrangement allows for further expansion, with more jets. -- Written by Bret Kenwell in Petoskey, Mich. Follow @BretKenwell

Top 10 High Tech Companies To Invest In 2014: Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation(GLDD)

Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation engages in the business of marine construction, primarily dredging, and commercial and industrial demolition primarily in the east, west, and Gulf Coasts of the United States. The company?s Dredging segment is involved in capital dredging projects consisting of primarily port expansion projects, land reclamations, trench digging for pipelines, tunnels and cables, and other dredging related to the construction of breakwaters, jetties, and canals; beach nourishment projects, which involve moving sand from the ocean floor to shoreline locations; and maintenance dredging that includes the re-dredging of previously deepened waterways and harbors to remove silt, sand, and other accumulated sediments, as well as lake and river dredging, inland levee and construction dredging, environmental restoration, and habitat improvement. Its Demolition segment provides commercial and industrial demolition services. It is involved in exterior demolition that comprises dismantling and demolition of structures and foundations; and interior demolition, which includes removing specific structures within a building. This segment also engages in site development, removal of asbestos and other hazardous materials, and remediation of contaminated demolition materials. The company serves federal, state, and local governments; foreign governments; domestic and foreign private concerns, such as utilities and oil companies; general contractors; corporations that commission projects; nonprofit institutions, such as universities and hospitals; and local government and municipal agencies. It has a fleet of 33 dredges, including 8 deployed internationally; 19 material transportation barges; 2 drill boats; and various other specialized support vessels. The company was formerly known as Lydon & Drews Partnership and changed its name to Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corporation in 1905. The company was founded in 1809 and is headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Seth Jayson]

  There's no foolproof way to know the future for Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (Nasdaq: GLDD  ) or any other company. However, certain clues may help you see potential stumbles before they happen -- and before your stock craters as a result.

• [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 Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (Nasdaq: GLDD  ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.

• [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 Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (Nasdaq: GLDD  ) .

Top 10 High Tech Companies To Invest In 2014: Kearny Financial(KRNY)

Kearny Financial Corp. operates as a holding company for Kearny Federal Savings Bank that provides various financial services in New Jersey. The company offers various deposit products, including general deposits, interest-bearing and non-interest bearing checking accounts, money market deposit accounts, savings accounts, and certificates of deposits. It also provides various loans comprising one-to-four family mortgage loans; multi-family and nonresidential real estate mortgage loans; commercial business loans; home equity loans; home equity lines of credit; loans secured by savings accounts and certificates of deposit on deposit with the bank; construction loans to builders/developers and individual homeowners; and overdraft lines of credit, as well as offers vehicle loans and personal loans. In addition, the company sells insurance products, such as annuities to bank customers and the general public through a third party networking arrangement. As of June 30, 2011, it o perated 40 branch offices in Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Union, and Monmouth Counties of New Jersey. The company was founded in 1884 and is headquartered in Fairfield, New Jersey. Kearny Financial Corp. is a subsidiary of Kearny MHC.

Top 10 Blue Chip Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Cibt Education Group Inc (MBA.TO)

CIBT Education Group Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an educational, investment, marketing, and management organization worldwide. It provides a range of education programs and training courses in the areas of business management, hotel management, office management, and career training and publishing. The company also offers English language training courses, including English as a second language, teachers of English to speakers of other languages, public speaking, and various forms of English language test preparation. It operates education programs and services business through its college subsidiaries, which comprise Sprott-Shaw Community College, Sprott-Shaw Degree College, and King George International College in Canada; and CIBT School of Business and Beihai International College in China. The company owns and operates a network of business, technical, and language colleges; and has co-operative joint programs in 18 countries. In addition, it provides g raphic design and advertising services in Hong Kong, Canada, and the United States. The company was formerly known as Capital Alliance Group Inc. and changed its name to CIBT Education Group Inc. in November 2007. CIBT Education Group Inc. is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Top 10 High Tech Companies To Invest In 2014: Guidance Software Inc.(GUID)

Guidance Software, Inc. provides digital investigative solutions to government agencies and corporations primarily in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia/the Pacific Rim. It offers EnCase platform for organizations to search, collect, and analyze electronically stored information to address human resources matters, litigation matters, allegations of fraud, suspicious network endpoint activity, and defend their data assets. The company?s EnCase Enterprise software provides visibility into laptops, desktops, and file servers to conduct internal investigations and determine the root cause of suspicious network activity; and EnCase eDiscovery solution to automatically perform search, collection, preservation, and processing of electronically stored information from unstructured and semi-structured data stores. Its EnCase Cybersecurity forensic solution to expose, triage, and remediate threats, and to enforce data policy compliance on endpoints; EnCase Fore nsic computer investigation solution allows examiners to acquire data from various devices and unearth potential evidence, and craft reports on their findings; and EnCase Portable solution allows forensic professionals and non-experts to triage and collect digital evidence forensically. The company also offers hardware products, including write blockers, forensic duplicators, and storage devices; professional services, such as eDiscovery, network security incident response, civil/criminal digital investigation, and implementation services; and packaged services. It serves various industries, such as financial and insurance services, technology, defense contracting, telecom, pharmaceutical, healthcare, manufacturing, and retail. The company sells its software products and services primarily through its direct sales force; and hardware products principally through resellers. Guidance Software, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Pasadena, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [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 Guidance Software (Nasdaq: GUID  ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.

Top 10 High Tech Companies To Invest In 2014: Tag Pacific Ltd (TAG.AX)

Tag Pacific Limited is an investor. The Company segments include: power investments, which consists of MPower Group Pty Limited, MPower Business Services Pty Ltd, MPower Products Pty Ltd, MPower Pacific Ltd, MPower Projects Pty Ltd, MPower Solar Systems Pty Ltd and MPower Nominees Pty, and other investments, which consists of principally of its investments in the Power Property Unit Trust. Power investments segment is a provider of power solutions for use in emergency, back-up, generated and renewable power situations in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. In August 2012, it announced that its power systems subsidiary MPower Projects Pty Limited acquired certain assets of the business, Direct Engineering Services Marine and Offshore. On February 29, 2012, it terminated its Comprador Pacific Unit Trust. Its investment in Unique World Group Pty Limited was sold on December 2, 2011. Its investment in iSoft Group Limited was sold on July 18, 2011.

Top 10 High Tech Companies To Invest In 2014: Swingplane Ventures Inc (SWVI)

Swingplane Ventures, Inc., incorporated on June 21, 2010, is engaged in the production of Algarrobo Property. The Algarrobo Property (Property) is located approximately 850 kilometers north of Santiago, in the III Region, Province of Chanaral, Chile. The city of Copiapo is located approximately 43 kilometers to the southeast of the property, with the small port city of Caldera 25 kilometers to the east.

The Property consists of 32 tenures, consisting a total of 6,161 hectares, east of the port city of Caldera. Within these old mines, copper, as copper oxides, were mined to an approximate depth of 120 meters, transitioning to copper sulfide ores mined to greater depth (which is 450 meters in the Viuda Mine).

Top 10 High Tech Companies To Invest In 2014: Apricus Biosciences Inc(APRI)

Apricus Biosciences, Inc. engages in the design and development of pharmaceutical products and product candidates based on its patented NexACT drug delivery technology. The NexACT drug delivery technology is designed to enhance the delivery of an active drug to improve therapeutic outcomes and reduce systemic side effects that accompany existing oral and injectable medications. The company?s pipeline includes Vitaros, approved in Canada for the treatment of erectile dysfunction; and Totect approved in the U.S. for the treatment of anthracycline extravasation, as well as compounds in development from pre-clinical through pre-registration, focused on sexual dysfunction, oncology, dermatology, autoimmune, pain, anti-infectives, diabetes, and consumer healthcare. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Jon C. Ogg]

  Apricus Biosciences Inc. (NASDAQ: APRI) was initiated with a Hold rating and a $2 price target at Cantor Fitzgerald. Be advised that $2 is almost 10% under the prior close of $2.18, against a 52-week range of $1.89 to $3.49.

• [By Eric Volkman]

  Apricus Biosciences (NASDAQ: APRI  ) is hoping to widen its capital base significantly. The company is floating a mix of common stock and warrants that it hopes will raise net proceeds of nearly $16 million. Six million shares will be sold in an underwritten public offering at $2.85 apiece, and 3 million warrants will be issued separately at an exercise price of $3.40 per share.�

Top 10 High Tech Companies To Invest In 2014: Urodynamix Technologies Ltd. (URO.V)

Venturi Ventures Inc. focuses on exploiting its Advanced Verification of Integration Dose technology. The company sublicensed its technology for further development and marketing. It also seeks new business opportunities. The company was formerly known as Urodynamix Technologies Ltd. and changed its name to Venturi Ventures Inc. in August 2011. Venturi Ventures Inc. is headquartered in North Vancouver, Canada.

Top 10 High Tech Companies To Invest In 2014: Anheuser-Busch InBev (BUD)

Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, incorporated on August 2, 1977, is a brewing company. The Company produces, markets, distributes and sells a balanced portfolio of approximately 200 beer brands. These include global flagship brands Budweiser, Stella Artois and Beck��; multi-country brands, such as Leffe and Hoegaarden, and many local champions, such as Bud Light, Skol, Brahma, Quilmes, Michelob, Harbin, Sedrin, Klinskoye, Sibirskaya Korona, Chernigivske and Jupiler. The Company also produces and distributes soft drinks, particularly in Latin America. The Company operates in seven segments: North America, Latin America North, Latin America South, Western Europe, Central & Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific and Global Export & Holding Companies. On October 20, 2010, Companhia de Bebidas das Americas-AmBev (AmBev) and Cerveceria Regional S.A. closed a transaction pursuant, to which they combined their businesses in Venezuela, with Regional owning an 85% interest and AmBev owning the remaining 15% in the new company. On February 28, 2011, the Company closed a transaction with Dalian Daxue Group Co., Ltd and Kirin (China) Investment Co., Ltd to acquire a 100% equity interest in Liaoning Dalian Daxue Brewery Co., Ltd. The Company�� beer portfolio is divided into global, multi-country and local brands. Beer can be differentiated into the categories, such as premium brands; mainstream or core brands, and value, discount or sub-premium brands. The Company also has a presence in the soft drink market in Latin America through its subsidiary AmBev and in the United States through Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. (Anheuser-Busch). Soft drinks include both carbonated soft and non-carbonated soft drinks. Its soft drinks business includes both its own production and agreements with PepsiCo related to bottling and distribution. The brands that are distributed under these agreements are Pepsi, 7UP and Gatorade. AmBev has long-term agreements with PepsiCo whereby AmBev has the exclusive right to bottle, sell and distribute certain brands of PepsiCo�� portfolio of carbonated soft drinks in Brazil. In the United States, Anheuser-Busch also produces non-alcoholic malt beverage products, including O��oul�� and O��oul�� Amber, energy drinks and related products. In the United States, its indirect subsidiary, Metal Container Corporation, manufactures beverage cans at eight plants and beverage can lids at three plants for sale to its Anheuser-Busch beer operations and United States soft drink customers. Anheuser-Busch also owns a recycling business, which buys and sells used beverage containers and recycles aluminum and plastic containers; a manufacturer of crown liner materials for sale to its North American beer operations, and a glass manufacturing plant which manufactures glass bottles for use by its North American beer operations. Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Nicholas Ward]

  InBev (BUD) signaled on my radar after complications with the Department of Justice who had anti-trust concerns over InBev's plans to merge with Grupo Modelo. BUD's stock had been flying high, showing a strong upward trend and this news and the market's response (a nearly 10% fall in stock price) gave me an opportunity to buy into the classic American alcohol manufacturer. Since this purchase on January, 31 2013 at $87.06/share the stock has steadily regained and surpassed its pre-injunction price point due to meetings with the DOJ, Grupo Modelo and Constellation Brands (STZ) and the belief that a merger agreement could be reached. I thought that this was another example of an irrational sell off and happened to be correct (thus far at least).

• [By Eric Volkman]

  For beer drinkers weary of imbibing from the traditional aluminum cylinder, Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD  ) has introduced an alternative. Starting next month, the company will offer its signature brew Budweiser in a bowtie-shaped can. The new configuration will be available in special eight-packs in the popular beer's U.S. retail outlets starting on May 6.

• [By Alex Planes]

  Two of the world's largest brewers agreed to become Anheuser-Busch InBev (NYSE: BUD  ) on July 13, 2008 in a $52 billion deal, bringing an occasionally acrimonious month-long takeover battle to a close. The drama had started in mid-June, when InBev -- which had become the world's largest brewer when it was created in a megamerger four years earlier -- made a $46 billion offer to buy Anheuser-Busch. This unsolicited offer was rebuffed two weeks later, and InBev began legal wrangling and shareholder cajoling to tilt the deal to its side. In the end, raising the all-cash offer to $70 a share from the previous level of $65 was enough to bring everyone to the table to get the deal done.

Top 10 High Tech Companies To Invest In 2014: RXi Pharmaceuticals Corp (RXII.PK)

RXi Pharmaceuticals Corporation (RXi), incorporated on September 8, 2011, is a development-stage company. The Company is a biotechnology company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing therapies addressing medical needs using RNA interference (RNAi)-targeted technologies. As of July 12, 2012, RXi was focusing on its internal therapeutic development efforts in fibrosis. RXI-109 is its RNAi product candidate, which is a dermal anti-scarring therapy that targets connective tissue growth factor (CTGF). The Company�� therapeutic platform consists of two main components: RNAi Compounds (rxRNA) and Advanced Delivery Technologies. RNAi compounds include rxRNAori, rxRNAsolo and sd-rxRNA, or self-delivering RNA. On April 26, 2012, it completed the spin-off transaction from Galena Biopharma, Inc. (Galena).

In January 2011, the Company announced research results in collaboration with Generex Biotechnology Corporation, and RXi�� wholly owned subsidia ry Antigen Express, Inc., in developing vaccine formulations for immunotherapy. In January 2011, it announced initial results as part of its collaboration with miRagen Therapeutics, Inc. in creating microRNA mimics, or artificial copies of microRNAs, using the Company�� sd-rxRNA technology. In February 2011, it announced the initiation of RXi�� development program for RXI-109.