2014 Top Stocks Market, Best Stocks Investment In 2014, Top Stocks For 2014: Good Stocks 2013

The political uproar from the debt-ceiling negotiations has resulted in high volatility and heavy selling in the past week. But despite the uncertainties, along with an economic slowdown in Europe and the United States, stocks are still confined to a trading range that began early this year.

But offsetting the uncertainties is the fact that with more than three-quarters of all companies reporting earnings, almost three-quarters of them have exceeded Q2 earnings estimates. Thus, it appears that the current trading range will be maintained. Patient investors should use the current pullback as an opportunity to acquire undervalued securities.

Here are your top stocks to buy for August:

Good Stocks 2013:Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation (SWHC)

Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation provides products and services for safety, security, protection, and sports in the United States and internationally. The company offers firearms, handguns, sporting rifles, hunting rifles, black powder firearms, handcuffs, and firearm-related products and accessories. It also provides turnkey perimeter security solutions to protect and control access to key military, government, and corporate facilities. The company?s perimeter security solutions include proprietary products, such as canopies and guard booths, signs and signals, intrusion detection systems and vehicle inspection systems, fencing and gates, and bollards and wedge barriers to reduced-risk and mobile barriers, as well as facility analysis, solution design, system engineering and installation, construction management, customer training, and system maintenance. In addition, it offers forging, heat treating, finishing, and plating services. Smith & Wesson sells its products to gun enthusiasts, collectors, hunters, sportsmen, competitive shooters, individuals desiring home and personal protection, law enforcement and security agencies and officers, and military agencies primarily through distributors, dealers, consumer promotions, and retailers. It also operates Websites; and a retail store, including a commercial shooting range, in Springfield, Massachusetts, as well as an online retail store for non-firearm accessories to market its products and services. The company was founded in 1852 and is based in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Good Stocks 2013:Cadence Design Systems Inc. (CDNS)

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. develops electronic design automation software and hardware for customers worldwide. Its products and services are used to design and develop integrated circuits (ICs), and electronics systems. The company?s Incisive functional verification platform enables customers to employ enterprise-level verification process automation, including metric-driven verification planning, process tracking, and management. Cadence Design Systems? Encounter digital IC design platform is used to create and convert logical representation of a digital IC into a detailed physical blueprint and then detailed design information for showing the physical implementation of IC. Its Virtuoso custom design platform is used for ICs designed at the transistor level, including analog, radio frequency, memory, digital blocks, and standard cell libraries. The company?s Allegro system interconnect design platform enables the user to design electronic products across the domains of ICs, IC packages, and PCBs; and includes the OrCAD product line that focuses on entry-level PCB solutions. Cadence Design Systems? design for manufacturing product group includes physical verification and analysis products, which are used to analyze and verify that the physical blueprint of the IC has been constructed correctly and can be manufactured. It also offers engineering and education services related to IC design and methodology. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

Good Stocks 2013:L&L Energy Inc. (LLEN)

L&L Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the coal mining, clean coal washing, coal coking, and coal wholesaling businesses in the People?s Republic of China. It involves in producing, processing, and selling metallurgical coke used primarily for steel manufacturing; and crushing coal and washing out soluble sulfur compounds with water or other solvents. The company has four coal mines comprising the DaPuAn, SuTsong, Ping Yi, and DaPing mines; three coal washing plants; one coking facility; and coal wholesale and distribution facilities. It also has a financial interest in the Bowie mine, a thermal coal mine located in Paonia, Colorado. The company provides its products to customers in the steel and the electrical/utility industries, as well as to cement factories. L&L Energy, Inc. sells its products directly and through third-party wholesalers. The company was formerly known as L & L International Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to L&L Energy, Inc. in January 2010. L&L Energy, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Good Stocks 2013:Citizens South Banking Corporation (CSBC)

Citizens South Banking Corporation operates as the holding company for Citizens South Bank that provides various commercial banking services to local customers in the United States. The company offers a range of retail products, commercial banking services, and mortgage lending services. It provides retail deposit products, such as checking, savings, negotiable order of withdrawal, and money market accounts, as well as time deposits and individual retirement accounts. The company also offers commercial analysis deposit accounts, business checking accounts, and repurchase agreements for business customers. In addition, it provides various consumer and commercial loans, including business, real estate, residential, and consumer loans. Further, the company offers consumer and business credit cards, debit cards, commercial letters of credit, and safe deposit box rentals, as well as electronic funds transfer services, including automated clearing house and wire transfers. Additionally, it provides online banking, remote deposit capture, cash management, bank-by-phone capabilities, and ATM services. The company also acts as a broker in the sale of uninsured financial products. As of March 31, 2011, it operated through 21 branch offices located in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. The company was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Gastonia, North Carolina.

Good Stocks 2013:Jarden Corporation (JAH)

Jarden Corporation manufactures, sources, markets, and distributes consumer products worldwide. Its Outdoor Solutions segment provides consumer lifestyle products, including camping and outdoor equipment, such as air beds, camping stoves, coolers, foldable furniture, gas grills, lanterns and flashlights, propane fuel, sleeping bags, tents, and water recreation products, such as boats, kayaks, and tow-behinds; fishing equipment; team sports equipment for baseball, softball, football, basketball, field hockey, and lacrosse products; skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing, and in-line skating products; water sports equipment, personal flotation devices, and all-terrain vehicle gears; and technical and outdoor apparel and equipment. The company?s Consumer Solutions segment offers clippers and trimmers; electric blankets, mattress pads, and throws; household kitchen appliances, such as blenders, coffeemakers, irons, mixers, slow cookers, toasters, toaster ovens, and vacuum packaging machines; personal care and wellness products, including air purifiers, fans, heaters, and humidifiers; hospitality products; and scales for consumer use. Its Branded Consumables segment provides household staples, including arts and crafts paint brushes, children?s card games, clothespins, collectible tins, cord, rope and twine, fencing, fire extinguishing products, firelogs and firestarters, home canning jars and accessories, kitchen matches, other craft items, plastic cutlery, playing cards and accessories, safes, security cameras, security doors, smoke and carbon monoxide alarms, storage organizers and workshop accessories, toothpicks, and window guards and accessories. Jarden Corporation offers its products through department, mass merchants, sporting goods and outdoor recreation, club, drug, grocery, home improvement, and craft stores, as well as through wholesalers, company-owned factory outlet stores, and the Internet. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Rye, New York.

Good Stocks 2013:Gorman-Rupp Company (The) (GRC)

The Gorman-Rupp Company designs, manufactures, and sells pumps and related fluid control products worldwide. It offers a line of pumps, including self priming centrifugal, standard centrifugal, magnetic drive centrifugal, axial and mixed flow, vertical turbine line shaft, submersible, high pressure booster, rotary gear, diaphragm, bellows, and oscillating pumps. The company?s larger pumps are sold principally for use in the construction, industrial, water, and wastewater handling fields; for boosting low residential water pressure; for pumping refined petroleum products, including the ground refueling of aircraft; for fluid control in heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) applications; for dewatering and flood control purposes; and for various agricultural uses. Its fire protection pumps have applications in sprinkler systems, fire hydrants, stand pipes, fog systems, and deluge systems at hotels, banks, factories, airports, schools, and public buildings. The Gorman-Rupp Company sells small pumps for use in various products, such as food processing, chemical, photo processing, waste treatment, HVAC equipment, appliances, and solar heating, as well as for automated explosives detection systems in airports. The company markets its products through a network of distributors, manufacturers? representatives, third-party distributor catalogs, and direct sales, as well as through direct sales to government. The Gorman-Rupp Company was founded in 1933 and is headquartered in Mansfield, Ohio.

Good Stocks 2013:Giga-tronics Incorporated (GIGA)

Giga-tronics Incorporated designs, manufactures, and markets various test and measurement equipment used in the development, test, and maintenance of wireless communications products and systems, flight navigational equipment, electronic defense systems, and automatic testing systems worldwide. Its products are primarily used in the design, production, repair, and maintenance of commercial telecommunications, radar, and electronic warfare equipment. The company operates in two segments, Giga-tronics Division and Microsource. The Giga-tronics Division segment produces signal sources, generators and sweepers, and power measurement instruments for use in the microwave and radio frequency range of 10 kilohertz to 50 gigahertz. This segment also manufactures switch modules and interface adapters that operate with a bandwidth from direct current to optical frequencies for defense, aeronautics, communications, satellite, electronic warfare, commercial aviation, and semiconductor markets. The Microsource segment develops and manufactures a line of Yttrium, Iron, and Garnet tuned oscillators, filters, and microwave synthesizers, which are used in various microwave instruments or devices. The company markets its products through various independent distributors and representatives to commercial and government customers. Giga-tronics Incorporated was founded in 1980 and is based in San Ramon, California.

Good Stocks 2013:MIND C.T.I. Ltd. (MNDO)

Mind C.T.I. Ltd. develops, manufactures, and markets real-time and off-line billing and customer care software for various types of communication providers. The company offers billing and customer care solution supports multiple services, including voice, data, and content services, as well as prepaid and postpaid payment models in a single platform. It also provides a workflow engine to support the creation and execution of business processes, such as order management, trouble ticket, and debt collection. In addition, the company offers an integral point of sale solution that comprises dealer, store, and cashier management and sales processes. Further, it provides professional services, primarily to billing and customer care customers, consisting of installation, turnkey project implementation services, customer support, training and maintenance services, customization, and project management. Additionally, the company offers call management systems, including PhonEX, MEIPS, and PhonEX-ONE, which are used by organizations for call accounting, telecom expense management, traffic analysis, and fraud detection. Mind C.T.I. Ltd. offers its products through marketing alliances with network equipment vendors, systems integrators, and resellers in the Americas, the Asia Pacific, Africa, Europe, and Israel. It primarily serves traditional wireline and wireless, voice over Internet protocol, and broadband IP network operators, as well as WiMAX operators, cable operators, 3G operators, and mobile virtual network operators. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Yoqneam, Israel.

Good Stocks 2013:Sysco Corporation (SYY)

Sysco Corporation, through its subsidiaries, distributes food and related products primarily to the foodservice or food-away-from-home industry in North America and Europe. The company offers a line of frozen foods, such as meats, fully prepared entrees, fruits, vegetables, and desserts; a line of canned and dry foods; fresh meats, custom-cut fresh steaks, other meat, seafood, and poultry; dairy products; beverage products; imported specialties; and fresh produce. It also supplies various non-food items, including paper products, such as disposable napkins, plates, and cups; tableware, which include china and silverware; cookware comprising pots, pans, and utensils; restaurant and kitchen equipment and supplies; and cleaning supplies. In addition, the company offers personal care guest amenities, equipment, housekeeping supplies, room accessories, and textiles to the lodging industry. It serves restaurants, hospitals and nursing homes, schools and colleges, hotels and motels, lodging establishments, and other foodservice customers. Sysco Corporation was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Advisors' Opinion:

By Richard Young At 2012-2-22
Click to EnlargeAmerica’s largest foodservice company is Sysco (NYSE:SYY), which operates out of 180 locations nationwide. Sysco serves around 400,000 customers including hospitals, schools, restaurants and hotels. My relative strength chart for Sysco shows a positive trend developing. Buy.
By Michael At 2012-1-12
Sysco distributes food products to restaurants, health care and educational facilities, and hotels. The company operates 177 distribution facilities serving about 400,000 customers and generates more than $39 billion in annual sales. Sysco has increased dividends 43 times in 40 years.

In the past five years, earnings have grown roughly 8% a year. Although earnings were flat year-over-year at $1.2 billion in the fiscal year ended July 2, 2011, EPS was 4% higher at $1.94 compared with $1.86 in 2010.

In November, Sysco hiked the dividend by 4% to a $1.08 annual rate. The new dividend is payable on Jan. 27, 2012, to shareholders of record on Jan. 6, 2012.
By Tom Bishop At 2011-8-26

Sysco Corporation provides food and related products in the United States. SYY recently traded at $27 and has a 3.9% dividend yield. SYY lost 1.8% during the past 12 months. The stock has a market cap of $15.8 billion, P/E ratio of 13.8 and forward P/E ratio of 12.9. The stock has total debt/equity ratio of 0.64 and Beta of 0.69.