Top 5 India Stocks To Own For 2014

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Top 5 India Stocks To Own For 2014: (WIPRO.NS)

Wipro Limited provides information technology (IT) products and services, and consumer care and lighting products primarily in India, the United States, and Europe. The IT Services segment provides IT and IT enabled services, including software application development, application maintenance, research and development services for hardware and software design, data center outsourcing services, and business process outsourcing services. The IT Products segment sells a range of personal desktop computers, servers, and notebooks. This segment provides computing, storage, networking, security, and software products. It also acts as a value added reseller of desktops, servers, notebooks, storage products, networking solutions, and packaged software for various brands, as well as delivers hardware, software products, and other related deliverables. This segment serves enterprises in the government, defense, IT and IT-enabled services, telecommunications/telecom service providers , manufacturing, and banking sectors. The Consumer Care and Lighting segment manufactures, distributes, and sells personal care products, baby care products, lighting products, and hydrogenated cooking oils. It provides products in the toilet soaps, toiletries, deodorants, wellness, skincare, and hair care categories; and commercial lighting, office modular furniture, and security solutions. The company also manufactures cylinders and truck hydraulics; distributes hydraulic steering equipment and pumps, motors, and valves for international companies; and provides water solutions business, as well as provides consulting on renewable energy solutions. Wipro Ltd. has a strategic partnership with Red Hat, Inc. Wipro was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Bangalore, India.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Bill]

  Wipro is headquartered at Bangalore and its core business areas covers infrastructure solutions, consumer care and certain professional and business solutions. The company, for long, was known as one of the largest independent R&D Services provider in the world.

  Highlights of the Results for the Quarter ended March 31, 2010 speak volumes about the company’s splendid performance. IT Services Revenue in constant currency was $1,180 million, with a sequential increase of 4.7%. On a year to year basis, total Revenues were Rs. 69.83 billion ($1.55 billion1), representing an increase of 8% over the same period last year.

Top 5 India Stocks To Own For 2014: (EPIC.BO)

Epic Energy Limited provides energy management solutions in India and internationally. It operates in two divisions, Energy Conservation, and Solar and Wind Energy. The Energy Conservation division principally offers power conditioner and energy saver that reduces the unbalance current and the neutral current, and neutral shifting problems in the transformers, as well as reduces the system current and ensures that the impedance matching is achieved for the load, and accordingly the optimum power is transferred. The Solar and Wind Energy division provides solar products, including solar water heaters, solar lanterns, and solar street lights, as well as solar inverters, solar radio plus torches, solar cool caps, and solar fans, and solar home generators; and wind products, including wind solar hybrid for remote power solutions. This division caters to energy needs of remote households, street lighting, telecommunication, and defense sectors. In addition, Epic Energy offers v arious services, including design, supply, and implementation of SCADA for power utilities and process industries; energy and power quality solutions; energy audit services; and custom products and systems for automatic meter reading. The company was founded in 1991 and is based in Mumbai, India.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Toby]

  Epic Energy Ltd is an ISO 9001:2000 certified company engaged in the manufacture of energy conservation and renewable energy devices like wind-solar hybrids, solar water heaters, solar lanterns, solar street lights, integrated back-up power systems etc. located in Mumbai.

  EPIC has manufacturing facilities at Vadodara and Navi Mumbai. The company is completely committed to the cause of energy conservation and making and marketing renewable energy devices all over India. EPIC Energy Limited has been assigned a "CRISIL-BUREAU OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY Grade 3" by CRISIL.

Hot Value Stocks To Invest In 2014: (COROMANDE.NS)

Coromandel International Limited engages in manufacturing and marketing fertilizers, specialty nutrients, and crop protection products primarily in India. The company?s products include phosphatic fertilizers; insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, and plant growth regulators; and bentonite sulphur, water soluble fertilizers, micronutrients, and organic fertilizers. It offers its products under the Gromor, Paramfos, Parry Gold, Parry Super, and Godavari brand names. The company also operates 443 retail centers in rural Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka that provide agri inputs, such as fertilizers, crop protection products, secondary and micronutrients, seeds, sprayers, mechanized farm services, and veterinary feed, as well as soil testing for nutrients, field visits for crop diagnosis, and technical advice. Its retail centers also offer lifestyle products, fast moving consumer goods, apparel, footwear, consumer durables, general merchandise, home furnishings, accessories, lugga ge, stationary, books, and toys. The company was formerly known as Coromandel Fertilisers Limited and changed its name to Coromandel International Limited in September 2009. The company is based in Secunderabad, India. Coromandel International Limited is a subsidiary of E.I.D Parry (India) Limited.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Curtis Hesler]

  At a growth rate of 4-5 percent, agriculture is expected to play a crucial role in GDP growth in the coming year. Indian farmers have begun to invest handsomely in improving yields and Coromandel has positioned itself as a complete farm inputs company. While the company has a strong franchise in fertilizers, it is the new businesses such as speciality nutrients that will be the key growth driver. This new revenue stream now accounts for 10 percent of sales, but is seeing a 40 percent annual growth rate. The profit margins are about three times that of the fertilizer business at 10-12 percent.

Top 5 India Stocks To Own For 2014: Tata Motors Ltd(TTM)

Tata Motors Limited, an automobile company, engages in the manufacture and sale of commercial and passenger vehicles primarily in India. The company offers cars, utility vehicles, trucks, buses and coaches, and defense vehicles, as well as develops electric and hybrid vehicles for personal and public transportation. It also involves in distributing and marketing cars; and financing the vehicles sold by the company. In addition, the company engages in the provision of engineering and automotive solutions, as well as machine tools and factory automation solutions; construction equipment manufacturing; automotive vehicle components manufacturing and supply chain activities; tooling and plastic and electronic components for automotive and computer applications; and automotive retailing and service operations. It offers its products and services through its dealership, sales, services, and spare parts network. The company also markets its commercial and passenger vehicles in Eu rope, Africa, the Middle East, South East Asia, South Asia, and South America. The company was formerly known as Tata Engineering and Locomotive Company Limited and changed its name to Tata Motors Limited in July 2003. Tata Motors Limited was founded in 1945 and is based in Mumbai, India.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Fool]

  Take a closer look at the full table. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 17.35 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 10.13. The dividend yield has a value of 3.28 percent. Price to book ratio is 2.81 and price to sales ratio 2.93. The operating margin amounts to 22.48 percent.

Top 5 India Stocks To Own For 2014: (IKFTECH.BO)

IKF Technologies Limited primarily provides information technology enabled services (ITES) and business process outsourcing (BPO) services in India and internationally. The company offers services for various solutions, including enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, customer and supplier relationship management, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, and JD Edwards. It also provides various services comprising Web application, software development, Web designing, mobile application development, software quality control, professional embedded systems programming, PHP programming, and AUTOCAD application services. In addition, the company offers ITES services, such as data entry and processing, application development, data warehousing, IT help desk, medical transcription, document processing, and telecommunication. Further, it provides leased line, fixed wireless, and broadband Internet access services, as well as voice over Internet protocol services comprising corporat e, BPO/call center, small and medium enterprise, and individual solutions. Additionally, the company involves in the cultivation of Jatropha for bio diesel through company owned or leased lands, and through contract farming. IKF Technologies Limited has an agreement with Indian Oil Corporation for technical and marketing collaboration. The company was formerly known as IKF Software.com Limited and changed its name to IKF Technologies Limited in July 2001. IKF Technologies Limited was incorporated in 2000 and is based in Noida, India.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Vodicka]

  IKF Technologies Ltd is engaged in the field of Bio Diesel, Telecom and IT software development amongst others. Bio-fuel is used as replacement for diesel. Biodiesel offers safety benefits over petroleum diesel because it is much less combustible, with a flash point greater than 150*C, compared to 77*C for petroleum diesel. The company’s Bio-fuel plantation is located at Shillong in Meghalaya with branch office at Udaipur and regional office at Sikar in Rajasthan. The company has entered into Technological Transfer Agreement with Indian Oil Corporation (R&D) for offering technology transfer for production of bio-diesel from Jatropha. The company provides its services to clients in USA, Europe, Asia and Australia.