There are many countries across the globe that utilize natural gas as transportation fuel. Argentina and Iran are among the world leaders. It is a trend that hasn't really picked up in the U.S. -- until now.
Natural gas is too cheap and too useful to ignore, and it is making inroads in the world of long-distance trucking. In this video, Fool.com contributor Aimee Duffy talks about the efforts of UPS (NYSE: UPS ) and Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT ) �to take advantage of this growing movement.
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Top 5 Clean Energy Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Pepsico Inc.(PEP)
PepsiCo, Inc. engages in the manufacture, marketing, and sale of foods, snacks, and carbonated and non-carbonated beverages worldwide. The company operates in four divisions: PepsiCo Americas Foods (PAF); PepsiCo Americas Beverages (PAB); PepsiCo Europe; and PepsiCo Asia, Middle East, and Africa (AMEA). The PAF division offers Lay?s and Ruffles potato chips, Doritos and Tostitos tortilla chips and dips, Cheetos cheese flavored snacks, Fritos corn chips, Quaker Chewy granola bars, and SunChips multigrain snacks in North America; Quaker oatmeal, Aunt Jemima mixes and syrups, Cap?n Crunch cereal, Quaker grits, and Life cereal, as well as Rice-A-Roni, Pasta Roni, and Near East side dishes in North America; and various snack foods under Doritos, Marias Gamesa, Cheetos, Ruffles, Emperador, Saladitas, Sabritas, and Lay?s brands in Latin America. The PAB division provides carbonated soft drinks, beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Gatorade, 7UP, Tropicana Pure Premium, Electropura, Sierra Mist, Epura, and Mirinda brands; ready-to-drink tea, coffee, and water products through joint ventures with Unilever and Starbucks; and sells concentrate to authorized bottlers, and branded finished goods directly to independent distributors and retailers. This division also manufactures third-party brands, such as Dr Pepper, Crush, Rock Star, and Muscle Milk. The PepsiCo Europe division offers Frito Lay Snacks, Pepsi-Cola beverages, Gatorade sports drinks, Tropicana juices, and Quaker foods in Europe. The AMEA division provides snack food under the Lay?s, Kurkure, Chipsy, Doritos, Smith?s, Cheetos, Red Rock Deli, and Ruffles brands; Quaker-brand cereals and snacks; and beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under the Pepsi, Mirinda, 7UP, and Mountain Dew brands. PepsiCo, Inc. was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Steven Goldberg]
PepsiCo (PEP, $82.51, 2.6%) will likely never catch up with number one Coca-Cola (KO) in the soft drink business
, but it is the dominant player globally in salty snacks. Brands include Lay's, Ruffles, Doritos, Cheetos and Tostitos, not to mention Quaker Oatmeal, Rice-a-Roni, Gatorade and Tropicana. The stock trades at a somewhat pricey 17 times estimated year-ahead earnings. - [By Chuck]
PepsiCo Inc. is a strong defensive play with steady and stable growth and dividend yield. It provides investors with a place to park low-risk capital.
The stock has had a tight trading range in the last year. It is extremely liquid and has a liquid options market.
Let’s buy our exposure while the market is weak overall, but use the market to help average into this one. If you want to invest 3% of your low-risk portfolio, let’s buy 2% at market now.
For the last third, let’s put in a limit order at 5% below your first fill.
Pepsi also makes a great covered-call vehicle. The stock is not going to run away from us if we cap our near-term upside, and if it did, we can always repurchase it on weakness.
- [By ETF Authority]
Unlike its competitor, PepsiCo has a large exposure to the food industry. This has helped the company generate strong performance over the past decade versus Coca-Cola. I personally prefer the taste of Coke over Pepsi, however, and many consumers seem to have similar taste buds. PepsiCo tends to make large acquisitions, which have worked so far. Sometimes it tends to overpay them, like the recent acquisition of Wimm-Bill-Dann. PepsiCo is cheaper than Coca-Cola, and both have similar near-term prospects.
Top 5 Clean Energy Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Strayer Education Inc (STRA)
Strayer Education, Inc. provides post-secondary education services. The Company offers a range of academic programs through its wholly owned subsidiary Strayer University, Inc. (the University), both in classroom courses and online via the Internet. Strayer University is an institution of higher learning that offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology, education, health care, public administration and criminal justice at 92 physical campuses in Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Washington, D.C., and online. As of December 31, 2011, the Company had opened 78 of its campuses. The Company has also developed a robust online education program.
Strayer University offers business, information technology and professional-oriented curricula to equip students with specialized and practical knowledge and skills for careers in business, industry and Government. Its Academic School Deans and Program Curriculum Committees regularly review and revise the University�� course offerings to improve the educational programs and respond to changes in job markets. Strayer University offers graduate programs in Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.); Jack Welch Executive Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) Degree; Master of Education (M.Ed.) Degree;Master of Health Services Administration (M.H.S.A.) Degree; Master of Public Administration (M.P.A.) Degree; Master of Science (M.S.) Degree (Information Systems, Accounting, Human Resource Management and Management), and Executive Graduate Certificate Programs (Business Administration, Information Systems and Accounting).
Strayer University�� undergraduate programs include Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Degree (Accounting, Information Systems, Economics and Criminal Justice! ); Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Degree;Associate in Arts (A.A.) Degree (Accounting, Acquisition and Contract Management, Business Administration, Information Systems, Economics, Marketing and Criminal Justice); Diploma Programs (Accounting, Acquisition and Contract Management, and Information System), and Undergraduate Certificate Programs (Accounting, Business Administration and Information Systems). Each undergraduate degree program includes courses in oral and written communication skills, as well as mathematics and a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. In addition to its degree, diploma and certificate programs, it offers classes to non-degree and non-program students wishing to take courses for personal or professional enrichment. Strayer University students may enroll in courses at more than one campus and take courses online.
Students can take classes online using either a synchronous (real time) or asynchronous (on demand) format. Students may take all of their courses online or may take online courses as a supplement to traditional, classroom-based courses. Tuition for online courses is the same as for campus courses. During the year ended December 31, 2011, Strayer University had over 32,000 students who took classes solely online.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Jeff Brown]
Everyone knows that college tuition has been soaring at two or three times the inflation rate, and that should allow for-profit colleges such as Strayer Education (STRA), owner of the 100-campus Strayer University and its online operation, to keep raising prices. Add intense demand from adults attracted to Strayer's curriculum, which focuses on business, accounting, information technology and similar practical subjects, and you'd expect Strayer to be printing money.
But it's not. For 2012, revenue was $562 million, down from $627 million in 2011 and $637 million in 2010, while per-share earnings tumbled to $5.79, from $8.91 the year before. In fact, it's hard to find a financial figure that hasn't moved the wrong way. The stock has fallen from near $112 last July to $48.84. Strayer suspended its dividend in November.
Strayer faces a lot of headwinds. College enrollment is falling, and Strayer's drifted down to 49,323 in 2012, from 56,002 in 2010. Lawmakers and regulators may clamp down on for-profit colleges that have poor graduation rates and leave students with loads of debt and jobless. Federal programs such as Pell Grants, a critical source of funding, could shrink over budget and debt concerns, and Strayer'sfuture
students could become ineligible for loans if too many of their predecessors fall behind on payments. Finally, Strayer's online study program faces growing competition from traditional nonprofit institutions responding to students' demand for low cost and convenience.
Top 5 Dividend Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Diageo plc(DEO)
Diageo plc engages in producing, distilling, brewing, bottling, packaging, distributing, developing, and marketing spirits, beer, and wine products worldwide. It offers a range of brands, including Johnnie Walker scotch whiskies, Smirnoff vodka and Smirnoff ready to drink products, Baileys Original Irish Cream liqueur, Crown Royal Canadian whisky, Captain Morgan rum and rum based products, Jose Cuervo tequila, JeB scotch whisky, Buchanan?s scotch whisky, Windsor Premier scotch whisky, Ketel One vodka, Ciroc vodka, Tanqueray gin, Bushmills Irish whiskey, and Guinness stout. The company also provides other spirits brands that comprise Gordon?s gin and vodka, Old Parr scotch whisky, Bell?s scotch whisky, The Classic Malts scotch whiskies, Seagram?s 7 Crown whiskey and Seagram?s VO whisky, Cacique rum, White Horse scotch whisky, Don Julio tequila, and Bundaberg rum. In addition, it offers beer under various brands, such as Malta Guinness non-alcoholic malt, Harp lager, Tu sker lager, Smithwick?s ale, Senator lager, and Red Stripe lager; and wine under a range of brands, including Blossom Hill, Sterling Vineyards, Beaulieu Vineyard, Navarro Correas, Acacia Vineyard, Rosenblum Cellars, Piat d?Or, Chalone Vineyard, and Santa Rita. Further, Diageo plc owns the distribution rights for the Jose Cuervo tequila brands in North America and internationally. The company was founded in 1886 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Richard Young]
Diageo has had great success in Africa and is replicating that success in South America. In Brazil, nine out of 10 shots of Scotch served are Diageo’s brands. Fifty percent of Scotch served in Venezuela is Diageo’s. The potential in South America is attractive. Between 10 million and 15 million people are entering the middle class in Latin America every year. My relative strength chart for Diageo has reached a five-year high.
- [By Richard Young]
Shortly after Diageo‘s (NYSE:DEO) success in Africa, the company announced the acquisition of Meta Abo Brewery in Ethiopia. Meta Abo is the second-largest brewery in Ethiopia. Its purchase will give Diageo access to the country and a lead-in for its premium spirits brands.
You can see on my price chart that a strong trend in Diageo’s price has developed after the financial crisis. Buy Diageo shares today.
Top 5 Clean Energy Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Transatlantic Petroleum Corp Co (TNP.TO)
TransAtlantic Petroleum Ltd., an international oil and natural gas company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of oil and natural gas properties. The company holds interests in developed and undeveloped oil and natural gas properties in Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania. As of March 1, 2012, it held approximately 5.4 million net onshore acres. The company had interests in 57 onshore exploration licenses and 9 onshore production leases covering 4.3 million net acres in Turkey; 2 onshore exploration permits in Bulgaria; and 1 onshore production license in Romania. TransAtlantic Petroleum Ltd. was founded in 1985 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
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