It's been a long time coming for both natural gas and solar as viable sources of energy in the United States. Both have been struggling with a lack of consumer and industrial buy-in, but both could be right around the corner. Is either one standing out at the moment?
The debate is on
In the following video, Motley Fool analysts Joel South and Taylor Muckerman each weigh in on how natural gas and solar have been performing lately and which companies are taking the lead. Both options have made progress recently, with Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ: CLNE ) building out its "America's Natural Gas Highway" initiative and SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWR ) producing more efficient solar panels.
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Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Own In Right Now: AutoNavi Holdings Limited(AMAP)
AutoNavi Holdings Limited provides digital map content, and navigation and location-based solutions in the People?s Republic of China (PRC). The company offers digital map data to various automobile manufacturers for in-dash navigation systems; and navigation solutions for use in in-dash navigation system to portable navigation device manufacturers based on their specific needs, which range from digital map data only to a digital map data, a navigation engine, and an user interface. It provides mobile/Internet location-based solutions to a mobile operator; mobile and Internet-based map application solutions that allow Web sites to embed location-based services capabilities into their Internet and enterprise applications; and MiniMap, an user-end map application software. The company also offers aerial digital maps and 3-D modeling applications to certain PRC government agencies and enterprises to meet their land usage survey, specific needs for 3-D geographic information, and other needs pursuant to a service contract arrangement. In addition, it has collaboration with certain mobile phone and tablet computer manufacturers and mobile operators to pre-install its navigation solutions. The company is headquartered in Beijing, China.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Belinda Cao]
The Bloomberg US-China gauge climbed 0.3 percent May 3 to 92.48 in New York, capping its second weekly advance. AutoNavi Holdings Ltd. (AMAP), a digital map content provider based in Beijing, led gains on the index, climbing 15 percent in the week to a three-month high of $12.03.
Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Own In Right Now: Univest Corporation of Pennsylvania(UVSP)
Univest Corporation of Pennsylvania, through its subsidiaries, provides various financial solutions, including personal and business banking, online banking, residential mortgages, insurance products, and investment and wealth advisory solutions. It serves the financial needs of residents, businesses, and nonprofit organizations in Bucks, Chester, Montgomery, and Lehigh counties, Pennsylvania. The company accepts various deposit products that include non interest-bearing demand deposits, interest-bearing checking deposits, money market savings accounts, regular savings accounts, and time deposits. Its loan and lease portfolio comprises commercial, financial, and agricultural loans and leases; commercial and construction loans; residential loans; loans to individuals; and municipal loans and leases. Univest Corporation also offers lease financing, financial planning, investment management, insurance products, and brokerage services; and provides investment advisory services , which include discretionary investment consulting and management services, as well as engages in small ticket commercial finance business. It provides its services through 32 financial service centers, 12 retirement financial services centers, and 39 ATM locations. The company was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Souderton, Pennsylvania.
Best Tech Stocks To Watch For 2014: Sennen Resources Ltd. (SN.V)
Sennen Resources Ltd. engages in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties. It holds an option to acquire 80% interest in the La Nava-El Paredon, a sulphide mineral deposit, which consists of 1 permit covering an area of 6 square kilometers and is located to the northwest of Cordoba in the Andalucia region of southern Spain. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Own In Right Now: Counsel Corp Com Npv (CXS.TO)
Counsel Corporation, a financial services company, operates through its individually branded businesses primarily in residential mortgage lending, distressed and surplus capital asset transactions, real estate finance, and private equity investment in North America. The company offers prime residential mortgage financing to financial institutions. It also engages in the acquisition and disposition of distressed and surplus assets, including industrial machinery and equipment, real estate, inventories, accounts receivable, and distressed debt; arranges asset disposition services, such as onsite and Webcast auctions, liquidations, and negotiated sales; and provides equity investments and funding services in the form of debt refinancing for distressed businesses and properties, as well as offers auction and asset advisory services. In addition, the company engages in the management of 8 properties with a gross leasable area of 800,000 square feet, as well as provides real est ate property and asset management services to third parties. Further, it provides custom furniture for the hospitality industry primarily comprising luxury hotel chains. The company was formerly known as Counsel Trustco Corporation and changed its name to Counsel Corporation in May 1986. Counsel Corporation was founded in 1979 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Own In Right Now: Century Bancorp Inc.(CNBKA)
Century Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Century Bank and Trust Company, which provides banking services to commercial enterprises, state and local governments and agencies, nonprofit organizations, and individuals in Massachusetts. The company accepts savings accounts, NOW accounts, demand deposits, time deposits, and money market accounts. Its loan portfolio comprises single and multi-family residential loans, commercial and industrial loans, commercial real estate loans, construction loans, home equity loans, and consumer loans. The company also offers automated lockbox collection, cash management, and account reconciliation services to its corporate and institutional customers, as well as promotes the marketing of these services to the municipal market. In addition, it provides securities brokerage services; and financial services, including transaction processing and short-term financing to municipalities. As of December 31, 2009, Century Bancorp oper ated 22 banking offices in 17 cities and towns in Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Medford, Massachusetts.
Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Own In Right Now: Primerica Inc.(PRI)
Primerica, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the distribution of financial products on behalf of third parties to middle income households in the United States and Canada. The company operates in three segments: Term Life Insurance, Investment and Savings Products, and Corporate and Other Distributed Products. The Term Life Insurance segment underwrites term life insurance products. The Investment and Savings Products segment distributes mutual funds, variable annuities, fixed annuities, and segregated funds. The Corporate and Other Distributed Products segment provides mortgage loans, which include debt consolidation or refinance, and purchase money loans; unsecured loans; prepaid legal services that assist subscribers with legal matters, such as drafting wills, living wills and powers of attorney, trial defense, and motor vehicle-related matters; mail-order student life products; short-term disability benefit insurance; and auto and homeowners? insurance products. The company was founded in 1927 and is based in Duluth, Georgia.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Rich Duprey]
Private equity investor Warburg Pincus has been a shareholder in term life insurance underwriter Primerica� (NYSE: PRI ) since its IPO in 2010. However, the financial products marketer will be buying back all of the holdings Warburg Pincus owns for $154.7 million. That translates into�almost�2.5 million shares of common stock�and warrants that �are�exercisable for 4.1 million shares.
Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Own In Right Now: Solarwinds Inc.(SWI)
SolarWinds, Inc. designs, develops, markets, sells, and supports enterprise information technology (IT) infrastructure management software for IT professionals in various organizations in the United States and internationally. The company offers enterprise-class IT management products, including Network Performance Monitor, a server-based fault and performance management platform to minimize network downtime; Network Performance Monitor modules, a series of add-ons; network configuration manager to automate the processes of network device discovery, network inventory management, and network change management; user device tracker, a server-based switch port management tool; scalability engines to increase the scale of a number of the products; and enterprise operations console to provide web-based views of various instances of Network Performance Monitor modules and Application Performance Monitor. Its enterprise-class network and IT management products also comprise Applic ation Performance Monitor, a server-based availability and performance management system for applications and server infrastructure; patch manager to automate the process of deploying, managing, and reporting on patches and configuration settings; and synthetic end user monitor to capture the user steps of any web application and monitor the end-user experience; storage manager that combines reporting, monitoring, and notification on the performance of storage resources; backup profiler to provide a consolidated view of the status of backup operations; virtualization manager to manage various aspects of virtual server infrastructure; and log and event manager to automate the collection and interpretation of logs. In addition, the company provides free tools, such as desktop, laptop, server-based, or internet-based applications; and tools and toolsets for specific solutions of routine and complicated tasks. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas .
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Travis Hoium]
What: Shares of SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI ) dropped 14% today as investors reacted to the company's acquisition plans.
So what: Yesterday, the company announced it will buy N-able, a cloud-based IT infrastructure company, for $120 million. This is expected to reduce 2013 earnings and there's no guarantee the acquisition will pay off, so investors sold off shares today. �
Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Own In Right Now: Yong Xin Intl Holdings Ltd. (CX5.SI)
Yong Xin International Holdings Ltd., an investment holding company, manufactures and sells steel and stainless steel strips primarily in the People's Republic of China. Its products include chrome-plated steel strips that are primarily used as an optic fiber communication cable shield screen, as well as in canning of food stuffs, bottle caps, roll film packing, and vacuum flask casing applications; high-precision cold-rolled steel strips principally used to manufacture high energy batteries, and electronic and communication equipment, as well as optic fiber communication cable applications; and ultra-thin stainless steel strips used in automobile, medical, high end equipment, and textile industries, as well as in optical power ground wires and batteries. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Singapore. Yong Xin International Holdings Ltd. is a subsidiary of Better Ace International Limited.
Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Own In Right Now: California Nanotechnologies Cor (CNO.V)
California Nanotechnologies Corp., a development stage company, engages in the research, development, and production of nano-structured components and materials. The company produces powders, billets, wire, and precision forged components from nano, near-nano, ultrafine, and conventional advanced materials. Its products include precision cold forged components consisting of fasteners, bolts, pins, caps, and other components; thermal spray powders comprising WC-based materials and titanium powders; nano light alloy powders that include aluminum, titanium, magnesium, and their alloys; nano alloy billets; nano super alloy powders; and cemented carbides. The company also offers component manufacturing services for in-house and customer-designed components using Cal nano materials. It serves customers in aerospace, defense, automotive, medical, and sports and recreation industries. California Nanotechnologies Corp. is headquartered in Cerritos, California.
Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Own In Right Now: Concur Technologies Inc.(CNQR)
Concur Technologies, Inc. provides integrated travel and expense management solutions for companies of various industries, sizes, and geographies. It offers the Concur Connect platform, a cloud computing software solution primarily on a subscription basis, which enables customers, partners, suppliers, and third-party developers to connect. The company provides various solutions to streamline the travel procurement, itinerary management, expense management, and invoice management processes. Its solutions include online travel procurement solutions, which automate corporate travel booking and processing; itinerary management solutions that enable individual business travelers and their organizations to manage and share travel itinerary information; and automated expense management solutions, which simplify the expense reporting process. The company also offers other value-added and extended services that leverage its integrated cloud offerings, including expense reimbursemen t; expense report auditing services to streamline the process of managing and substantiating expense receipts; business intelligence that enable customers to use captured data to analyze trends, influence budget decisions, improve forecasting, and monitor for fraudulent activity; and invoice management solutions to automate, simplify, and reduce the costs associated with the process of entering, approving, and managing the payment of vendor invoices. In addition, it provides consulting; and various extended services, such as site administration, audit and compliance services, advanced analytics, and customized integration in connection with its integrated travel and expense management solutions. Concur markets and sells its solutions worldwide through direct sales organizations; and indirect distribution channels, such as strategic resellers and referral partners, as well as through its Website. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Lee Jackson]
The Lazard trading desk said that active traders may want to look at software stocks that still had unusually high short interest. Those included Concur Technologies (NASDAQ: CNQR), Tangoe Inc. (NASDAQ: TNGO), Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE), Marketo Inc. (NASDAQ: MKTO), VeriSign Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) and VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW). Stocks with high short interest can explode to the upside if the company gets back on track and short sellers are forced to cover.
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