Top 10 Supermarket Companies To Watch For 2014

LONDON -- After a busy month for company results in May, with many reporting for the year or quarter ending 31 March, things are going to be a bit quieter during June. But we're still going to have some important dates for investors, and we'll keep you updated as they come along.

We have already had a quick look at three pieces of news�expected next week, so here's a glance at some key dates for the rest of the coming month:

Wednesday June 12, Sainsbury
In May,�J. Sainsbury� (LSE: SBRY  ) reported full-year results for the year to 16 March, and they looked good. Telling us of "significant market outperformance," the supermarket chain reported a 6.2% rise in underlying pre-tax profit to 756 million pounds, after sales grew by 4.6%, to 25.6 billion pounds. With performance like this, it's no wonder Sainsbury's shares are up 30% over the past 12 months, to 377 pence.

Top 10 Supermarket Companies To Watch For 2014: Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Fund Inc. (MSF)

Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Fund, Inc. is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. It invests in the public equity markets across the global emerging markets. The fund invests in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It makes its investments in companies across all market capitalizations. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the MSCI Emerging Markets Free Index. Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Fund Inc. was formed on November 1, 1991 and is domiciled in the United States.

Top 10 Supermarket Companies To Watch For 2014: Digital Bros(DIB.MI)

Digital Bros S.p.A., a game entertainment company, engages in the publication, distribution, and marketing of video games in Italy and internationally. It involves in the localization and distribution of video games acquired from international publishers, as well as distributes Yu-Gi-Oh! trading cards in Italy. It offers video games under the Halifax brand name. The company also purchases video game rights from developers, and distributes them through an international sales network. In addition, it distributes video games as add-ons to products sold at newsstands; and sells multimedia DVDs and other entertainment-related publications. The company markets its games directly, through key accounts, and a network of sales representatives. Digital Bros S.p.A. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

Hot Promising Stocks For 2014: Metalico Inc(MEA)

Metalico, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in scrap metal recycling, platinum group and minor metals recycling, and lead metal products fabrication activities primarily in the United States. Its Scrap Metal Recycling segment collects industrial and obsolete ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metals; processes into reusable forms; and supplies the recycled metals to electric arc furnace mills, integrated steel mills, foundries, secondary smelters, aluminum recyclers, and metal brokers, as well as to exporters and international brokers. This segment offers ferrous products, which include sheared, bundled, and shredded scrap metal and other scrap metals, such as plate and structural, turnings, busheling, and broken cast iron; and sorts, processes, and packages non-ferrous metals, which include aluminum, copper, stainless steel, brass, nickel-based alloys, and high-temperature alloys for resale. The company?s PGM and Minor Metals Recycling segment recycles platinum group me tals, including platinum, palladium, and rhodium, from the substrate material retrieved from catalytic converters. Its Lead Fabricating segment manufactures and sells sheet lead, shot, extruded strip lead, machined lead parts, and cast lead, as well as other lead products, including roof flashings, lead wool, anodes, and babbitt. This segment sells its products to distributors, wholesalers, the plumbing and building trades, equipment manufacturers, and other consumers in various industries, such as roofing, plumbing, radiation shielding for pharmaceutical and power generation, electronic solders, ammunition, and automotive industries, as well as to the Department of Defense contractors. Metalico, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Cranford, New Jersey.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Sy_Harding]

  Metalico Inc. (AMEX: MEA), recent price $5.53: With prices for everything soaring and raw materials becoming more and more scarce, MEA is well positioned for growth. It recycles scrap metal and makes lead products for use in everything from nuclear shielding to stained-glass windows, plus supplies materials for balance systems in aircraft. The company's margins are good; it had an ROE of 8.48% in 2010 and its most recent earnings were 29 cents a share, giving it a P/E of around 19. The stock traded above $17 in 2008. Analysts are projecting continued earnings growth and a return to at least $10 a share over the next 12 months.

Top 10 Supermarket Companies To Watch For 2014: Exterran Partners L.P.(EXLP)

Exterran Partners, L.P. provides natural gas contract operations services to customers in the United States. Its contract operations services include designing, sourcing, owning, installing, operating, servicing, repairing, and maintaining equipment to provide natural gas compression to its customers. The company also owns and operates a natural gas processing plant with a capacity of 10 million cubic feet per day, which is used to provide processing services. It serves companies engaged in various aspects of the oil and natural gas industry, including natural gas producers, processors, gatherers, transporters, and storage providers. The company markets its services through sales and field service personnel. Exterran General Partner, L.P. serves as the general partner of Exterran Partners, L.P. The company was formerly known as Universal Compression Partners, L.P. and changed its name to Exterran Partners, L.P. in August 2007. Exterran Partners, L.P. was founded in 2006 an d is based in Houston, Texas.

Top 10 Supermarket Companies To Watch For 2014: Rubicon Technology Inc.(RBCN)

Rubicon Technology, Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells monocrystalline sapphire and other crystalline products for light-emitting diodes (LED), radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), blue laser diodes, optoelectronics, and other optical applications. The company fabricates its products from the boules and sells them in various categories, including core, as-cut, as-ground, and polished forms in two, three, four, six, and eight inch diameter wafers. It manufactures sapphire substrates and optical windows, including two inch to four inch sapphire cores and wafers for use in LEDs and blue laser diodes for solid state lighting and electronic applications; six-inch polished sapphire wafers that are used in the LED applications and in silicon-on-sapphire RFICs; and eight inch wafers for research and development efforts, as well as sells sapphire products used for windows and lenses in military, aerospace, sensor, and other applications. The company also offers opticall y-polished windows and ground window blanks of sapphire and various fluoride compounds, such as calcium, barium, and magnesium fluoride. Rubicon Technology, Inc. sells its products primarily to wafer polishing companies and semiconductor device manufacturers in Asia, North America, and Europe. The company was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in Bensenville, Illinois.

Top 10 Supermarket Companies To Watch For 2014: Xiaoxiao Education Limited(XXL.AX)

Xiaoxiao Education Limited operates as a preschool education institution in China. It has 10 kindergartens and 1 professional comprehensive training school for children. The company?s schools provide parenting education for 0 to 3 year old children, preschool education for 3 to 6 year old children, and professional training programs for 2 to 12 year old children. Xiaoxiao Education Limited has 4,000 enrolled students and 4,000 additional children attending extra-curricular programs out of school hours and during holiday periods, as well as approximately 6,570 students attending short courses at its Hangzhou Binjiang Art Training school. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Hangzhou, China.

Top 10 Supermarket Companies To Watch For 2014: Tata Communications Limited(TCL)

Tata Communications Limited provides integrated communications services worldwide. Its Global Voice Solutions segment offers international and domestic long distance voice solutions to mobile operators, broadband operators, Web portals, and carrier customers. The solutions include voice termination, international long distance inbound, universal international free phone, managed calling card, audiotext, ISDN, national long distance, and operator-assisted call services. This segment operates a network of approximately 41,000 route kilometers for domestic long distance services in India; and international networks with coverage in approximately 200 countries and territories. The company?s Global Data and Managed Services segment provides enterprise data solutions, such as international private leased circuits (PLC), national PLC, Internet leased line circuits, Internet access, frame relay, asynchronous transfer mode, data center infrastructure and application, virtual priva te network, television uplinking, transponder lease, hosted contacted center, MVOIP and IP voice connect, business messaging and collaboration, business audio and Web conferencing, managed security, telepresence virtual meeting room, media management platform, global video network, and Ethernet services. This segment?s carrier data services comprise global transmission, IP transit, managed node, and content delivery network services; and mobility services consist of wireless global and managed roaming, signaling connection control part, intelligent CAMEL eXchange, short messaging service hub enablement, and signaling monitoring, alarming, and reporting tool. Its Other segment offers net access using Wi-Fi, Internet telephony, broadband, and content services. The company was formerly known as Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited and changed its name to Tata Communications Limited in 2008. Tata Communications Limited was founded in 1986 and is based in Mumbai, India.

Top 10 Supermarket Companies To Watch For 2014: Dynegy Inc (DYN)

Dynegy Inc. (Dynegy), incorporated in 2007, is a holding company and conducts the business operations through its subsidiaries. Dynegy�� primary business is the production and sale of electric energy, capacity and ancillary services from the fleet of 16 operating power plants in six states totaling approximately 11,600 megawatts of generating capacity. The Company sells electric energy, capacity and ancillary services on a wholesale basis from its power generation facilities. Its customers include Regional Transmission Organization (RTOs) and Independent System Operators (ISOs), integrated utilities, municipalities, electric cooperatives, transmission and distribution utilities, industrial customers, power marketers, financial participants, such as banks and hedge funds, and other power generators. Dynegy operates in three segments: the Coal segment (Coal), the Gas Segment (Gas) and the Dynegy Northeast Segment (DNE). In September 2011, it acquired direct ownership of Dynegy Coal Holdco, LLC. In July 2012, the Company announced that it has filed a voluntary petition to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, Poughkeepsie Division. It emerged from bankruptcy, on October 1, 2012. In May 2013, the Company sold its Roseton power generation facility (Roseton) to a subsidiary of Castleton Commodities International LLC (CCI).

Coal segment

Dynegy�� Coal segment consists of four operating coal-fired power generation facilities and two operating natural gas-fired peaker facilities in Illinois with a total generating capacity of 3,132 megawatts. On November 17, 2011, it permanently retired the 176 megawatts Vermilion power generation facility. As of December 31, 2011, the facilities operated entirely within MISO. Its Coal segment is primarily a fleet of baseload coal facilities, located in Illinois. The MISO market includes all of Wisconsin and portions of Michigan, Kentucky, Indian! a, Illinois, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana and Manitoba, Canada. MISO is as an independent RTO.

Gas Segment

Dynegy�� Gas segment consists of seven operating natural gas-fired power generation facilities located in California (two), Nevada (one), Illinois (one), Pennsylvania (one), New York (one), and Maine (one), and one fuel-oil fired power generation facility located in California, totaling 6,771 megawatts of electric generating capacity. On November 7, 2011, it deconsolidated DH, which indirectly owns all of its assets in the Gas segment. The PJM market includes all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. The Company�� Kendall and Ontelaunee facilities located in Illinois and Pennsylvania operate in PJM with an aggregate net generating capacity of 1,780 megawatts.

DNE Segment

Dynegy�� DNE segment consists of the Roseton and Danskammer facilities located in Newburgh, New York, with a total capacity of 1,693 megawatts. Its total of 1,570 megawatts of generation capacity relates to leased units at the two facilities. The Company�� Roseton and Danskammer facility sites are adjacent and share common resources, such as fuel handling, a docking terminal, personnel and certain associated systems.

Top 10 Supermarket Companies To Watch For 2014: Cheniere Energy Partners LP (CQP)

Citigroup Funding Inc. offers debt instruments that include commercial papers, medium-term notes and structured equity-linked and credit-linked notes. Citigroup Funding, Inc. is based in United States. Citigroup Funding Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Citigroup, Inc.

Top 10 Supermarket Companies To Watch For 2014: Carolina Bank Holdings Inc.(CLBH)

Carolina Bank Holdings, Inc. operates as the holding company for Carolina Bank that provides commercial and consumer banking services to individuals and small to medium-sized businesses in the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina. It accepts various deposit products that include personal and commercial checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts. The company?s loan portfolio comprises construction and land development loans, 1-4 family residential property loans, multifamily residential property loans, nonfarm nonresidential property loans, commercial and industrial loans, and consumer and other loans. It has four locations in Greensboro; an office in Asheboro, Burlington, High Point, and Winston-Salem; and a mortgage loan production office in Burlington. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Zacks]

  Carolina Bank Holdings, Inc. (CLBH) experienced a 25% rise in its share price during October. For its third quarter, the company reported that net income rose 77.7% to $974,000 from $548,000, while earnings per share jumped 75% to 35 cents from 20 cents. Carolina Bank Holdings, which reached fresh 52-week highs six times during the month, stated that the performance reflects strong growth in earning assets, a steady margin, disciplined expense control and continued improvement in asset quality. Total revenue of $3.8 million improved 33.4% year over year from $2.9 million.

  ”Carolina Bank continues to produce record results,” stated President and CEO Robert T. Braswell. “We are at the forefront of technology whenever convenience and speed are important, but we also believe in the bonds formed through the person-to-person interactions of relationship banking. This combination drives asset growth and contributes to improving profitability, even as we open new banking offices.”