AP, John Amis Walmart is once again undercutting Apple (AAPL) on its own phone, slashing the price of the new iPhone 5c to $45 -- less than half the $99 suggested retail price. The iPhone 5s and 5c came out on Sept. 20, and at the time Walmart (WMT) surprised everyone by selling the phones at below-market prices of $189 and $79, respectively. Now, just two weeks after that launch, the price on the downmarket 5c is coming down even more. The move appears to come in response to rival Best Buy (BBY), which on Thursday announced that it was taking the price of the phone down to $50. In a statement, Walmart spokesperson Sarah McKinney said that "providing our customers low prices on the newest technology is what we do." She did, however, acknowledge Best Buy's own price cut, and said that "As a price leader, we are always looking for ways to surprise our customers with low prices and disrupt the competition." Besides beating Best Buy's price by $5, Walmart has another advantage: Its pricing is good at least through the end of the holiday season, while Best Buy's pricing is only good through Oct. 7. Walmart also has an active trade-in program that lets you apply the value of your old phone to your purchase. Walmart isn't the only retailer responding to Best Buy's big price cut: RadioShack (RSH) also announced Friday that it will discount the phone to $50, a price that will be good through Nov. 2. Still, with so many retailers suddenly discounting the 5c, we wouldn't be surprised if it became the standard pricing for the phone going forward. Regardless, one thing is clear: For now, the Apple Store is not the best place to buy this iPhone. Stop texting and start saving! Yes, your smartphone can save you money – from coupons to comparing prices to making a shopping list, these seven smartphone apps are the key to making sure you don’t go over your budget. And they’re all free!
Top 5 Low Price Companies To Buy Right Now: Rainy Mountain Royalty Corp (RMO.V)
Rainy Mountain Royalty Corp., an exploration stage company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral resource properties in Canada. It primarily explores for copper, gold, zinc, nickel, and precious metals, as well as platinum group metals in northwestern Ontario. The company was formerly known as East West Resource Corporation and changed its name to Rainy Mountain Royalty Corp. in February 2010. Rainy Mountain Royalty Corp. was incorporated in 1979 and is based in West Vancouver, Canada.
Top 5 Low Price Companies To Buy Right Now: VCA Antech Inc (WOOF)
VCA Antech, Inc., incorporated on May 4, 1987, is a national animal healthcare company operating in the United States and Canada. The Company provides veterinary services and diagnostic testing to support veterinary cares. The Company operates in two segments: animal hospital and laboratory. Its all other category includes Vetstreet and Medical Technology operating segments. The Company sells diagnostic imaging equipment and other medical technology products and related services to the veterinary markets. The Company's animal hospitals offer a range of general medical and surgical services for companion animals, as well as specialized treatments, including advanced diagnostic services, internal medicine, oncology, ophthalmology, dermatology and cardiology. On January 31, 2012, it expanded its operations into Canada with an increased investment in Associate Veterinary Clinics (1984) Limited (AVC), which operates 44 hospitals in three Canadian provinces. On February 1, 2012, it acquired ThinkPet's, Inc. (ThinkPets). In 2012, it acquired 79 animal hospitals, including 44 with the acquisition of AVC, one laboratory and ThinkPets.
The Company provides various communication, marketing solutions and other services to the veterinary community. The Company's network of animal hospitals is supported by more than 3,000 veterinarians and had approximately 7.4 million patient visits during the year ended December 31, 2012. The Company's network of veterinary diagnostic laboratories provides testing and consulting services used by veterinarians in the detection, diagnosis, evaluation, monitoring, treatment and prevention of diseases and other conditions affecting animals. The Company's network of veterinary diagnostic laboratories provides diagnostic testing for over 16,000 clients, which includes standard animal hospitals, large animal practices, universities and other government organizations. The Company's medical technology business sells digital radiography and ultrasound imaging equipment, provid! es education and training on the use of that equipment, and provides consulting and mobile imaging services.
The Company's Vetstreet business provides services to veterinary practices, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and the pet owning community. The Company's services to veterinary practices include subscriptions to the Company's Pro Pet Portals. The Pro Pet Portal provides an online platform for the veterinarian to offer secure individualized portals for pet owners, as well as practice Websites that are branded to the individual veterinary clinic. The Company also sells appointment reminder notices that are sent to pet owners on behalf of their clinics. The Company's services to manufacturers involve targeted marketing programs to animal hospitals whom are subscribers to the Company's Pro Pet Portal.
Animal Hospital
As of December 31, 2012, the Company operated 609 animal hospitals serving 41 states and three Canadian provinces. The Company's Animal Hospital revenue accounted for 78% of total revenue in 2012. In addition to general medical and surgical services, the Company offers specialized treatments for companion animals, including advanced diagnostic services, internal medicine, oncology, ophthalmology, dermatology and cardiology. The Company also provides pharmaceutical products for uses in the delivery of treatments by its veterinarians and pet owners. Many of the Company's animal hospitals offer additional services, including grooming, bathing and boarding. The Company also sells specialty pet products at its animal hospitals, including pet food, vitamins, therapeutic shampoos and conditioners, flea collars and sprays, and other accessory products.
Laboratory
The Company operates a veterinary diagnostic laboratory network serving all 50 states and certain areas in Canada. The Company's Laboratory revenue accounted for 16% of total revenue in 2012. The Company service a diverse customer base of over 16,000 clients, including animal! hospital! s the Company operates, which accounted for 16% of total laboratory revenue in 2012. The Company's diagnostic spectrum includes over 300 different tests in the area of chemistry, pathology, endocrinology, serology, hematology and microbiology, as well as tests specific to particular diseases. As of December 31, 2012, the Company operated 55 veterinary diagnostic laboratories. The Company's laboratory network includes primary hubs that are open 24 hours per day and offer a testing menu, secondary laboratories that are open 24 hours per day and offer a testing menu servicing large metropolitan areas, and short-term assessment and treatment (STAT) laboratories that service other locations with demand sufficient to warrant nearby laboratory facilities and are open primarily during daytime hours. In 2012, the Company derived approximately 85% of its laboratory revenue from metropolitan areas, where the Company offers twice-a-day pick-up service and same-day results. In addition, in these areas the Company generally offers to report results within three hours of pick-up. Outside of these areas, the Company typically provides test results to veterinarians before 8:00 a.m. the day following pick-up.
The Company competes with IDEXX Laboratories, Demand Force, and ePet Health.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Seth Jayson]
Calling all cash flows
When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on VCA Antech (Nasdaq: WOOF ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below. - [By John Udovich]
About�a week ago, Wall Street was biting small cap pet stock Petmed Express Inc (NASDAQ: PETS) for not living up to its earnings expectations�- meaning it might be worth taking a closer look at the stock�and compare its performance with other pet stocks like mid cap PetSmart, Inc (NASDAQ: PETM) and small cap VCA Antech Inc (NASDAQ: WOOF). I should also mention that we have recently added Petmed Express to our SmallCap Network Elite Opportunity (SCN EO) portfolio because we think the stock is undervalued in the pet space and has tremendous growth potential�moving forward.
Top 5 Medical Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Chinook Energy Inc (CKE.TO)
Chinook Energy Inc. engages in the exploration, development, and production of natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas liquids in Canada and Tunisia. The company operates through Canada and Tunisia segments. It owns various oil and natural gas properties in the Plains, West Central, Grande Prairie, and the Peace River Arch districts of the western Canada. The company also holds interests in three offshore blocks located in the Gulf of Hammamet within the Pelagian Basin; and five onshore properties located on the Sud Remada, Bir Ben Tartar, Jenein, Adam, and Borj El Khadra Blocks in the Ghadames Basin. Chinook Energy Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.
Top 5 Low Price Companies To Buy Right Now: Trinity Biotech PLC (TRIB)
Trinity Biotech plc (Trinity Biotech), incorporated in 1992, develops, acquires, manufactures and markets medical diagnostic products for the clinical laboratory and point-of-care (POC) segments of the diagnostic market. These products are used to detect autoimmune, infectious and sexually transmitted diseases, diabetes and disorders of the liver and intestine. The Company is a provider of raw materials to the life sciences industry and research institutes globally through the Company subsidiary, Fitzgerald Industries. Trinity Biotech markets its portfolio of over 275 products to customers in 75 countries around the world. Trinity Biotech markets its products in the United States through a direct sales force and in the rest of the world through a combination of direct selling and a network of distributors. Trinity Biotech has manufacturing facilities in Bray, Ireland, in Jamestown, New York, Carlsbad, California and Kansas City, Missouri in the United States. On July 26, 2013, it acquired Immco Diagnostics Inc.
Point of Care (POC)
Point of Care refers to diagnostic tests which are carried out in the presence of the patient. The Company�� principal product is UniGold human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). In Africa, UniGold HIV has been used for several years in voluntary counseling and testing centres in the sub-Saharan region where they provide a cornerstone to early detection and treatment intervention. UniGold HIV is used in public health facilities, hospitals and other outreach facilities in the United States.
Clinical Laboratory
Trinity Biotech supplies the clinical laboratory segment of the in-vitro diagnostic market with a range of diagnostic tests and instrumentation which detect infectious diseases: bacterial and viral diseases and autoimmune disorders; HbA1c and Hb Variant: Diabetes and Haemoglobin disorders and clinical chemistry: liver & kidney disease and haemolytic anaemia. Trinity Biotech manufactures products for niche/specialized app! lications in Infectious Disease and Autoimmune disorders. The products are used with patient samples and the results generated help physicians to guide diagnosis for a broad range of infectious diseases. The key niche/specialist disease areas served by the Trinity Biotech products include lyme disease, sexually transmitted diseases: syphilis, chlamydia and herpes simplex, respiratory infections: legionella, flu A&B, epstein barr virus, other viral pathogens, such as measles, mumps, rubella and varicella, and autoimmune disorders.
The Company focuses on products for the in-vitro diagnostic testing for haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) used in the monitoring and diagnosis of diabetes and Hb Variants for the detection of Hemoglobinapothies. It manufactures a range of instrumentation using patented high pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) technology. The Trinity Biotech speciality clinical chemistry business includes reagent products, such as ACE, Bile Acids, Lactate, Oxalate and Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase (G6PDH) that are clearly differentiated in the marketplace. These products are suitable for both manual and automated testing and have proven performance in the diagnosis of many disease states from liver and kidney disease to G6PDH deficiency which is an indicator of haemolytic anaemia. The Premier Hb9210 was launched in Europe during the year ended December 31, 2011.
The Company competes with Abbott Diagnostics, Alere Inc., Arkray, Bio-Rad, Diasorin Inc., Johnson & Johnson, OraSure Technologies Inc., Roche Diagnostics, Siemens, Thermo Fisher and Tosoh.
Top 5 Low Price Companies To Buy Right Now: Homeloans Ltd (HOM.AX)
Homeloans Limited engages in the mortgage origination and management of home loans in Australia. The company originates residential mortgages through external mortgage brokers, satellite offices, and internal consultants. It is also involved in the securitization of mortgages through the residential mortgage trust, a special purpose vehicle used to issue residential mortgage backed securities. In addition, the company offers various types of home loans, including variable rate, fixed rate, split, lo doc, bridging, interest only, standard, and line of credit home loans. Further, it provides home loans for building and renovating, refinancing and debt consolidating, and investing activities, as well as for first home buyers and self employed borrowers. Additionally, the company offers various insurance policies comprising home and contents, motor vehicle, landlords, and life insurance policies. Homeloans Limited was founded in 1985 and is based in Sydney, Australia.
Top 5 Low Price Companies To Buy Right Now: Gaz Metro Ltd Partnership (VNR.TO)
Valener Inc. engages in the distribution of natural gas to residential and commercial customers in Canada. It holds a 29% interest in Gaz Metro Limited Partnership, which distributes natural gas to approximately 182,000 customers in Quebec and 138,000 customers in Vermont. The company also has a 24.5% indirect interest in the Seigneurie de Beaupr茅 wind power project located on the private lands of S茅minaire de Qu茅bec. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
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Aguila American Resources Ltd. engages in the exploration and development of mineral properties in Peru. It primarily explores for gold and uranium. The company principally holds interest in the Angostura property comprising 9 exploration concessions and 2 claims, covering approximately 6,800 hectares located in southern Peru in the Department of Apurimac. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
Top 5 Low Price Companies To Buy Right Now: Deep Yellow Ltd(DYL.AX)
Deep Yellow Limited engages in the exploration and development of uranium properties in Namibia and Australia. Its principal projects include the Omahola uranium project, which is under pre-feasibility study and consists of the INCA primary uraniferous magnetite deposit, Ongolo Alaskite deposit, and Tubas Red Sand uranium secondary carnotite deposit in Namibia; and the Shiyela magnetite iron project located in Walvis Bay, Namibia. The company is based in Subiaco, Australia.
Top 5 Low Price Companies To Buy Right Now: American Electric Technologies Inc.(AETI)
American Electric Technologies, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides power distribution and control products, electrical services, and construction services in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Technical Products and Services (TP&S), Electrical and Instrumentation Construction (E&I), and American Access (AAT). The TP&S segment develops, manufactures, markets, and provides low and medium voltage switchgears, generator control and distribution switchgears, motor control centers, powerhouses, bus ducts, variable frequency alternating current drives, variable speed direct current drives, program logic control based automation systems, human machine interface, and specialty panels to distribute the flow of electricity and protect electrical equipment, such as motors, transformers, and cables. It also provides services, such as electrical equipment retrofits, upgrades, startups, testing and troubleshooting of substations, switchgear, drives, and control systems. The E&I segment provides a range of electrical and instrumentation construction and installation services to land and marine based markets of oil and gas, water and wastewater facilities, and other commercial and industrial markets; and services, including electrical and instrumentation turnarounds, maintenance, renovation, and new construction. The AAT segment manufactures and markets zone cabling and wireless telecommunication enclosures, and manufactures formed metals products; operates a precision sheet metal fabrication and assembly operation; and provides services, such as precision computer numerical controlled stamping, bending, assembling, painting, powder coating, and silk screening to engineering, technology, and electronics companies, primarily in the Southeast. American Electric Technologies, Inc. is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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