Yum! (YUM) stock should be falling through the floor. For a company whose brand (KFC) is synonymous with "chicken" in China, the H7N9 bird flu scare is nothing short of disastrous. With 4,000 locations in the country, China is now KFC's most profitable market, accounting for over 40% of KFC's global revenue.
KFC's brand on the mainland was just beginning to recover from the 2012 tainted chicken supplier scandal that shaved a third off its Chinese sales when H7N9 struck in Shanghai and Anhui, although data provided by Flutrackers shows a massive influx of number of atypical pneumonia and other "influenza-like" cases going all the way back to January, including a school cluster in Macao.
Pictures of empty KFC stores are appearing all over China-based microblogging service Weibo, some taken even during lunch hours when store counters are usually packed.
Hot Construction Material Companies To Watch In Right Now: Citrix Systems Inc.(CTXS)
Citrix Systems, Inc. designs, develops, and markets technology solutions that deliver information technology services on-demand worldwide. It offers desktop solutions, including Citrix XenDesktop, an integrated desktop virtualization system; Citrix XenApp, an application virtualization solution; and Citrix XenClient, a bare-metal hypervisor, which runs directly on the client device hardware. The company also provides online services, comprising GoToMeeting for online meetings, sales demonstrations, and collaborative gatherings; GoToWebinar, which allows users to host, attend, or participate in a Webinar session; GoToTraining, a training tool that allows trainers to deliver content to various trainees; Integrated HiDef Audio, which provides a audio and Web experience; HiDef Audio that offers audio options with reservationless audio conferencing; GoToAssist, a remote technical-support solution; GoToManage solution for IT management; and GoToMyPC, which offers remote access t o PC and Mac from an Internet-connected computer. In addition, it provides datacenter and cloud solutions, such as Citrix NetScaler, a Web application delivery controller; Citrix Access Gateway, a SSL/VPN that delivers applications with policy-based SmartAccess control; Citrix Repeater Solutions that provide application delivery to branch office users; Citrix XenServer, a platform for managing server virtualization in the datacenter; and Citrix Essentials for XenServer and Hyper-V solution for lab automation, high availability, provisioning, workflow orchestration, and integration with storage systems. Further, the company provides consulting, technical support, and product training and certification services. It markets and licenses its products to enterprise customers through systems integrators, value-added resellers, value-added distributors, and original equipment manufacturers, as well as through the Web. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Fort Lau derdale, Florida.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Fabian]
Citrix Systems (CTXS) can be worst performing stock in the software industry. The Desktop Virtualization concept is likely to have negative effects on the company because of the potential of mass incorporation by the majority of the companies. The government, financial services, and healthcare will put an incremental pressure on this project. Citrix is currently trading at $73.23 and is expected to go south of $53. In the last 52-weeks, its stock has traded betw een $50.21 and $88.49. Market capitalization stands at $13.66 billion and a P/E ratio of 29.8x is expected to decrease to 27.8x by the end of 2012. Earnings per share currently stand at $2.08.
Hot Construction Material Companies To Watch In Right Now: USA Mobility Inc.(USMO)
USA Mobility, Inc. provides wireless communications solutions to the healthcare, government, enterprise, and emergency response sectors in the United States. The company provides one-way and two-way messaging services. One-way messaging consists of numeric and alphanumeric messaging services. The numeric messaging services enable subscribers to receive messages that are composed entirely of numbers, such as a phone number. The alphanumeric messages may include numbers and letters which enable subscribers to receive text messages. Its two-way messaging services enable subscribers to send and receive messages to and from other wireless messaging devices, including pagers, personal digital assistants and personal computers. USA Mobility also offers voice mail, personalized greeting, message storage and retrieval, and equipment loss and/or maintenance protection to its one-way and two-way messaging subscribers. In addition, the company provides mobile voice and data services t hrough third party providers, which include BlackBerry devices and global positioning system location applications. Further, it offers machine to machine telemetry solutions for various applications that include asset tracking, utility meter reading, and other remote device monitoring applications. USA Mobility serves businesses, professionals, management personnel, medical personnel, field sales personnel and service forces, members of the construction industry and construction trades, real estate brokers and developers, sales and service organizations, specialty trade organizations, manufacturing organizations, and government agencies. The company is based in Springfield, Virginia.
Best Safest Companies To Own In Right Now: NVIDIA Corporation(NVDA)
NVIDIA Corporation provides visual computing, high performance computing, and mobile computing solutions that generate interactive graphics on various devices ranging from tablets and smart phones to notebooks and workstations. It operates in three segments: Graphic Processing Unit (GPU), Professional Solutions Business (PSB), and Consumer Products Business (CPB). The GPU segment offers GeForce discrete and chipset products, which support desktop and notebook personal computers plus memory products. The PSB segment provides its Quadro professional workstation products and other professional graphics products, including its NVIDIA Tesla high-performance computing products used in the manufacturing, entertainment, medical, science, and aerospace industries. The CPB segment offers Tegra mobile products, which support tablets, smartphones, personal media players, Internet television, automotive navigation, and other similar devices. This segment also licenses video game consol es and other digital consumer electronics devices. The company sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, add-in-card manufacturers, consumer electronics companies, and system builders worldwide that utilize its processors as a core component of their entertainment, business, and professional solutions. NVIDIA Corporation was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Curtis]
NVDA sell microchips – and lots of them. This stock has transformed its business turning a $200 million loss in the first quarter of 2009 into a $138 million profit a year later in Q1 2010. Based on book value, NVDA is cheap. With a PEG of 0.8 and P/E of 12 the firm is discounted significantly compared to it’s peer competitors. Throughout the past year they have significantly trailed the sector, but heading into the fall I think NVDA will soar to $20.
- [By Sherry Jim]
ThinkEquity analysts said the company is regaining momentum in the high-end PC graphics market with the GTX 580/570/560 family and focused on new potential growth opportunities in high-end computing and Web tablets.
Nvidia also holds its leading position in professional graphics and has won designs in the smartphone/Web tablet market at Asustek, Acer, Motorola, and HTC.
Going forward, the company's Tegra platform for smartphones/Web tablets on the Google Android platform and continuing growth in high-end cloud computing and professional graphics with Quadro would likely lead to steady earnings growth.
Hot Construction Material Companies To Watch In Right Now: Educational Development Corporation(EDUC)
Educational Development Corporation operates as a trade publisher of a line of children?s books in the United States. It distributes children?s books published by Usborne Publishing Limited in the United Kingdom. The company offers various books, including Touchy-Feely board books, jigsaw puzzle books, activity and flashcards, adventure and search books, art books, sticker books, and foreign language books, as well as science and math titles, and chapter books and novels. It sells books through two divisions, Usborne Books and More, and Publishing. The Usborne Books and More division distributes books through independent consultants, who hold book showings in individual homes; and through book fairs, direct sales, and Internet sales. It also distributes these titles to school and public libraries. The Publishing division markets books to bookstores, toy stores, specialty stores, museums, and other retail outlets. It distributes books through commissioned trade representati ves who call on book, toy, specialty stores, and other retail outlets; and through in-house marketing by telephone to the trade. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Hot Construction Material Companies To Watch In Right Now: Gentium SpA(GENT)
Gentium S.p.A., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the development and manufacture of its primary product candidate, defibrotide, an investigational drug based on a mixture of single-stranded and double-stranded DNA extracted from pig intestines. It develops defibrotide for the treatment and prevention of hepatic veno-occlusive disease (VOD), a condition that occurs when veins in the liver are blocked as a result of cancer treatments, such as chemotherapy or radiation, that are administered prior to stem cell transplantation. The company has completed a Phase III clinical trial of defibrotide for the treatment of severe VOD in the United States, Canada, and Israel; and a Phase II/III pediatric trial in Europe for the prevention of VOD. It also offers sulglicotide that is developed from swine duodenum, and has ulcer healing and gastrointestinal protective properties in South Korea; and urokinase, which is made from human urine to treat various vascular disorders, such as deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolisms. The company was formerly known as Pharma Research S.r.L. and changed its name to Gentium S.p.A. in July 2001. Gentium S.p.A. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Villa Guardia, Italy.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Roger]
Gentium is considered one of the best biotechnology stocks on the market, and offers a ROE that is terrific. The stock has been rebounding and while not at the 52 week high again yet it is quickly gaining.
Hot Construction Material Companies To Watch In Right Now: Nico Steel Holdings Limited(5GF.SI)
Nico Steel Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, provides metallurgical solutions. It provides metal slitting services; ferrous and non-ferrous raw materials in strip-in coils for the stamping and metal fabricating industries; metal shearing services for ferrous and non-ferrous raw materials in sheet form; and electro-plating process, material surface treatment, and chemistry blending for electronic products. The company serves consumer electronics, telecommunications, and the hard disk drive industries. It operates primarily in Singapore, the People?s Republic of China, Malaysia, and Thailand. The company is based in Singapore. Nico Steel Holdings Limited is a subsidiary of D.S.A.G Investment Pte Ltd.
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