Hot Forestry Stocks To Invest In Right Now

Rentrak (Nasdaq: RENT  ) is expected to report Q4 earnings on June 13. Here's what Wall Street wants to see:

The 10-second takeaway
Comparing the upcoming quarter to the prior-year quarter, average analyst estimates predict Rentrak's revenues will expand 12.1% and EPS will turn positive

The average estimate for revenue is $27.6 million. On the bottom line, the average EPS estimate is $0.05.

Revenue details
Last quarter, Rentrak notched revenue of $24.9 million. GAAP reported sales were 12% higher than the prior-year quarter's $22.2 million.

Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Dollar amounts in millions. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.

EPS details
Last quarter, non-GAAP EPS came in at -$0.02. GAAP EPS were -$0.15 for Q3 versus -$0.18 per share for the prior-year quarter.

Source: S&P Capital IQ. Quarterly periods. Non-GAAP figures may vary to maintain comparability with estimates.

Top 10 Undervalued Companies To Invest In 2015: Tesla Motors Inc.(TSLA)

Tesla Motors, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells electric vehicles and advanced electric vehicle powertrain components. It offers Tesla Roadster, an electric sports car. The company markets and sells its vehicles directly to consumers through the phone and Internet, as well as through its network of Tesla stores. It operates 18 Tesla stores located in Boulder, Chicago, Los Angeles, Menlo Park, Miami, New York, Newport Beach, San Jose, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Copenhagen, London, Milan, Monaco, Munich, Paris, Tokyo, and Zurich. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By John Udovich]

  For reference, Real Goods Solar has installed more than 16,000 solar power systems representing well over 110 megawatts since 1978 and its one�of the nation's largest and most experienced solar power players with 17 offices across the West and the Northeast while SolarCity Corp offers solar power, energy efficiency and electric vehicle services in 14 states. And for better or for worst, its also run by a relative of Tesla Motors Inc�� (NASDAQ: TSLA) Elon Musk.

• [By Rick Aristotle Munarriz]

  Companies can make brilliant moves, but there are also times when things don't work out quite as planned. From a costly yet potentially lucrative acquisition by the world's largest search engine to a video game retailer wishing it had a cheat code for sales, here's a rundown of the week's best and worst in the business world. Tesla Motors (TSLA) -- Winner Tesla sells cool yet expensive electric cars, and business is starting to get charged up. Tesla revealed this week that it sold and delivered 6,900 cars during the fourth quarter, far more than it was originally targeting. Tesla had moved just 5,500 Model S sedans during the third quarter, with 1,000 of those going to Europe. That worried investors, because it pointed to the possibility of waning domestic demand for the plug-in speedsters. This encouraging announcement was enough to send the stock 16 percent higher on Tuesday. Tesla was one of last year's hottest stocks, and it's kicking off 2014 with the pedal to the metal. GameStop (GME) -- Loser Last quarter was supposed to be the video game industry's moment to shine. With the Xbox One and PS4 breathing new life into the console business, GameStop seemed to be sitting pretty and well-stocked with the systems that were in high demand this holiday season. Unfortunately, that wasn't enough. Hardware sales did nearly double at GameStop, but new software sales fell by a steeper than expected 22.5 percent. Owners of older systems aren't in a hurry to build up their libraries with games that aren't compatible with the new consoles, and Xbox One and PS4 owners are apparently not snapping up enough games to make up for it. This is bad news for GameStop, because its margins on software are a lot better than on hardware. The end result is that GameStop now expects to earn between $1.85 a share and $1.95 a share in the holiday quarter, well short of the $2.16 a share it earned a year earlier and its previous guidance that called for it to post a profit as high a

• [By Sue Chang]

  Tesla (TSLA) fell sharply on Friday, slipping into bear market territory, along with Netflix (NFLX) and Facebook (FB) . All three stocks have gained spectacularly in 2013, although Tesla shouldered the burden of becoming the poster child of momentum plays due to its 344% rally last year.

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  Shares of Tesla (TSLA) have surged in after-hours trading after the upstart automaker announced better-than-forecast earnings.

  Reuters Elon Musk, Chief Executive of Tesla Motors

  Tesla said it earned 33 cents a share, above forecasts for 21 cents, on sales of $761 million, ahead of forecasts for $677.36 million. Tesla also said it would produce 7,400 cars during the first quarter, up from 6,587 during the fourth quarter. Even better, Tesla’s profit margins should increase to 28% by the end of 2014, the company said, up from 25.2% in the fourth quarter. The only bad news: Tesla predicted that its operating expenses would grow by 15% during the first quarter of 2014, while research & development costs would also rise.

  Shares of Tesla have gained 14% to $220.92 in after-hours trading after dropping 4.9% during market hours.

  Earnings, however, might not have been the only factor in the big jump, however. Interactive Brokers’ Andrew Wilkinson explains:

  Hints in Wednesday’s earnings press release that Elon Musk may be ready to share news about Tesla�� giga-factory as well as positive forward guidance and better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings sent the electric-carmaker�� shares through a hyperloop ��trading towards $225 in aftermarket hours.

  At the close of options trading just ahead of the press release the 21Feb��4 195 strike straddle settled at $23.00 implying a move to as high as $218 and as low as $172 by Friday�� expiration resulting from an earnings inspired move. The bullish move in extended hours trading therefore exceeds expectations baked into the options market. Until the dust settles it remains unclear whether the momentum surrounds fresh buying or is the result of covering amongst the plentiful number of shorts.

  Stay tuned.

Hot Forestry Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Ishares Trust United States Treasury (TIP)

iShares Lehman TIPS Bond Fund (the Fund) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the inflation-protected sector of the United States Treasury market as defined by the Lehman Brothers U.S. Treasury TIPS Index (the Index). The Index includes all publicly issued, the United States Treasury inflation-protected securities that have at least one-year remaining to maturity, are rated investment grade and have $250 million or more of outstanding face value. In addition, the securities must be denominated in United States dollars and must be fixed-rate and non-convertible securities.

The Index is a market capitalization-weighted index. The Fund invests in a representative sample of the securities in the Index, which has a similar investment profile as the Index. The Fund�� investment advisor is Barclays Global Fund Advisor.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Dan Caplinger]

  In recent years, though, investors have discounted the potential impact of inflation on their portfolios. Consider these facts:

  Gold is the traditional safe-haven investment for those who believe that inflation will take away the purchasing power of paper currency. Yet the plunge in gold prices has led to a mass exodus of investor interest in gold, with the popular SPDR Gold Trust (NYSEMKT: GLD  ) losing billions of dollars not just due to price declines but also as investors have taken money out of the ETF entirely. Inflation-indexed bonds like the Treasury's TIPS have climbed so far in price that their real inflation-adjusted yields are negative, even for bonds that don't mature for another 20 years. That's been excellent news for existing investors in iShares Barclays TIPS Bond (NYSEMKT: TIP  ) and similar inflation-indexed bond investments, but it presents no inflation protection for those considering purchases now. The sole fly in the inflation ointment has come from energy prices, with gasoline and heating-oil prices having remained stubbornly high despite plentiful domestic production from unconventional plays as refiners Phillips 66 (NYSE: PSX  ) , Valero (NYSE: VLO  ) , and others have greatly boosted their exports of refined products rather than letting Americans reap the benefits of high supply. Yet even the oil market has seen international spreads narrow, and gasoline prices have finally started to come down modestly, providing further downward pressure on inflation.

  Based on the conventional understanding of inflation, you'd think that all these signs of its demise were a good thing. The truth is far less clear.

Hot Forestry Stocks To Invest In Right Now: MRG Metals Ltd (MRQ)

MRG Metals Limited is engaged in mineral exploration and production in Western Australia. The Company�� projects include the Xanadu gold project, the Mulgul copper prospect, the Braemore Battery prospect-Leonora, Diorite-Leonora and the Bellchambers. The Xanadu project consists of 14 prospecting license applications cover a total area of 26.7 square kilometers. The Mulgul exploration license application covers 336 square kilometers and is located 200 kilometers north of Meekatharra. The Company is acquiring nine granted prospecting licenses covering an area of 14.8 square kilometers, located five kilometers north of Leonora in the North-eastern Goldfields of Western Australia. Diorite is located 25 kilometers north of Leonora. There are three granted prospecting licenses covering an area of 5.42 square kilometers of greenstone lithologies. Effective June 28, 2013, MRG Metals Ltd (MRG) acquired Sasak Resources Australia Pty Ltd. Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Chuck Carnevale]

  In addition to rewarding their shareholders through dividend increases and capital appreciation, Aflac has also been using its prodigious cash flows to purchase shares and reduce share count. Fewer shares outstanding support their ability to grow earnings per share to the benefit of shareholders. Common shares outstanding have fallen from 531 million shares in fiscal 1998 to 466 million shares in their most recent quarter (MRQ).

• [By Magic Diligence]

  Neustar's Lines of Business1) Numbering Services: 53% of total revenue, grew 7% in most recent quarter (mrq). These consist of databases that allow number portability - allowing customers to keep the same phone number even when changing cellular carriers or moving to a new address in the same area. Neustar is currently the sole provider of these services to the number portability administration center, or NPAC. We'll come back to this important fact later.

Hot Forestry Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Suedzucker Mannheim Ochsenfurt AG (SZU)

Suedzucker Mannheim Ochsenfurt AG is a Germany-based company engaged in the processing of agricultural raw materials. The Company is organized, along with its subsidiaries, into four segments: the Sugar segment comprises sugar production and the agricultural division; the Special Products segment includes the activities of four divisions: BENEO, which produces and sells ingredients made from natural raw materials for food products and animal feed; the Freiberger Group is a producer of chilled and frozen pizzas, frozen pasta dishes and snacks; the PortionPack Europe group specializes in portion packs, and the starch division comprises starch companies in Hungary and Romania, bio-ethanol production in Austria and Hungary, as well as starch production facilities in Austria; the CropEnergies segment includes the bio-ethanol activities of the Company in Germany, Belgium and France, and the Fruit segment comprises the fruit juice preparations and fruit juice concentrates divisions. Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Jonathan Morgan]

  Volkswagen AG (VOW), Europe�� biggest automaker, climbed 3.7 percent as data showed European car sales increased for the first time in 19 months in April. Suedzucker AG (SZU) dropped to an eight-month low as J&E Davy Holdings Ltd. downgraded the shares.

Hot Forestry Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Vuzix Corp (VUZI)

Vuzix Corporation, incorporated in 1997, is engaged in the design, manufacture, marketing and sale of products for uses in the defense, consumer, and media and entertainment markets. The Company's products, known commercially as Video Eyewear (also referred to as head mounted displays, wearable displays, personal viewers, and near eye displays) are worn like eyeglasses and contain video displays that enable the user to view video and digital content, such as movies, computer data, the Internet or video games. It produces both monocular and binocular Video Eyewear devices. Its Video Eyewear are used in tactical, training and education, general entertainment, virtual reality and augmented reality applications. The Company focuses on two markets, such as consumer markets for gaming, entertainment and mobile video and the market for rugged mobile displays for defense markets. Its Virtual and Augmented Reality products are sold in the consumer, defense, industrial, commercial, academic and medical markets. Video Eyewear are designed to work with mobile electronic devices, such as cell phones, laptop computers, portable media players and gaming systems, as well as unmanned vehicles and sighting systems. In June 2012, the Company sold its business assets, which consisted of the Company's Tactical Display Group (TDG).

The Company has licensed and is developing thin optics that enables miniature display engines to be mounted in the temples of the HMDs. Its Video Eyewear products all employ micro displays that are smaller than one-inch diagonally, with some as small as one-quarter of an inch. They can display an image with a resolution of up to 12801080 pixels (High Definition (HD)). Images are viewed through the Company's optics. Using these optics and displays, its Video Eyewear provide an image that appears similar to the image on a full size computer screen in an office desktop environment or the image on a large flat panel television viewed from normal home television viewing distances.

The Company's Video Eyewear products can also be used for a number of industrial applications, including for use as remote camera viewfinder displays and wearable computer displays, for viewing of industrial thermal signature systems, for providing hands-free access to manuals and other information and for on-site, in-the-field maintenance, servicing, training and education. It offers products that enable development and deployment of augmented reality (AR) applications. This type of Video Eyewear enables its wearer to see computer-generated information, graphics or images projected into the real world environment or upon an object that the user is observing.

Binocular Video Eyewear Products

The Company's binocular Video Eyewear products contain two microdisplays (a separate display for each eye), typically mounted in a frame attached to eyeglass-style temples. These products enable mobile and hands-free private viewing of video content on screens that simulate home theater-sized screens. For the consumer markets, it produces a line of binocular Video Eyewear products, all of which support three-dimensional (3D) applications.

The Company offers three models, differentiated primarily by their native resolution and virtual apparent displays size. Wrap 310XL has WQVGA (420x240 three-color pixels) resolution, which simulates a 55-inch screen viewed at 10 feet. Wrap 920 has VGA (640x480 three-color pixels) resolution, which simulates a 67-inch screen viewed at 10 feet. Wrap 1200 has WVGA (852x480 three-color pixels) resolution, which simulates a 75-inch screen viewed at 10 feet.

The Company�� Wrap AR and VR Viewers include Wrap 920VR and Wrap 1200VR, Wrap 920AR and Star 1200. Wrap 920VR and Wrap 1200VR contain the Company's three degrees of freedom head tracking technology, which enables the user to look around the environment being viewed by moving his or her head. Wrap 920AR is designed to plug into a computer�� universal serial bus (USB) and ! video por! ts. Star 1200 is the Company's first AR Video Eyewear product with see-thru technology that enables the user to see the real world directly through and around its transparent wide video graphics array (WVGA) widescreen video displays. Computer content, such as text, images and video can be overlaid on the displays in full color two dimensional (2D) or 3D.

Monocular Video Eyewear Products

The Company's Tac-Eye monocular (single eye) high-resolution Video Eyewear models are ruggedized and designed to clip onto a pair of ballistic sunglasses, helmets or conventional safety goggles. Tac-Eye enables users to have wearable, private, secure and hands-free access to high-resolution content or information. It can be used with the large installed base of rugged laptops, unmanned vehicles, video based radio receivers, security and night vision cameras and thermal night vision sights, including those systems, which the Company supply as a subcontractor to the United States Defense Department.

Defense Sub-Assembly, Custom Solutions and Engineering Solutions

The Company is part of contracting teams that produce display drive electronic subassemblies for light, medium, and heavy weights thermal weapon systems for United States and allied defense forces. The Company is also a supplier of light engine subassemblies for Clip-on Thermal Imagers (COTI). The COTI is designed to clip onto existing image intensifier night vision goggles to give them thermal imaging capabilities. It provides full optics systems, including head mounted displays, human computer interface devices, and wearable computers as prototypes under multiple armed services test programs. These are being tested, and in some cases deployed, in applications, such as the remote control of unmanned vehicles and virtual and augmented defense equipment training systems.

The Company competes with Motorola, Inc., Nokia Corporation, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB, Research In Motion Limited, Sa! msung Ele! ctronics Co., Ltd., LG Electronics, Apple Inc., Liteye Systems, Inc., Lumus, Shimadzu Corporation, Microvision, Kopin, Creative Display Systems, LLC, OASYS Technology, LLC, Rockwell Collins, Inc., Kaiser and Microvision Corporation.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Bryan Murphy]

  Although the market seems to be losing traction, and even losing ground now, the same can't be said of every single stock. A handful of stocks like China Jo-Jo Drugstores Inc. (NASDAQ:CJJD), Vuzix Corp. (OTCBB:VUZI), and Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corp. (NASDAQ:ADMP) are forging ahead, doling out gains against the grain. Not that moving higher while other names are moving lower is a sure sign that ADMP, VUZI, and CJJD will remain in their uptrends indefinitely, but it sure doesn't hurt their odds. Here's a closer look at each one and why you'd want to add them to your watchlist.