LONDON -- To me, capital growth and dividend income are equally important. Together, they provide the total return from any share investment and, as you might expect, my aim is to invest in companies that can beat the total return delivered by the wider market.
To put that aim into perspective, the FTSE 100 has provided investors with a total return of around 3% per annum since January 2008.
Quality and value
If my investments are to outperform, I need to back companies that score well on several quality indicators, and buy at prices that offer decent value.
So, this series aims to identify appealing FTSE 100 investment opportunities, and today ,I'm looking at Tesco (LSE: TSCO ) (NASDAQOTH: TSCDY ) , the well-known supermarket chain.
With the shares at 366 pence, Tesco's market cap. is 29,520 million pounds.
Top Supermarket Companies To Buy For 2014: Accelrys Inc.(ACCL)
Accelrys, Inc. develops and commercializes scientific business intelligence software and solutions in the United States, Europe, and the Asia Pacific. The company offers Pipeline Pilot, Accelrys enterprise R&D platform, which allows users to aggregate, integrate, and mine structured and unstructured scientific data, such as chemical structures, biological sequences, and complex digital images; and filters, normalizes, and performs statistical analysis on the scientific data and provides visual reports to scientists and scientific managers. It also provides computer aided design modeling and simulation software that allows scientists to perform computations of chemical, biological, and materials properties to simulate, visualize, and analyze chemical and biological systems, as well as communicate the results to other scientists; and data management and informatics software to capture, store, manage, and mine scientific data information. In addition, the company offers Enter prise Lab Notebook, which provides a digital environment to plan, execute, record, store, back-up, and share daily research activities; lab execution systems; and content databases to support research activities through a collection of factual databases and reference works. Further, it provides software wrappers that allows customers to run their own algorithms on the company?s R&D platform; enterprise-wide informatics systems, which integrate customers? internal systems with software from various vendors; contract research services; onsite training and implementation, Web-based training, and data migration services; and support services. The company serves pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agricultural, energy, chemicals, aerospace, consumer packaged goods, and industrial product industries, as well as government and academic entities through direct sales force, telesales, and distributors. Accelrys, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
Top Supermarket Companies To Buy For 2014: Oil States International Inc.(OIS)
Oil States International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides specialty products and services to the oil and gas drilling and production companies worldwide. It operates in four segments: Accommodations, Offshore Products, Well Site Services, and Tubular Services. The Accommodations segment offers temporary and permanent work force accommodation services for people working in remote locations. The Offshore Products segment designs and manufactures flexible bearings and connector products; sub sea pipeline products; marine winches, mooring systems, and cranes and rig equipment; and conductor casing connections and pipes, as well as provides blowout preventer stack assembly, integration, testing, and repair services; and drilling riser and related repair services. The Well Site Services segment offers a range of products and services that are used to drill for, and establish and maintain the flow of oil and gas from a well throughout its lifecycle. This segment engages in the rental of wireline and coiled tubing pressure control equipment; wellhead isolation equipment; pipe recovery systems; thru-tubing fishing services; hydraulic chokes and manifolds; blow out preventers; well testing and flowback equipment; gravel pack operations on well bores; and surface control equipment and down-hole tools utilized by coiled tubing operators. This segment also provides land drilling services. The Tubular Services segment distributes a range of casing and tubing products; and offers threading, logistical, and inventory management services. The company serves national oil companies, independent oil and gas companies, onshore and offshore drilling companies, and other oilfield service and mining companies. Oil States International, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is based in Houston, Texas.
Top Oil Companies For 2014: Sing Investments & Finance Ltd (S35.SI)
Sing Investments & Finance Limited provides financing services to individuals and corporations in Singapore. The company offers various loan and financing products, including housing loans, commercial property loans, HDB home loans, car loans, share loans, shipping loans, and land and construction loans, as well as block discounting financing, floor stock financing, machinery financing, and local enterprise finance scheme products. It also accepts deposit products, such as fixed deposits and savings accounts. In addition, the company provides invoice factoring/account receivables; and nominee and safe deposit box services, as well as leases properties. Sing Investments & Finance Limited is headquartered in Singapore.
Top Supermarket Companies To Buy For 2014: Network Equipment Technologies Inc.(NWK)
Network Equipment Technologies, Inc. (NET), together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of voice and data telecommunications equipment for multi-service networks and associated services used by government organizations, enterprises, and carriers worldwide. The company offers voice solutions, such as the VX Series and the Quintum Series of switching media gateways that provide enterprise customers with voice interoperability solutions, IP-based solutions to government agencies, and traditional VoIP switching gateway solutions for SMBs and smaller branch offices within large enterprises. It offers multi-service solutions, which comprise Promina product line, a multi-service platform that provides network reliability and security; NX1000 platform, which offers a WAN switching solution to enable applications to integrate and aggregate into IP-based networks; and NX5010 platform that enables secure interconnection and extension of g eographically distributed grid computing clusters and storage area networks, providing data transfer. The company also offers SmartSIP product that allows standard SIP phones to be provisioned and used as extensions in a Microsoft Lync Server 2010 deployment. In addition, it provides installation and other professional services; hardware and software maintenance programs, parts repair, remote and on-site technical assistance, and customer training; and Web-based services. The company serves government customers, which include various federal and international agencies and organizations, such as civilian and defense agencies, and resellers to such entities; and enterprise customers comprising large enterprises, and small-to mid-sized businesses in various sectors. NET sells its products directly, as well as through relationships with integrators, resellers, and vendors of related technologies. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Fremont, California.
Top Supermarket Companies To Buy For 2014: NATIONAL GRID TRACO ord gbp0.10(NG.L)
National Grid plc owns and operates regulated electricity and gas infrastructure networks in the United Kingdom and northeastern United States. The company operates high voltage electricity transmission networks and gas distribution systems in the Great Britain, New York, and New England; gas transmission networks in the Great Britain; electricity distribution networks in New York and New England; and electricity generation facilities in New York. It also owns and operates electricity interconnector between England and France; and a 224 kilometer transmission interconnector between England and Canada; and 3 liquefied natural gas storage activities in the Great Britain. The company serves residential and commercial consumers. It delivers gas through its approximately 132,000 kilometers gas distribution pipeline network to approximately 10.8 million customers in the United Kingdom; distributes electricity to approximately 3.4 million customers in New England and upstate New York; and distributes gas through its approximately 58,000 kilometers gas pipeline network to approximately 3.5 million consumers. The company also owns 57 electricity generation units on Long Island that provide approximately 4.1 gigawatt of power. Its electricity generation units generate power from oil, gas, and diesel fuel sources. National Grid plc was founded in 1990 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.
Top Supermarket Companies To Buy For 2014: Dundee Mines Ltd (DUN.V)
Duncastle Gold Corp., engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of natural resource properties in British Columbia, Canada. It primarily explores for gold, copper, molybdenum, tungsten, silver, lead, zinc, and base metals deposits. The company holds an option to acquire a 100% interest in the Porphyry Creek property consisting of 42 mineral claims located in the Omineca Mining District, British Columbia, Canada; and a 100% interest in the Yankee Dundee property consisting of 26 crown-granted mineral claims located in the Nelson Mining District, British Columbia, Canada. It also holds a 100% interest in the Drayton property consisting of 7 mining claims located in the Drayton Township in Ontario, Canada. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
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