Getty Images Wandering through the produce section of your local store can sometimes feel like running a gauntlet of uneasy moral choices. Organic or non-organic, cheap vs. expensive, locally grown or long-distance food, it often seems like every piece of fruit comes packaged with a set of uncomfortable choices ... and the wrong ones can lead to higher costs and poorer health. In general, the answer is that compromise can be your friend. If your main goal is eating healthily, sometimes you'll need to pay more -- and sometimes you'll need to buy food that was grown halfway across the country. The key is realizing when you need to make an exception, and when you don't. With that in mind, here are a few pointers to help you eat your best without breaking the bank. When You Should Buy Organic ... and When You Shouldn't Worry With all the horror stories surrounding pesticides and fertilizers, it's easy to understand why so many people have switched to organic fruits and vegetables. Organic veggies are grown without synthetically created chemical pesticide and fertilizers, genetically engineered proteins and ingredients, or sewage sludge, and they're not irradiated. For people who don't want their grapes to come with a side order of industrial chemicals, this can be a huge relief. The thing is, as great as buying organic sounds, it doesn't always matter. For many fruits and vegetables, their skins and peels, plus standard preparation techniques, provide a natural barrier to pesticides. The Environmental Working Group, a corporation that focuses on sustainability, has identified "the Dirty Dozen" and "the Clean 15" -- 12 fruits and vegetables that you should try to buy organic, and 15 for which -- health-wise -- it doesn't matter. The Dirty Dozen are strawberries, cherries, lettuce, grapes, spinach, bell peppers, celery, peaches, apples, nectarines, pears, and potatoes. For some, like strawberries and spinach, it's easy to see how their thin skins make them extra vulnerable to pests and diseases -- and, at the same time, easily contaminated by chemicals. Others, like peaches and apples, are tree fruits, which are liberally sprayed with pesticides. It also doesn't help that the dirty dozen are among the most popular fruits and veggies -- which means that they are grown in huge monoculture farms, which tend to use more chemicals. The Clean 15 are asparagus, avocados, cabbage, cantaloupe, sweet corn, eggplant, grapefruit, kiwi, mangoes, mushrooms, onions, papayas, pineapples, frozen sweet peas, and sweet potatoes. In some cases, such as pineapples and cantaloupe, it's easy to see how thick skins could protect the fruits from pests and chemicals. In other cases, like onions, natural pesticides probably help things along. As for eggplants and asparagus, the fact that they are less popular means that they are grown in smaller tracts -- which have fewer of the problems that are generally associated with vast monocultures. How Many Roads Must Your Food Drive Down? Another common ethical food question is locally grown vs. long-distance produce. Trucking fruits and vegetables across the country, shipping them by boat -- or, worse, flying them -- releases tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year. As an added plus, locally-grown food takes less time to get to your table -- which means that it can often be more nutritious and have fewer chemicals than non-local foods. There are also other issues. In terms of sustainability and economic growth, locally-grown foods support your local economy, especially if you buy them from independent farmers. They can also support food diversity, as small farms are less likely to rely on monocultures. And then there's the fact that fresher foods often taste better. Of course, a lot can depend on where you live. Many areas -- including my home in New York -- can have very limited offerings in the winter. If I was a strict locavore, my December diet would lean heavily toward late season veggies, hardy, easily-preserved veggies like cabbages and potatoes, with frozen and pickled food thrown in for variety. And the pickles and frozen peas, of course, have their own problems, including large amounts of salt and lower levels of nutrients. For that matter, the way your food is raised may have a major impact on its carbon footprint. As James E. McWilliams noted in Forbes, lamb production in New Zealand is less carbon-intensive than those in Great Britain, -- so much so that shipping lamb from the land of kiwis and hobbits is still less environmentally damaging than growing it in England. The same is true for those of us in the U.S.: often, it's less environmentally damaging to ship food from overseas farms than grow it locally. When it comes right down to it, eating well is more important than eating local, which means that, if you have to decide between a locally-grown turnip and a non-local lemon in the middle of cold season, you're probably better off with the lemon. In other words, eat local if you can afford it, and import it when you can't.
Top 5 Trucking Stocks For 2015: American Petro-Hunter Inc (AAPH.PK)
American Petro-Hunter Inc., incorporated on January 24, 1996, is an oil and natural gases exploration and production company with projects in Kansas and Oklahoma. As of March 15, 2012, the Company has two producing wells in Kansas and six producing wells in Oklahoma. The Company also has rights for the exploration and production of oil and gas on an aggregate of approximately 6,230 acres in those states. On January 4, 2011, the Company announced plans to drill the NOS227 Well as a direct offset to the NOJ26 Well.
On March 25, 2011, the Company announced that the Company had acquired a working interest in an additional 2,000 acres located in Payne County in northern Oklahoma, near the Company�� Yale Prospect. The project has been named North Oklahoma Mississippi Lime Project. On May 16, 2011, the Company announced that drilling operations had commenced at the Company�� first horizontal well, NOM1H. The Company owns a 25% Working Interest in the lease. On June 29, 2011, the Company announced that NOM1H had begun commercial production. On July 18, 2011, the Company announced drilling plans for a total of 11 horizontal wells at the North Oklahoma Project. On July 20, 2011, the Company announced the acquisition of a 40% working interest in the South Oklahoma Project on 3,000 acres of land in south-central Oklahoma.
On February 6, 2012, the Company announced that the Company had drilled a total of 1,988 feet in the horizontal well segment penetrating into the 100 plus foot thick Mississippi pay zone. As of March 2012, there are nine locations left to drill on the acreage. The Company's crude oil production is sold to N.C.R.A. in MacPherson Kansas and Sunoco in Oklahoma. The Company sells natural gas through such pipeline to DCP Midstream, LP of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Top 5 Trucking Stocks For 2015: First Uranium Corp Com Npv (FIU.TO)
First Uranium Corporation engages in the development and operation of uranium and gold projects in South Africa. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Toronto, Canada.
Top 10 Cheapest Stocks To Own For 2015: NB&T FINANCIAL GROUP INC(NBTF)
NB&T Financial Group, Inc. operates as a bank holding company for The National Bank and Trust Company that provides commercial banking and financial services to individuals and corporate customers in southwestern Ohio. The company offers various deposit products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market deposit accounts, and term certificate accounts. Its loan portfolio includes commercial and industrial loans, such as loans to automobile dealers and loans guaranteed by the small business administration; loans secured by commercial real estate; real estate construction loans for constructing commercial and residential buildings; agricultural loans, including loans to finance farm operations, equipment purchases, and land acquisition; loans secured by one- to four-family residential real estate and multifamily real estate; and consumer installment loans, such as home equity loans, automobile loans, recreational vehicle loans, and overdraft protection. The company also offers credit card services; and trust services that consists of trust administration, investment purchase and management, estate planning and administration, tax and financial planning, and employee benefit plan administration. As of December 31, 2010, it operated a main office in Wilmington, as well as 23 full-service branch offices and 1 remote drive-through automated teller machine facility in Brown, Clermont, Clinton, Highland, Montgomery, Warren, and Cuyahoga counties in Ohio. The company was founded in 1859 and is based in Wilmington, Ohio.
Top 5 Trucking Stocks For 2015: Prometic Life Sciences Inc (PLI.TO)
ProMetic Life Sciences Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the research, development, manufacturing, and marketing of small molecule therapeutics and protein technologies. The company operates in two segments, Therapeutics and Protein Technology. The Therapeutics segment develops various therapeutic products for various medical needs in the field of fibrosis, anemia, neutropenia, cancer, and autoimmune diseases/inflammation, as well as certain nephropathies. Its lead product includes PBI-1402, an orally active low molecular weight synthetic drug candidate for the treatment of chemotherapy induced anemia, cancer related anemia, and anemia associated with chronic kidney disease. This segment also engages in developing various compounds, including PBI-0110, PBI-1393, PBI-1522, PBI-1668, and PBI-1737 for the treatment of cancers and autoimmune diseases; and PBI-4050, PBI-4265, PBI-4283, PBI-4299, and PBI-4419 compounds for the treatment of hematology disorders. The P rotein Technology segment provides Plasma Protein Purification System, a solution for the extraction and purification of therapeutic proteins from human plasma; bioseparation products based on applications of its patented Mimetic Ligand technology for various pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies; and prion capture/pathogen removal technology platform that improves the safety profile of blood products and blood-derived therapeutics. The company was formerly known as Innovon Life Sciences Holdings Limited and changed its name to ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. in May 1998. ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Laval, Canada.
Top 5 Trucking Stocks For 2015: (FTE.AX)
Forte Energy NL engages in the exploration, evaluation, and development of uranium and energy-related projects worldwide. It holds 7 uranium exploration licences covering 8,103 square kilometers in the Republic of Mauritania, West Africa; and 4 uranium prospecting permits for uranium and rare earth elements covering 847 square kilometers located in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa. The company was formerly known as Murchison United NL and changed its name to Forte Energy NL in November 2008. Forte Energy NL is based in West Perth, Australia.
Top 5 Trucking Stocks For 2015: Paragon Shipping Inc.(PRGN)
Paragon Shipping Inc. provides shipping transportation services worldwide. The company engages in the ocean transportation of various drybulk cargoes and containers. Its fleet consists of 11 drybulk vessels with a total carrying capacity of 747,994 dwt. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Voula, Greece.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Roberto Pedone]
Another under-$10 name shipping player that's starting to move within range of triggering a big breakout trade is Paragon Shipping (PRGN), which is engaged in transporting drybulk cargoes, including such commodities as iron ore, coal, grain and other materials along shipping routes worldwide. This stock has been on fire so far in 2013, with shares up sharply by 114%.
If you take a look at the chart for Paragon Shipping, you'll notice that this stock just recently took out its 50-day moving average of $4.19 a share with strong upside volume. Shares of PRGN are showing relative strength today, despite the overall market weakness, which shows this stock is in strong demand at current levels. This move is now starting to push shares of PRGN within range of triggering a big breakout trade
Market players should now look for long-biased trades in PRGN if it manages to break out above some near-term overhead resistance at $4.90 a share with high volume. Look for a sustained move or close above that level with volume that hits near or above its three-month average action of 25,811 shares. If that breakout triggers soon, then PRGN will set up to re-test or possibly take out its 52-week high at $5.70 a share. If that level gets taken out with volume, then PRGN could easily tag its next major overhead resistance levels at $7 to $8.35 a share.
Traders can look to buy PRGN off weakness to anticipate that breakout and simply use a stop that sits right below its 50-day moving average of $4.19 a share, or below its 200-day moving average at $3.74 a share. One can also buy PRGN off strength once it clears $4.90 a share with volume and then simply use a stop that sits a comfortable percentage from your entry point. I would add to either position once PRGN takes out its 52-week high at $5.70 a share with strong upside volume flows.
Top 5 Trucking Stocks For 2015: Carbo Ceramics Inc. (CRR)
CARBO Ceramics Inc. manufactures and supplies resin-coated ceramic and resin-coated sand proppants primarily used in the hydraulic fracturing of natural gas and oil wells in the United States and internationally. The company offers proppants, including CARBOHSP and CARBOPROP designed for use in deep gas wells; CARBOLITE used in medium depth oil and gas wells; CARBOECONOPROP; CARBOHYDROPROP used to enhance performance in slickwater fracture treatments; CARBOBOND LITE for oil and natural gas wells that are subject to the risk of proppant flow-back; and CARBOBOND RCS, a conductivity proppant. It also provides fracture simulation software, as well as offers fracture design, engineering, and consulting services to oil and natural gas companies. In addition, the company provides a range of technologies for spill prevention, containment, countermeasures, and geotechnical monitoring, as well as offers monitoring systems and services for bridges, buildings, tunnels, dams, slopes, e mbankments, volcanoes, landslides, mines, and construction projects primarily for customers in auto racing teams, surveyors, experimental physicists, radio astronomers, and naval architects markets. It principally sells its products and services to operators of oil and natural gas wells, and oilfield service companies. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Maxx Chatsko]
Over the last two weeks, we have looked at a number of catalysts and risks for the world's largest ceramic proppant manufacturer CARBO Ceramics (NYSE: CRR ) . The list includes:
- [By John Udovich]
Yesterday, small cap fracking stock CARBO Ceramics Inc (NYSE: CRR) surged 28.32% after reporting earnings while fracking peer U.S. Silica Holdings Inc (NYSE: SLCA) jumped 9.50% and Hi-Crush Partners LP (NYSE: HCLP) rose 3.20%���no doubt on positive sentiment. However, are investors missing anything with CARBO Ceramics and�is it too late to get in on the action there?
Top 5 Trucking Stocks For 2015: Kestrel Gold Inc (KGC.V)
Kestrel Gold Inc., a gold exploration company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, evaluation, and development of mineral properties primarily in Canada and Argentina. It primarily explores for gold and copper deposits. The company�s principal properties include the King Solomon Dome project located in Yukon Territory, Canada; and the Huachi project located in the Andean Pre-cordillera mountains of the San Juan Province of Argentina. It also holds 100% interest in the Condoryacu and Maria Amalia mining properties in Argentina. The company was formerly known as Bling Capital Corp. and changed its name to Kestrel Gold Inc. in June 2010. Kestrel Gold Inc. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.
Top 5 Trucking Stocks For 2015: China Nepstar Chain Drugstore Ltd (NPD)
China Nepstar Chain Drugstore Ltd. operates retail drugstores in the People?s Republic of China. The company?s drugstores provide pharmacy services and other merchandise, including prescription drugs; over-the-counter drugs; nutritional supplements, such as healthcare supplements, vitamins, minerals, and dietary products; herbal products, including drinkable herbal remedies and packages of assorted herbs for making soup; and private label products. Its stores also offer personal care products, such as skin care, hair care, and beauty products; family care products, including portable medical devices for family use, birth control products, and early pregnancy test products; and convenience products, such as soft drinks, packaged snacks, other consumables, cleaning agents, and stationeries, as well as seasonal and promotional items. The company operates its stores under the China Nepstar brand name. As of December 31, 2009, its store network comprised 2,479 retail drugstores located in approximately 71 cities in Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Liaoning, Shandong, Hunan, Fujian, Sichuan, and Hubei provinces, as well as in Shanghai, Tianjin, and Beijing municipalities of the People?s Republic of China. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Shenzhen, the People?s Republic of China.
Top 5 Trucking Stocks For 2015: Key Tronic Corporation(KTCC)
Key Tronic Corporation, doing business as KeyTronicEMS Co., together with its subsidiaries, provides electronic manufacturing services (EMS) to original equipment manufacturers primarily in the United States, Mexico, and China. Its EMS services include product design, surface mount technologies for printed circuit board assembly, tool making, precision plastic molding, liquid injection molding, automated tape winding, prototype design, and full product builds. The company also manufactures keyboards and other input devices for personal computers. Key Tronic markets its products and services primarily through its direct sales department aided by field sales people and distributors. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Spokane Valley, Washington.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Lisa Levin]
Computer Peripherals: This industry rose 2.21% by 10:15 am ET. The top performer in this industry was Key Tronic (NASDAQ: KTCC), which gained 0.3%. Key Tronic's trailing-twelve-month ROE is 14.57%.
Top 5 Trucking Stocks For 2015: Enhanced Oil Resources Inc. (EOR.V)
Enhanced Oil Resources Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, development, operation, and exploration of crude oil and gas properties in the United States. The company produces oil and gas from three Permian Basin crude oilfields located in eastern New Mexico, as well as from oilfield properties located near Abilene, Texas. It produces oil and gas through infill drilling and enhanced recovery techniques utilizing CO2 injection. The company was formerly known as Ridgeway Petroleum Corp. and changed its name to Enhanced Oil Resources Inc. in June 2007. Enhanced Oil Resources Inc. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
Top 5 Trucking Stocks For 2015: Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc.(KTOS)
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. provides mission critical products, services, and solutions in the United States. The company?s Kratos Government Solutions segment offers various services comprising weapon systems sustainment, lifecycle support, and extension; command, control, communications, computing, combat systems, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance services, including cybersecurity, cyberwarfare, information assurance, and situational awareness solutions; military range operations and technical services; missile, rocket, and weapons systems test and evaluation; mission launch services; modeling and simulation; unmanned aerial vehicle products and technology; advanced network engineering and information technology services; and public safety, security, and surveillance systems integration. Its Public Safety & Security segment provides independent integrated solutions for homeland security, public safety, critical information, and security and su rveillance systems. This segment?s solutions consists of designing, installing, and servicing building technologies that protect people, critical infrastructure, assets, information, and property in various areas, such as the design, engineering, and operation of command and control centers; design, engineering, deployment, and integration of access control; building automation and control; communications; digital and closed circuit television security and surveillance; fire and life safety; maintenance services; and product support services. The company primarily serves the United States government agencies, including the department of defense, classified agencies, intelligence agencies, other national security agencies, and homeland security related agencies. The company was formerly known as Wireless Facilities, Inc. and changed its name to Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. in September 2007. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in San Diego, Cali fornia.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By William Patalon III]
Since we recommended Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Inc. (Nasdaq: KTOS) back on June 6, the stock has soared nearly 40%.
And we believe there's more to come.
Top 5 Trucking Stocks For 2015: Compagnie St.gobain(COD.L)
Compagnie de Saint-Gobain designs, manufactures, and distributes building materials worldwide. The company?s Innovative Materials segment offers flat glass, solar energy solutions, special glass for photovoltaic applications, photovoltaic panels and sub-assemblies, and electrochrome glass. This segment also engages in processing glass for the building industry and domestic appliances, and for the automotive and mass transit markets; and provides high-performance materials that comprise ceramics, plastics, abrasives, textile solutions, performance polymers, and glass fabrics, as well as NOVELIO glassfibre wallcoverings and particulate filters. Its Construction Products segment offers interior solutions, such as plasterboard and lightweight construction systems; gypsum plasters, including formulated plasters for building and industrial applications; ceiling systems comprising insulating and acoustic solutions; and other products for interior fittings, as well as glass wool, rock wool, and insulating foams. This segment also provides exterior solutions consisting of asphalt shingle tiles for roofing, poly vinyl chloride clapboard, fiber cement sidings, barriers, balustrades, and terrace materials; external wall rendering, floor-tiling products, technical mortars, and insulation systems; and taps and other plumbing equipment, as well as ductile cast iron piping for drinking water distribution, irrigation, sanitation, and rain-water drainage. The company?s Building Distribution segment distributes building materials; plumbing, heating, and sanitary ware products; and tiles. Its Packaging segment offers glass containers, makes bottles, and jars for foodstuffs and beverages. The company was founded in 1665 and is based in Courbevoie, France.
Top 5 Trucking Stocks For 2015: Ilookabout Corp(ILA.V)
iLOOKABOUT Corp. provides geo-coded image products that help commercial enterprises to explore, map, and manage with visual data. It offers iLOOKABOUT StreetScape, a geocoded image product that creates images for multiple user applications, supported by a proprietary storage and security system; and DropZone, a photo upload application, which enables the clients to upload their database of images with pre-set parameters and croppings to iLOOKABOUT for standardizing, organizing, and storing. The company also provides professional programming and development services; and geo-coding street-level image data collection, processing, and geo-coding services. iLOOKABOUT intends to build its image database in North America and Europe; and to license its image data to governments and related agencies, as well as to businesses in various industries, such as real estate, insurance, government agencies, utilities, property assessment, and financial institutions. The company was founde d in 2000 and is headquartered at London, Canada.
Top 5 Trucking Stocks For 2015: Gta Corpfin Capital Inc (GTA.V)
GTA Resources and Mining Inc. operates as a resource exploration company. The company primarily explores for gold. It owns Auden Property, which is located in Northern Ontario. The company was formerly known as GTA CorpFin Capital Inc. and changed its name to GTA Resources and Mining Inc. in June 2010. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is headquartered in Burlington, Canada.
Top 5 Trucking Stocks For 2015: Dycom Industries Inc.(DY)
Dycom Industries, Inc. provides specialty contracting services in the United States and Canada. The company?s services include engineering services, which comprise the design of service area concept boxes, terminals, buried and aerial drops, transmission and central office equipment, administration of feeder and distribution cable pairs, and fiber cable routing and design for telephone companies; and make-ready studies, strand mapping, field walk-out, computer-aided radio frequency design and drafting, and fiber cable routing and design for cable television multiple system operators. The company also provides construction, maintenance, and installation of splice fiber, copper, and coaxial cables to telephone companies; installation and maintenance of customer premise equipment, including set top boxes and cable modems to cable television multiple system operators; and premise wiring services, which include installation, repair, and maintenance of telecommunications infrast ructure within improved structures to various corporations, and state and local governments. In addition, Dycom offers underground utility locating services, such as locating telephone, cable television, power, water, sewer, and gas lines to various utility companies. Further, it provides construction and maintenance services for electric utilities and others, which include installing and maintaining overhead and underground power distribution lines, as well as maintenance and installation of underground natural gas transmission and distribution systems. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Ben Levisohn]
Shares of Harsco have gained 4.7% to $26.43 today at 1:16 p.m., outpacing other construction & engineering companies. Dycom (DY) has advanced 0.5% to $30, KBR Inc. (KBR) has ticked up 0.1% to $33.03, Worthington Industries�(WOR) has risen 2.8% to $38.85�and Tutor Perini (TPC) has rallied 3.6% to $22.46.
- [By Seth Jayson]
Dycom Industries (NYSE: DY ) reported earnings on May 21. Here are the numbers you need to know.
The 10-second takeaway
For the quarter ended April 27 (Q3), Dycom Industries beat expectations on revenues and beat expectations on earnings per share. - [By Brian Pacampara]
What: Shares of telecom contractor Dycom Industries (NYSE: DY ) climbed 11% today after its quarterly results and outlook topped Wall Street expectations.
- [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 Dycom Industries (NYSE: DY ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.
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