Top 10 Low Price Companies To Watch For 2014

Despite a recovering U.S. economy, teenage unemployment remains high. Teen apparel retailers such as Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (ANF) and Aeropostale Inc. (ARO) seek to continue growing in this unfavorable macroeconomic scenario, yet they face fierce competition. As of late, both these firms have had a hard time connecting with customers due to merchandising missteps, which have placed their business in a tough spot.

Discount Retailer with Poor Prospects

The mall-based apparel retailer Aeropostale caters fashion basics at low prices for teenagers and children. At its 995 company own stores, the firm provides merchandise for 14 to 17-year-olds, which constitute the company�� core customers. After becoming one of the most shopped brands in the U.S., however, Aeropostale fell out of favor when its products failed to meet fashion trends. John Hussman of Hussman Economtrics Advisors saw this negative trend and decided to sell his entire stake in the firm earlier this year.

With the teen apparel industry suffering from reduced traffic and very aggressive discounting, Aeropostale has been forced into a discounting cycle. Despite being historically more promotional than its competitors, the firm reduce prices further in order to keep up with the competition. However, this business strategy has resulted in reduced margins for the company. Offering better merchandise for similar prices, fast growing fashion retailers such as H&M and Forever 21 have been stealing market share from Aeropostale for years now. Hence, the main issue the firm faces is tricky fashion trends. As long as the business strategy does not get the fashion right, it will be increasingly hard to expand its customer base, or even sustain current sales levels.

Top 10 Low Price Companies To Watch For 2014: ORBCOMM Inc.(ORBC)

ORBCOMM Inc., a wireless data communications company, operates commercial wireless messaging system optimized for narrowband data communications primarily in the United States and Japan. The company?s services enable businesses and government agencies to track, monitor, control, and communicate with fixed and mobile assets. It also provides customers with technology to monitor, manage, and remotely control refrigerated transportation assets. The company provides these services through a constellation of 27 low-Earth orbit or LEO satellites, 2 AIS microsatellites, and accompanying ground infrastructure. In addition, it offers terrestrial-based cellular communication services through reseller agreements with cellular wireless providers. The company markets and sells its products and services directly to original equipment manufacturers, government customers, and end-users, as well as through value-added resellers, international value-added resellers, international licensees , and country representatives. It serves various markets, such as commercial transportation, heavy equipment, fixed asset monitoring, marine vessels, and refrigerated transportation, as well as government and homeland security/Automatic Identification System. As of December 31, 2011, the company had approximately 648,000 billable subscriber communicators. ORBCOMM Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Top 10 Low Price Companies To Watch For 2014: Pacer International Inc.(PACR)

Pacer International, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides asset-light transportation and logistics services primarily in North America, Asia, Europe, Australia, South America, and Africa. It operates in two segments, Intermodal and Logistics. The Intermodal segment offers intermodal rail transportation, local cartage and trucking, intermodal marketing services, container capacity, on-site operational services, and door-to-door shipment management services. As of December 31, 2011, its equipment fleet consisted of 1,592 double-stack railcars, 18,183 containers, and 12,783 chassis. The Logistics segment provides highway brokerage, warehousing and distribution, international freight forwarding, ocean and air shipping, and supply chain management services, as well as offers non-vessel-operating common carrier to end-user customers. The company markets and supports its services to cargo owners, steamship lines, truckload carriers, truck brokers, and freight forwarders , as well as other third party transportation service providers, such as intermodal marketing companies, third-party logistics companies, and shippers? agents through its direct sales and customer service representatives. Pacer International, Inc. was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ohio.

Best Dividend Stocks To Buy For 2014: Oceana Gold Com Npv(OGC.TO)

OceanaGold Corporation engages in the exploration, development, and operation of gold and other mineral properties primarily in New Zealand and the Philippines. It owns interests in the Macraes gold project that comprises the Macraes open pit gold mine and the Frasers underground gold mine; and the Reefton mine, which consists of a series of open pits located on the south Island of New Zealand. The company also holds interest in the Didipio gold-copper project located in Luzon Island, the northern Philippines. In addition, it owns interest in the Junction Reefs joint venture exploration leases in New South Wales, Australia. The company is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

Top 10 Low Price Companies To Watch For 2014: Cresval Capital Corp. (CRV.V)

Cresval Capital Corp., a junior exploration company, engages in the exploration and development of base and precious metals in Canada. It primarily explores for copper, gold, silver, and molybdenum deposits. The company owns a 100% interest in Bridge River copper project consisting of approximately 7.212 hectares comprising 16 mineral tenure online claims located north of Vancouver, British Columbia; and a 100% interest in the New Raven Project covering approximately an area of 2,707 hectares located near Lillooet in southwestern British Columbia. Cresval Capital was incorporated in 2001 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Top 10 Low Price Companies To Watch For 2014: Oncolytics Biotech Com Npv (ONC.TO)

Oncolytics Biotech Inc., a biotechnology company, focuses on the development of oncolytic viruses as potential cancers therapeutics. The company develops REOLYSIN, a human cancer therapeutic. Its clinical program includes various human trials comprising a Phase III clinical trial in head and neck cancers using REOLYSIN, its proprietary formulation of the human reovirus. Oncolytics Biotech Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Top 10 Low Price Companies To Watch For 2014: Provident New York Bancorp(PBNY)

Provident New York Bancorp operates as the bank holding company for Provident Bank that provides commercial, community business, and retail banking products and services to businesses, individuals, and municipalities in New York and New Jersey. It offers various deposit products, such as savings accounts, NOW accounts, checking accounts, money market accounts, club accounts, certificates of deposit, commercial checking accounts, IRAs, and other qualified plan accounts. The company?s loan portfolio includes commercial real estate, commercial business, and one-to four-family real estate loans; acquisition, development, and construction loans; and consumer loans, including homeowner, home equity lines of credit, new and used automobile loans, and personal unsecured loans, such as fixed-rate installment loans and variable lines of credit. In addition, it provides services, including cash management, sweep accounts, insurance agency, investment advisory, asset and investment m anagement, and Internet banking services. As of September 30, 2011, Provident New York Bancorp operated 30 retail branches and 7 commercial banking centers in the Hudson Valley region. The company was formerly known as Provident Bancorp, Inc. and changed its name to Provident New York Bancorp in June 2005. Provident New York Bancorp was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Montebello, New York.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Jon C. Ogg]

  The M&T Bank Corp. (NYSE: MTB) and Hudson City Bancorp Inc. (NASDAQ: HCBK) transaction is the only pending deal of 2012 vintage due to various regulatory concerns. MTB currently has 9% short interest outstanding and PACW 15%. Another merger covered is the deal between Provident New York Bancorp (NASDAQ: PBNY) and Sterling Bancorp (NYSE: STL), and the balance are simply too small for us to warrant effort.

Top 10 Low Price Companies To Watch For 2014: UniTek Global Services Inc.(UNTK)

UniTek Global Services, Inc. provides outsourced infrastructure and technical services to the wireless and wireline telecommunications, satellite television, and broadband cable industries in the United States and Canada. Its services include network engineering and design services for underground plant construction, aerial infrastructure, and multi-dwelling content delivery; and construction and project management services for the cable and wireline telecommunication industries, which comprise systems engineering, aerial and underground construction, regular maintenance of the distribution facilities and networks, emergency services for accidents or storm damage, routine replacements, and upgrades of network overhauls. The company?s services also include comprehensive installation and fulfillment services that comprise residential and commercial installation, warehousing/logistics, call centers, inventory management, customer service compliance, fleet management, and ris k and safety related services. In addition, it offers wireless telecommunication infrastructure services, which include communications infrastructure equipment construction and installation; radio frequency and network design, and engineering; radio transmission base station installation and modification; in-building network design, engineering, and construction; and site acquisition services. Further, the company provides systems integration services for communications projects for transportation, public safety, entertainment, hospitality, and enterprise-grade commercial real estate projects. UniTek Global Services, Inc. was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Laura Brodbeck]

  Wednesday

  Earnings Expected From: Accretive Health, Inc (NYSE: AH), Monsanto Company (NYSE: MON), UniTek Global Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: UNTK) Economic Releases Expected: Eurozone interest rate decision and PPI data, US National Employment Report, British construction PMI

  Thursday

• [By CRWE]

  UniTek Global Services, Inc. (Nasdaq:UNTK), a premier provider of permanently outsourced infrastructure services to the telecommunications, broadband cable, wireless, two-way radio, transportation, public safety and satellite industries, reported that Chief Financial Officer and Co-Manager of the Interim Office of the CEO, Ronald J. Lejman, will present at the Credit Suisse Engineering & Construction Conference on Thursday, June 7th at 1:55 p.m. Eastern time.

Top 10 Low Price Companies To Watch For 2014: Regis Resources Ltd (RRL)

Regis Resources Limited is principally engaged in the production of gold from the Moolart Well gold mine, construction of the Garden Well gold mine and exploration, evaluation and development of gold projects in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia. The Company operates in two segments: Duketon Gold Project (being the Moolart Well Gold Mine) and the Garden Well Gold Project. The Company�� Duketon Gold project is located in the Laverton region 350 kilometers north-northeast of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The project consists a tenement packaging covering over 2,000 square kilometers of ground. Its Moolart Well Gold Mine is located within the Duketon Gold Project. Its Garden Well is a shear hosted Archaean orogenic gold deposit located 100 kilometers north of Laverton in the Duketon Greenstone Belt in Western Australia. On August 9, 2012, it announced that it had executed a letter of agreement to acquire the McPhillamys Gold Project in the Bathurst region of New South Wales.

Top 10 Low Price Companies To Watch For 2014: Silicon Laboratories Inc.(SLAB)

Silicon Laboratories Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, designs, develops, and markets analog-intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs). The company offers broad-based products, which include microcontrollers, clocks and oscillators, wireless transceivers, digital isolators and related products, and human interface sensors and controllers; broadcast products comprising radio receivers and transmitters, and video tuners and demodulators; and access products consisting of embedded modems, subscriber line interface circuits, Voice over IP (VoIP) products, and power over Ethernet devices, as well as DSL analog front end ICs and IRDA devices. It provides ICs for use in various electronic applications, such as portable devices, AM/FM radios, and other consumer electronics, as well as networking, test and measurement, industrial monitoring and control, and customer premises equipment. The company markets its products through direct sales force, and through a networ k of independent sales representatives and distributors in the United States, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Japan, and internationally. Silicon Laboratories Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Rich Smith]

  Austin, Texas-based Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ: SLAB  ) , which chose a new chief financial officer last month, has now found him a bit of extra work to do.

Top 10 Low Price Companies To Watch For 2014: Polaris Minerals C Com Npv (PLS.TO)

Polaris Minerals Corporation engages in the development and operation of construction aggregate properties and projects. The company holds an 88% interest in the Orca Quarry, a sand and gravel project, which covers an area of approximately 350 hectares of land located in the northwest of Port McNeill, British Columbia; and a 70% interest in the Eagle Rock Quarry project, a granite resource that covers an area of approximately 339 hectares situated on deep tidewater alongside the Alberni Inlet near Port Alberni, British Columbia. It serves various customers involved in concrete manufacturing in North America and Hawaii. The company has a strategic alliance with Cemex, Inc. for the development of a terminal and quarry. Polaris Minerals Corporation was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.