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  • Industrial Giants Keying In To Big Markets

    By Reuben Brewer - May 8, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, GE, LUFK, PWER

    General Electric (NYSE: GE) and ABB (NYSE: ABB) have both announced big acquisitions, and there are lessons to learn from their purchases.

    Industrial Conglomerates

    GE and ABB are both large industrial conglomerates. ABB hails from Switzerland and has operations in more than 100 countries around the world. GE is a U.S. company with a similar geographic reach. Although GE is over four times the size of ABB, they are more »

  • Advanced Energy - A Solid Growth Company

    By HM Joshi - May 3, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, AEIS, MKSI, PWER

    According to a U.S. Solar Market Insight report, the solar market grew by 7% in terms of megawatts capacity in 2012, as compared to previous year. The market for solar energy devices is growing, as the usage of solar energy grows worldwide. There are several industry-level as well as business-level catalysts that are poised to drive growth for the solar energy sector.

    Advanced Energy (NASDAQ: AEIS) makes power conversion more »

  • Will This Electric Equipment Stock Shine After This Deal?

    By Shas Dey - May 3, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, GE, SI

    Just as ABB (NYSE: ABB) reported higher first-quarter profit, partly due to increased sales on account of acquisition of Thomas and Betts last year, the company announced that it has agreed to acquire the U.S. solar company, Power One. The deal marks the entry of the Swiss electrical engineering company into solar power. The acquisition assumes greater significance in light of the acknowledgment by the CEO that there was more »

  • Finding an Investment Story on the Grid

    By Robert Hanley - May 2, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, AZZ, PWER, POWR

    It’s no secret that America needs to upgrade its electricity grid, the infrastructure that delivers power to millions of homes and businesses across the country.  While fossil fuels provide the source for most of that power today, renewable energy will be increasingly important as its production costs reach parity with traditional fuels.  Even Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has been getting in on the action, with large investments in more »

  • Are These Solar Bets Winners?

    By Jacob Wolinsky - April 30, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, CREE, ENPH

    Swiss industrial giant ABB  (NYSE: ABB) surprised markets by announcing a deal to acquire solar-inverter manufacturer Power-One for nearly $1 billion in cash. The offer price of $6.35 per share was a huge premium of 57% to Power One’s market price, and it was natural for the stock to get a boost after the deal came to public light. This is in contrast to the overall trend for more »

  • This Company Sells at a Huge Discount and Has No Debt

    By Mike Thiessen - April 18, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, EMR, TECUA

    Despite a share-price jump that has increased its market value by about 40 percent during the past quarter, Tecumseh Products Company (NASDAQ: TECUA) continues to trade at a fraction of its tangible book value. As of early April of 2013, the company's market capitalization was just 60 percent of its book value. Incredibly, this marks a tremendous improvement; for much of 2011 and 2012, Tecumseh traded at less than more »

  • Huge Discount To Book and No Debt

    By Mike Thiessen - April 16, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, EMR, TECUA

    Despite a share-price jump that has increased its market value by about 40 percent during the past quarter, Tecumseh Products Company (NASDAQ: TECUA) continues to trade at a fraction of its tangible book value. As of early April of 2013, the company's market capitalization was just 60 percent of its book value. Incredibly, this marks a tremendous improvement; for much of 2011 and 2012, Tecumseh traded at less than more »

  • These Stocks Could Benefit From Sector Strength

    By Damon Churchwell - April 16, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, CHMT, VMI

    Searching through stocks, I have come across the usual suspects in terms of price upside. There might even have been some unwarranted selling off in certain quality issues. Although not without their downside risks, here are a few that could make for wise additions to a portfolio at this juncture.

    Chemtura Corp.

    Chemtura (NYSE: CHMT) resides in the specialty chemical sector, one I've discussed previously, most recently in the more »

  • These Stocks Could Benefit From Sector Strength

    By Damon Churchwell - April 16, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, CHMT, VMI

    Searching through stocks, I have come across the usual suspects in terms of price upside. There might even have been some unwarranted selling off in certain quality issues. Although not without their downside risks, here are a few that could make for wise additions to a portfolio at this juncture.

    Chemtura Corp.

    Chemtura (NYSE: CHMT) resides in the specialty chemical sector, one I've discussed previously, most recently in the more »

  • These Stocks Could Benefit From Sector Strength

    By Damon Churchwell - April 13, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, CHMT, VMI

    Searching through stocks, I have come across the usual suspects in terms of price upside. There might even have been some unwarranted selloff in certain quality issues. Although not without their downside risks, here are a few that could make for wise additions to a portfolio at this juncture.

     Chemtura Corp.

    Chemtura (NYSE: CHMT) resides in the specialty chemical sector, one I've discussed previously, most recently in the blog more »

  • This Stock Should Not Trade Below Book Value

    By Mark Lin - April 12, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, GTI, UTX

    GrafTech International (NYSE: GTI) is not justified trading at a significant discount to its peers, give its status as the market leader in graphite electrodes, a need-to-have product in  electric arc furnaces business. Furthermore it is trading below its book value, the type of valuation reserved for unprofitable and heavily leveraged companies. This is not the case with GrafTech International.

    Headquartered in Parma, Ohio, GrafTech provides graphite material solutions for more »

  • Dividends from Industrial Giants

    By Reuben Brewer - April 6, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, EMR, GE

    The technology industry has for years profited from helping companies operate more efficiently. IT isn't the only place where efficiencies can be found, however, and industrial giants ABB (NYSE: ABB), Emerson Electric (NYSE: EMR), and General Electric (NYSE: GE) all stand to benefit from helping customers do more with less.

    Machines for the Future

    The computer has allowed companies the world over to dump paper and replace it with more »

  • Dividends From Industrial Giants

    By Reuben Brewer - April 3, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, EMR, GE

    The technology industry has for years profited from helping companies operate more efficiently. IT isn't the only place where efficiencies can be found, however, and industrial giants ABB (NYSE: ABB), Emerson Electric (NYSE: EMR), and General Electric (NYSE: GE) all stand to benefit from helping customers do more with less.

    Machines for the Future

    The computer has allowed companies the world over to dump paper and replace it with more »

  • This Industrial Stock Could be a Decent Opportunistic Play

    By Anh HOANG - March 28, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, EMR, SPW

    Recently, Relational Investors has accumulated up to a 9.9% stake in an industrial conglomerate SPX Corporation (NYSE: SPW). The move of this activist shareholder might indicate that SPX has potential that needs to be unlocked. According to Barron’s, Nigel Cole, a Morgan Stanley analyst, thought that SPX might be worth around $119 per share in a sum-of-all-parts analysis, a 52% premium to its current trading price of around more »

  • This Stock Could be a Bargain after Sell-Off

    By Alex Bastardas - March 25, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, GTI, UTX

    In a bullish market that trades near historical highs, investors are constantly in the look-out for bargains: Graf-Tech International Ltd. (NYSE: GTI) might just be what they are looking for. The company is a manufacturer and provider of synthetic and natural graphite and carbon-based products. It operates in two segments: On one hand, the Industrial Materials segment, the main clients of which being steel companies, and, on the other, the more »

  • Stability or Growth - This Industry has Both

    By Nitesh santhalia - February 20, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, EMR, GE

    Investors in Emerson Electric (NYSE: EMR) have a reason to smile as its fiscal 2013 took off with solid first quarter results. Fiscal 2012 was modest, but the company's high exposure in promising markets like China can help it recover and grow this year.

    Number churning

    Emerson reported revenue of $5.55 billion, compared to $5.31 billion in the same period last year, slightly better than analyst estimates more »

  • 20 Beneficiaries of the Shale Gas Boom

    By Masam Abbas - January 17, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, DRC, EMR, GE, SI

    Repercussions from the surge in unconventional energy sources are being felt across the capital goods space, particularly in those verticals that are closely tied to gas power generation. Therefore, I believe this is a theme that will become particularly investable in 2013.

    Electrical equipment Industry

    Pressure pump manufacturers: The pressure pump manufacturers are the most direct beneficiaries in capital goods of the shale gas revolution, particularly if this extends from more »

  • 2012 Robotic Stocks Wrap-up

    By Frank Tobe - January 7, 2013 | Tickers: ABB, ARAY, ISRG, IRBT, MAKO | Editor's Choice

    By Frank Tobe, Editor and Publisher, The Robot Report

    If an enterprising firm set up a mutual fund reflecting the worldwide robotics industry, they might choose to separate their picks into three segments, which might look something like this:

    1. Industrial Robot Manufacturers
    2. Service Robot Makers of security, defense and space robots
    3. Service Robot Makers of robots for all other purposes

    Although I am neither a broker nor an analyst, I more »

  • This Automation Company is a Good Long Term Buy

    By Sandeep Gupta - October 24, 2012 | Tickers: ABB, EMR, HOLI, ROK

    When capacity utilization bottomed at 67% in June 2009 during the last recession, there was easier money to be made. Now that the U.S. rate is 78-80%, it appears that we are in that mid-cycle period where the rate goes through a nominal flattening with some short-term cyclical behavior. With capacity utilization at these levels, customers typically look to invest for further productivity improvements in existing facilities.

    For long-term more »

  • Don't Underestimate This Industrial Goods Stock!

    By Ankit Agrawal - September 19, 2012 | Tickers: ABB, CAT, EMR, GE

    Emerson Electric (NYSE: EMR) is a $35 billion industrial conglomerate that provides manufacturing equipment and services. With business units in a number of different fields, Emerson has numerous competitors, though most competitors are specialized on a portion of total business field.  For example, Emerson competes with General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) in industrial equipment and healthcare supplies, with Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) in heavy-duty equipment, mining, and farming hardware, and with more »

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