Top 5 Healthcare Equipment Stocks To Watch Right Now

LONDON -- It's been a tough few years for the construction industry, as you can see from the share price of buildings materials group�CRH� (LSE: CRH  ) . It is down 27% over five years and 10% over three years, against FTSE 100 growth of 10% and 26%, respectively. That's a shoddy showing, but maybe things are starting to look up. Is now the time to buy it?

I'm not convinced the global economy is ready to enter the sunlit uplands of recovery, but a 33% rise in the CRH share price over the past 12 months looks promising. Yet its recent interim management statement, published last month, was downbeat, recording a 12% drop in like-for-like European sales between January and April, which it blamed on the "weak economic backdrop and prolonged winter conditions". Things were better in the U.S., unsurprisingly, although sales were still down 2%, again, on bad weather. Management is hoping for a better second half, including a rise in EBITDA with "underlying positive trends in U.S. expected to offset trading pressures in Europe". I guess that's something.

Top 5 Healthcare Equipment Stocks To Watch Right Now: Nautilus Minerals Com Npv (NUS.TO)

Nautilus Minerals Inc., an exploration stage company, engages in the exploration and development of the ocean floor for copper, gold, silver, and zinc deposits in Australasia. The company holds interest in Solwara 1, a seafloor copper-gold project located at 1600 meters water depth in the Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea. As of March 26, 2012, it had approximately 600,000 square kilometers of prospective exploration acreage in the western Pacific; and in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Vanuatu, and Tonga, as well as in the eastern Pacific. The company has a strategic partnership agreement with Harren & Partner to own and operate a production support vessel that would serve as the operational base to extract copper and gold in the Solwara 1 project. Minerals Inc. is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Top 5 Healthcare Equipment Stocks To Watch Right Now: Command Security Corp (MOC)

Command Security Corporation, incorporated on May 9, 1980, principally provides uniformed security officers, aviation security services and support security services to commercial, financial, industrial, aviation and governmental customers throughout the United States. The Company provides its security services to its customers through its security services division, its aviation services division and its support services division. The Company�� security services division provides security services to governmental, quasi-governmental and financial institutions, healthcare facilities, colleges and universities, residential communities, commercial real estate, and industrial, distribution, logistics and retail customers. Its security services include providing armed and unarmed uniformed security personnel for access control, mobile patrols, traffic control, security console/system operators and fire safety directors, as well as providing personnel for communication, reception, concierge and front desk/doorman operations.

The Company�� aviation services division provides aviation security services to more than 100 of the domestic and international airlines, airports, airport authorities and the general aviation community at approximately 20 international airports and, to a lesser extent, five regional airports. Its aviation security services include providing a variety of uniformed services for domestic and international air carriers, including security for airlines, aircraft, passengers and cargo; baggage screening, wheelchair escort services featuring the Company�� SmartWheel technology, special escort services and skycap services. Its aviation services division generated approximately 39.9% of its revenues during the fiscal year ended March 31, 2012 fiscal 2012. Its support services include providing back office support services to security services firms and police departments under administrative service agreements. Support services generated approximately 0.1% of its revenues f! or fiscal 2012.

Command Security Corporation principally conducts its security services business by providing security officers and other personnel who are, depending on the particular requirements of the customer, uniformed or plain-clothed, armed or unarmed, and who patrol in marked radio cars or stand duty on the premises at stationary posts, such as fire stations, reception areas or video monitors. Its security officers maintain contact with their headquarters or supervisors via car radio, hand-held radios or cell phones. In addition to the more traditional tasks associated with access control and theft prevention, its security officers respond to emergency situations and report fires, natural disasters, work accidents and medical crises to the appropriate authorities. It provides security officer services to many of its industrial, commercial and residential property management customers on an around-the-clock basis. The Company�� aviation services division provides a variety of uniformed services for domestic and international air carriers, including aircraft security, access control, wheelchair escorts, skycaps, baggage handlers and uniformed security officers for cargo security areas.

The Company competes with Securitas North America, AlliedBarton Security and Guardsmark, LLC.

Top Bank Companies To Invest In 2014: Buru Energy Ltd(BRU.AX)

Buru Energy Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the exploration, evaluation, development, and production of oil and gas resources in Australia. Its exploration portfolio consists of 17 exploration permits, 1 retention lease, 3 production licenses, and 1 onshore pipeline license within the Canning Superbasin in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is headquartered in Perth, Australia.

Top 5 Healthcare Equipment Stocks To Watch Right Now: Planar Systems Inc.(PLNR)

Planar Systems, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in developing, manufacturing, and marketing electronic display products and systems. The company provides customized, embedded, and ruggedized displays to original equipment manufacturers and other system suppliers; and active-matrix liquid crystal display panels for use in various applications and industries, including instrumentation, medical equipment, vehicle dashboards, indoor and outdoor digital signage, and military applications. It also offers liquid crystal display (LCD) video walls and rear-projection cube video walls for use in venue digital signage, as well as in various control room installations under the Clarity brand name. In addition, the company provides LCD based displays, including desktop monitors, touch displays, widescreen monitors, and front-projection equipment to the information technology market. Further, it offers home theater front-projection video systems, video processing equipment , large-format thin video displays, ?window wall? video applications, and accessories primarily to custom home installation dealers under the Runco brand name. Planar Systems, Inc. operates in the United States, the United Kingdom, Finland, Germany, Italy, France, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, India, Taiwan, and China. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon.

Top 5 Healthcare Equipment Stocks To Watch Right Now: Genworth Financial Inc (GNW)

Genworth Financial, Inc., a financial security company, provides insurance, wealth management, investment, and financial solutions in the United States and internationally. The company offers various insurance and fixed annuity products, including life and long-term care insurance products; payment protection insurance products for consumers primarily to meet specified payment obligations; and wealth management products, such as managed account programs with advisor support and financial planning services. It also provides mortgage insurance products and related services to insure prime-based, individually underwritten residential mortgage loans or flow mortgage insurance; and mortgage insurance on a structured or bulk basis, as well as offers services, analytical tools, and technology that enable lenders to operate and manage risk. In addition, the company provides institutional products consisting of funding agreements, funding agreements backing notes, and guaranteed in vestment contracts. Genworth Financial, Inc. distributes its products and services through financial intermediaries, advisors, independent distributors, affinity groups, and sales specialists. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.