Below we will share with you the 5 best performing growth mutual funds year to date. To view the Zacks Rank and past performance of all growth funds, investors can click here to see the complete list of funds.
Mutual Fund
Zacks Rank
Total Return YTD
Hodges
#3 Hold
28.08%
Vanguard Capital Opportunity
#2 Buy
23.11%
Biondo Focus Investor
#3 Hold
22.02%
PRIMECAP Odyssey Growth
#1 Strong Buy
21.08%
Vanguard PRIMECAP
#1 Strong Buy
19.61%
Best Performing Stocks To Buy Right Now: Xstrata(XTA.L)
Xstrata plc operates as a diversified metals and mining company in Switzerland and internationally. It primarily explores for copper, thermal or energy coal, metallurgical or coking coal, nickel, zinc, ferrochrome, platinum, and vanadium; palladium and rhodium; and gold, cobalt, iron, lead, and silver deposits. The company?s operations and projects span in various countries, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Congo Brazzaville, Germany, Ireland, Mauritania, New Caledonia, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, Spain, South Africa, Tanzania, the United Kingdom; and the United States. It also develops, markets, and implements technologies and services used in mining, mineral processing, and metals production. The company was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.
Best Performing Stocks To Buy Right Now: Ainsworth Game Technology Ltd(AGI.AX)
Ainsworth Game Technology Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, production, sale, and servicing of gaming machines and other related equipment, and services. It designs and manufactures the A560, Ambassador, and Celebrity range of gaming products along with entertaining stand alone progressives and linked games. The company offers its products and services in Australia, North America, South America, New Zealand, Europe, and Asia. Ainsworth Game Technology Limited was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Newington, Australia.
Best Cheap Companies For 2014: TomTom NV (OEM)
TomTom NV is a Netherlands-based supplier of location and navigation products and services. The Company�� structure consists of four customer facing business units, namely Consumer, Automotive, Business Solutions and Licensing. The first three business units provide targeted solutions for the Company�� customers, including private consumers, car manufacturers and fleet owners. Licensing sells its content and services to multiple customer groups including portable navigation devices (PNDs) and wireless companies, governments and enterprises. The Company�� business units embed 11 product units, such as digital maps, traffic intelligence, navigation software, PNDs, automotive systems, fleet management services (FMS), smart phone applications, sports watches, points of interest, location based services (LBS) and speedcam intelligence. As of December 31, 2011, the Company was active in 35 countries. In July 2013, it acquired Coordina (Gestion Electronica Logistica, S.L.). Advisors' Opinion:- [By victorselva]
In a macro view, revenues in the electronic equipment and instrument sub-industry will remain strong due to the rise in equipment and instrument manufacturers. Distributors, electronic manufacturing service (EMS) companies and original equipment manufacturers (OEM) are going to increase orders as the economy improves in the future. With this promising outlook, let's take a look at Gabelli麓s last trade and try to explain to investors the reasons of this appealing investment opportunity.
Best Performing Stocks To Buy Right Now: Comstock Mining Inc (LODE.A)
Comstock Mining Inc. (Comstock), incorporated on October 19, 1999, is a gold and silver mining company with contiguous property in the Comstock and Silver City mining districts (collectively, the Comstock District). The Company owns or controls approximately 6,315 acres in the Comstock District comprising 1,455 acres of patented mining claims and surface parcels, and 4,860 acres of unpatented claims. As of December 31, 2011, the Company had drilled 646 reverse circulation (RC) and core holes, representing over 242,000 feet of drill data in the Lucerne Resource Area. As of December 31, 2011, the Company also had 432 RC and core holes from the Lucerne Resource Area. Its Lucerne Resource Area is located in Storey County, Nevada, approximately three miles south of Virginia City, Nevada. The Dayton Resource Area its commercial mining activities, is located in Lyon County Nevada, approximately six miles south of Virginia City. The Company operates in two segments: mining and hospitality.
The Company's mining segment consists of exploration and developmental drilling, mine planning, permitting, mineral claims, plus all other activities and expenditures associated with bringing the mine into production. Its hospitality segment consists of hotel rooms, cottages, restaurant, bar and other services provided by Gold Hill Hotel Inc. The Company�� property rights to the mineral estate of the Comstock Mine Project consist of five mineral leases, one joint venture (providing exclusive rights to exploration, development, mining and production), fee ownership of real property and mining claims. This project has 92 patented and 325 unpatented mineral lode claims, as well as 25 unpatented placer claims. The Comstock Mine Project holdings consist of approximately 6,315 acres of active mining claims and surface parcels (private lands) in the Comstock District. The acreage is consisted of 1,455 acres of patented mining claims and surface parcels and 4,860 acres of unpatented mining claims. The Company also o! wns a heap leach processing facility. It owns and operates the Gold Hill Hotel, three related cottages. The Hotel is located in Gold Hill, Nevada between Virginia City and the Comstock mine project.
The Company focuses on the Lucerne Resource Area (including the East-side target within this Area), the Dayton Resource Area and the Spring Valley exploration target. The Lucerne Resource Area includes the Billie the Kid, Hartford and Lucerne mining claims, and extends northeasterly to the area of the Woodville bonanza, and north to the Justice and Keystone mines, plus the extension of these areas down-dip to the east. The Lucerne Resource Area is approximately 5,000 feet long, with an average width of 600 feet, representing less than 3% of the land holdings controlled by the Company. The Dayton Resource Area lies southwest of Silver City, from the Dayton, Kossuth and Alhambra claims, including the old Dayton mine workings, south to where the Kossuth claim crosses State Route 341. The Spring Valley exploration target lies at the southern end of the Comstock District. The area includes the Kossuth claim south of State Route 341, the Dondero property, the New Daney lode mining claims, and the Company�� placer mining claims in Spring Valley and Gold Canyon. The Northern Extension, Northern Targets and Occidental Areas represent exploration target areas, which contain mining operations, including the Overman, Con Imperial, Caledonia, and Yellow Jacket mines.
Best Performing Stocks To Buy Right Now: ABAXIS Inc.(ABAX)
Abaxis, Inc. develops, manufactures, markets, and sells portable blood analysis systems for use in veterinary or human patient-care setting to provide blood constituent measurements for clinicians worldwide. The company offers point-of-care blood chemistry analyzer, which consists of a compact portable analyzer and a series of single-use plastic discs, called reagent discs, containing all the chemicals required to perform a panel of up to 14 tests on human patients and 13 tests on veterinary patients. It markets the blood analysis system under the Piccolo Xpress and Piccolo Classic names in the medical market; and under the VetScan VS2 and VetScan Classic names in the veterinary market. The company also provides VetScan HM5, VetScan HM2, VetScan HMII, and VetScan HMT hematology instruments for veterinary applications. In addition, its products include VetScan VSpro, which assists in the diagnosis and evaluation of suspected bleeding disorders, toxicity/poisoning, evaluatio n of disseminated intravascular coagulation, hepatic disease, monitoring therapy, and the progression of disease states. Further, the company offers VetScan VSpro fibrinogen test to provide in-vitro determination of fibrinogen levels in equine platelet poor plasma from a citrated stabilized whole blood sample; and i-STAT 1 that delivers blood gas, electrolyte, basic blood chemistry, and hematology results. Additionally, its products comprise Canine Heartworm Rapid Test to detect dirofilaria immitis in canine whole blood, serum, or plasma; Canine Parvovirus Rapid Test Kit to detect canine parvovirus antigen in feces; and VetScan Giardia Rapid Test to detect giardiasis, a gastrointestinal infection caused by the protozoan parasite Giardia. Abaxis sells its products through direct sales force and independent distributors. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Union City, California.
Best Performing Stocks To Buy Right Now: Compass Group(CPG.L)
Compass Group PLC, through its subsidiaries, provides contract foodservice and support services to its clients. It offers various foodservice solutions ranging from free-flow restaurants to formal dining, grab and go deli and caf�outlets to hospitality services, and vending; and a range of support services, such as cleaning, building operations and maintenance, business and office, logistics and transport, outdoor, project management, and security. The company also operates fine dining facilities. It provides its services under the Eurest, Eurest Services, Restaurant Associates, Bon App�it Management, and FLIK International, as well as Chartwells, Scolarest, MEDIREST, MORRISON, Crothall, All Leisure, and ESS brand names. Compass Group PLC serves business and industry; healthcare and seniors; education; sports and leisure; and defense, offshore, and remote sectors. The company serves approximately 4 billion meals a year in 45,000 client locations. It offers its services in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Continental Europe, North America, South America, the Middle East, Africa, central Asia, and the Asia Pacific. The company was founded in 1941 and is based in Chertsey, the United Kingdom.
Best Performing Stocks To Buy Right Now: CA Inc.(CA)
CA Technologies, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, markets, delivers, licenses, and supports information technology (IT) management software products that operate on a range of hardware platforms and operating systems. It offers enterprise IT management software for organizations that addresses components of the computing environment, including people, information, processes, systems, networks, applications, and databases. The company provides a portfolio of mainframe and distributed software products with a focus on mainframe, service assurance, security (identity and access management), project and portfolio management, service management, virtualization and service automation, and cloud computing. It serves banks, insurance companies, other financial services providers, government agencies, manufacturers, technology companies, retailers, educational organizations, and health care institutions worldwide. CA Technologies offers its solutions through its d irect sales force and indirectly through global systems integrators, technology partners, managed service providers, solution providers, distributors and volume partners, and exclusive representatives. The company was formerly known as CA, Inc. and changed its name to CA Technologies in May 2010. CA Technologies was founded in 1974 and is based in Islandia, New York.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Sean Williams]
Finally, mail logistics software solutions company Pitney Bowes (NYSE: PBI ) jumped 3.7% after announcing the appointment of Roger Pilc as executive vice president and chief innovation officer. Pilc will be a welcome face for Pitney Bowes, which has struggled under the weight of lower physical mail volume and increasing competition. Pilc, who comes over from CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA ) , helped head CA's cloud development segment, which may transform CA back into a high-growth company over the next few years as it invests heavily in R&D. Pitney Bowes certainly needs as many ideas as it can get to stem a precipitous downtrend in sales, so we'll have to see how this move works out for all parties involved.
- [By Dividend]
CA (CA) has a market capitalization of $13.56 billion. The company employs 13,600 people, generates revenue of $4.643 billion and has a net income of $955.00 million. CA�� earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1.924 billion. The EBITDA margin is 41.44 percent (the operating margin is 29.33 percent and the net profit margin 20.57 percent).
- [By Traders Reserve]
Most impressive about CA Technologies (CA)� is that its net income for the first fiscal quarter ended June 30 rose 42% to $335 million. Perhaps Michael Gregoire taking over as CEO and cutting costs had something to do with the growth.
Best Performing Stocks To Buy Right Now: Ellipsiz Ltd (E13.SI)
Ellipsiz Ltd., an investment holding company, provides probe card, distribution, and service solutions to the semiconductor, electronics manufacturing, and telecommunication industries. The company�s Distribution and Services Solutions segment engages in the distribution of equipment and tools for semiconductor and electronics manufacturing, integrated circuit (IC) failure analysis, IC reliability testing, and printed circuit board assembly testing and inspection; and provision of equipment maintenance support engineering services, including systems integration. This segment also provides facilities management services comprising turnkey facilities hookup and turnkey wafer fabrication equipment relocation, as well as chemicals, gas, and abatement management services; test characterization services, such as qualification and reliability testing; and refurbishment services for pumps used in wafer fabs, as well as trades in consumable products for hospital, pharmaceutical, e lectronic, and food processing industries. The company�s Probe Card Solutions segment is involved in the design, manufacture, repair, and sale of probe card solutions for the semiconductor manufacturing industry. It operates in Singapore, Malaysia, China, Thailand, the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, India, Japan, New Zealand, Europe, and the United States. The company was formerly known as SingaTrust Ltd. and changed its name to Ellipsiz Ltd. in 2001. Ellipsiz Ltd. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Singapore.
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