6/09/2013

Hot Food Stocks To Own For 2014

Cracking our list of the most humongous health-care stocks wasn't an easy proposition this week. The bar was raised so high that even stocks with 15% gains didn't make the cut. Which did make it? Here are three of this week's best performers.

One and done
No more tests required. That's the word from the Food and Drug Administration to Acadia Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ACAD  ) this week. Acadia's shares skyrocketed more than 60% on the news.

Acadia planned to conduct a second late-stage study for pimavanserin, its experimental drug for treatment of�Parkinson's disease psychosis. However, the FDA will now allow results from the company's first phase 3 trial, along with data from other studies, to be used in submission of the New Drug Application, or NDA, for the drug.

Hot Food Stocks To Own For 2014: Star Gas Partners L.P.(SGU)

Star Gas Partners, L.P., through its subsidiaries, operates as a home heating oil distributor and services provider in the United States. It provides its services to residential and commercial customers to heat their homes and buildings. As of March 31, 2011, the company served approximately 408,000 full-service residential and commercial home heating oil, and propane customers. It also sold home heating oil, gasoline, and diesel fuel to approximately 40,000 customers. In addition, Star Gas Partners installed, maintained, and repaired heating and air conditioning equipment, as well as provided ancillary home services, including home security and plumbing to approximately 11,000 customers. Kestrel Heat, LLC operates as the general partner of the company. Star Gas Partners, L.P. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

Hot Food Stocks To Own For 2014: Wilmington Group(WIL.L)

Wilmington Group plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides information and training services to professional business markets in the United Kingdom and internationally. Its Publishing & Information segment offers legal and professional databases; legal magazines; a charity contacts database; databases and analysis on the United Kingdom charitable sector; databases of the United Kingdom and international pension funds; magazines and databases for legal, professional, and knowledge management markets; and PR and entertainment contact databases in printed and online versions. This segment also provides legacy information services to charities; a mortality suppression database for the direct marketing community; a deceased identity fraud prevention database for the financial services industry; an electronic information service for the United Kingdom pensions industry; healthcare professional information to pharmaceutical companies and the public sector through a portfolio of databases, mailing lists, directories, mapping tools, NHS learning programs, and an e-communications service; an electronic information service on French and international healthcare markets; and financial information on companies based in emerging markets. The company?s Training & Events segment provides post qualification legal training for continuing professional development to solicitors, barristers, and other legal professionals; trust, compliance, and anti money laundering training; training and support services to the accountancy profession; legal training for non-lawyers; accounting, finance, treasury, taxation, VAT, internal audit, corporate governance, risk management, and business law training to finance professionals and the public sector; customized financial skills training in banking and related sectors; and business, management, leadership, professional, and personal skills training. The company is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Top Bank Companies To Invest In 2014: Waterco Ltd(WAT.AX)

Waterco Limited engages in the manufacture and distribution of pool and spa products and water treatment equipment. It involves in the wholesale, export, and manufacture of equipment and accessories in the swimming pool, spa pool, spa bath, rural pump, and water treatment industries; and manufacture and sale of solar heating systems for swimming pools and pre-heat industrial solar systems. The company also franchises retail outlets for swimming pool equipment and accessories. In addition, it engages in packing and distributing swimming pool chemicals to independent pool stores and stores in its Swimart franchise network. It operates 64 franchised outlets in Australia and New Zealand, as well as a fleet of approximately 200 mobile service vans. The company operates in Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, and North America. Waterco Limited was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Rydalmere, Australia.

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