Best Healthcare Technology Stocks To Watch For 2014

Waterloo, Ontario-based Descartes Systems Group (NASDAQ: DSGX  ) has acquired KSD Software Norway AS, a company described as a "leading Scandinavia-based provider of electronic customs filing solutions for the European Union ('EU')."

On Thursday, Descartes -- itself a logistics technology solutions provider -- announced that it has paid $33 million to acquire KSD, a price offset somewhat by the $2 million in working capital that came with KSD. In addition to the cash, KSD brings with it a customer base of more than 1,300, most based in Scandinavia.

Edward Ryan, Chief Commercial Officer at Descartes, noted that KSD has about $10 million in annual recurring revenues. He suggested that the purchase price Descartes is paying approximates 3.1-times annual sales -- a significant discount to the 5.2x sales valuation at Descartes, proper.

Best Healthcare Technology Stocks To Watch For 2014: Acorn Energy Inc.(ACFN)

Acorn Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides technology driven solutions for energy infrastructure asset management worldwide. It offers sonar and acoustic related solutions for energy, defense, and commercial markets with a focus on underwater site security for strategic energy installations and other acoustic systems, as well as develops and produces real-time embedded hardware and software. The company also develops and markets remote monitoring systems to electric utilities and industrial facilities, which are used in a range of utility applications, including outage management, power quality monitoring, system planning, trouble shooting and proactive maintenance, and condition monitoring; and provides the intelligence to transmission and distribution network operators. In addition, it develops and produces fiber optic sensing systems for the energy, commercial security, and defense markets. The company?s patented ultra-high sensitivity fiber optic sensors a re designed to replace electronic sensors with fiber optic sensors. Further, it engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, and sale of wireless remote systems that monitor standby power generation, backup power generators, remote powered equipment, cellular towers, emergency towered communications, and remote tower sites; cathodic protection products to monitor pipeline integrity; and other wireless remote systems. Acorn Energy, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is based in Montchanin, Delaware.

Best Healthcare Technology Stocks To Watch For 2014: Peninsula Minerals Ltd(PEN.AX)

Peninsula Energy Limited engages in the exploration and development of uranium properties. It primarily holds interests in the Lance uranium project located in Wyoming; Karoo uranium/molybdenum project situated in Karoo region of South Africa; and Raki Raki gold project located in the Fiji Islands. The company was formerly known as Peninsula Minerals Limited and changed its name to Peninsula Energy Limited in November 2010. Peninsula Energy Limited is based in Subiaco, Australia.

Top Financial Stocks To Invest In 2014: Yangarra Resources Ltd (YGR.V)

Yangarra Resources Ltd., a junior oil and gas company, engages in the exploration, development, and production of resource properties in Western Canada. It has interests in oil and gas properties located in Central Alberta, Medicine Hat, Jaslan, and Viking areas in Alberta. The company also owns approximately 107,536 gross acres of undeveloped land. Yangarra Resources Ltd. is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.