Hot Long Term Stocks To Invest In 2014

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Hot Long Term Stocks To Invest In 2014: NVE Corporation(NVEC)

NVE Corporation engages in the development and sale of devices that use spintronics, a nanotechnology that relies on electron spin to acquire, store, and transmit information. It manufactures high-performance spintronic products, including sensors and couplers used to acquire and transmit data. The company?s products comprise standard sensors to detect the presence of a magnet or metallic material to determine position or speed; and custom and medical sensors primarily for medical devices to replace electromechanical magnetic switches. It also offers spintronic couplers, including passive-input couplers, digital-input couplers, and isolated network couplers in various series. In addition, the company licenses the spintronic magnetoresistive random access memory technology, as well as provides contract research and development services. NVE Corporation sells its products through distributors, principally in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company was founded in 19 82 and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.

Hot Long Term Stocks To Invest In 2014: Isis Pharmaceuticals Inc.(ISIS)

Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the discovery and development of antisense drugs using antisense drug discovery platform. The company?s antisense drug development programs focus on treating cardiovascular, metabolic, cancer, and severe neurodegenerative diseases. It has commercialized antisense drugs and has 24 drugs in development. Isis Pharmaceuticals, through Regulus Therapeutics Inc., also focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of microRNA-based therapeutics. The company has strategic alliances and collaboration agreements primarily with GlaxoSmithKline; Genzyme Corporation; Archemix Corp.; Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; and Eli Lilly and Company. Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1989 and is based in Carlsbad, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Hilary Kramer]

  ISIS Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ:ISIS) is a small-cap company with a market capitalization of $725 million, but it has several drugs under development through its antisense drug-discovery platform. The key for the stock is whether its cholesterol drug Kynamro (previously known as mipomersen) is approved in 2012. Current indications are positive. In the meantime, ISIS has other drugs with commercial potential moving through its pipeline, and its high cash balance offers a nice margin of safety.

Top 5 Gold Stocks To Watch Right Now: Umeco Plc(UMC.L)

Umeco plc provides advanced composite materials primarily to the aerospace and defense, wind energy, recreation, and automotive industries. The company involves in the development, manufacture, and supply of structural materials, such as prepregs for components and tooling, adhesive films/pastes, cross-plied face sheets, and honeycomb flat panels. It also offers a range of process materials, including bagging films, release films, peel plies, release fabrics, breathers, bleeders, sealant tapes, pressure sensitive tapes, vacuum valves, and hoses for temperatures and resin systems, PMA structural foams, custom shaped heat-sealed vacuum bags for various applications, as well as materials for wind turbine applications; and rubber construction materials, such as re-usable vacuum bags, pressure bags, and intensifiers. In addition, the company designs and manufactures large scale composite tooling; and offers engineering training and consultancy services to the composites industr y. Further, it distributes polyester resin and glass fiber; consumable short shelf-life hazardous goods; and electronic test equipment for testing fuels and heavy oils in the petrochemical industry. The company operates in Europe, the United States, and internationally. Umeco plc is based in Leamington Spa, the United Kingdom.