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You’ve probably encountered this company in your travels without even knowing it. Located in Billerica, Massachusetts, and in business for over 45 years, American Science and Engineering (ASEI) manufactures advanced x-ray inspection systems. They supply…

Transaction Network Services (TNS), based in Seoul, Korea, provides data communication services for transaction-oriented applications. TNS designs and implements multiple data networks, each designed specifically for the transport of transaction-oriented data. These networks have been…

The Trailing Twelve Months Net Profit Margin has been 37.08%. Return on Average Equity has been 36.88% during this period. This small capital corporation from the Construction and Agricultural Machinery Industry has fewer than 450…

Excellence in Strategic Management is a feature of this small capital stock from the Oil Well Services & Equipment Industry. The management team has structured the business model creatively. The company is a useful service…

AVI announced the appointment of Dr. Ryszard Kole, PhD, a pioneer in the use of oligonucleotides for the modulation of splicing, as Senior Vice President of Discovery Research. Dr. Kole has a successful history in…

Novavax Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) today announced positive results from its immunogenicity study in ferrets inoculated with the company’s seasonal influenza vaccine candidate. The results allow Novavax to complete its new investigational drug application in support…

First to market is where any company wants to be when a new market is working to find its feet. In the first-to-market game, the one who has the most toys first wins. More toys…

Frozen Food Express Industries is a company focused on the temperature-controlled delivery of perishable goods. They deal primarily with food products, confectionary products, and health care supplies. They are part of the Frozen Food Express…

This small capital stock from the Electronic Instrumentation & Controls Industry has had a quarter that will please investors. Earnings have climbed four times over the same period for the previous year. Sales have jumped…

Much of Green Business is about energy. Our heat, power, and cooling needs are responsible for serious air emissions. Micro turbines, which help to generate power for relatively small needs, have traditionally run on fossil…

In a public statement yesterday, Pilgrim’s Pride, the largest U.S. and Puerto Rico chicken producer, and the second largest producer in Mexico, said it will reduce weekly processing by 5 percent compared to last year’s…

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPHM) announced this morning preclinical data presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). The data shows that a mouse equivalent of Peregrine’s anti-phosphatidylserine (anti-PS)…

The management of diabetes is one of the largest therapeutic segments of the Healthcare sector. Surveys have repeated established that modern diets and lifestyles tend to impair glucose metabolism in people. Moreover, some ethnic groups…

The stock market has always known that excellence in Business Management distinguishes the best corporations. Marketing, Finance, and Human Resources Development are the key functional areas which the best-run corporations use to thrive in challenging…

Sirtris Pharmaceuticals (SIRT), based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing proprietary, orally available, small molecule drugs with the potential to treat diseases associated with aging, including metabolic diseases such…

AtheroGenics Inc. (NASDAQ: AGIX) today announced its “topline” results from an interim analysis of its ANDES Phase 3 clinical trial of AGI-1067, for the treatment of Type 2 diabetes, administered once daily for the duration…

AtheroGenics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AGIX), a pharmaceutical company focused on the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases, released news earlier this morning on a planned interim analysis of its ongoing ANDES Phase 3 clinical trial of AGI-1067…

Technically, this stock is part of the Mobile Homes & RVs Industry in the Capital Goods Sector. Such a narrow stock market business definition is misleading for investors in this case. The stock shows its…

This stock has traded at the end of the second week of April 2008 at just $5.70. The Price to Earnings Ratio is below 11. Though institutions have firm grips on 95% of the stock,…

Transition Therapeutics Inc. (TTHI), based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a biopharmaceutical company that develops novel therapeutics for diseases which affect large portions of the population. The focus of the company is discovering and advancing…

Cell Genesys Inc. (CEGE) said Friday its GVAX immunotherapy treatment for recurrent prostate cancer did well in early stage clinical tests. Shares of the San Francisco, Calif.-based company were up nearly 4% to a high…

The European Commission (EC) today announced that Celgene’s amrubicin hydrochloride has been designated as an orphan medicinal product for the treatment of small cell lung cancer. This follows the European Medicines Agency’s (EMEA) favorable opinion,…

Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc., an innovator and supplier of advanced, novel, ceramic nanomaterials, announced it expanded its board to seven members by naming Robert G. van Schoonenberg as director. Mr. Schoonenberg also serves as Chair of…

3Com Corporation (NASDAQ: COMS) yesterday evening announced that on April 9, 2008, a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California awarded the company $45.3 million for past patent infringement by…

Asta Funding Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, is a leading consumer receivable asset management company that is focused on purchasing, managing, and liquating performing as well as non-performing consumer receivables. The Company generates revenues…

A niche allows strong business focus. Brands are difficult to duplicate. They represent key assets that do not appear on balance sheets. Longstanding, top niche brands therefore protect stock owners with exceptional though subtle values.…

It always helps stock investors if management services fix costs through multiple lines of revenue. Here is a case of a company that retails its products as brands, supports private label ventures, integrates as an…

On the strength of an upgrade from Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), chipmaker Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) led a Nasdaq rally up 29.58 points to a Thursday close of 2,351.70. The BAC note on the chip…

ACCO Brands, a world leader in branded office products, is celebrating the grand opening of its Booneville, Mississippi distribution and manufacturing facility. The event will host elected and appointed officials from across the state as…

Biotechnology products are all about timing and testing. There has to be a solid need for the product, and it has to be able to meet FDA standards. Given the rigors of testing and approvals,…

Many stock investors worry about the Biotechnology & Drugs Industry. Scientists start companies and spend years in cash-loss research. Clinical trials seem to take forever, and that is without marketing investments to get doctors to…

Fertilizers, coal, and grain are three top examples of dry bulk cargoes that have to move over long distances. This kind of traffic will not decline, no matter where an economy may be in a…

VanceInfo Technologies (VIT), based in Shanghai, China, is an IT service provider and an offshore software development company. The company’s wide range of IT services include research and development services; enterprise solutions; application development and…

Inter Parfums, Inc. (IPAR), based in New York, New York, develops, manufactures and distributes prestige perfumes and cosmetics as the exclusive worldwide licensee for Burberry, Paul Smith, S.T. Dupont, Christian Lacroix, Quiksilver/Roxy, and Van Cleef…

Quantum Fuel Systems, a fully integrated alternative energy company and leader in the development and production of advanced propulsion systems, energy storage technologies, and alternative fuel vehicles, announced that Quantum-powered Fisker Karma, a high-performance hybrid…

NetSol Technologies, Inc., a multinational provider of global business services and enterprise solutions to the financial service industry, announced that its APAC division will partake in an IT Apprenticeship Program started by the Pakistan Software…

St. Jude Medical, Inc., a worldwide medical device technology and services company addressing cardiac, neurological and chronic pain patients, and EP MedSystems, Inc., a company who develops, manufactures and markets a line of products for…

U.S. based Antigenics (AGEN-NASDAQ) announced on Tuesday that the Russian Ministry of Public Health has issued a registration certificate for the use of Oncophage in the treatment of kidney cancer patients at intermediate risk for…

Investors tread in the Financial Sector with special care nowadays. Caution is also natural in the Investment Services Industry at this juncture. Nevertheless, veteran and patient investors will remain keen on great-value investment opportunities in…

This small capital stock is from the Oil Well Services & Equipment Industry. It is one of the most financially stable parts of the entire Energy sector. The company is in the specialized and valuable…