Shares of Costamare (CMRE Quick QuoteCMRE ) hit a 52-week high of $15.13 during the course of the trading session on Sep 2, before retracing a bit to close the session at $14.98. In fact, this Monaco-based player, currently sporting a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), has performed very well year to date. The stock has rallied 80.9%, outperforming its industry’s growth of 62.6%.
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Let’s delve deeper to unearth the reasons for this impressive price upsurge.
With the gradual resumption of economic activities, the world trade gathered pace, which is a positive for shipping stocks like Costamare. This is because the shipping industry is responsible for transporting a high proportion of goods involved in world trade.
Bullishness surrounding the containership market is a tailwind for Costamare. The containership market is being aided by increased manufacturing activities in Asia besides other factors. In June 2021, the company announced the acquisition of 16 dry bulk vessels, thereby diversifying its operations and entering the dry bulk shipping market. This strategic move is time opportune as the dry bulk market is flourishing. The upward movement of the Baltic Dry Index reflects the positivity surrounding the dry bulk market.
Top 5 Performing Stocks To Buy Right Now: New Oriental Education & Technology Group, Inc.(EDU)
New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc., incorporated on January 25, 2006, is a provider of private educational services in the People’s Republic of China (the PRC). The Company offers a range of educational programs, services and products, consisting primarily of English and other foreign language training, test preparation courses for admissions and assessment tests in the United States, the PRC and Commonwealth countries, primary and secondary school education, development and distribution of educational content, software and other technology, and online education. The Company operates through six segments: language training and test preparation, primary and secondary school education, online education, content development and distribution, post-secondary education and overseas study consulting services. All of the Company’s schools, learning centers and bookstores operate under its New Oriental brand.
As of May 31, 2015, the Company delivers its educational programs, services and products to students through a physical network of 60 schools, 664 learning centers and 28 bookstores operated by it, over 5,000 third-party bookstores and approximately 17,200 teachers, as well as through its online network, which had approximately 10.8 million registered users. In addition, the Company has a network of students and alumni. The Company’s program, service and product offerings are divided into seven areas: test preparation; K-12 after-school tutoring; language training; primary and secondary schools; educational content, software and other technology development and distribution; online education, and other services and products.
Test Preparation Courses
The Company offers test preparation courses to students taking language and entrance exams used by educational institutions in the United States, the PRC and Commonwealth countries. For the year ended May 31, 2015, the Company had approximately 650,000 student enrollments in its test preparation courses, of which approximately 315,000 were in overseas test preparation courses and 335,000 were in the PRC test preparation courses. The Company offers test preparation courses for the overseas exams: Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), SAT College Entrance Test (SAT), American College Test (ACT), International English Language Testing System (IELTS), Graduate Record Examination (GRE), Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), Law School Admission Test (LSAT), Business English Certificate (BEC) and Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC). In addition, the Company offers test preparation classes for the PRC admissions tests: College English Test Level 4 (CET 4), College English Test Level 6 (CET 6), National Tests for Entrance into Master’s Degree Programs, Professional Title English Test and Public English Test System (PETS). Its students enroll in a 50- to 160-hour program with classes meeting 1 to 6 times per week for approximately 1 to 3 hours per class. The Company also offers intensive and condensed versions of its courses, which are compacted into shorter time periods.
K-12 After-School Tutoring Courses
The Company offers after-school tutoring courses for middle school and high school students. Its after-school tutoring courses for middle school and high school students are designed to supplement students’ regular school curricula and help students achieve scores on entrance exams for admission into high schools or higher education institutions. The Company provides tutoring services to students who seek to retake the gaokao through Tongwen Gaokao School, a private school based in Changchun. The Company’s U-Can All Subjects after-school tutoring courses for middle school and high school students last for 8 to 16 weeks with classroom instruction 1 to 4 times per week for 1.5 to 4 hours per visit. It also offers intensive and condensed versions of its courses, in particular during the summer months when many academic institutions are on summer break. The sizes of these courses range from 6 to approximately 100 students per class. For the year ended May 31, 2015, the Company had approximately 1,131,000 student enrollments in its after-school tutoring courses for middle school and high school students. The Company offers after-school tutoring courses for children. Its Pop Kids All Subjects training program offers after-school tutoring courses in English, math, Chinese, writing, music and arts for children in kindergarten and elementary schools. The Company’s after-school tutoring courses for children are divided into classes of 6 to approximately 25 students per class. Students attend class 1 to 4 times per week for 1.5 to 3 hours per class. For the year ended May 31, 2015, the Company had approximately 799,000 student enrollments in its Pop Kids All Subjects after-school tutoring courses.
Language Training Courses for Adults
The Company provides various types of English language training courses, as well as training courses for other foreign languages, including German, Japanese, French, Korean, Italian and Spanish. Its English for adults program offers courses designed to teach and improve students’ English writing, reading, listening and speaking skills. Its schools and learning centers also have language labs at which its students can listen to and recite spoken passages on compact discs (CDs) and audio tapes to improve their listening and speaking skills. A course lasts for 6 to 12 weeks with classroom instruction 1 to 4 times per week for 1.5 to 4 hours per visit. It also offers intensive and condensed versions of its courses, in particular during the summer months when many academic institutions are on summer break. The sizes of its English courses for adults range from 6 to approximately 100 students per class. For the year ended May 31, 2015, the Company had approximately 125,000 student enrollments in its English courses for adults.
Primary and Secondary Schools
The Company’s private primary and secondary school is located in Yangzhou. It is a private boarding school for students in grades 1 to 12 seeking a full curriculum taught in both Chinese and English, with an emphasis on English language training. The Yangzhou private school has a capacity of up to 4,000 students. As of May 31, 2015, there were over 3,800 students at the Yangzhou school. The Company started an international high school program within the Yangzhou school. The Company’s international high school provides students with a full curriculum of high school education while preparing them for admission into foreign universities.
Educational Content, Software and other Technology Development and Distribution
The Company develops and edits educational materials for language training and test preparation, such as books, software, CD-read-only-memory (ROMs), magazines and other periodicals. It distributes these materials through various distribution channels, consisting of its classrooms and bookstores, as well as third-party distributors. In the fiscal year ended May 31, 2015, the Company developed and edited about 182 titles and distributed approximately 12.3 million books authored or licensed by it in China.
Online Education
The Company offers online education programs on its Website www.koolearn.com and www.koo.cn. As of May 31, 2015, approximately 10.8 million users had registered accounts with it, with access to free informational content on its Website. In the fiscal year ended May 31, 2015, the Company had approximately 288,000 users that paid for additional access to its specialized education programs. These users purchase pre-paid cards that give them the right to use its paid content for a specific period of time or for specific courses. The Company offers approximately 4,400 online courses, including language training courses, test preparation courses, professional certification courses, and business knowledge and skills training courses in the areas of accounting, legal, management and others. It has live interactive online courses, as well as courses that allow students to view replays of pre-recorded lectures. As a supplement to its online courses, the Company also offers online study services, including course planning, testing, composition correcting and one-on-one tutoring. Partially through its Koolearn.com Website, the Company also offers enterprise clients customized training services.
Other Services
The Company’s consultants help students through the application and admission process for overseas educational institutions and provide college, graduate and career counseling advice to help students make informed decisions. The Company also counsels students with the immigration process for overseas studies, such as obtaining visas and housing. The Company has kindergarten in Beijing, Nanjing and Yangzhou. As of May 31, 2015, there were approximately 570 students at these three kindergartens. The Company has a kindergarten chain in the city of Qingdao with three schools, which had approximately 740 students as of May 31, 2015. The Company permits third parties in cities to offer its Pop Kids English program under a brand name cooperation model. As of May 31, 2015, there were a total of 18 brand cooperation schools offering its Pop Kids English program.
The Company competes with Global IELTS School, TAL Education Group and Xueda Education Group.
Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Lee Jackson]
This company is way under the radar, but it had an earnings bonanza for shareholders. New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. (NYSE: EDU) is the largest private education service provider in China, with exposure to overseas test preparation, domestic test preparation, K-12 tutoring, language training, online education and more.
- [By Ethan Ryder]
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Top 5 Performing Stocks To Buy Right Now: PDF Solutions Inc.(PDFS)
PDF Solutions, Inc. provides infrastructure technologies and services for the design and manufacture of integrated circuits (IC) in Asia, the United States, and Europe. It offers manufacturing process solutions that include process research and development, and process integration and yield ramp; volume manufacturing solutions; and design-for-manufacturability (DFM) solutions, such as logic DFM, circuit level DFM, memory DFM, and pdBRIX Physical IP solutions. The company also offers characterization vehicle (CV) infrastructure, which includes CV test chips, pdCV analysis software, and pdFasTest electrical wafer test system; Yield Ramp Simulator software that analyzes an IC design to compute its systematic and random yield loss; and Circuit Surfer software, which estimates the parametric performance yield and manufacturability of analog/mixed-signal/RF blocks. In addition, it provides pdBRIX platform, which includes software for identifying and developing a set of physical IP building blocks that are tailored to a given manufacturing process and target product application; dataPOWER YMS platform that collects yield data, loads, and stores it in an integrated database and allows product engineers to identify and analyze production yield issues; FDC software, which provides fault detection and classification capabilities to identify sources of process variations and manufacturing excursions by monitoring equipment parameters; and YA-FDC service and software platform that allows online modeling to create real-time virtual measurements of final product attributes during processing. PDF Solutions sells its technologies and services through direct sales force, sales representatives, and strategic alliances to integrated device manufacturers, fabless semiconductor design companies, and foundries in the microprocessors, memory, graphics, image sensor solutions, and communications segments. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in San Jo se, California.
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- [By Max Byerly]
Russell Investments Group Ltd. lowered its stake in PDF Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:PDFS) by 73.9% in the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 50,102 shares of the technology company’s stock after selling 141,811 shares during the quarter. Russell Investments Group Ltd. owned 0.16% of PDF Solutions worth $600,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
- [By Stephan Byrd]
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Top 5 Performing Stocks To Buy Right Now: AppHarvest, Inc.(APPH)
AppHarvest, Inc., a development stage company, builds and operates high-tech greenhouses to grow fruits and vegetables in the United States. Its products include tomatoes and leafy greens. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Morehead, Kentucky.
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- [By Travis Hoium (TMFFlushDraw)]
Shares of farming company AppHarvest (NASDAQ:APPH) jumped as much as 12.2% in trading on Monday as growth stocks came back in favor. Shares closed trading up 9.5% for the day.
- [By Clay Bruning (TMFcbruning)]
As one of the newest businesses at the forefront of Agtech, AppHarvest (NASDAQ:APPH) has the ambitious goal to revolutionize the way the United States supplies its produce. In this episode of Industry Focus: Wildcard, join Motley Fool analysts Clay Bruning and Emily Flippen as they present their bullish and bearish theses for the business and discuss if the risks are worth the reward.
Top 5 Performing Stocks To Buy Right Now: Cotiviti Holdings, Inc. (COTV)
Cotiviti Holdings, Inc. is a provider of analytics-driven payment accuracy solutions. The Company is focused primarily on the healthcare sector. The Company operates through two segments: Healthcare, and Global Retail and Other. Through its Healthcare segment, the Company offers prospective and retrospective claims accuracy solutions to healthcare payers in the United States. The Company also provides analytics-based solutions unrelated to its healthcare payment accuracy solutions in the United States. Through its Global Retail and Other segment, the Company provides retrospective claims accuracy solutions to retailers primarily in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, as well as solutions that develop payment networks for a range of clients. The Company offers various solutions, such as prospective claims accuracy solutions, retrospective claims accuracy solutions and other services.
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- [By Stephan Byrd]
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- [By Steve Symington]
Shares of Cotiviti Holdings Inc. (NYSE:COTV) were up 10.2% as of 1:00 p.m. EDT Tuesday after Veritas Capital agreed to acquire the healthcare payment solutions company.
- [By Max Byerly]
Cotiviti Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:COTV) – Equities research analysts at Jefferies Group lowered their FY2018 earnings estimates for Cotiviti in a report issued on Wednesday, May 2nd. Jefferies Group analyst S. Dodge now expects that the business services provider will post earnings per share of $1.68 for the year, down from their previous estimate of $1.71. Jefferies Group also issued estimates for Cotiviti’s FY2019 earnings at $1.87 EPS.
Top 5 Performing Stocks To Buy Right Now: CM Finance Inc(CMFN)
Except as otherwise indicated, the terms “we,” “us,” “our,” “CM Finance” and the “Company” refer to CM Finance Inc and “CM Investment Partners” and the “Adviser” refer to our investment adviser and administrator, CM Investment Partners LLC.
We were formed in February 2012 and commenced operations in March 2012 as CM Finance LLC, a Maryland limited liability company. Immediately prior to the pricing of our initial public offering, CM Finance LLC was merged with and into CM Finance Inc, a Maryland corporation (the “Merger”). We are an externally managed, non-diversified closed-end management investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company (“BDC”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”).
We are a specialty finance company that invests primarily in the debt of U.S. Advisors’ Opinion:
- [By Max Byerly]
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- [By Stephan Byrd]
CM Finance Inc (NASDAQ:CMFN) – Analysts at Oppenheimer dropped their Q1 2019 earnings estimates for CM Finance in a report released on Wednesday, September 5th. Oppenheimer analyst C. Kotowski now anticipates that the investment management company will earn $0.25 per share for the quarter, down from their prior forecast of $0.27. Oppenheimer also issued estimates for CM Finance’s Q2 2019 earnings at $0.26 EPS, Q3 2019 earnings at $0.26 EPS, Q4 2019 earnings at $0.26 EPS and FY2019 earnings at $1.03 EPS.
- [By Ethan Ryder]
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