Top 10 Shipping Companies To Own In Right Now

This series, brought to you by Yahoo! Finance, looks at which upgrades and downgrades make sense, and which ones investors should act on. Today, three new ratings in the shipping sphere are grabbing headlines, as investment banker RBC Capital Markets upgrades UPS (NYSE: UPS  ) to outperform, but cuts both FedEx (NYSE: FDX  ) and shipping facilitator Expeditors International (NASDAQ: EXPD  ) to underperform.

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RBC's outperform call on UPS is essentially a buy rating, as this analyst sees the $82 stock heading to $100 over the course of the next 12 months. And RBC could be right about that.

After all, if it's true that UPS shares cost 99 times earnings, recently hit their 52-week high, and could theoretically be expected to slump back a bit, it's also true that relative to the rest of the stock market, UPS has been a pretty weak performer of late. The shares are only up 3% over the past 12 months, versus a 12% gain on the Dow. Now could be the time for UPS to begin catching up.

Top 10 Shipping Companies To Own In Right Now: Marin Software Inc (MRIN.N)

Marin Software Incorporated, incorporated on March 16, 2006, provides cloud-based digital advertising management platform to advertisers and agencies. The Company�� Revenue Acquisition Management platform is a software-as-a-service (SaaS), analytics, workflow, and optimization solution for marketing professionals, enabling them to manage their digital advertising spend across search, display, social and mobile advertising channels. Its platform integrates with publishers, such as Baidu, Bing, Facebook, Google, Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan, as well as Web analytics and ad-serving solutions, and key enterprise applications to enable marketers to measure the return on investment of their marketing programs.

The Company�� software platform serves as a system-of-record for advertising performance, revenue and conversion data and allows advertisers to correlate advertising spend to subsequent revenue outcomes or business events. It enables its customers to simulta neously run large-scale digital advertising campaigns across multiple publishers and channels, making it easy for marketers to create, publish, modify and optimize campaigns in real time.

Top 10 Shipping Companies To Own In Right Now: Pacific American Income Shares Inc.(PAI)

Western Asset Income Fund is a close ended fixed income mutual fund launched and managed by Legg Mason Partners Fund Advisor, LLC. It is co-managed by Western Asset Management Company. It invests in the fixed income markets of the United States. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Lehman High Yield Index and Lehman US Credit Index. Western Asset Income Fund was formed on March 22, 1973 and is domiciled in the United States.

Top Value Companies To Buy For 2014: The York Water Company(YORW)

The York Water Company engages in impounding, purifying, and distributing drinking water in Pennsylvania. It has two reservoirs, Lake Williams and Lake Redman, which together holds up to approximately 2.2 billion gallons of water. The company also has a 15-mile pipeline from the Susquehanna River to Lake Redman that provides access to an additional supply of 12.0 million gallons of water per day. As of December 31, 2010, it served 182,000 residential, commercial, industrial, and other customers in 39 municipalities in York County and 7 municipalities in Adams County. The company was founded in 1816 and is based in York, Pennsylvania.

Top 10 Shipping Companies To Own In Right Now: Mercer International Inc.(MERC)

Mercer International Inc., together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells pulp produced from wood chips and pulp logs. The company offers northern bleached softwood kraft (NBSK) pulp and market pulp. Mercer International sells its products primarily in Europe, Asia, and North America. The company was founded in 1968 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Top 10 Shipping Companies To Own In Right Now: Q Investments Ltd.(QI.V)

Q Investments, Ltd. is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in early stage. It focuses its investments in energy sector, specially oil and gas. The firm primarily invests in equity and debt. In equity, it invests in share purchase warrants. Q Investments, Ltd. is headquartered in Hamilton, Bermuda with an additional office in London.

Top 10 Shipping Companies To Own In Right Now: Cheviot Financial Corp(CHEV)

Cheviot Financial Corp. operates as the holding company for Cheviot Savings Bank that provides a range of banking services in Ohio. It offers various deposit products, including passbook and statement savings accounts, interest-bearing demand accounts, non-interest-bearing demand accounts, NOW accounts, money market accounts, and certificates of deposit. The company also originates one- to four-family residential real estate loans, multi-family residential real estate loans, residential mortgage loans, construction loans, commercial real estate loans, business lines of credit, and consumer loans. As of April 23, 2010, Cheviot Financial Corp. operated six full-service offices in Hamilton County, Ohio. It also has operations in southeastern Indiana and northern Kentucky. The company was founded in 1911 and is based in Cheviot, Ohio. Cheviot Financial Corp. is a subsidiary of Cheviot Mutual Holding Company.

Top 10 Shipping Companies To Own In Right Now: Savient Pharmaceuticals Inc(SVNT)

Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a specialty biopharmaceutical company, focuses on developing KRYSTEXXA, a biologic PEGylated uricase in the United States. The KRYSTEXXA is being developed as a treatment for chronic gout in patients refractory to conventional therapy. The company also sells and distributes branded and generic versions of oxandrolone, a drug used to promote weight gain following involuntary weight loss. It sells its products directly to drug wholesalers. The company, formerly known as Bio-Technology General Corp. and changed its name to Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in June 2003. Savient Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in East Brunswick, New Jersey.

Top 10 Shipping Companies To Own In Right Now: Lululemon Athletic Com Stk Usd0 (LLL.TO)

lululemon athletica inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and distributes athletic apparel for women, men, and female youth. The company�s line of apparel and accessories include fitness pants, shorts, tops, and jackets for healthy lifestyle activities, such as yoga, running, and general fitness. Its fitness-related accessories comprise bags, socks, underwear, yoga mats, instructional yoga DVDs, and water bottles. The company sells its products through a chain of corporate-owned and franchise stores; direct to consumer through e-commerce; and a network of wholesale channel, such as yoga studios, health clubs, and fitness centers. As of January 29, 2012, it had 47 stores in Canada, 108 stores in the United States, 18 stores in Australia, and 1 store in New Zealand under the lululemon athletica and ivivva athletica brand names. lululemon athletica inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Top 10 Shipping Companies To Own In Right Now: Breadtalk Group Limited (5DA.SI)

BreadTalk Group Limited, an investment holding company, engages in manufacturing, retailing, and franchising various food, bakery, and confectionary products. The company is involved in baking, manufacturing, and dealing in bread, flour, and biscuits; and managing and operating food courts, and operating food and drinks outlets within the food courts. It also operates food and drinks outlets, eating houses, and restaurants. As of December 31, 2011, the company operated 471 owned and franchised bakery outlets, 37 food courts, and 26 restaurants under the BreadTalk, Bread Society, Food Republic, Toast Box, RamenPlay, Din Tai Fung, The Icing Room, and Carl's Jr. brand names. It has operations in the People�s Republic of China, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Hong Kong, India, Jordan, Kuwait, Thailand, Korea, Bahrain, Oman, Vietnam, and Taiwan. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Singapore.

Top 10 Shipping Companies To Own In Right Now: Axmin Inc. (AXM.V)

AXMIN Inc. engages in the exploration and development of mineral properties primarily in central and west Africa. It primarily explores for gold, copper, nickel, and cobalt ores. The company�s principal asset includes the Passendro gold project comprising 2 exploration licenses covering approximately 1,240 square kilometers located in the northwest trending Archaean Bambari-Bandas granite-greenstone belt. It also holds interests in exploration projects located in the Central African Republic, Mozambique, and Senegal. AXMIN Inc. is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.