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ThursdayFeb 21, 2008 6:11 am

Beacon Equity Research Featured Company: Avatar Systems, Inc. (AVSY.PK)

Avatar Systems, Inc. (AVSY.PK) is a leader in accounting and resource management software for the Oil and Gas industry. Avatar was the first application solution provider for the industry and has continued to lead by offering document imaging and workflow solutions that increase productivity and lower operating costs. Avatar Systems has a growing customer base with its use of Petroware2000™ and Integra Energy™ products for Microsoft Windows and Avatar400™ on the IBM AS400 platforms. The company also provides document imaging, workflow and business process management in addition to disaster recovery and remote backup services. AVSY plans to leverage its technology,…

ThursdayFeb 21, 2008 6:08 am

Beacon Equity Research Featured Company: Material Technologies, Inc. (MTTG.OB)

Material Technologies, Inc. (MTTG.OB) (“MATECH”) is engaged in the research and development of metal fatigue detection, measurement, and monitoring technologies. Their mission is to apply their comprehensive system of technologies to monitor and measure fatigue cracks and their growth. The Company owns the patent rights to several technology products including the Electrochemical Fatigue Sensor and the Fatigue Fuse. These patented technologies are capable of measuring and monitoring microscopic cracks in metal structures. Material Technologies’ products are applicable in the evaluation of the US aging bridge infrastructure. Material Technologies also intends to market its technologies to operators of windmills and antenna…

ThursdayFeb 21, 2008 5:43 am

Famous Uncle Al’s Hot Dogs & Grille, Inc. (FDOG.OB) – Making Money by Making Other People Money

Although it's a fact that having the muscle of a well thought out franchise behind you will increase your chances of success forty fold, it's also a fact that one of the biggest obstacles to someone acquiring a franchise is start up costs and then the cost of staffing it. This can be daunting and frankly that's a shame because an awful lot of bright, hardworking individuals would surely have gone on to be major success stories in their organizations if indeed they could have overcome the hurdles of the financial and staffing demands. This is one area that makes…

ThursdayFeb 21, 2008 5:02 am

Regulatory Approvals Signal It Is Time to Consider Investing in Cambridge Heart In. (CAMH.OB) Stock

The stock is tantalizing at $1.30 on February 20 2008 against a 52-week range of $4.60-0.75. There is strong stock investment logic behind this enticing trend as the management chalks up regulatory clearances in the most strategic health care markets. The company appears set to become a part of standard preventive care for all people at risk of heart failure. The company is involved in the non-invasive diagnosis of serious heart conditions. This is a key growth area of the preventive healthcare market all over the world. Obesity, diabetes, and sedentary lifestyles mean that increasing numbers of people are at…

ThursdayFeb 21, 2008 4:59 am

Sino Gas International Holdings Inc. (SGAS.OB) is an Opportunity for US Investors to Profit from Chinese Urban Development

The company has achieved gross revenues of nearly 50% of total 2006 sales turnover during the quarter ended September 2007. The net profit margin, which has been 37.13% over the last four quarters, has jumped to over 46% during the rapid growth phase of the quarter ended September 2007. The Operating Margin has crossed 50% during this period, reflecting professional management of overheads. The company is based in Beijing, but the stock has OTC listing in the United States. It is apparent that this chance for American investors to benefit from the China growth story is worth a closer look.…

ThursdayFeb 21, 2008 4:56 am

Ultratech Inc. (UTEK) Business on Track to Consolidate a World Leader Position

Semiconductor chips and nanotechnology are perhaps two areas of business with the most future potential. Both of these business areas depend on photolithography. This stock, with a unit price of less than $10 on February 20 2008, and with market capitalization below $250 million, is one of the most exciting investment opportunities available on NASDAQ. Printing complicated circuits on extremely small and thin surfaces is a complicated task which very few companies in the world can do reliably and economically on industrial scales. This company has constructed a technical moat by developing appropriate technologies and through a strategic acquisition strategy…

ThursdayFeb 21, 2008 4:50 am

DRS Technologies, Inc. (DRS) Announced $59.9 Million Contract to Produce Infrared Assemblies for U.S. Army Apache Helicopter Arrowhead System

DRS Technologies (DRS) announced it was awarded two contracts by the Missiles and Fire Control segment of Lockheed Martin Corporation to produce key components for the Apache helicopter Arrowhead® system. The two awards, for $31.4M and $28.5M, brings the total awards for the Arrowhead program to more than $240M to date. The $31.4M contract, to be completed by DRS’s Sensors and Targeting Systems-Optronics Division covers the delivery of Pilotage and Targeting receiver assemblies. The receiver and integrated detector assemblies produced for this program are major components of Arrowhead Modernized Target Acquisition and Designation Sight/Pilot Night vision Sensor systems in U.S.…

ThursdayFeb 21, 2008 4:47 am

Hill International, Inc. (HINT) Acquires Majority Stake in Gerens Management Group

Hill International (HINT) has recently acquired 60% of the outstanding capital stock of Gerens Management Group, S.A., a company headquartered in Madrid, Spain with additional offices in Barcelona and Cancun, Mexico. Gerens provides project management services on major construction projects throughout Spain, Western Europe and Latin America including residential, commercial, healthcare, retail and leisure, infrastructure, and hotel and resorts. Projects handled by Gerens include the Ciudad Real Airport, the Caja Madrid headquarters building, the new Toledo Hospital, and the 300 Mayakoba Resorts in Mexico’s Rivera Maya. Hill co-founded Gerens in 1998 but divested its minority stake in the company in…

ThursdayFeb 21, 2008 4:45 am

Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. (ODFL) Purchases Assets of Bob’s Pickup & Delivery

Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL) purchased selected assets of Bob’s Pickup & Delivery, headquartered in Sidney, Montana. Bob’s Pickup & Delivery produces approximately $10M in sales annually through its network of thirteen service centers in Montana’s towns of Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Glendive, Great Falls, Havre, Helena, Kalispell, Lewistown, Miles City, Missoula, and Sidney, and Bismarck, North Dakota. As of Feb. 15, Old Dominion added to its current route structure the twelve Bob’s terminal operations in the state of Montana and combined the Bismarck, North Dakota facility. Through this acquisition, Old Dominion now provides direct coverage to 48 states with 100%…

WednesdayFeb 20, 2008 6:28 pm

When Markets Are Down

It seems that a lot of traders and investors miss the point when talking about the markets. Traders often make scornful comments about information which holds significance for value investors, such as fundamentals, and likewise long term investors make snide comments about the foolishness of fast trading. Short sellers seem to live for finding troubled stocks, while these stocks’ shareholders sometimes accuse those same short sellers of causing the problems with the stocks. Options and futures traders sometimes have themselves so hedged, straddled and locked in, over and out, that they can’t explain what side of a trade their on.…

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