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Stocks to Watch – American Electric Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: AETI)
American Electric Technologies, Inc. (AETI) is a provider of power delivery solutions to the renewable energy industries. It was established on October 21, 1996. By the year 2010, the Company’s corporate structure is composed of American Electric Technologies, Inc. It operates in three segments namely:
- Technical Products and Services (TP&S)
- Electrical and Instrumentation Construction (E&I)
- American Access (AAT)
The Company also provides power distribution and power conversion systems, power services, and electrical and instrumentation construction. Its products and services are marketed to these industries:
- Oil and gas such as offshore drilling, land drilling, pipelines, marine and shipyards, land and offshore production, refining and petrochemical
- Critical power users such as water and wastewater, heavy industrial and data centers,
- Power generation such as renewable energy
By March 2012, the Company acquired the technology of Amnor Technologies, Inc. (Amnortech) of Shepherd, Texas.
Technical Products and Services
This segment is responsible for providing power distribution, control and drive systems for the energy industry. It designs, manufactures, markets and provides products designed to distribute the flow of electricity and protect electrical equipment, such as motors, transformers and cables, and also provides variable speed drives to both alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) motors.
The Company’s power distribution products involve low and medium voltage switchgear that provides power distribution. It also offers motor control centers, powerhouses, bus duct, program logic control (PLC) based automation systems, human machine interface (HMI) and specialty panels. The Company’s products are intended for application voltages from 480 volts to 40,000 volts and are used in a variety of industries.
The primary market for this segment is the industry of generators and users of electrical power. It serves three markets:
- Oil and gas
- Industrial
- Power generation/renewable energy
Electrical and Instrumentation Construction
This segment is involved in the provision of several electrical and instrumentation construction and installation services to both land and marine based markets including the oil and gas industry, the water and wastewater facilities industry and other commercial and industrial markets (including data centers).
American Access
This segment is responsible for manufacturing and marketing zone cabling enclosures and manufactures custom formed metal products. These are used for office buildings, hospitals, schools, industrial complexes and government buildings.
American Electric Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AETI) 52 week: 2.51 – 5.75 Mkt cap: 37.66M Shares: 7.83M
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Stocks to Watch – Ambow Education Holding Ltd. (ADR) (NYSE: AMBO)
Ambow Education Holding Ltd. (Ambow) is a company that provides educational and career enhancement services in China. It was established on June 26, 2007. It primarily addresses two demands in China’s education market namely:
- Students to be admitted into secondary and post-secondary schools
- Graduates of those schools to obtain jobs
The Company offer specific services and products through its combined online and offline delivery model powered by its technologies and infrastructure. By the year 2010, the Company had a total of 131 centers and schools, consisted of 107 tutoring centers, five K-12 schools, 17 career enhancement centers and two colleges. These are all located in 16 provinces and autonomous regions within China.
Its education services cover grades K-12. It focuses on tutoring services, test preparation, and K-12 programs. The products and services are more personalized to regional curriculum requirements and individual student needs to help students enhance academic results involving the ZhongKao and GaoKao admission tests.
The Company refers to these tutorial and K-12 programs with standards-based curriculum which allows students to improve their academic performance and educational opportunities as Better Schools. Ambow’s Better Schools services are provided in the regional service hubs, as well as delivered through its partners.
On the other hand, the career enhancement services concentrates on students at universities, colleges and community colleges and graduates of these institutions. It basically refers to career enhancement programs to facilitate post-secondary students as Better Jobs. It currently has six career enhancement regional services hubs found in the:
- Bohai Rim Area
- Central South Area (Changsha, Zhuzhou and Xiangtan)
- Yangtze River Delta
The Company provides a line of educational and career enhancement services and products to students and graduates in China. Its tutorial programs are its primary educational services and product offerings to enhance students enroll in schools. The K-12 schools support these tutorial programs through the provision of local brand names and local education content expertise and potential student customer bases.
The career enhancement services helps students and graduates obtain jobs. These are offered primarily in the career enhancement centers. The Company also operates two colleges to support the career enhancement centers by providing facilities, research and teaching resources, and potential student customer bases.
Ambow Education Holding Ltd. (ADR) (NYSE: AMBO) 52 week: 4.56 – 8.15 Mkt cap: 560.29M Shares: 71.28M
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Stocks to Watch – Alphatec Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ATEC)
Alphatec Holdings, Inc. (Alphatec) is a company focused on medical technology activities. It was established in March 2005. Its fully owned subsidiary Alphatec Spine Inc. is involved in the design, development, manufacture and marketing of products for the surgical treatment of spine disorders, primarily focused on the aging spine.
The Company has a product portfolio and pipeline which addresses the cervical, thoracolumbar and intervertebral regions of the spine and covers a variety of spinal disorders and procedures such as:
- Vertebral compression fractures
- Disorders related to poor bone quality
- Spinal stenosis
Majority of the products and systems are made of titanium, titanium alloy, stainless steel, cobalt chrome, ceramic and polyetheretherketone (PEEK). The Company also sells products which are crafted out from allograft, which is human tissue that surgeons can use in place of metal and PEEK. It also markets bone-grafting products and products to promote bone fusion, which consists of both human tissue and synthetic materials.
Its main product offering involves spinal implant products and systems consist of components, such as spine screws and rods, spinal spacers, plates, and various biologics offerings. By the year 2010, it operated in four geographical locations:
- The United States
- Asia
- Europe
- Rest of World
Its primary product segments include:
- Cervical and Cervico-thoracic
- Thoracolumbar
- Spinal Spacers
- Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS)
- Aging Spine
- Biologics
Moreover, it also markets its products in over 50 international markets through its subsidiary, Scient’x, through the following:
- Via a direct sales force in France, Italy and the United Kingdom
- Via distributors in the rest of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, South America and Latin America
As we all know, aging spine patients have the will to alleviate pain and discomfort caused by disorders such as osteoporosis, adult scoliosis and spondylolisthesis. One out of two women and one in four men over the age of 50 will break a bone caused by osteoporosis.
The Company is composed of a team of top thought leaders in spine and have manufactured products for the aging spine. Specifically, these products should:
- Perform in osteopenic or osteoporotic bone
- Support the use of multiple biomaterials
- Be minimally invasive compatible
Alphatec Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATEC) 52 week: 1.38 – 3.91 Mkt cap: 196.21M Shares: 89.59M
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Stocks to Watch – Allied Healthcare Products Inc. (NASDAQ: AHPI)
Allied Healthcare Products, Inc. (Allied) is a company involved in the manufacture of several respiratory products utilized in the healthcare industry in a line of hospital and alternate site settings such as:
- Sub-acute care facilities
- Home health care
- Emergency medical care.
The Company’s product lines involve respiratory care products, medical gas equipment and emergency medical products. These are marketed under several brand names to hospitals, hospital equipment dealers, hospital construction contractors, home health care dealers, emergency medical products dealers and others.
The products include respiratory care products specifically:
- Respiratory care/anesthesia products and home respiratory care products
- Medical gas equipment such as medical gas system construction products, medical gas system regulation devices, disposable oxygen and specialty gas cylinders and portable suction equipment
- Emergency medical products like respiratory/resuscitation products and trauma and patient handling products.
Respiratory Care Products
These products are utilized to treat acute and chronic respiratory disorders, such as asthma, emphysema, bronchitis and pneumonia. Respiratory care products are used in both hospitals and alternate care settings. Sales are derived through distribution channels focusing on hospitals and other sub-acute facilities.
Medical Gas Equipment
This equipment’s market is composed of hospitals, alternate care settings and surgery centers. Its medical gas system construction products consist of in-wall medical system components, central station pumps and compressors, and headwalls.
Emergency Medical Products
These products are used to provide patient resuscitation or ventilation during cardiopulmonary resuscitation or respiratory distress, as well as immobilization and treatment for burns. The sales are generated through specialized emergency medical products distributors to ambulance companies, fire departments and emergency medical systems volunteer organizations.
Its respiratory/resuscitation products may include resuscitation valves, portable resuscitation systems, bag masks and related products, emergency transport ventilators, precision oxygen regulators, minilators, multilators and humidifiers.
The Company also produces autovent transport ventilator which can meet several needs in different applications. These may range from emergency medical situations to air and ground transport.
Lastly, the Company’s trauma and patient handling products may involve spine immobilization products, pneumatic anti-shock garments and trauma burn kits such as a backboard that is intended for safe immobilization of injury victims.
Allied Healthcare Product (NASDAQ: AHPI) 52 week: 3.08 – 4.69 Mkt cap: 28.03M Shares: 8.12M
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Stocks to Watch – Alliance One International Inc. (NYSE: AOI)
Alliance One International, Inc. is a company involved in the purchasing, processing, storing and marketing of tobacco leaves. It primarily purchases tobacco from the United States, Africa, Europe, South America and Asia for sale to customers primarily in the United States, Europe and Asia. It deals with the following products:
- Flue-cured
- Burley
- Oriental tobaccos
All of these are used for international brand cigarettes. Moreover, it is purchased in more than 45 countries and shipped to more than 90 countries. It processes tobacco in about 50 owned third-party facilities found in: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Guatemala, India, Tanzania, the United States, Malawi, Thailand, Germany, Indonesia, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey.
These facilities process flue-cured, burley and oriental tobaccos. Moreover, the Company also has entered into contracts and joint ventures as well as other arrangements to buy tobacco grown in substantially all other countries that produce flue-cured and burley tobacco. The tobacco is shipped to manufacturers of cigarettes and other consumer tobacco products located in more than 90 countries worldwide as designated by these manufacturers.
The Company’s track record includes the successful traditions of its predecessors: DIMON Incorporated and Standard Commercial Corporation. These two companies merged on May 13, 2005 for the creation of Alliance One International, Inc., bringing together 200 years of combined experience and expertise.
DIMO was formed in 1995 via a merger of Dibrell Brothers Incorporated (founded in 1873) and Monk-Austin Incorporated (founded in 1907). These companies formed a significant force among international leaf merchants. By the year 1997, DIMON acquired Intabex Holdings Worldwide, S.A. (Intabex) which at that time is the fourth-largest leaf merchant in the world. This acquisition made a mark in the history of leaf industry.
Intabex actually owned and operated leaf tobacco buying, processing, and exporting operations in principal tobacco markets around the world such as in the United States, Brazil, Argentina , Malawi , Italy , and Thailand . With the merger, DIMON has become the second-largest leaf tobacco merchant.
On the other hand, Standard Commercial was established in 1910. It focuses on being a leaf tobacco merchant specializing in oriental tobacco products from the Mediterranean region. This was one of the world’s largest merchants of tobacco and has expanded to 85 countries. It was the third-largest independent leaf tobacco merchant in the world.
Alliance One International, Inc. (NYSE: AOI) 52 week: 2.17 – 4.08 Mkt cap: 301.44M Shares: 87.37M
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