10 Best Clean Energy Stocks For 2014

Exelon (NYSE: EXC  ) reported earnings (link saves as PDF) today, beating analyst estimates on both top-line and bottom-line numbers.

First-quarter 2013 sales clocked in at $6.89 billion, 11% above analyst expectations of $6.2 billion. This quarter's results are 9.7% higher than Q4 2012, and up 47% from 2012's first quarter (before the company's Constellation merger).

On the bottom line, adjusted EPS fell 17.6% year over year to $0.70, but still managed to beat analyst estimates by $0.02.

CEO Christopher Crane pointed to solid nuclear fleet capacity, improving power prices, and increasingly large synergies from last year's merger�as reasons for Exelon's success.

Looking ahead, the utility reaffirmed its Q2 $0.50 to $0.60 guidance, as well as its 2013 $2.35 to $2.65 EPS, despite lower expected margins for its Constellation segment.

As the nation moves increasingly toward clean energy, Exelon is perfectly positioned to capitalize on having the largest nuclear fleet in North America. This strength, combined with an increased focus on balance sheet health and its recent merger with Constellation, places Exelon and its resized dividend on a short list of the top utilities. To determine if Exelon is a good long-term fit for your portfolio, you're invited to check out The Motley Fool's premium research report on the company. Simply click here now for instant access.

10 Best Clean Energy Stocks For 2014: National Instruments Corporation(NATI)

National Instruments Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells measurement and automation products to create virtual instrumentation systems for general, commercial, industrial, and scientific applications worldwide. The company sells or licenses application software and modular hardware that combines with industry-standard computers, networks, and third party devices to create measurement, automation, and embedded systems. Its system design software products include LabVIEW to design custom virtual instruments for scientists and engineers and provide data analysis, visualization, and sharing features; LabVIEW Real-Time and LabVIEW FPGA, which are modular software add-ons enabling users to configure their application programs and to build custom hardware devices for measurement or control protocols. The company also offers LabWindows/CVI programming environment for creating test and control applications; and Measurement Studio, which consists of measurement and automati on add-on libraries and additional tools for programmers. Its application software products include NI TestStand, a test management environment; NI VeriStand, a ready-to-use software environment; NI DIAdem that offers configuration-based technical data management, analysis, and report generation tools; and NI Multisim, which offers circuit design technology. In addition, the company provides hardware products and related driver software comprising data acquisition hardware/driver software, PXI modular instrumentation platform, modular instruments, machine vision/image acquisition, motion control, NI RIO hardware platform, industrial communications interfaces, GPIB interfaces/driver software, and VXI controllers/driver software. Further, it offers system configuration and deployment, calibration, warranty and repair, and customer training services, as well as software maintenance and technical support. National Instruments Corporation was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Eric Volkman]

  National Instruments (NASDAQ: NATI  ) has elected to maintain its dividend. The company declared a distribution of $0.14 per share, to be paid on Sept. 3 to shareholders of record as of Aug. 12. That amount matches each of the company's previous six distributions, the most recent of which was paid at the beginning of June. Before that, National Instruments handed out $0.10 per share.

10 Best Clean Energy Stocks For 2014: Nwf Group(NWF.L)

NWF Group plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the warehousing and distribution of ambient groceries; manufacture and sale of animal feeds; and sale and distribution of fuel oils in the United Kingdom. The company distributes ambient grocery and other products to supermarket and other retail distribution centers. It also provides animal feeds and other agricultural products to dairy farmers. In addition, the company markets feeds, seeds, fats, and silage additives to farmers. Further, it sells and distributes domestic heating, industrial, and road fuels, as well as offers various oil ancillary items, including lubricants, storage tanks, boiler servicing, maintenance, and insurance. NWF Group plc was founded in 1871 and is headquartered in Nantwich, the United Kingdom.

5 Best Undervalued Stocks To Buy Right Now: Medical Marijuana Inc (MJNA)

Medical Marijuana Inc. (MJNA), incorporated on May 23, 2005, is the publicly held company vested in the medical marijuana and industrial hemp markets. The Company is comprised of a diversified portfolio of products, services, technology and businesses solely focused on the cannabis and hemp industries. These products range from patented based cannabinoid products, to whole plant or isolated high value extracts specifically manufactured and formulated for the pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and cosmeceutical industries. In March 2013, it sold certain equipment and inventory, web domain names, phone numbers, and all existing and pending agreements with hemp production and processing facilities to CannaVEST Corp.

The Company�� services are varied, ranging from medical clinic management to the capitalization and development of existing industry business and product leaders. Services include development of cannabinoid based health and wellness products, and the development of medical grade compounds. MJNA provides over 50 and patented cannabinoid delivery methods that are more socially and medically acceptable than smoking.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Bryan Murphy]

  The difference between Growlife's leadership and, say that of competitors like Cannabis Science Inc. (OTCMKTS: CBIS) or Medical Marijuana Inc. (OTCMKTS: MJNA), has been relatively well documented here at the SmallCap Network site. I think the way I - well, someone else - put it back on June 25th says it best...."Growlife is sort of the demure girl in the corner who doesn't do shots off her navel in the bar." It may not have sizzle, but it does have substance.

10 Best Clean Energy Stocks For 2014: Center Bancorp Inc.(CNBC)

Center Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Union Center National Bank that provides various banking services to individual and corporate customers in Union and Morris counties, New Jersey. The company offers interest bearing and non-interest bearing checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, and IRA accounts, as well as Christmas club accounts and vacation club accounts. It also provides secured and unsecured loans, mortgage loans, home equity lines of credit, short and medium term loans, letters of credit, working capital loans, and real estate construction loans. In addition, the company offers safe deposit boxes, money orders, and travelers? checks, as well as automated teller machine services, collection services, wire transfers, night depository, and lock box services. Further, the company, through its subsidiary, Center Financial Group LLC, provides financial services, including brokerage services, insurance an d annuities, mutual funds, and financial planning services. Additionally, it offers various money market services; and deals in the U.S. Treasury and U.S. Governmental agency securities, certificates of deposit, commercial paper, and repurchase agreements. As of December 31, 2010, the company had operations in 10 sites in Union County, New Jersey, consisting of 6 sites in Union Township, 1 in Springfield Township, 1 in Berkeley Heights, 1 in Vauxhall, and 1 in Summit; and 1 site in Madison, 1 site in Boonton/Mountain Lakes, and 1 site in Morristown located in Morris County, New Jersey. Center Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1982 and is based in Union, New Jersey.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Holly LaFon]

  Becky Quick (CNBC): ��f you could keep one company that Berkshire owns, either a wholly-owned subsidiary, or that Berkshire owns a common equity in, which one would you keep and why?��

10 Best Clean Energy Stocks For 2014: Armarda Group Limited (5EK.SI)

Armarda Group Limited, an investment holding company, provides information technology (IT) professional services to the banking and financial services industry in the People�s Republic of China, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Its IT consulting services business provides IT strategy review and formulation, IT infrastructure architecture, and technology integration. The company�s consulting service includes core banking system construction and technical consulting, project management, test management, banking business work flow transformation consulting, overall consulting of banking system planning, and banking project of process management and business application. Its Application Service business involves in the planning and implementation of banking financial system, which is based on Oracle EBS Financial solution; banking management accounting system based on Oracle OFSA solution; banking plan and budget management system based on Oracle EPB solution; banking auditing syst em based on CaseWare IDEA solution; and human resource management system. In addition, the company involves in the trading of IT equipment and RFID chips. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Singapore, Singapore.

10 Best Clean Energy Stocks For 2014: Rockgate Capital Corp (RGT.TO)

Rockgate Capital Corp., an exploration stage company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in West Africa. It primarily explores for uranium, silver, copper, and gold. The company owns a 100% interest in the Falea uranium-silver-copper property covering an area of approximately 225 square kilometers located in southwestern Mali. It also owns interests in various properties, including the Manalo/Mansaya, Koninko, and Balandougou mineral properties, as well as a 51% interest in the Ixtapan gold property covering approximately 4,190 hectares located in southwestern Mali; and the Telwa Gada property situated in Niger. Rockgate Capital Corp. is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

10 Best Clean Energy Stocks For 2014: Stewardship Financial Corp(SSFN)

Stewardship Financial Corporation operates as the holding company for Atlantic Stewardship Bank that provides commercial and retail banking services to small and medium sized businesses and individuals in Bergen, Morris, and Passaic counties, New Jersey. It offers various deposit products, including personal and business checking accounts, time deposits, money market accounts, regular savings accounts, and term certificate accounts. The company also provides various loan products, such as commercial, consumer, residential mortgage, home equity, installment, and personal loans. In addition, Stewardship Financial Corporation owns and manages a property at Midland Park, New Jersey; involves in insurance business, as well as in issuing trust preferred securities; and owns and manages an investment portfolio. As of December 31, 2009, it operated a main office in Midland Park, New Jersey; and 12 branch offices in Hawthorne, Ridgewood, Montville, North Haledon, Pequannock, Waldwi ck, Wayne, Westwood, and Wyckoff, New Jersey. The company was founded in 1984 and is based in Midland Park, New Jersey.

10 Best Clean Energy Stocks For 2014: Spreadtrum Communications Inc.(SPRD)

Spreadtrum Communications, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a fabless semiconductor company that designs, develops, and markets baseband processor and RF transceiver solutions for wireless communications and mobile television markets. It offers a portfolio of integrated baseband processor solutions that support a range of wireless communications standards, including global system for mobile communication (GSM), general packet radio service (GPRS), enhanced data rates for GSM evolution (EDGE), time division synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA), and high speed packet access (HSPA), as well as offer an array of multimedia capabilities, such as MP3 digital audio playback, touch screen, JAVA acceleration, digital camera support, motion JPEG, MPEG4, AVS and H.264 digital video playback, and 64-channel polyphonic ringtone playback. The company also provides single-chip CMOS multi-mode RF transceivers that perform across various standards covering GSM/GP RS, EDGE, wideband code division multiple access, TD-SCDMA, and high speed uplink/downlink packet access. In addition, it designs, develops, and markets a CMMB-based channel demodulator and audio/video decoder processor solution for the mobile television market. The company sells its products directly, as well as through distributors to brand manufacturers, independent design houses, and original design manufacturers primarily in China, Hong Kong, and Macau. Spreadtrum Communications, Inc. was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People?s Republic of China.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Brian Pacampara]

  What: Shares of Chinese smartphone chip maker Spreadtrum Communications (NASDAQ: SPRD  ) surged 17% today after Tsinghua University, through its subsidiary Tsinghua Unigroup, offered to acquire it for $1.4 billion.

• [By Brian Pacampara]

  What: Shares of smartphone chip maker Spreadtrum Communications (NASDAQ: SPRD  ) popped 13% today after Chinese state-owned company Tsinghua Unigroup agreed to acquire it for about $1.8 billion.

• [By Bloomberg News]

  The Bloomberg China-US 55 Index (CH55BN), the measure of the most- traded U.S.-listed Chinese companies, added 0.2 percent in New York yesterday. Spreadtrum Communications Inc. (SPRD) gained after Bank of America Corp. said rising smartphone use will boost Asian semiconductor makers.

10 Best Clean Energy Stocks For 2014: Perma-Fix Environmental Services Inc.(PESI)

Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as an environmental and technology know-how company in the United States. It operates in two segments, Treatment and Services. The Treatment segment provides nuclear, low-level radioactive, mixed waste containing hazardous and low-level radioactive constituents, and hazardous and non-hazardous waste treatment, processing, and disposal services primarily through four licensed and permitted treatment and storage facilities. It also engages in the research and development activities to identify, develop, and implement waste processing techniques for problematic waste streams. The Services segment offers on-site waste management services to commercial and government customers; and operates an equipment calibration and maintenance laboratory that services, maintains, and calibrates health physics and industrial hygiene instrumentation. It also provides technical services, which include health physic and radiological control technician services; safety and industrial hygiene services; and staff augmentation services, such as consulting, engineering, project management, waste management, environmental, and decontamination and decommissioning field personnel, technical personnel, and management and services. In addition, this segment offers consulting engineering services, including consulting environmental services comprising air, water, and hazardous waste permitting; air, soil, and water sampling; compliance reporting; emission reduction strategies; compliance auditing; and various compliance and training activities. The company serves research institutions, commercial companies, and public utilities, as well as governmental agencies through direct sales and intermediaries. Perma-Fix Environmental Services, Inc. was founded in 1990 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

10 Best Clean Energy Stocks For 2014: Silver Grail Resources Ltd. (SVG.V)

Silver Grail Resources Ltd., an exploration stage company, engages in acquiring, exploring, developing, and dealing in mineral properties in Canada. It explores for silver, gold, copper, zinc, and molybdenum deposits. The company engages in exploring its claims primarily in the Stewart-Eskay Creek region of northwestern British Columbia. Silver Grail Resources Ltd. is based in Vancouver, Canada.