Top 5 Trucking Companies To Own In Right Now

Despite what can best be described as a�soft economy, small cap trucking stocks YRC Worldwide, Inc (NASDAQ: YRCW), Arkansas Best Corporation (NASDAQ: ABFS), Frozen Food Express Industries, Inc (NASDAQ: FFEX), Saia Inc (NASDAQ: SAIA) and USA Truck, Inc (NASDAQ: USAK) have been trucking some pretty impressive returns since the start of the year. In fact, these small cap trucking stocks are up anywhere from 72% to 150% or so since the start of the year despite the slow economy. Certainly trucking stocks provide a good indicator of how the economy is doing, but might investors be�jumping the gun by pushing up these trucking stocks?

Here is what you need to know about all five:

YRC Worldwide, Inc. One of the largest transportation service providers in the world, YRC Worldwide is the holding company for a portfolio of brands that include YRC Freight, YRC Reimer, New Penn, Holland and Reddaway. Investors should be aware that YRC Worldwide narrowly averted bankruptcy in its fiscal 2009 financial year when it successfully persuading bondholders to exchange their $470 million in bond notes for roughly 94% of the company�� shares while in�September 2011,�the company completed a financial restructuring which essentially wiped out shareholder equity. Last week, YRC Worldwide sank after it reported earnings and missed Wall Street expectations when it reported $1.24 billion in revenue verses the�$1.26 billion Wall Street was expecting. YRC Worldwide reported a net loss that narrowed to $15.1 million, or $1.72 per share, from $22.6 million or $3.21 per share for the same period last year, but that loss was far higher than Wall Street�� expectations. The company also said�it has�retained Credit Suisse to help refinance debt or recapitalize the company���something that is probably not a good sign. On Thursday, small cap YRC Worldwide fell 7.36% to $16.74 (YRCW has a 52 week trading range of $5.20 to $36.99 a share) for a market cap of $195.43 million plus the stock is up 149.8% since the start of the year, up 221.9% over the past year and down 99.7% over the past five years.

Top 5 Blue Chip Stocks To Buy Right Now: GFI Group Inc. (GFIG)

GFI Group Inc. provides wholesale brokerage, clearing, electronic execution, and trading support products for financial markets. The company offers brokerage and trade execution services, clearing services, market data and trading platform, and other software products to institutional customers. The company provides brokerage services in fixed income derivatives, bond instruments, and other related products; financial instruments, including foreign exchange options, exotic options, non-U.S. Dollar interest rate swaps and options, repurchase agreements, forward and non-deliverable forward contracts, and government and municipal bond options; cash-based and derivative equity products, such as the U.S. domestic and international equity stocks, global depositary receipts, American depositary receipts, and equity derivatives; and cash-based and derivative commodity, and energy products comprising oil, natural gas, biofuel, electricity, wet and dry freight derivatives, dry physi cal freight, precious metals, coal, property derivatives, emissions, ethanol, and soft commodities. It also offers clearing, brokerage, settlement, and back-office services to proprietary traders, brokers, market makers, and hedge funds; provides capital to start-up trading groups, small hedge funds, market-makers, and individual traders; licenses multi-asset class electronic trading and order management software to brokers, exchanges, and traders in the commodities, fixed income, currencies, and equities markets; and offers FENICS Professional, a suite of price discovery, price distribution, trading, risk management, and straight-through processing components. The company primarily serves investment and commercial banks, large corporations, asset managers, insurance companies, hedge funds, and proprietary trading firms in the Americas; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and Asia. GFI Group Inc. was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Advisors' Opinion:

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  BGC Partners Inc.(BGCP) on Wednesday said it again extended its unsolicited offer for fellow broker-dealer GFI Group Inc.(GFIG) until the date of a special meeting when shareholders will vote on GFI’s deal with CME Group Inc.(CME) Shares of BGC and GFI were inactive premarket.

• [By Jayson Derrick]

  CME Group (NYSE: CME) has agreed to acquire GFI Group (NASDAQ: GFIG) for $4.55 per share and will immediately sell it's wholesale brokerage and clearing business back to a group led by GFI Management. CME will retain GFI Group's Trayport which provides trading software in the European energy markets as well as FENICS, a provider of price discovery, analytics, risk-management and workflow connectivity services for over the counter foreign exchange options markets. Shares of CME Group gained 0.44 percent, closing at $75.83 while shares of GFI Group surged to new 52-week highs of $4.50 before closing the day at $4.47, up 43.73 percent.

Top 5 Trucking Companies To Own In Right Now: Oil and Gas Development Co Ltd (OGDC)

Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) is a Pakistan-based company engaged in the exploration and development of oil and gas resources, including production and sale of oil and gas and related activities. As the fiscal year ended June 30, 2012, the Company�� crude oil production was 37,615 barrels of oil per day, and 17 wells were spudded. As of June 30, 2011, the Company operated in 31 exploration blocks (22 blocks with 100% shares including an offshore block, and 12 blocks as operated joint ventures), including 3 offshore blocks. Its projects include Uch-II Development Project, KPD-TAY Integrated Development Project, Jhal Magsi Development Project, Sinjhoro Development Project and Nashpa/ Mela Development Project. Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Weiyi Lim]

  Drinkall, whose $83 million Frontier Emerging Markets Portfolio (MFMIX) beat 99 percent of peers tracked by Bloomberg during the past 12 months with a 40 percent gain, said he favors Nigeria because of its economic growth prospects and Pakistan on the nation�� improving political stability. His fund held shares of Lagos-based Dangote Cement Plc (DANGCEM) and Islamabad-based Oil & Gas Development Co. (OGDC) as of April 30, Morgan Stanley�� website shows.

Top 5 Trucking Companies To Own In Right Now: Civeo Corp (CVEO)

Civeo Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oil States International, Inc. The Company operates in active oil, coal, natural gas and iron ore producing regions, including Canada, Australia and the United States. The Company is engaged in providing an integrated service offering to its customers, which include independent oil and natural gas companies, mining companies and oilfield and mining service companies. The Company�� premium accommodations services allow its customers to outsource their accommodations needs to a single supplier, maintaining employee welfare and satisfaction while focusing their investment on their core resource development efforts. In June 2014, Oil States International Inc completed spin-off of the Company.

The Company�� primary focus is on providing premium accommodations to natural resource companies at its properties, which the Company refers to as lodges in Canada and villages in Australia. The Company has 17 lodges and villages in operation, with an aggregate of more than 20,000 rooms. In addition, in the United States and Canada, the Company has eleven smaller open camp properties, as well as a fleet of mobile accommodation assets.

The Company competes with ATCO Structures & Logistics Ltd., Black Diamond Group Limited, Horizon North Logistics Inc., Clean Harbors, Inc., Aramark Corporation, Ausco Modular (a subsidiary of Algeco Scotsman), Fleetwood Corporation, Sodexo, Compass Group PLC, Stallion Oilfield Holdings, Inc. and Target Logistics Management LLC (a subsidiary of Algeco Scotsman Global S.a.r.l.).

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Johanna Bennett]

  In corporate news, Civeo (CVEO) tumbled 55.2% to close at $3.92 after the company said it would slash spending and suspend its quarterly dividend amid the slide in oil prices.

Top 5 Trucking Companies To Own In Right Now: Daily Mail and General Trust PLC (DMGT)

Daily Mail and General Trust PLC (DMGT) is a United kingdom-based multi-media and information company. The Company�� business activities are split into seven operating segments: RMS, business information, events, Euromoney, national media, local media and radio. Its dmg information is a business information division, providing business to business (B2B) information to the property, financial, energy and educational recruitment markets. As of October 2, 2011, dmg events, its business-to-business (B2B) exhibition and conferences division, operated 27 exhibitions and two conference businesses. Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC is a B2B media group. Associated Newspapers is its newspaper division. In September 2012, it sold its remaining 50% interest in DMG Radio Australia to Illyria. In July 2013, Daily Mail and General Trust PLC announced that Rothermere Continuation Limited has a holding 89.2% of interest of the Company. Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Inyoung Hwang]

  Daily Mail & General Trust Plc (DMGT) climbed 2.4 percent to 861 pence. The company said contribution from national newspapers to the group�� revenue dropped to 36 percent this year from 43 percent in 2012 and will fall further. The publisher of Britain�� second-biggest U.K. daily newspaper forecast full-year revenue will be 1.8 billion pounds, matching analysts�� estimates.