Best Tech Companies To Buy Right Now

With shares of Cisco (NASDAQ:CSCO) trading around $21, is CSCO an OUTPERFORM, WAIT AND SEE, or STAY AWAY? Let�� analyze the stock with the relevant sections of our CHEAT SHEET investing framework.

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Cisco designs, manufactures, and sells Internet protocol-based networking and other products related to communications, and provides services associated with these products and their use to information technology industries worldwide. The company provides a line of products for transporting data, voice, and video within buildings, across campuses, and around the world. Its products are designed to transform how people connect, communicate, and collaborate. Cisco operates in five segments: United States and Canada, European markets, emerging markets, Asia Pacific, and Japan.

Cisco shares plummeted in after-hours trading on Wednesday after the company posted third-quarter earnings and fourth-quarter guidance that came in below expectations. Cisco�� revenue rose just 1.8 percent during the third quarter — the company failed to make orders it planned on producing in emerging markets like Brazil, Mexico, India, and China. Analysts had expected growth of between 3 and 5 percent. According to The Wall Street Journal, Cisco blamed the National Security Agency scandal for its lost business in China.

Best Tech Companies To Buy Right Now: Global Testing Corporation Ltd (G31.SI)

Global Testing Corporation Limited, an investment holding company, provides IC testing services primarily in Singapore, the United States, Taiwan, the People�s Republic of China, Malaysia, and Canada. It offers various testing services, such as wafer sorting and final testing for logic and mixed signal ICs, including micro controller units, digital analog converters, image sensor controller ICs, consumer ICs, and high-speed interface controller ICs that are primarily used in consumer electronics and communication devices. The company�s testing services for the semiconductor industry also comprise marketing and test program development, conversion and optimization, and load board and probe card design, as well as leasing testers to customers for trial and pilot testing purposes. It also provides wafer testing services to the automotive devices industry. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Hsin-Chu, Taiwan.

Best Tech Companies To Buy Right Now: Data I/O Corporation(DAIO)

Data I/O Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells programming systems used by designers and manufacturers of electronic products principally in the United States, Europe, and the Far East. Its programming system products are used to program integrated circuits (ICs), devices, or semiconductors. The company offers off-line and in-line automated programming systems, including RoadRunner Series of in-line automated programming systems that feature just-in-time in-line programming; PS Series of off-line medium/high volume and high mix automated systems, which support multiple media types; and FLX500, an off-line and moderate volume automated system that features self-learning plug-and-play operation. It also provides non-automated programming systems, including FlashPAK II/III, a low mix and low volume system that offers network control via Ethernet; Sprint/Unifamily, a low volume and engineering non-automated system; and FlashCORE, a programming architecture. In addition, the company provides services related to hardware support, system installation and repair, and device programming. It primarily serves users of programmable semiconductor devices, including original equipment manufacturers in wireless and consumer electronics and automotive electronics, and their electronic manufacturing service contract manufacturers. Data I/O markets and sells its products directly, as well as through internal telesales, and indirect sales representatives and distributors. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

Top 10 Insurance Companies To Watch In Right Now: Linktone Ltd.(LTON)

Linktone Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides entertainment-oriented telecom value-added services and content to mobile phone users over mobile telecommunications networks in China and Indonesia, as well as the 3G mobile telecommunications network in Indonesia. The company specializes in the development, aggregation, marketing, and distribution of user wireless content and applications for access by mobile phone users through three mobile network operators in China and nine mobile network operators in Indonesia. Its 2G short messaging service (SMS)-based services include ringtones, icons and screen savers, interactive SMS messaging in certain television programs, adventure, action, trivia and fortune-telling games, lunar and Western horoscopes, jokes, fan clubs, and event-driven or entertainment news updates. The company?s 2.5G services comprise multimedia messaging services, such as animated cartoons and screensavers, comic strips, magazine-style ?mobile articles? on various topics, and event-driven news updates; and WAP services, which consist of WAP-based ringtones, screensavers, games and dating services, and advanced Java games. It also offers audio-related services, including color ring-back tones; and interactive voice response services that allow users to listen to songs, jokes, stories, and coverage of various events. In addition, Linktone is launching 3G services in Indonesia, including e-paper/e-reading; video-on-demand on tablet devices and smart TVs; and radio streaming on mobile applications. Further, it distributes and sells home entertainment products, such as VCDs/DVDs/Blu-ray discs and video-on-demand in Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia; and engages in the theatrical distribution of movies, karaoke video licensing, karaoke system rental, and providing a karaoke-on-demand channel on Pay TV platforms. The company was founded in 1999 and is based in Shanghai, China. Linktone Ltd. is a subsidiary of MNC International Li mited.

Best Tech Companies To Buy Right Now: Firan Technology G Com Npv (FTG.TO)

Firan Technology Group Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, supplies aerospace and defense electronic products and subsystems primarily in Canada, the United States, Asia, and Europe. It operates in two segments, FTG Aerospace and FTG Circuits. The FTG Aerospace segment manufactures illuminated cockpit panels, keyboards, bezels, and sub assemblies for original equipment manufacturers of aviation products and airframe manufacturers. This segment�s products are interactive devices that display information, and contain buttons and switches used to input signals into an avionics box or aircraft. The FTG Circuits segment manufactures printed circuit boards for the aviation, defense, and other technology industries. The company also provides prototype development and manufacturing services. Firan Technology Group Corporation sells its products through direct sales people and manufacturers� representatives. Firan Technology Group Corporation was formerly known as Circui t World Corporation and changed its name to Firan Technology Group Corporation in May 2004. Firan Technology Group Corporation was founded in 1983 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

Best Tech Companies To Buy Right Now: CommVault Systems Inc. (CVLT)

CommVault Systems, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides data and information management software applications and related services primarily in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company develops, markets, and sells a suite of software applications and services under the Simpana brand. Its Simpana software suite includes solution for the backup and restoration of enterprise data for file systems, applications, databases, and virtual machine systems; integrated data archiving solution that optimizes data tiering and improves information governance; and enterprise-wide storage optimization for email and files reducing space on primary storage. The company also provides solutions for protection of critical applications and data with snapshots and real-time replication; solutions to analyze, discover, track, trend, and report on physical and virtual storage usage; and Web browser, which allows search, sort, select, and retrieval of corporate files and in formation from online, archive, and backup data copies. In addition, it offers assessment and design, implementation and post-deployment, training, consulting, and customer support services. The company markets and sells its software applications and related services directly to large enterprises, small and medium sized businesses, and government agencies, as well as indirectly through a network of value-added reseller partners, systems integrators, corporate resellers, and original equipment manufacturers. It licenses its software applications to customers in various industries, including banking, insurance and financial services, government, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and medical services, technology, legal, manufacturing, utilities, and energy. The company has strategic relationships with Dell, Inc.; Hitachi Data Systems; and NetApp. CommVault Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Oceanport, New Jersey.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Alex Planes]

  What: Shares of CommVault Systems (NASDAQ: CVLT  ) were up by as much as 13% at the start of trading this morning after the company reported earnings that beat expectations. However, the stock has been sliding lower all morning, and has now returned to the same level it reached at the close of trading yesterday.

• [By Seth Jayson]

  Calling all cash flows
  When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on CommVault Systems (Nasdaq: CVLT  ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.