Top Sliver Stocks To Own Right Now

When I write about micro-cap stocks (which typically have market values of less than $200 million), I always focus on several at once.

This approach highlights the necessity of ensuring that any one of these speculative stocks doesn't account for more than a sliver of a portfolio. Some micro-caps can fare quite well, while others sink like a stone.

I was thinking about this basket approach to micro-caps recently while reviewing a column I wrote early last year.

Since then, GSE Systems (NYSE: GVP) has been a dud, dropping 26% as the company's focus on nuclear power-plant training services has fallen out of favor. But the other two picks in that column are faring quite well and appear to still have ample upside. Looking at the reasons why that's the case can also point the way to the pillars of success in micro-cap investing.

Top Sliver Stocks To Own Right Now: Elite Ksb Holdings Limited(550.SI)

Elite KSB Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, engages in importing, processing, and distributing chicken, pork, and other meat products primarily in Singapore. It provides a range of chicken, pork, beef, and lamb products. The company offers a range of fresh chicken products, such as fresh dressed chicken, fresh chicken parts, and marinated chicken; and chilled beef, including striploin, sirloin, and ribeye. It also manufactures and supplies various small goods, including sausages, hams, and other gourmet specialties. The company sells its products under the First Choice, Pasar, Chef, Ayam21, Top Fresh, and PERGAS brand names. In addition, it provides third-party slaughtering services to chicken distributors; invests in investment properties; involves in the feedmill business activities; and operates as a food processing specialist. The company offers its products to the supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, chicken rice stalls, food service providers, and wet ma rket stalls. Elite KSB Holdings Limited was incorporated in 2001 and is based in Singapore.

Top Sliver Stocks To Own Right Now: E2V TECHNOLOGIES ORD GBP0.05(E2V.L)

e2v technologies plc engages in the development and manufacture of electronic components and sub-systems for the medical and science, aerospace and defense, and commercial and industrial markets. Its RF power solutions segment offers electronic devices and sub-systems used in defense electronic countermeasures, radiotherapy cancer treatment machines, radar systems, satellite communications amplifiers, industrial heating, cargo screening, bulk materials processing, missile control safety and arming devices, and digital television transmitters. The company?s High performance imaging solutions segment provides charged coupled devices and complimentary metal oxide semiconductor imaging sensors, and cameras used in a range of applications, such as space and earth observation imaging, science and life science imaging, machine vision, ophthalmology, and dental x-ray systems, as well as fire, rescue, and security thermal imaging. Its Hi-rel semiconductor solutions segment offers microprocessors, data converters, and MRAMs; and assembly and test, and semiconductor lifecycle management services. The company?s product portfolio includes coupled cavity and helix TWTs, gridded and inductive output tubes, industrial processing systems, klystrons, magnetrons, microwave devices, modulators, safety and arming devices, spark gaps, amplifiers, thyratrons, automotive air quality sensors, and x-ray spectroscopy detectors. It offers its products through a network of agents and distributors primarily in the Europe, North America, the Asia Pacific, and rest of the world. The company was formerly known as Marconi Applied Technologies and changed its name to e2v technologies plc in July 2002. e2v technologies plc was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, the United Kingdom.

Top 10 High Tech Companies To Watch For 2014: Ass British Food(ABF.L)

Associated British Foods plc operates as a diversified food, ingredients, and retail group. The company operates through five segments: Sugar, Agriculture, Retail, Grocery, and Ingredients. The Sugar segment engages in growing and processing sugar beet and sugar cane for sale to industrial users. The Agriculture segment procures grain and oilseeds from farmers and co-products from the food, drink, and bioethanol industries. It manufactures and sells animal feeds and premixes to farmers; and micro ingredients to farmers and feed manufacturers. This segment also provides agronomy advice and crop inputs. The Retail segment is involved in buying and merchandising clothing and accessories. It offers womenswear, lingerie, childrenswear, menswear, footwear, accessories, hosiery, and home ware through the Primark and Penneys retail chains primarily in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, and Belgium. The Grocery segment manufactur es hot beverages; sugar and sweeteners; vegetable oils; bread, baked goods, and cereals; ethnic foods, herbs, and spices; and meat products that are sold to retail, wholesale, and foodservice businesses. The Ingredients segment produces bakers? yeast, bakery ingredients, specialty proteins, enzymes, lipids, and yeast extracts. The company operates in the United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, the Americas, and the Asia Pacific. The company was founded in 1935 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom. Associated British Foods plc is a subsidiary of Wittington Investments Limited.

Top Sliver Stocks To Own Right Now: The Finish Line Inc.(FINL)

The Finish Line, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a mall-based specialty retailer in the United States. It operates Finish Line stores that offer performance and athletic casual footwear, apparel, and accessories for men, women, and kids. The company also sells merchandise through its Web site, finishline.com. As of September 22, 2011, it operated 646 stores in the United States. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Top Sliver Stocks To Own Right Now: Ocean Power Technologies Inc.(OPTT)

Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of proprietary systems that generate electricity by harnessing the renewable energy of ocean waves primarily in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. The company offers utility PowerBuoy system to supply electricity to a local or regional electric power grid; and autonomous PowerBuoy system that is designed to generate power for use independent of the power grid in remote locations. Its autonomous PowerBuoy system is also used in various applications, including homeland security, off-shore oil and gas platforms, aquaculture, and ocean-based communication and data gathering, such as tsunami warnings. The company sells its products to public utilities, independent power producers, and other governmental entities and agencies, as well as public and private entities that use electricity in and near the ocean. Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. was incorporated in 1984 and is headquartered in Penn ington, New Jersey.

Top Sliver Stocks To Own Right Now: Novatel Wireless Inc.(NVTL)

Novatel Wireless, Inc. provides wireless broadband access solutions for the mobile communications market worldwide. It operates in two segments, Mobile Computing Products and machine-to-machine (M2M) Products and Solutions. The Mobile Computing Products segment offers MiFi Intelligent Mobile Hotspots, which provide connectivity option for Wi-Fi-enabled devices, such as the iPad, Kindle, tablets, PCs, MP3 players, and gaming devices; USB and PC-Card modems for wireless access; and embedded modules for use in laptop PCs, netbooks, tablets, and other electronic products to provide wireless broadband access. This segment also offers MobiLink mobile communications software suite, an object-oriented application that enables access to connectivity features, such as SMS, multimedia messaging, and virtual private networking, as well as provides video telephony and wireless local area networks management capabilities; and MiFi DLNA Server, which operates on MiFi hotspots and enables user to access and play movies, music, and photos. It serves wireless operators, laptop PC and other original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and various companies in other vertical markets. The M2M Products and Solutions segment provides asset-management solutions utilizing wireless technology and M2M communications devices. It offers Spider MT, SA, and AT integrated solutions and accessories for monitoring and managing mobile and fixed assets, vehicle tracking and telemetric, and workforce tracking and management; Enabler III and HS embedded solutions for various products or equipment to communicate with other computers; and N4A software and design services, including software and design services primarily for asset management solutions. This segment serves transportation companies, industrial companies, manufacturers of medical devices and geographical-location aware devices, and providers of security systems. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered i n San Diego, California.