Best Clean Energy Stocks To Watch For 2014

Droughts made headlines throughout 2012�due to their harmful affects on our nation's food supply, but privation wasn't the only drag on our fresh water sources. A recent study shows that oil and natural gas fracking has placed great stress on available fresh water�in areas around the country by taking up measurable amounts of the resource. In some instances in Texas, fracking staked its claim to 20% of total water usage in the regions surrounding production areas.�

Reading that astonishing fact clears up any doubt as to why Texas now mandates the recycling of water used in the fracking process. If we plan on becoming more energy independent through increased production of domestic oil and natural gas, then something will most likely be done at the federal level as well. Which companies stand to benefit? Check out Motley Fool analyst Taylor Muckerman's video below.

Despite this, natural gas still has a great chance at revolutionizing the clean energy movement. This trend toward alternative energy is gaining momentum. One potential opportunity in this field is Clean Energy Fuels, which focuses its natural gas efforts primarily on trucking and fleets. It's poised to make a big impact on an essential industry. Learn everything you need to know about Clean Energy Fuels in The Motley Fool's premium research report on the company. Just click here now to claim your copy today.

Best Clean Energy Stocks To Watch For 2014: Engro Corporation Limited (S44.SI)

EnGro Corporation Limited engages in the manufacture and sale of cement and building materials, and specialty polymers primarily in Singapore, Malaysia, and the People�s Republic of China. The company offers ground granulated blast furnace slag under the VCEM brand; ordinary Portland cement; Portland blast furnace cement; high slag blast furnace cement; ready-mixed concrete; dry mix; and construction chemicals. It also provides thermosetting synthetic resin and plastic materials used in various markets and application, including automotives, electrical and electronics, construction and civil engineering, household, and consumer and packaging; and carbon consultancy services. In addition, the company is involved in the provision and supply of workers; and in trading equity securities, and holding investments in venture capital funds and equity securities of various industries, such as information technology, wireless communications, software, semiconductors, medical device s and equipment, pharmaceutical drug development, nanotechnology, and specialty chemicals and materials industries. The company was formerly known as SsangYong Cement (Singapore) Limited and changed its name to EnGro Corporation Limited in February 2005. EnGro Corporation Limited was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Best Clean Energy Stocks To Watch For 2014: Mittel(MTTI.MI)

Mittel S.p.A, together with its subsidiaries, provides various financial services in Italy and internationally. It operates in five segments: Operating Finance, Real Estate, Private Equity, Corporate Finance, and Investment Management Advisory. The Operating Finance segment, through Mittel Generale Investimenti S.p.A., provides corporate lending and proprietary trading services. The Real Estate segment, through Mittel Investimenti Immobiliari S.p.A., manages property investments. The Private Equity segment invests in Italian companies through the means of stake acquisitions or closed investment funds. The Investment Management Advisory segment, through ECPI S.r.l., offers various consultancy services, including the production, maintenance, and release of financial indexes, primarily portfolio rating and screening, risk scores, and financial researching. The Corporate Finance segment, through Mittel Corporate Finance S.p.A., offers investment advisory services. The company, formerly known as Mittel ?Societa Industriale Meditarrea S.p.A., was founded in 1895 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

Best Financial Stocks To Buy For 2014: Syntel Inc.(SYNT)

Syntel, Inc. provides information technology (IT) and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) services worldwide. It operates in four segments: Applications Outsourcing, KPO, e-Business, and TeamSourcing. The Applications Outsourcing segment provides software applications development, maintenance, testing, migration, and infrastructure services. The KPO segment offers a host of outsourced solutions for knowledge and business processes. It focuses on middle and back-office business processes of the transaction cycle in the capital markets, banking, healthcare, and insurance industries. The e-Business segment provides technology services in the areas of architecting, implementing, and maintaining Web solutions, data warehousing/business intelligence, enterprise application integration, business process management, and enterprise resource planning solutions. The TeamSourcing segment offers professional IT consulting services directly to customers on a staff augmentation basis. It s services include systems specification, design, development, implementation, and maintenance of complex IT applications involving computer hardware, software, data, and networking technologies and practices. Syntel, Inc. provides services to a range of companies primarily in the financial services, healthcare and life sciences, insurance, manufacturing, automotive, retail, logistics, and telecom industries. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Troy, Michigan.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Brian Pacampara]

  Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, IT services specialist Syntel (NASDAQ: SYNT  ) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.

Best Clean Energy Stocks To Watch For 2014: Rex Energy Corporation(REXX)

Rex Energy Corporation operates as an independent oil and gas company in the Appalachian Basin and the Illinois Basin. It focuses on the Marcellus Shale drilling projects, and Utica Shale and Upper Devonian Shale exploration activities in the Appalachian Basin. The company also holds interests in the Lawrence Field ASP Flood project, which is an oil recovery project located in Lawrence County, Illinois. As of December 31, 2011, it operated approximately 2,117 wells, including approximately 517 disposal and injection wells. The company had estimated proved reserves of 366.2 billions of cubic feet equivalent. Rex Energy Corporation was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in State College, Pennsylvania.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Matt DiLallo]

  The company has also shifted some of its attention to next-door neighbor Ohio's Utica Shale. It's not the only Marcellus driller to look to the higher profit potential in the liquids-rich Utica. Smaller drillers like Rex Energy (NASDAQ: REXX  ) are also looking west to the Utica in an effort to grow liquids production. The company reported positive results at three recently drilled wells at its Warrior South project. While all this attention is great for the Utica, Pennsylvania would rather have drillers investing that drilling capital within its borders to add more jobs and tax revenue. �

Best Clean Energy Stocks To Watch For 2014: Arcan Resources Ltd (ARN.V)

Arcan Resources Ltd. engages in the exploration, development, and production of petroleum and natural gas in western Canada. It primarily holds interests in Swan Hills property located in north central Alberta; Hamburg property located in northwest Alberta; and McLeod property located in west central Alberta. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Best Clean Energy Stocks To Watch For 2014: American Capital Agency Corp (AGNC)

American Capital Agency Corp. (AGNC) is a real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company earns income primarily from investing on a leveraged basis in agency mortgage-backed securities. These investments consist of residential mortgage pass-through securities and collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs) for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by government-sponsored entities, such as the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), or by a United States Government agency, such as the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) (collectively, GSEs). It may also invest in agency debenture securities issued by Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae or the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB). The Company is managed by American Capital AGNC Management, LLC, which is an affiliate of American Capital, Ltd.

AGNC funds its investments primarily through short-term borrowings structured as repurchase agreements. The agency mortgage-backed securities in which the Company invests consist of agency residential pass-through certificates and CMOs. Agency residential pass-through certificates are securities representing interests in pools of mortgage loans secured by residential real property. Agency CMOs are securities that are structured instruments representing interests in agency residential pass-through certificates. Agency CMOs consist of multiple classes of securities.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Markos Kaminis]

  As investors in Annaly Capital shares already know, quickly rising interest rates are a very bad thing for mortgage REITS like Annaly and peers like American Capital Agency (AGNC) and Two Harbors Investment (TWO). Interest rate concern is the key reason the share prices of names in this group have declined so deeply this year already, though the catalyst was intensifying expectations for Fed tapering of asset purchases up until now.

• [By Dan Caplinger]

  American Capital Agency (NASDAQ: AGNC  ) will release its quarterly report on Monday, and the real estate investment trust faces the toughest environment it has seen in years. With big share-price declines, the pressure will be on to see if American Capital Agency earnings can sustain the company's generous dividend payouts -- or whether it will have to make further cuts in its dividend that could send the stock falling further.

• [By Dan Caplinger]

  CYS isn't the best-known mortgage REIT in the industry, but it presents an interesting bargain right now. With shares of CYS trading well below its net asset value of $13.31, the REIT has a margin of safety that you won't find with bigger rivals. Both Annaly Capital (NYSE: NLY  ) and American Capital Agency (NASDAQ: AGNC  ) trade at or above book value, compared to about a 7% discount at current prices for CYS.

• [By Jay Jenkins]

  For these mREITS, the market has ignored the rebounding real estate market, the explicit backing of�Fannie Mae� (NASDAQOTCBB: FNMA  ) and�Freddie Mac� (NASDAQOTCBB: FMCC  ) by the U.S. government, strong performances from mortgage originators this year, and the impressive dividends offered by leading companies like�American Capital Agency (NASDAQ: AGNC  ) , CYS Investments (NYSE: CYS  ) , and Hatteras Financial (NYSE: HTSI  ) .�