Top 10 Freight Companies To Buy For 2014

Watch out, grocery chain investors: The $250 billion freight train that is Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT  ) is looking to push you off the rails.

On Monday Wal-Mart announced changes across its sourcing, training, and operations "that will ensure the quality and freshness of the fruits and vegetables that it offers customers."

The plan
So how, exactly, does this corporate behemoth intend to achieve its goal?�

First, the initiative includes plans to purchase produce directly from growers with the guidance of new produce experts hired by the company. As a result, Wal-Mart will be able to take greater advantage of its own industry-leading network of distribution centers and trucking systems to bring fruits and vegetables to store shelves even faster than its current system allows.

Top 10 Freight Companies To Buy For 2014: State Street Corporation(STT)

State Street Corporation, a financial holding company, provides various financial products and services to institutional investors worldwide. The company?s Investment Servicing business line provides products and services, including custody, product- and participant-level accounting; daily pricing and administration; master trust and master custody; record-keeping; foreign exchange, brokerage, and other trading services; securities finance; deposit and short-term investment facilities; loan and lease financing; investment manager and alternative investment manager operations outsourcing; and performance, risk, and compliance analytics. This segment also offers shareholder services, which comprise mutual fund and collective investment fund shareholder accounting. Its Investment Management business line provides a range of investment management, investment research, and other related services, such as securities finance; and strategies for managing passive and active financ ial assets, such as enhanced indexing and hedge fund strategies for U.S. and global equities and fixed-income securities. The company serves mutual funds, collective investment funds and other investment pools, corporate and public retirement plans, insurance companies, foundations, endowments, and investment managers. State Street Corporation was founded in 1832 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Top 10 Freight Companies To Buy For 2014: Nucor Corporation(NUE)

Nucor Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of steel and steel products in North America and internationally. It operates through three segments: Steel Mills, Steel Products, and Raw Materials. The Steel Mills segment produces hot and cold-rolled sheet steel; plate steel; structural steel comprising wide-flange beams, beam blanks, and sheet piling; and bar steel, such as blooms, billets, concrete reinforcing bar, merchant bar, and special bar quality products. The Steel Products segment offers steel joists and joist girders, steel deck, fabricated concrete reinforcing steel, cold finished steel, steel fasteners, metal building systems, light gauge steel framing, steel grating and expanded metal, and wire and wire mesh products. The Raw Materials segment produces direct reduced iron (DRI); brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, hot briquetted iron, and DRI; supplies ferro-alloys; and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal products. The company?s operations also include various international trading companies that buy and sell steel and steel products. It sells its hot-rolled steel and cold-rolled steel to steel service centers, fabricators, and manufacturers; steel joists and joist girders, and steel deck to general contractors and fabricators; and cold finished steel and steel fasteners to distributors and manufacturers. The company?s products are used by contractors in constructing highways, bridges, reservoirs, utilities, hospitals, schools, airports, stadiums, and high-rise buildings. Nucor Corporation was founded in 1940 and is based in Charlotte, North Carolina.

10 Best Recreation Stocks To Watch For 2014: Lions Gate Metals Inc(LGM.V)

Lions Gate Metals Inc., a junior resource company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of natural resource properties in North America. The company explores for copper, molybdenum, and gold deposits. It principally holds a 100% interest in the Poplar copper - molybdenum deposit that consists of 175 claims covering an area of 69,185 hectares located near Houston, British Columbia. The company was formerly known as Fortress Base Metals Corp. and changed its name to Lions Gate Metals Inc. in July 2008. Lions Gate Metals Inc. was incorporated in 1980 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Top 10 Freight Companies To Buy For 2014: HF Financial Corp.(HFFC)

HF Financial Corp. operates as the holding company for Home Federal Bank that provides consumer and commercial business banking services in the United States. It offers deposit accounts, such as savings accounts, checking accounts, money market accounts, and certificate of deposits. The company?s loan portfolio comprises one- to four-family residential, commercial business, agriculture, multi-family, commercial real estate, and construction loans; and consumer loans, including automobile loans, home equity loans, loans secured by deposit accounts, and student loans. In addition, it provides annuities, mutual funds, life insurance, and other financial products and services, as well as equipment leasing services. As of June 30, 2011, the company had 34 banking centers. HF Financial Corp. was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Top 10 Freight Companies To Buy For 2014: Yongmao Holdings Limited (E6A.SI)

Yongmao Holdings Limited, an investment holding company, engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of tower cranes, components, and accessories for infrastructure projects, construction sites, and shipbuilding industry in the People�s Republic of China. Its tower cranes are primarily used to lift building materials and equipment. The company offers various tower cranes with lifting capacities in the range of 80 to 1200 tonne meters. In addition, it is involved in the sale, distribution, rental, financial leasing, and service of tower cranes, construction machinery, and related components. The company provides its products under the Yongmao brand name primarily to construction equipment distributors and equipment rental companies. Yongmao Holdings Limited also exports its products to approximately 70 countries and areas worldwide. Yongmao Holdings Limited was founded in 1992 and is based in Singapore. Yongmao Holdings Limited is a subsidiary of Sun & Tian Investment Pte . Ltd.

Top 10 Freight Companies To Buy For 2014: RigNet Inc.(RNET)

RigNet, Inc. provides remote communications services for the oil and gas industry. It offers remote communications services through a controlled and managed Internet protocol/multiprotocol label switching (IP/MPLS) global network, enabling drilling contractors, oil companies, and oilfield service companies to communicate. The company offers a communications package of voice, data, video, networking, and real-time data management to offshore and land-based remote locations. It primarily provides voice-over-Internet-protocol, data, and high-speed Internet access, as well as other value-added services, such as video conferencing solutions, TurboNet solutions for wide area network, real-time data management solutions, Wi-Fi hotspots and Internet kiosks, wireless intercoms, and handheld radios. The company also offers Secure Oil Information Link, a managed members-only communications network hub that enables collaborative partners, suppliers, and customers to transfer and share data. It serves the owners and operators of offshore drilling rigs and production facilities, land rigs, remote offices, and supply bases primarily in the United States, Brazil, Norway, the United Kingdom, Nigeria, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Australia. The company was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Top 10 Freight Companies To Buy For 2014: China Farm Equipment Limited (A8J.SI)

China Farm Equipment Limited, an investment holding company, engages in the design, development, production, and sale of farm equipment and diesel engines. Its products include combine harvesters, rotary plough machines and components, and soil tillages, as well as air cooling and water cooling diesel engines. The company offers combine harvesters and plough machines under the Dragon Boat brand name to farmers; and diesel engines under the Binhu and Dragon Boat brand names to the manufacturers of automobiles, plough machines, harvesters, grinders, water pumps, rice mills, road rollers, spiral propellers, and electric generators. China Farm Equipment Limited sells its products through distributors in the People�s Republic of China, as well as exports its products to Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, and Bangladesh. The company was incorporated in 2006 and is based in Miluo City, the People�s Republic of China. China Farm Equipment Limited is a subsidiary of China Longzhou Techn ologies Holdings Co., Ltd.

Top 10 Freight Companies To Buy For 2014: Mutiny Gold Ltd(MYG.AX)

Mutiny Gold Limited, a diversified resource company, engages in the exploration and development of gold, copper, and nickel tenements in western Australia. Its lead project, the Deflector Gold/Copper deposit, which is within Gullewa tenements located in south Murchison region of western Australia. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in South Perth, Australia.

Top 10 Freight Companies To Buy For 2014: Ridley Corporation Ltd(RIC.AX)

Ridley Corporation Limited, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the production and marketing of stockfeed and animal feed supplements to primary producers and rural communities in Australasia. The company produces and markets stock and poultry feeds, aqua feeds, animal protein meals, vitamin and mineral supplements, and rural merchandise under the Barastoc, Rumevite, Cobber, and Ridley Aqua-Feed brand names. It also produces and refines solar salt. The company markets salt under the Mermaid, Kooka, Crown, and Saxa brand names. It serves food producers in the beef, dairy, poultry, pig, sheep, and aquaculture industries; producers in the laboratory animals, and the equine and canines in the recreational sector; and consumer retail, water treatment, and food manufacturing industries, as well as the pool sector. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.

Top 10 Freight Companies To Buy For 2014: MAP Pharmaceuticals Inc.(MAPP)

MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a development stage company, focuses on the enhancement of the therapeutic benefits and commercial attractiveness of proven drugs in the field of neurology through its formulation and inhalation technologies. The company?s lead product candidate includes LEVADEX, an orally inhaled version of dihydroergotamine mesylate (DHE) that has completed Phase III clinical trials for the acute treatment of migraine in adults. Its proprietary technologies consist of particle creation and formulation technologies, which can be applied to small or large molecules, including peptides and proteins; and aerosol delivery platforms, such as TEMPO inhaler, a pressurized metered dose inhaler (MDI) that dispenses drug automatically when the patient inhales. MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Mountain View, California.