But just when they thought they may be making some headway in understanding how best to develop and harness these young employees, along comes Generation Z. Its members are expected to turn the workplace upside down.
STORY: Gen Z worries about paying for college
COLUMN: High-maintenance Gen Z heads to work
Born in the decade from 1990 to 1999, statistics show this generation is already nearly 7% of the American workforce, 11 million people. By 2019, 30 million of them are expected to be employed.
Bruce Tulgan, founder of Rainmaker Thinking, has been studying young people for two decades, and says the Great Recession somewhat muted the effects of Generation Y because the economic doldrums kept many of them from getting jobs and replacing baby boomers.
10 Best High Tech Stocks To Watch For 2014: Crown Ltd(CWN.AX)
Crown Limited operates in gaming and entertainment industry primarily in Australia. It owns and operates two integrated resorts, including Crown Entertainment Complex in Melbourne and Burswood Entertainment Complex in Perth. The company?s Crown Entertainment Complex comprises 2,500 electronic gaming machines and approval to operate 500 table games; three hotels offering approximately 1,600 rooms, including 31 luxury villas; conference centre; banqueting facilities; 70 restaurants and bars; boutiques and retail outlets; a multi-screen cinema complex; a bowling alley; and an interactive gaming auditorium. Its Burswood Entertainment Complex includes approval to operate 2,000 gaming machines and 220 table games; 2 hotels; 22 restaurants and bars; a nightclub; a convention centre; 2,300 seat Burswood theatre; 20,000 seat Burswood dome; a day spa; and retail outlets. The company also owns and operates the Aspinalls Club, a high end casino in London. In addition, Crown holds int erest in casino/hotel properties in Macau, which include the City of Dreams, Altira Macau, and Mocha Clubs; and owns a portfolio of gaming investments comprising an online betting exchange, four casinos in Nevada and Western Pennsylvania, and a casino business in the United Kingdom. The company is based in Southbank, Australia.
10 Best High Tech Stocks To Watch For 2014: Golden Star Resources Ltd(GSS)
Golden Star Resources Ltd., a gold mining and exploration company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of gold properties. It owns and operates the Bogoso/Prestea gold mining and processing operation that covers approximately 40 kilometers of strike along the southwest-trending Ashanti gold district in western Ghana; and the Wassa open-pit gold mine located to the east of Bogoso/Prestea in southwest Ghana. The company also has an 81% interest in the Prestea underground gold mine located in Ghana. In addition, it holds interests in various gold exploration projects in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Cote d?Ivoire, as well as holds and manages exploration properties in Brazil in South America. The company was founded in 1984 and is based in Littleton, Colorado.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Sean Williams]
Golden Star Resources (NYSEMKT: GSS )
It's simple physics: The bigger they are, the harder they fall. When gold prices nosedived earlier this week, gold miners with historically higher operating costs took the brunt of the hit. For the most part, that meant that development-stage miners, and those operating in Africa, where labor and political costs make cost-effective mining a challenge, took it on the chin. Possibly no stock was hammered more than Golden Star Resources, a gold miner in Ghana, which lost about one-quarter of its value on Monday alone. - [By Rich Duprey]
Clash of the titans
When bears are raging on the gold bullion market, it's not surprising to see gold stocks getting mauled as well. Golden Star Resources (NYSEMKT: GSS ) was the biggest loser in the sector, losing a quarter of its market cap on no company-specific news, though a report last Friday indicated that a large number of hedge funds had recently dumped their positions in the mid-tier miner. Yet it wasn't all that much better among the majors, either, as Barrick Gold (NYSE: ABX ) fell almost 13% and Kinross Gold (NYSE: KGC ) was down 14%.
Top 10 Financial Companies To Buy For 2014: PAREXEL International Corporation(PRXL)
PAREXEL International Corporation, a biopharmaceutical services company, provides a range of clinical research, medical communications, consulting, commercialization, and technology products and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries worldwide. The company operates in three segments: Clinical Research Services (CRS), PAREXEL Consulting and Medical Communications Services (PCMS), and Perceptive Informatics (Perceptive). The CRS segment offers clinical trials management, observational studies, patient/disease registries and post-marketing surveillance, data management and biostatistics, epidemiology and health economics/outcomes research, clinical logistics, and clinical pharmacology, as well as related medical advisory, patient recruitment, and investigator site services. This segment also manages various aspects of clinical trials, including study and protocol design; case report form design; paper or electronic questionnaires designed for use in clinical research; site and investigator recruitment; patient enrollment; study monitoring and data collection; data analysis; report writing; and medical services. The PCMS segment provides technical expertise and advice in various areas comprising drug development, regulatory affairs, product pricing and reimbursement, and GMP compliance; market development, product development, and targeted communications services in support of product launch. In addition, its consultants identify alternatives and propose solutions to address clients? product development, registration, and commercialization issues. The Perceptive segment provides information technology solutions comprising medical imaging and systems integration services; ClinPhone RTSM, CTMS, and EDC products; Web-based portals; systems integration; and patient diary applications. PAREXEL International Corporation was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Advisors' Opinion:- [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 PAREXEL International (Nasdaq: PRXL ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below. - [By Eric Volkman]
PAREXEL (NASDAQ: PRXL ) has purchased a complementary asset. The company announced it bought the entirety of HERON Group, a life sciences consultancy that according to PAREXEL "provides evidence-based commercialization services to support biopharmaceutical companies throughout the lifecycle of their products."
10 Best High Tech Stocks To Watch For 2014: Elbit Systems Ltd. (ESLT)
Elbit Systems Ltd. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and integration of defense systems and products worldwide. The company operates in the areas of aerospace, land and naval systems, command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, unmanned aircraft systems, advanced electro-optics, electro-optic space systems, electronic warfare (EW) suites, airborne warning systems, electronic intelligence systems, data links, artillery systems, military communications systems, and radios. Its activities include military aircraft and helicopter systems, helmet mounted systems, commercial aviation systems and aero structures, land vehicle systems, electro-optic and countermeasures systems, homeland security systems, EW and signal intelligence systems, and various commercial activities, as well as command, control, communications, computer, and intelligence and cyber systems. The company also provides a range of support services fo r its defense systems and products. Elbit Systems Ltd. markets its systems and products as a prime contractor or subcontractor to various governments and defense contractors. The company was founded in 1966 and is based in Haifa, Israel.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Rich Smith]
The Department of Defense awarded more than $562 million worth of contracts�on Wednesday. Publicly traded companies receiving contracts included:
Eaton Corporation (NYSE: ETN ) , which was awarded a maximum $12 million firm-fixed-price, sole-source contract to supply various oil nozzles and parts to the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps with a May 22, 2015, performance completion date.
� Elbit Systems (NASDAQ: ESLT ) subsidiary M7 Aerospace, awarded a $15.2 million option extension on a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract for logistics support for 12 Navy/Marines UC-35 and seven Navy C-26 transport aircraft through May 2014.
� Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC ) , winner of a $15.3 million modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-award-fee contract funding continued systems development and demonstrations of the MQ-4C Triton Unmanned Aircraft System. This is the same�drone that the Royal Australian Air Force recently expressed interest in acquiring.Curiously, the DOD clarified that the actual purpose of the latter contract is not so much to perform work on the new drone per se but rather to pay for an upgrade of software being used in the project -- from Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT ) Windows XP operating system to Windows 7.
10 Best High Tech Stocks To Watch For 2014: Domtar Canada Pape Exchangeable (UFX.TO)
Domtar Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, marketing, and distribution of fiber-based products in North America. The company operates in three segments: Pulp and Paper, Distribution, and Personal Care. The Pulp and Paper segment offers business papers, including copy and electronic imaging papers, which are used with ink jet and laser printers, photocopiers, and plain-paper fax machines, as well as computer papers, preprinted forms, and digital papers. It also provides commercial printing and publishing papers consisting of uncoated freesheet papers, such as offset papers and opaques used in sheet and roll fed offset presses and digital printing; publishing papers comprising tradebook and lightweight uncoated papers used primarily in book publishing applications, such as textbooks, dictionaries, catalogs, magazines, hard cover novels, and financial documents; design papers for use in brochures and annual reports; and base papers for the manufacture of envelopes , tablets, business forms, and data processing/computer forms. In addition, this segment offers paper products for the packaging of food and medicines; and specialty papers for use in industrial applications, including sandpapers, medical gowns, drapes, transfer paper for printing processes, and products for security applications. It sells papers to merchants, converters, end-users, stationers, printers, and retailers. The Distribution segment is involved in purchasing, warehousing, selling, and distributing business papers, printing and publishing papers, and industrial products to commercial printers, publishers, quick copy firms, catalog and retail companies, and institutional entities. The Personal Care segment manufactures and sells incontinence products, such as branded and private label briefs, protective underwear, underpads, pads, and washcloths, as well as distributes disposable washcloths. Domtar Corporation is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.
10 Best High Tech Stocks To Watch For 2014: Abbeycrest(ACR.L)
Abbeycrest plc, through its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and distribution of jewelry products worldwide. It primarily offers gold, platinum, palladium, silver, and gemset jewelry. The company offers its products to the retailers and individuals. Abbeycrest plc is based in Leeds, the United Kingdom.
10 Best High Tech Stocks To Watch For 2014: Rio Grande Mining Corp (RGV.V)
Rio Grande Mining Corp. engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of natural resource properties in Canada. It holds an option to acquire a 100% interest in the Golden Shrew Property comprising 3 mineral claims covering an area of approximately 880.5 hectares, located in the New Westminster Mining Division, British Columbia; and a 60% interest in the Sedex Claims consisting of 33 mineral claims covering an area of approximately 21,849 hectares, located in the Omineca Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada. Rio Grande Mining Corp. was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
10 Best High Tech Stocks To Watch For 2014: United Utilities(UU.L)
United Utilities Group PLC, through its subsidiaries, owns and operates water and wastewater assets in the north west of England. It provides water and wastewater services to 3.2 million households and approximately 400,000 business premises. The company also collects wastewater from its customers and surface water from roads and highways, and treats it at its wastewater treatment works. It operates approximately 42,000 kilometers of water pipes, and approximately 43,000 kilometers of sewers. In addition, the company offers consulting and project management services, as well as involves in the property management business. The company is headquartered in Warrington, the United Kingdom.
10 Best High Tech Stocks To Watch For 2014: Vital Metals Ltd(VML.AX)
Vital Metals Limited engages in the development and exploration of mineral properties. It primarily explores for tungsten and gold. The company?s projects include the Watershed Tungsten project in far north Queensland, Australia; and the Doulnia Gold Project in southern Burkina Faso, West Africa. Vital Metals Ltd is based in Subiaco, Australia.
10 Best High Tech Stocks To Watch For 2014: Syntroleum Corporation(SYNM)
Syntroleum Corporation and its subsidiaries engage in commercializing and licensing its Syntroleum technologies to produce synthetic liquid hydrocarbons. Its Syntroleum process involves conversion of carbon containing material into synthesis gas; and conversion of the synthesis gas or coal-derived or biomass-derived syngas into hydrocarbons. The company also develops the Synfining Process technology for the conversion of Fischer-Tropsch wax into various products, including diesel fuels, jet fuels, lubricants, naphtha, and other materials. In addition, it offers the Bio-Synfining technology, a second generation renewable fuels technology that is feedstock flexible, including the use of vegetable oils, fats, fatty acids, and greases. Syntroleum Corporation was founded in 1984 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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