Best Prefered Stocks To Invest In 2015

Best Prefered Stocks To Invest In 2015: Navistar International Corporation (NAV)

Navistar International Corporation, through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells commercial and military trucks, buses, diesel engines, and recreational vehicles, as well as provides service parts for trucks and trailers worldwide. The company operates in four segments: Truck, Engine, Parts, and Financial Services. The Truck segment manufactures and distributes trucks and buses for the common carrier, private carrier, government, leasing, construction, energy/petroleum, military vehicles, and student and commercial transportation markets under the International and IC brands; assembles components; and produces sheet metal components, including truck cabs. This segment markets its products through its independent dealer network, and distribution and service network retail outlets comprising 784 in the United States and Canada, 86 in Mexico, and 292 internationally, as well as markets reconditioned used trucks to owner-operators and fleet buyers through its network of us ed truck centers. The Engine segment designs, manufactures, and sells diesel engines under the MaxxForce brand for use in the medium trucks, heavy trucks, and military vehicles, as well as for its IC branded school buses and other applications. The Parts segment provides customers with products required to support the companys brands, as well as offers other truck, trailer, and engine service parts. The Financial Services segment provides and manages retail, wholesale, and lease financing services for products sold by the Truck and Parts segments and their dealers. It also operates as a private-label designer and manufacturer of diesel engines for the pickup truck, van, and sport utility vehicle markets. Navistar International Corporation was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Lisle, Illinois.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Vera Yuan]

  Performance SummaryAfter a brief pause in the first quarter, international ! equity markets moved higher, ending the second quarter of 2014 with positive absolute returns across the board. Canada and the UK were the best performing major markets, while both Europe excluding the UK and developed Asia lagged. Emerging markets also performed well as investors began to anticipate an end to negative earnings revisions. Overall, the world seems to be moving from a market driven by Central Bank actions, as evidenced by 2013s higher beta performance, to a market that focuses more on less volatile companies with durable earnings growth and trading at reasonable prices.Invesco European Growth Fund (Trades, Portfolio) Class A shares at net asset value (NAV) posted a return of 3.81% for the second quarter of 2014, outperforming the MSCI European Growth Index, which returned 2.86%.Stock selection in financials, industrials and health care drove relative outperformance. Having a meani ngful overweight in energy, the quarters strongest sector, compared to the index also added to relative return.Fund holdings in the financials, health care and industrials sectors outperformed those of the benchmark and were among the strongest contributors to relative performance.Shire PLC (LSE:SHP) and Haci Omer Sabanci Holding AS (IST:SAHOL) were among the most significant individual contributors to fund performance during the quarter (2.08% and 1.88% of total net assets, respectively.)Shire (LSE:SHP) is an Irish-based global specialty biopharmaceutical company. The companys stock price rose as it was the object of a takeover bid by a US drugmaker.Haci Omer Sabanci (IST:SAHOL) is a conservatively managed Turkish holding company, of which Akbank T.A.S. is the largest holding. During the second quarter, shares of Haci Omer Sabanci rebounded strongly from a deeply sold-off position at the end of the previous quarter. Improving sentiment toward Turkey and emerging marke ts in general drove t

• [By Richard Stavros]

  As of July 30, 2013, the ETF recorded a net asset value (NAV) of $1.16 billion ! and a low! expense ratio of 0.50%.

  SPDR DB International Government Inflation-Protected Bond pays out a monthly distribution which amounts to an annual yield of around 3.76%.

• [By Arjun Sreekumar]

  And finally, several companies are working hard to surmount the challenge of limited refueling infrastructure. For instance, Navistar (NYSE: NAV  ) , a manufacturer of trucks and diesel engines, is partnering with Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ: CLNE  ) to offer natural gas-powered trucks and greater refueling infrastructure.

• [By Mani]

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  On the other side, competitive pressures remain intense while at the same time Navistar is trying to reposition its brand, making share progress more difficult.

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