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Clean Energy Stocks Heat Up

Companies involved with alternative sources like wind turbines and natural-gas vehicles are getting a big lift from Japan's nuclear disaster and soaring oil prices.

Recent events have focused investor attention on the energy sector. The political turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa has pushed crude oil to fresh highs as global spare capacity gets dangerously thin. And Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown has called into question the safety of fission reactors.

Over the past few months, traditional oil and gas stocks have been big performers. But now alternative-energy plays are perking up as it becomes clear that wind energy, solar and natural gas will play a larger role in the energy ecosystem.

President Barack Obama helped things along with a speech outlining ways the country can reduce its dependence on foreign oil. One particular idea, encouraging the use of liquefied and compressed natural gas in cars and trucks, pushed Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE) up more than 11% at one point today. I think the gains are just starting. Here's why.

CLNE provides fueling stations and compressed and liquefied natural gas for fleet vehicle operators. It also sells natural-gas engine conversions and R&D services for natural-gas vehicles. The team at Barclays Capital, led by Vishal Shah, believes the economics for natural-gas-powered vehicles are starting to "become very compelling, especially in the heavy-duty segment, where penetration rates are low and growth potential is significant."

From a political standpoint, there is a lot to like: America has ample domestic resources, the fuel is relatively clean burning, and the technology is mature and easy to manufacture, unlike batteries and fuel cells. As a transportation fuel, natural gas has only a 0.5% penetration rate in North America. Barclays believes that could increase to as much as 5%.

National Pharmaceuticals Corp. (NFRM)

About National Pharmaceuticals Corp.

National Pharmaceuticals Corp. is a Pharmaceutical Research and Development Corporation focused on leading edge technologies for treatment of human diseases. The company has embarked into the business of licensing mid stage development drugs for further development and marketing worldwide.

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10 stocks for the future

When it comes to stocks, big isn't always better.

But if you choose well, big companies are more likely than small ones to deliver consistent returns over the long haul. And they're far more likely to withstand the economic, political and technological shocks that can derail small companies.

Since 1926, big-company stocks, as measured by the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX), have returned a bit more than 10% annualized. We put our heads together in search of 10 giants (which defined as companies with a market value of at least $10 billion) that we think can better the market's long-term results over the next decade.
We came up with an eclectic list that contains a number of names you'd expect to see and some that may surprise you. Below are our 10 picks for the next 10 years:

Procter & Gamble
If you're a Procter & Gamble (PG) shareholder, it must feel nice to go to bed knowing that hundreds of millions of consumers around the world will use Gillette razors, Crest toothpaste and Head & Shoulders shampoo the next morning. People need to shave, bathe and brush their teeth in any economy, and P&G's brands are so powerful that the company can pass on price increases in raw materials to its loyal customers.
This consistency has allowed P&G to compound earnings by 10% a year over the past 10 years. Wall Street projects a similar result over at least the next five years.

Factor in a 2% yield and a rising dividend stream, and P&G equals an attractive 10-year holding.

Electronic Arts
"Spore," the latest game from Electronic Arts (ERTS), is a metaphor for the company itself. In the game, a single-celled organism evolves by eating other animals and eventually masters the universe. Electronic Arts has grown mainly by acquisition to become the biggest video-game software company; sales for the fiscal year that ends next March should top $5 billion.
Electronic Arts dominates a rapidly expanding video-game universe. Sales from consoles and software together hit $18.8 billion in 2007, a 43% increase from 2006, says NPD Group. Not even the torpid economy is likely to dent the industry's -- or Electronic Arts' -- rapid growth. Analysts expect the company's earnings to rise 21% annually over the next three to five years.

First Solar
Solar energy is as hot as the sun, and few companies are hotter than First Solar (FSLR).
Based in Tempe, Ariz., First Solar produces solar modules using a proprietary thin-film semiconductor technology that requires far less silicon than other production processes. The company sells the majority of its modules in Germany, which subsidizes solar energy, but First Solar has deals with utilities to build photovoltaic generating plants in California, Florida and Nevada.

First Solar's growth has been breathtaking. In 2006, when the company went public, it earned 7 cents a share on $135 million in revenue. In 2008, analysts estimate, the company will earn $3.72 per share on sales of $1.2 billion. And analysts see earnings growing 56% annually over the next few years.

The stock, which is up 13-fold from its initial public offering, is risky, but it could continue to deliver big rewards as long as oil prices stay high and governments continue to subsidize solar power.

Gilead Sciences
Gilead Sciences (GILD) has built a formidable franchise in drugs that treat HIV. They provide about 75% of the company's revenue, which is expected to exceed $5 billion this year. Those drugs should provide the Foster City, Calif., biotech company with robust growth in the coming decade, even as it diversifies into other promising areas, such as medicines that treat hepatitis, hypertension and influenza.
Gilead's portfolio of drugs faces little threat from generics, and the company can use its ample cash reserves ($3 billion as of midyear) to supplement its development pipeline via acquisitions and partnerships.

Google
Google (GOOG) is the single most visited Web site in the U.S., a cultural phenomenon and a verb. And in just four years as a publicly traded company, it has achieved the status of Internet behemoth, with a market value in the neighborhood of $150 billion.
As a business, Google is an advertising company. Pay-per-click search-engine advertising represents 90% of revenue, and all advertising taken together brings in 99%.

Enormous profits over the past five years have endowed Google with the cash to pursue such lofty goals as projecting interactive satellite images of the cosmos onto your computer screen and digitizing all books ever written.

Yet Google's strength in its basic ad business is reason enough to love it. As more ad dollars shift from old media to new media, Google's scale and formidable brain trust give it the strength to remain the market leader. And despite the company's immensity, analysts expect earnings to grow at a hefty 30% annual pace over the next few years. Ten years? Sure.

Monsanto
Monsanto (MON) has emerged as one of the great growth stocks of this decade, returning an annualized 61% over the past five years. The world is hungry for grain, meat and ethanol. Monsanto's high-tech seeds, genomics and herbicides boost the productivity of corn, soybean, cotton and wheat farms.
Monsanto's seed technology is years ahead of competitors', and its market penetration is expanding worldwide, to cropland in places such as Brazil and Argentina.

Yes, it has its critics, who complain of Monsanto's business practices. But earnings have compounded by 24% annually over the past five years. Wall Street thinks this rate of profit growth will ratchet up to 30% annualized over the next three to five years. Its 10-year horizon looks bright.

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. APNT

About APPLIED NANOTECH HOLDINGS, INC.

Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. is a premier research and commercialization organization focused on solving problems at the molecular level. Its team of PhD level scientists and engineers work with companies and other organizations to solve technical impasses and create innovations that will create a competitive advantage. The business model is to license patents and technology to partners that will manufacture and distribute products using the technology. Applied Nanotech has over 250 patents or patents pending. Applied Nanotech's website is www.appliednanotech.net.

NanoViricides, Inc. NNVC

About NanoViricides:

NanoViricides, Inc. (www.nanoviricides.com) is a development stage company that is creating special purpose nanomaterials for antiviral therapy. The Company's novel nanoviricide(R) class of drug candidates are designed to specifically attack enveloped virus particles and to dismantle them. The Company is developing drugs against a number of viral diseases including H1N1 swine flu, H5N1 bird flu, seasonal Influenza, HIV, oral and genital Herpes, viral diseases of the eye including EKC and herpes keratitis, Hepatitis C, Rabies, Dengue fever, and Ebola virus, among others.

Lighting Science Group Corp. LSCG

About Lighting Science Group Corporation

Lighting Science Group Corporation (OTCBB: LSCG) designs, develops, manufactures and markets LED lighting solutions that are environmentally friendlier and more energy efficient than traditional lighting products. Lighting Science Group offers retrofit LED lamps in form factors that match the form factor of traditional lamps or bulbs and LED luminaires for a range of applications including public and private infrastructure for both indoor and outdoor applications. Lighting Science Group Design Works business unit designs, develops and manufactures custom LED lighting solutions for architectural and artistic projects. Lighting Science Group is headquartered in Satellite Beach, Florida; the Company's European operations are based in Goes, The Netherlands; and, the Company has a sales office in Sydney, Australia. Lighting Science Group has over 400 workers in its Satellite Beach, Florida manufacturing facility that build lighting products from domestic and imported parts. Lighting Science Group is a Pegasus Capital Advisors portfolio company. More information about Lighting Science Group is available at www.lsgc.com.

Dividend stocks look good again

We are just months removed from one of the worst years for corporate dividends on record. Uncle Sam is expected to take another big bite out of that income in 2011 in the form of sharply higher taxes. And yet dividend investing has rarely looked betterhis year through mid-June, there were at least 135 dividend increases or initiations among the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX), up roughly 55% from the first six months of last year.

And the gains are coming across a broad swath of industries. Chip-maker Analog Devices (ADI, news,msgs) in May said it would increase its quarterly payout 10%, to 22 cents a share. Dental-products provider Patterson (PDCO, news,msgs) in June announced it would initiate a quarterly payout of 10 cents a share. And consumer electronics retailer Best Buy (BBY,news, msgs) announced June 24 that it would raise its dividend 7%, to 15 cents a share.

If the economy continues to gather strength, analysts say, many more companies will likely gain the confidence to boost dividends this year.

So what has changed? Corporate balance sheets, which were squeezed during the recession, are once again brimming with cash. S&P 500 nonfinancial companies had a record $837 billion in cash at the end of the first quarter, up from $665 billion a year earlier, according to S&P.

Of course, there are plenty of head winds. The tax rate on qualified dividend payments, capped in 2003 at 15%, is set to expire at the end of this year along with some other Bush-era tax cuts. Absent congressional action, the top dividend tax rate will jump to 39.6% next year. It also could end up somewhere in between.

And BP's (BP, news, msgs) June 16 announcement that it was suspending its payout was only the latest reminder that a seemingly fat dividend doesn't always pan out. Last year, there were 78 dividend reductions or suspensions among the S&P 500 companies, slicing a record $52.6 billion in payments, all told..But for investors looking to generate steady income, the alternatives to dividends don't stack up well. With the Federal Reserve keeping its key interest rate at a historical low, the roughly 2% average dividend yield of the S&P 500 looks attractive relative to many bond and cashlike investments.

The average taxable money market fund, for example, offers a paltry seven-day yield of 0.04%, according to iMoneyNet, which tracks the funds. Bonds carry risks of their own and must be rolled over and reinvested when they mature.

The long-term case for dividend investing, meanwhile, remains sound. Some research suggests that companies tend to boost these payments ahead of significant increases in cash flow. And dividends often provide a cushion when stock returns sag. That can be especially valuable for income-focused investors, such as those looking to cover regular living expenses during retirement.

Such investors shouldn't rely on stock-price appreciation to pay the bills, says Josh Peters, the editor of the Morningstar DividendInvestor newsletter, because "those capital gains won't always materialize when you need them." He says now is "a good time to look for good dividend yields."

5 companies that recently raised dividendsCompanySectorDividend increaseDividend yield

Analog Devices (ADI, news, msgs)	Digital signal processors	10%, to 22 cents	3.2%
Patterson (PDCO, news, msgs)	Dental products	Initiated at 10 cents	1.4%
Best Buy (BBY, news, msgs)	Consumer electronics	7%, to 15 cents	1.8%
Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS,news, msgs)	Nonalcoholic beverages	67%, to 25 cents	2.7%
Target (TGT, news, msgs)	Discount retail	47%, to 25 cents	2.0%

With the payout picture brightening, some investors are following that advice. F. Courtney Mallinson Jr., 63, of Alexandria, Va., a few weeks ago boosted his position in the iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend Index (DVY, news, msgs)exchange-traded fund, which holds about 100 dividend-paying stocks.

Thinking about retirement in a few years, he says, "I'm looking to augment my pension and Social Security with investment income, and don't want to depend on bonds." With a broadly diversified dividend-focused fund, says Mallinson, a marketing manager for a telecom firm, "I just hold on forever."

With some careful decision making, investors can exploit today's favorable dividend climate without getting burned.

Strategies For This Market

Economic doubts at home, debt crises abroad, a sickly job market and volatility in the stock market have combined to make Americans uneasy about their financial future. At times like these, it's worth taking stock of some of the investing basics that can make investing a less-fraught proposition.

Consider the following as a checklist for staying sane when markets seem to be anything but friendly:

1. Don't pay too much

High fees can cut into a fund's overall returns.

Recent data from Morningstar underscore the importance of fees in predicting the success of mutual funds. The investment research company looked at the expense ratios of funds in various asset classes from 2005 through 2008, then tracked their progress from 2008 through March 2010. Bottom line: The cheapest funds outperformed the highest-cost funds in each asset class over every time period.For instance, the cheapest quintile of U.S. stock funds returned 3.35%, on average, over the five-year period, versus 2.02% for the highest-cost quintile of funds in the category.

Find top-performing ETFs

When selecting funds, keep in mind that some asset classes are pricier than others. Large-cap funds are generally cheaper than small-cap or international funds, for example. It's a good idea to compare your funds' expense ratios with those of their peers.

2. Keep it simple

Index funds and exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, track indexes, so they're generally cheaper than funds that rely on stock-picking managers.

ETFs, which look like mutual funds but behave like stocks, offer a simple, low-cost way to invest and gain instant diversification. When you invest in an ETF or an index fund, keep in mind that your fund won't likely underperform its index, but it won't beat the index either. We are huge fans of simplification strategies, and think indexing a broad-market segment is a great way to do that.

Index funds that provide exposure to U.S. stocks include Schwab Total Stock Market Index Fund(SWTSX). Investors seeking overseas exposure might consider the Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund(VTWSX).

3. Dollar-cost average

In a volatile market, it can be difficult to stick to your investment plan. Many investors pull money out of stock funds when the market gets bumpy. One way to stay on track is by practicing dollar-cost averaging -- investing a set amount of money on a regular basis instead of investing a large sum at once.

Dollar-cost averaging ensures that you'll continually invest in the market regardless of how it's performing. You can begin by setting up an automatic investment plan through a fund company. T. Rowe Price, for example, will allow you to invest in more than 90 of its no-load funds if you agree to contribute at least $50 per month to a fund.

One offering is T. Rowe Price Spectrum Growth Fund (PRSGX), which provides broad-market exposure through 11 underlying T. Rowe Price stock funds.

4. Diversify within asset classes

The so-called lost decade for stocks makes a good case for diversification. If you had invested only in an index fund that tracks the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX) from Jan. 1, 2000, to Dec. 31, 2009, you would have earned virtually nothing. The culprit? Large-cap stocks that performed poorly.

Meanwhile, other asset classes provided solid returns. For instance, over the past 10 years, the Russell 2000 ($RUT), a small-cap index, has returned an annualized 4%.

5. Keep an eye on cross-asset allocation

Large cap? Small cap? Those distinctions matter but not nearly as much as the mix of classes of assets in your portfolio.

No longer does a diversified portfolio consist of just stocks and bonds. Equities and fixed-income instruments should be held alongside such assets as real estate, commodities and other alternatives to prevent just the sort of damage that hit portfolios during the 2008-09 crisis, when wide swath

6. Rebalance periodically

It's important to monitor your portfolio and make sure your asset allocation is changed over time.

Making the judgment about what is an appropriate stock, bond and cash mix -- and also taking care to adjust that over time as you get closer to needing your money -- is a hugely important and impactful step, arguably more important than individual security selection.

Some experts recommend that younger investors fill their portfolio entirely with stocks, then gradually shift into other types of investments, such as bonds, as they age.

Fund families often employ different "glide paths," or asset allocations that change over time. As you approach retirement, target-date funds shift to a more conservative mix.

If you decide to choose your own funds, remember to rebalance periodically.

7. Don't try to time the market

It's a common investing error: buying funds when they're flying high and dumping them when they're falling behind. Over the past decade, investors simply weren't successful at timing the market, according to research from Morningstar, and tended to lose more than the funds' published returns suggest.

Take Janus Twenty T (JAVLX), a large-cap growth fund that ranks in the top half of its category over the past 10 years that has lost 2% per year, on average. According to Morningstar, investors in the fund, on average, lost an annualized 7% over that time because they jumped in and out at the wrong times.

Research has shown that the most volatile funds in the most volatile categories provide worse returns for investors than their average reported returns.

We tend to see with the more extreme types of funds that those are the funds where investors badly mishandle their timing decisions, so the more volatile the fund category, the more likely you are to see a pattern of investors forgoing gains because they timed their purchases poorly.

For all categories, over the past decade, the average investor returns among funds representing all asset classes have been about 1.5 percentage points lower than the funds' average reported returns, according to Morningstar's research.

8. Don't pick (all of) your own stocks

Investors unwilling to spend a good amount of time scouring stock charts or company filings might be better off treating individual stocks like any other exotic part of a portfolio -- fine to own in moderate amounts.If you're dead-set on owning individual stocks as longer-term holdings, financial advisers say it's not a bad idea to play it safe by sticking with large, well-known global companies that pay decent dividends. Rimel says companies such as Intel (INTC), with its 3.3% dividend yield, fit the profile.

9. Cut your losses

The best investors know that limiting losses can be just as important as picking winners. That's because investors can recover from small losses quickly, but digging out from a sudden loss of 25% or more can mean a small portfolio will take years to recover.

Prominent longtime investors such as William O'Neil advocate selling stocks when losses hit 8%. Other experts advocate selling half of a position at a 5% loss and bailing out completely when share prices dip 10%.

The ability to fall out of love with a stock can be just as important as picking the right investment.

A rule of thumb for part-time investors is to keep less than 10% of a portfolio in individual names, experts say, with the remainder of the equity holdings spread among low-cost index or actively managed mutual funds.s of assets -- homes, stocks, bonds -- lost value at the same time.

Research shows that almost all investment volatility is driven by asset-allocation decisions. A classic study (.pdf file) of pension funds showed that 91.5% of investment variation in quarterly returns is explained by investment policy rather than stock picking or other factors.

It's not so much what you put in your account, it's how you allocate what you put in your account that's going to help reduce volatility.

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