Top 5 Companies To Watch For 2014

Sales of existing homes increased 4.2% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.18 million for May, according to a National Association of Realtors (NAR) report released today.

Not only do these newest numbers tack on another month of positive gains to April's 0.6% increase, they also exceeded analysts' expectations of a 5-million-home annual rate. The May rate is 12.9% above the May 2012 number.

But while May's report may be reason to celebrate, a "housing squeeze" may be on the horizon. "The housing numbers are overwhelmingly positive," said NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun in a statement today. "However, the number of available homes is unlikely to grow, despite a nice gain in May, unless new home construction ramps up quickly by an additional 50 percent. The home price growth is too fast, and only additional supply from new homebuilding can moderate future price growth."

Top 5 Companies To Watch For 2014: Horizon Bancorp(IN)

Horizon Bancorp operates as the bank holding company for Horizon Bank, N.A., which provides commercial and retail banking products and services in northwestern Indiana and southwestern Michigan. It offers demand deposits, savings accounts, interest-bearing checking accounts, and money market and term deposits. The company also provides loans, such as commercial, financial, agricultural, and commercial tax-exempt loans; mortgage warehouse loans; real estate mortgage loans; installment loans; consumer loans; and non-performing loans. In addition, it offers corporate and individual trust and agency services, and investment management services, as well as holds title to various company owned life insurance policies. The company operates 19 full service facilities. Horizon Bancorp was founded in 1873 and is headquartered in Michigan City, Indiana.

Top 5 Companies To Watch For 2014: Cypress Development Corp. (CYP.V)

Cypress Development Corp., an exploration stage company, engages in acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral properties in the United States and Canada. It primarily explores for precious and base metals. The company holds 80% interest in the McKenzie Island claims located in the Dome and Fairlie Townships, Red Lake District, Ontario; and 84.33% interests in the Broulan Reef property located in the Red Lake area of Ontario. It also holds an agreement to acquire a 100% interest in the Twenty-One Silver-Gold Project consisting of approximately 420 acres located in Mineral County, Nevada; and a 100% interest in various Federal lode claims totaling approximately 2,400 acres located in White Pine County, Nevada. The company, formerly known as Cypress Minerals Corp., is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Top Heal Care Companies To Own In Right Now: ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd.(CCIH)

ChinaCache International Holdings Ltd. provides Internet content and application delivery services to businesses, government agencies, and enterprises in China. It offers Web Page Content Services to website operators; file transfer services; rich media streaming services that enable live streaming of media files; guaranteed application services for websites that incorporate applications with features, such as on-line booking and ordering, real-time stock quotes, and on-line surveys; managed internet data services; ChinaCache cloud services; and content bridging services. The company also provides various value-added services, such as geo-content acceleration services, performance evaluation module, scalable services routing services, link anti-hijack services, NetStorage services, user behavior analysis services, and Website performance evaluation services. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People?s Republic of China.

Top 5 Companies To Watch For 2014: Rurban Financial Corp(RBNF)

Rurban Financial Corp. operates as the holding company for The State Bank and Trust Company that provides banking and financial services to individual and corporate customers in northwest Ohio and northeast Indiana. The company offers various deposit products, including checking accounts, passbook savings, money market accounts, time deposits, and certificates of deposit. Its loan portfolio comprises commercial, consumer, agricultural, and residential mortgage loans. The company also provides personal and corporate trust services, commercial leasing, bank credit card services, safe deposit box rentals, Internet and telephone banking, and other personalized banking services, as well as various financial services, including asset management and brokerage services. In addition, Rurban Financial Corp. provides software systems that offer a range of data processing and item processing services in an outsourced environment to community banks in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansa s, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, and Wisconsin. As of April 7, 2010, it operated 19 banking centers in Allen, Defiance, Fulton, Lucas, Paulding, Williams, and Wood Counties, Ohio; and Allen County, Indiana, as well as operated a loan production office in Franklin County, Ohio. Rurban Financial Corp. has a strategic partnership with New Core Holdings, Inc. The company was founded in 1983 and is based in Defiance, Ohio.

Top 5 Companies To Watch For 2014: Hingham Institution for Savings(HIFS)

Hingham Institution for Savings provides various financial services to individuals and small businesses in Massachusetts. The company offers various deposit products, which include checking, savings, term certificates, NOW, money market, demand deposit, and individual retirement accounts. Its loan portfolio comprises residential and commercial real estate, construction, equity lines of credit, personal installment, and revolving credit loans, as well as home equity, overdraft protection, and personal and automobile loans. In addition, the company provides debit cards, direct deposits, safe deposit box, automated teller machines, and telephone and Internet-based banking services. As of December 31, 2010, it operated nine offices in Boston and southeastern Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1834 and is headquartered in Hingham, Massachusetts.