Top 5 Low Price Companies To Watch In Right Now

Anglo-Dutch oil supermajor Royal Dutch Shell PLC (NYSE: RDS-A) announced Monday that it will sell its assets in the Eagle Ford shale play in south Texas. The sale follows an announcement in August that Shell would write down $2.1 billion in the value of its North American assets.

Shell holds leases on 106,000 acres in the Eagle Ford play and currently operates 192 wells in the region. But the company did not acquire the leases until 2010, by which time the price of natural gas had begun falling. Shell said its Eagle Ford assets did not meet the company’s targets for scale and profitability.

When the company took the write-down on its North American assets, it laid the blame squarely on the low price of natural gas. At the same time, the company dropped its production targets for oil production from the shale formations. The writing was on wall at that point.

Some natural gas producers, like Exxon Mobil Corp. (NYSE: XOM) and Chesapeake Energy Corp. (NYSE: CHK), have successfully ridden recent high oil prices from the liquids-rich plays in the Eagle Ford play. Shell has been unable to do so.

Hot Shipping Companies To Buy For 2015: Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. (HII)

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. designs, builds, overhauls, and repairs ships primarily for the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard. It offers nuclear-powered ships, such as aircraft carriers and submarines; and non-nuclear ships, including surface combatants, expeditionary warfare/amphibious assault, coastal defense surface ships, and national security cutters, as well as engages in the refueling and overhaul, and inactivation of nuclear-powered ships. The company also operates as a full-service systems provider for the design, engineering, construction, and life cycle support of major programs for surface ships; and a provider of fleet support and maintenance services for the U.S. Navy. In addition, it provides a range of support services, including fabrication, construction, equipment, and technical services, as well as product sales to commercial nuclear power plants, fossil power plants, and other industrial facilities, as well as government customers. The company is based in Newport News, Virginia.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Monica Wolfe]

  Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII)

  Fournier�� fifth largest position is in Huntington Ingalls Industries. The guru holds on to 4,129,567 shares, representing 8.32% of the company�� shares outstanding and 4.3% of his total portfolio. The guru did not make any changes to his holdings in Huntington over the second quarter.

• [By Rich Smith]

  Shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII  ) will build a sixth National Security Cutter (NSC) for the U.S. Coast Guard, Huntington announced Wednesday.

• [By Roberto Pedone]

  Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) is engaged in building, overhauling and repairing ships, mainly for the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard. This stock closed up 1% at $64.11 in Friday's trading session.

  Friday's Volume: 297,000
  
  Three-Month Average Volume: 211,441
  
  Volume % Change: 50%

  From a technical perspective, HII trended modestly higher here right above some near-term support levels at $62.13 to $61.74 with above-average volume. This move also pushed shares of HII into breakout territory, since the stock took out and closed above its previous 52-week high at $63.99.

  Traders should now look for long-biased trades in HII as long as it's trending above some key near-term support at $62.13 or above $61.74 and then once it sustains a move or close above Friday's high of $64.14 with volume that hits near or above 211,441 shares. If we get that move soon, then HII will set up to enter new 52-week -igh territory, which is bullish technical price action. Some possible upside targets off that move are $70 to $72.

• [By Katie Spence]

  Who builds what
  Both General Dynamics' (NYSE: GD  ) Bath Iron Works shipbuilding company and Huntington Ingalls Industries' (NYSE: HII  ) Ingalls Shipbuilding build the DDG 51 Aegis Destroyer, with the Navy typically buying ships from each builder.

Top 5 Low Price Companies To Watch In Right Now: Hyundai Motor Co (HYMTF)

HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY is a Korea-based company principally engaged in the manufacture and distribution of automobiles and automobile parts. Along with its subsidiaries, the Company operates in three business divisions: vehicle division, financial division and other business division. Its vehicle division manufactures automobiles under the brand names of Genesis, Tucson, Equus, Veloster, Azera, Sonata, Elantra, Accent and others, and commercial vehicles, including trucks, buses, special vehicles and others, as well as provides automobile maintenance services and related components. Its financial division mainly provides automobile financing services and credit card services. Its other business division includes construction of railways and others. Advisors' Opinion:

• [By John Rosevear]

  Korean auto giant Hyundai (NASDAQOTH: HYMTF  ) and its corporate cousin Kia (NASDAQOTH: KIMTF  ) , which said �Wednesday that they would jointly recall over 1.8 million vehicles in the U.S. to fix a faulty brake-light switch, now say they will expand the recall globally.

Top 5 Low Price Companies To Watch In Right Now: PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust(PMT)

PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust is based in the United States.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Sally Jones] ng>Current Shares: 3,570,000

  Value: $80,968,000

  Weighting: 19.8%

  Down 9% over 12 months, PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust, a residential REIT, has a market cap of $1.61 billion; its shares were traded at around $22.94 with a P/E of 7.30. The dividend yield is 10%.

  PMT is not ranked for business predictability.

  Track historical data:

  Guru Action: As of Sept. 30, 2013, Kyle Bass made a new buy of 3,570,000 shares at an average price of $21.84 per share, for a gain of 4.3%.

  The GuruFocus analysis of PMT shows five warning signs.

  Vodafone Group PLC (VOD)

  Current Shares: 1,349,200

  Value: $47,465,000

  Weighting: 11.6%

  Up 55% over 12 months, Vodafone Group PLC has a market cap of $189.2 billion; its shares were traded at around $39.14 with a P/E of 273.80. The dividend yield is 4.00%.

  Vodafone Group PLC is a provider of mobile communications services and products in Germany, Italy, Spain, UK, Europe, India and Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific.

  GuruFocus ranked VOD with one out of five stars for business predictability.

  Track historical data:

  Guru Action: As of Sept. 30, 2013, Kyle Bass made a new buy of 1,349,200 shares at an average price of $31.01 per share, for a gain of 25.9%.

  The GuruFocus analysis of VOD shows nine warning signs.

  Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)

  Current Shares: 1,500,000

  Value: $49,920,000

  Weighting: 12.2%

  Up 38% over 12 months, Microsoft Corporation has a market cap of $309.54 billion; its shares were traded at around $37.45 with a P/E of 13.70. The dividend yield is 2.60%.

  GuruFocus ranked MSFT with three out of five stars for business predictability.

  Track historical data:

  Guru Action: As of Sept. 30, 2013, Kyle Bass made a new buy of 1,500,000 shares at an average price of $32.90 per share, for a gain of 12.7%.

  The GuruFocus analysis of MSFT shows two go

• [By Jon C. Ogg]

  Sterne Agee’s team said, “We continue to prefer credit risk oriented Mortgage REITs over their Agency-only focused counterparts. Among the larger cap names in our coverage, our top picks are MFA Financial, Inc. (NYSE: MFA) and PennyMac Mortgage Investment Trust (NYSE: PMT).”

Top 5 Low Price Companies To Watch In Right Now: Exterran Partners L.P.(EXLP)

Exterran Partners, L.P. provides natural gas contract operations services to customers in the United States. Its contract operations services include designing, sourcing, owning, installing, operating, servicing, repairing, and maintaining equipment to provide natural gas compression to its customers. The company also owns and operates a natural gas processing plant with a capacity of 10 million cubic feet per day, which is used to provide processing services. It serves companies engaged in various aspects of the oil and natural gas industry, including natural gas producers, processors, gatherers, transporters, and storage providers. The company markets its services through sales and field service personnel. Exterran General Partner, L.P. serves as the general partner of Exterran Partners, L.P. The company was formerly known as Universal Compression Partners, L.P. and changed its name to Exterran Partners, L.P. in August 2007. Exterran Partners, L.P. was founded in 2006 an d is based in Houston, Texas.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Anna Prior]

  Exterran Partners L.P (EXLP). will acquire natural-gas compression assets from MidCon Compression L.L.C., a subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy Corp.(CHK), for about $135 million.