Top Canadian Stocks To Watch Right Now

Atlantic Power (NYSE: AT  ) shares have sunk 60% in 2013, leaving many investors wondering whether the utility's earnings will ever float back. With Q1 earnings scheduled for Thursday morning, investors need to know the answer to a very important question: Is Atlantic Power stock undervalued? I examined the utility's fundamentals and valuation in previous articles ��now let's see how if Atlantic's business model and strategy can set it up for success.

"Accretive acquisitions"
Straight from the horse's mouth, Atlantic aims to "increase the value of the company through accretive acquisitions in North American markets while generating stable, contracted cash flows from our existing assets."

Since the utility's 2004 Canadian incorporation and 2010 NYSE IPO, Atlantic has been busy acquiring... and acquiring... and acquiring. Its current generation capacity clocks in at 2,117 MW, and the utility added 450 additional MW in 2012 alone.

Top Canadian Stocks To Watch Right Now: Transol Corporation Ltd(TNC.AX)

Transol Corporation Limited engages in the development and commercialization of computerized driver license theory testing system; digital music business; and investment in mineral exploration assets in Australia, New Zealand, Cambodia, and Asia. The company offers computerized theory testing systems, which include online Web services platforms for the delivery of education, assessment, and collaboration services for road code and rules; and corus-share.com, a Web 2.0 collaboration software platform, which utilizes social computing software tools and functionality to integrate a range of Web-based applications that allows users to communicate, interact, create, and share information. It also engages in the digital distribution, publishing, and online marketing of music and video content focused primarily on content and services in the Asia Pacific region selling to various online stores. In addition, the company holds investment in mineral exploration assets, including six projects in the Kingdom of Cambodia and Australia. It primarily explores for gold, lead, and bauxite. The company was formerly known as Online Trading Systems Limited and changed its name to Transol Corporation Limited in August 2003. Transol Corporation Limited was founded in 1999 and is based in Melbourne, Australia.

Top Canadian Stocks To Watch Right Now: Lorillard Inc(LO)

Lorillard, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes in the United States. The company offers 43 different product offerings under the Newport, Kent, True, Maverick, and Old Gold brand names. Lorillard, Inc. sells its products primarily to wholesale distributors, who in turn service retail outlets, chain store organizations, and government agencies, including the United States? Armed Forces. The company was founded in 1760 and is headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Glenn]

  Lorillard (LO), through its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes in the United States. The company has paid a rising dividend since becoming a separately traded company in 2008. It yields 5.40% and has a high dividend payout ratio as well.

Top 5 Safest Companies To Buy For 2014: Affymetrix Inc.(AFFX)

Affymetrix, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, sale, and servicing of consumables and systems for genetic analysis in the life sciences and clinical healthcare markets primarily in the United States, Europe, Japan. The company provides integrated GeneChip microarray platform, which includes disposable DNA probe arrays (chips) consisting of nucleic acid sequences, certain reagents for use with the probe arrays, a scanner and other instruments used to process the probe arrays, and software to analyze and manage genomic or genetic information obtained from the probe arrays. It also offers GeneTitan, an instrument system that runs genotyping and gene expression array plates; and GeneAtlas, an instrument for low-to-medium throughput that provides hybridization and array processing with microwell-based labware, as well as a line of multiplex assays to serve the discovery and the validation markets. In addition, the company provides reagent kits, including ExoSAP-IT fo r a reagent for the clean-up of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products used in downstream applications, such as DNA sequencing or single-nucleotide polymorphisms analysis; and HotStart-IT reagents that utilize a novel primer binding protein to inhibit primer dimer formation with results in sensitive and consistent amplification for PCR. Its products are used primarily in genotyping and gene expression applications. The company sells its products directly to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, agrichemical, diagnostics, and consumer products companies; academic research centers, government research laboratories, private foundation laboratories, and clinical reference laboratories in North America and Europe, as well as through life science supply specialists acting as authorized distributors in Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions. Affymetrix, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.