10 Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now

With shares of Boeing (NYSE:BA) trading around $134, is BA an OUTPERFORM, WAIT AND SEE, or STAY AWAY? Let�� analyze the stock with the relevant sections of our CHEAT SHEET investing framework:

T = Trends for a Stock’s Movement

Boeing is an aerospace company. It focuses primarily on engineering, information technology, research and development, test and evaluation, technology strategy development, environmental remediation management, and intellectual property management. The company operates in five segments: Commercial Airplanes, Boeing Military Aircraft, Network & Space Systems, Global Services & Support, and Boeing Capital Corp.

Boeing released its annual forecast Tuesday and said that commercial jet buyers will look to capital markets to provide more financing in 2014, as the value of jet sales is rising by about 7.7 percent and they need to fund an anticipated $112 billion in jet deliveries next year. While capital markets accounted for just 3 percent of total jet financing in 2009, that number rose to 14 percent this year, and will jump to 22 percent in 2014.

10 Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Redknee Solutions Inc (RKN.TO)

Redknee Solutions Inc. provides communication software products, solutions, and services to wireless, wireline, broadband, and satellite network operators. It offers Real-time Converged Billing, a cloud-enabled converged billing and customer care platform, which provides real-time unified billing, rating, and charging for the operator�s data, voice, and messaging services; customer care capabilities; subscriber promotions and loyalty programs; and self-care options for prepaid, postpaid, and hybrid subscribers. The company also provides Brand Challenger, a cloud-based end-to-end converged billing solution for mobile network operators, mobile virtual network enablers, and mobile virtual network operators. In addition, it offers Wholesale Settlement, an interconnect, wholesale, roaming, MVNO, franchise management, and content settlement software solution that provides operators with visibility into network transactions for achieving converged settlement and interconnect bil ling. Further, the company provides related hardware and services, including maintenance, support, and professional services, as well as learning, managed, and advisory services. It operates in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company distributes its products and services through direct sales force and resellers. Redknee Solutions Inc. was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Mississauga, Canada.

10 Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: FairPoint Communications Inc.(FRP)

FairPoint Communications, Inc. provides communications services in rural and small urban communities primarily in northern New England. The company offers an array of services, including high speed data, Internet access, voice, television, and broadband product offerings to residential, business, and wholesale customers. It provides local calling services, such as basic local lines, local private lines, and switched data services; data services comprising private line special access, fast packet, optical, Ethernet, and IP services; and Internet services, including IP addresses obtaining services, basic Web site design and hosting, domain name, content feeds, and Web-based email services, as well as carrier Ethernet services. In addition, the company offers network transport services, such as access services, which primarily include DS-1 and DS-3 services; and high speed digital services that primarily comprise Ethernet-based services provisioned over fiber and copper facil ities. Further, it provides billing and collection services for interexchange carriers; directories, which offer white page, yellow page, and community information listings; public (coin) telephone, and the sale and maintenance of customer premise equipment; and video services to its customers by reselling DirectTV content, and cable and IP TV video-over- digital subscriber lines. As of December 31, 2011, the company operated approximately 1.3 million access line equivalents in 18 states. It provides cellular backhaul connectivity to approximately 1,600 towers. FairPoint Communications, Inc. is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Best Insurance Stocks To Invest In 2014: Maxim Integrated Products Inc.(MXIM)

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. engages in designing, developing, manufacturing, and marketing various linear and mixed-signal integrated circuits worldwide. The company also provides various high-frequency process technologies and capabilities for use in custom designs. It primarily serves industrial, communications, consumer, and computing markets. The company markets its products through a direct-sales and applications organization, as well as through its own and other unaffiliated distribution channels. Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

10 Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Responsys Inc.(MKTG)

Responsys, Inc. provides on-demand software and professional services primarily in North America, the Asia Pacific, and Europe. The company offers Responsys Interact suite, a software-as-a-service platform that provides marketers with a set of integrated applications to create, execute, optimize, and automate marketing campaigns in various channels, including email, mobile, social, and the Web. Its platform also leverages third-party applications and data from real-time sources allowing customers to deliver targeted content to its customers and known prospects as part of their interactive marketing campaigns. In addition, it provides professional services, such as strategic, creative, deliverability, campaign, and education services. The company offers its on-demand software and professional services to retail and consumer, travel, financial services, and technology industries through a direct sales force. Responsys, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in San Bru no, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By The GeoTeam]

  Our recent 2013 articles on SaaS companies Selectica (SLTC), E2open (EOPN), Responsys (MKTG), Vocus (VOCS), and ExactTarget (ET) highlighted such opportunities. The average return since the inception of our coverage currently stands at around 34% (55% at their highs).

• [By Seth Jayson]

  Calling all cash flows
  When you are trying to buy the market's best stocks, it's worth checking up on your companies' free cash flow once a quarter or so, to see whether it bears any relationship to the net income in the headlines. That's what we do with this series. Today, we're checking in on Responsys (Nasdaq: MKTG  ) , whose recent revenue and earnings are plotted below.

10 Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: MER Telemanagement Solutions Ltd.(MTSL)

Mer Telemanagement Solutions Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, markets, and supports a line of telecommunication expense management (TEM), and customer care and billing solutions for business organizations and other enterprises worldwide. Its TEM solutions assist enterprises and organizations in the allocation of costs, budget control, fraud detection, processing of payments, and spending forecasting. The company also offers converged billing solutions, including applications for charging and invoicing customers, interconnect billing, and partner revenue management through pre-pay and post-pay schemes for wireless providers, voice over Internet protocol, Internet protocol television, and content service providers. Its products provide telecommunication and information technology managers with tools to reduce communication costs, recover charges payable by third parties, and to detect and prevent abuse and misuse of telephone networks comprising fault telecommunication usage. The company markets its products through its direct sales force, distributors, and business telephone switching systems manufacturers and vendors. Mer Telemanagement Solutions Ltd. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Raanana, Israel.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Bryan Murphy]

  If you're a small cap enthusiast looking for some budding ideas, you may not need to look any further than China GengSheng Minerals, Inc. (NYSEMKT:CHGS), Bio Matrix Scientific Group Inc. (OTCMKTS:BMSN), and MER Telemanagement Solutions Ltd. (NASDAQ:MTSL). All three have either pushed themselves to the brink of a breakout, if they haven't started one already. Here's a closer technical look at MTSL, BMSN, and CHGS, and what it's going to take to get them going if they're not going already.

10 Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Sapiens International Corporation N.V.(SPNS)

Sapiens International Corporation N.V. provides software solutions for the insurance industry primarily in North America, Europe, Israel, and the Asia Pacific. The company offers solutions for the property and casualty (P&C)/general insurance, as well as life, pension, and annuity markets. Its products include RapidSure, a component-based software solution used for general, personal, and commercial lines of businesses, including homeowners, fleet insurance, and specialty lines insurance products; IDIT, a component based software solution that addresses the needs of general insurance carriers for traditional insurance, direct insurance, banc assurance, and brokers markets; Insight for Reinsurance, a solution to handle P&C/general reinsurance activities of general insurance carriers and brokers; and Insight for P&C, a software solution for P&C carriers to support legacy solutions. The company?s products also comprise ALIS, a software solution for individual, group, and work site life and pension insurance products; eMerge, a rules-based model-driven architecture that enables the creation of enterprise applications with little or no coding using agile methodologies; and Decision, a business decision management solution developed for the financial services market, including mortgage banks, investment banks, and insurers. In addition, it provides implementation and integration services; custom-made IT solutions that assists organizations to meet its business challenges; and legacy modernization solution, mobile application solution, and application delivery services. Sapiens International Corporation sells its products and services through various distribution channels, which include direct sales force, system integrators, and distributors. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Rehovot, Israel. As of January 27, 2012, Sapiens International Corp. NV operates as a subsidiary of Formula Systems (1985) Ltd.

10 Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Open Ec Technologies Inc. (OCE.V)

Open EC Technologies, Inc. provides e-business software, services, and solutions. It develops and markets electronic data interchange (EDI) software primarily to retailers, financial and public institutions, utility and pharmaceutical companies, and wholesalers in North America and Asia. It also offers e-commerce software; software through Internet portals and licenses; and consulting and support services. In addition, the company provides a healthcare information exchange solution to connect healthcare providers and healthcare payers, for healthcare claims, eligibility, payments, purchasing, and records, as well as medical claim clearing and billing services. Its products are used by customers, software companies, and resellers to implement standards based electronic commerce, EDI, business to business commerce, and business document exchanges. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in North Vancouver, Canada. As of October 25, 2012, Open EC Technologies Inc . operates as a subsidiary of QHR Technologies Inc.

10 Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Intersil Corporation(ISIL)

Intersil Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for applications in the industrial, computing, consumer, and communications electronics markets. The company?s industrial products include operational amplifiers, bridge drivers, isolated and non-isolated power management products, switches and multiplexers, video decoders, and other standard analog and power management products used in medical imaging, energy management, automotive, military, instrumentation, security surveillance, and factory automation markets. Its computing products comprise desktop, server, notebook, and network attached storage power management products, including core power devices and other power management products for peripheral devices, as well as lithium ion battery chargers. The company?s consumer products consist of handheld, display, gaming, light sensor, and class-D audio amplifier products for use in smartphones, LCD televisions, tablet computers, electronic game systems, set top boxes, MP3 players, GPS systems, AV receivers, and home audio systems. Its communication products include line drivers, isolated and non-isolated power management, radiation-hardened products, digital power management products, broadband and hot plug power management products, and high-speed data converters for applications in DSL, home gateway, satellite, networking, cellular base station, and networking/switching equipment markets. The company markets its products through distributors and value added resellers to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, and contract manufacturers in China, the United States, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Germany, Singapore, and Mexico. Intersil Corporation was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Milpitas, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Seth Jayson]

  Basic guidelines
  In this series, I examine inventory using a simple rule of thumb: Inventory increases ought to roughly parallel revenue increases. If inventory bloats more quickly than sales grow, this might be a sign that expected sales haven't materialized. Is the current inventory situation at Intersil (Nasdaq: ISIL  ) out of line? To figure that out, start by comparing the company's inventory growth to sales growth. How is Intersil doing by this quick checkup? At first glance, pretty well. Trailing-12-month revenue decreased 18.7%, and inventory decreased 19.5%. Comparing the latest quarter to the prior-year quarter, the story looks decent. Revenue shrank 15.6%, and inventory shrank 19.5%. Over the sequential quarterly period, the trend looks OK but not great. Revenue dropped 4.2%, and inventory dropped 3.1%.

10 Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Finisar Corporation(FNSR)

Finisar Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets optical subsystems and components that are used to interconnect equipment in short-distance local area networks (LANs), storage area networks (SANs), longer distance metropolitan area networks (MANs), fiber-to-the-home networks, cable television networks, and wide area networks. Its optical subsystems primarily include transmitters, receivers, transceivers, and transponders. The company?s optical subsystems provides the fundamental optical-electrical interface for connecting the equipment used in building networks comprising switches, routers, and file servers in wireline networks, as well as antennas and base stations for wireless networks. It also offers products for switching network traffic from one optical wavelength to another across multiple wavelengths, known as reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers. The company?s line of optical components principally comprises packaged lasers and photodetec tors used in transceivers for LAN and SAN applications; and passive optical components used in building MANs. It sells its optical products to manufacturers of storage system, networking equipment, and telecommunication equipment or their contract manufacturers through direct sales force and distribution channels in the United States, Malaysia, the People?s Republic of China, and internationally. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Paul McWilliams]

  Paul McWilliams: Oh, yeah. Let's touch on just a couple of them really quickly. First off, there's Finisar (FNSR). Finisar is a world leader in fiber optic components and substances. It's not as big as JDSU in revenue, but half of JDSU is capital equipment. So, it doesn't compete with Finisar.

• [By Rich Smith]

  JDS Uniphase stock is losing ground
  When you stack up JDS Uniphase stock up against two of its rivals�-- Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO  ) and Finisar (NASDAQ: FNSR  ) , some interesting dynamics become apparent. First and foremost, of the three, JDS Uniphase stock is the only one �that has no P/E ratio ... because it has no "E" -- earnings -- to weigh its "P" -- price -- against.

• [By Dan Caplinger]

  On Wednesday, Finisar (NASDAQ: FNSR  ) will release its latest quarterly results. With the stock having traded down sharply from its highs in early 2011, investors are hoping that the company can finally pull off a long-awaited turnaround and send shares higher.

• [By Jake L'Ecuyer]

  Shares of Finisar (NASDAQ: FNSR) got a boost, gaining 1.28 percent to $22.04 as the stock gradually sold of on Friday's session following the company's upbeat Q2 results and strong Q3 forecast.

10 Best Tech Stocks To Watch Right Now: Silicon Laboratories Inc.(SLAB)

Silicon Laboratories Inc., a fabless semiconductor company, designs, develops, and markets analog-intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits (ICs). The company offers broad-based products, which include microcontrollers, clocks and oscillators, wireless transceivers, digital isolators and related products, and human interface sensors and controllers; broadcast products comprising radio receivers and transmitters, and video tuners and demodulators; and access products consisting of embedded modems, subscriber line interface circuits, Voice over IP (VoIP) products, and power over Ethernet devices, as well as DSL analog front end ICs and IRDA devices. It provides ICs for use in various electronic applications, such as portable devices, AM/FM radios, and other consumer electronics, as well as networking, test and measurement, industrial monitoring and control, and customer premises equipment. The company markets its products through direct sales force, and through a networ k of independent sales representatives and distributors in the United States, Taiwan, China, South Korea, Japan, and internationally. Silicon Laboratories Inc. was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Rich Smith]

  Austin, Texas-based Silicon Laboratories (NASDAQ: SLAB  ) , which chose a new chief financial officer last month, has now found him a bit of extra work to do.