Best Oil Service Stocks To Invest In 2014

Oil prices might be at multiyear lows but on Thursday, small cap oil services stock Key Energy Services, Inc (NYSE: KEG) surged 35.59%���meaning its worth taking a closer look at the stock along with the performance of oil benchmarks like the Market Vectors Oil Services ETF (NYSEARCA: OIH) and the United States Oil Fund LP ETF (NYSEARCA: USO). After all, oil services stocks should not be surging right now.

What is Key Energy Services, Inc?

Small cap Key Energy Services is the largest onshore, rig-based well servicing contractor based on the number of rigs owned and provides a complete range of well intervention services with operations in all major onshore oil and gas producing regions of the continental United States and internationally in Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, the Middle East and Russia. Onshore energy production services and solutions include drilling and workover rigs, coiled tubing, frac stack and well testing, fluid services, onshore and deepwater fishing, and rental services.

5 Best Dow Dividend Stocks To Watch Right Now: Trinseo S.A. (TSE)

Trinseo S.A. (Trinseo), incorporated on June 3, 2010, is a materials company engaged in the manufacture and marketing of specialty and customized emulsion polymers and plastics. The Company develops products for global, diversified end markets, including coated paper and packaging board, carpet and artificial turf backing, automotive applications, including tires, food service packaging, appliances, consumer electronics and construction applications, among others. The Company operates under two principal business units: Emulsion Polymers business unit, which includes an Synthetic Rubber (SB) Latex segment and a SB segment, and Plastics business unit, which includes Styrenics segment and an Engineered Polymers segment. Trinseo�� major products include styrene-butadiene latex (SB latex), styrene-acrylate latex (SA latex), solution styrene-butadiene rubber (SSBR), lithium polybutadiene rubber (Li-PBR), emulsion styrene-butadiene rubber (ESBR), nickel polybutadiene rubber (Ni-PBR), polystyrene, expandable polystyrene (EPS), acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS), styrene-acrylonitrile (SAN), ignition resistant polystyrene, polycarbonate resins (PC), compounds and blends, and polypropylene compounds.

Synthetic Rubber (SB) Latex Segment

The Company produce SB latex primarily for coated paper used in advertising and magazines, packaging board coatings, carpet and artificial turf backings, as well as a number of performance latex applications. It operates in various countries, such as North America, Europe and Asia.

Synthetic Rubber Segment

The Company is a producer of styrene-butadiene and polybutadiene-based rubber products. The Company has synthetic rubber technology and product portfolios, which focuses on specialty products, such as SSBR and Li-PBR, while also producing core products, such as ESBR and Ni-PBR. Its Synthetic Rubber products are extensively used in tires, with additional applications, including polymer modification and technical rubbe! r goods.

Styrenics Segment

The Company�� Styrenics segment includes polystyrene, ABS, SAN, and EPS products, as well as its internal production and sourcing of styrene monomer, a raw material common in SB latex, synthetic rubber and styrenics products. It is a producer of polystyrene and mass ABS (mABS). Trinseo focuses its marketing efforts on applications, such as appliances and consumer electronics. The Styrenics segment also serves the packaging and construction end-use markets.

Engineered Polymers Segment

The Company is a producer of engineered polymers. Its products are used in automotive, consumer electronics, and construction and sheet end markets. Trinseo focuses on differentiated products, which it produces in its compounds and blends manufacturing facilities located across Europe, Asia, North America and Brazil. Its Engineered Polymers segment also compounds and blends its polycarbonate resins and mABS plastics into differentiated products within these sectors.

The Company competes with BASF, Nippon Zeon, LG Chemicals and Bayer.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Vanina Egea]

  Gary Dickerson is following a similar acquisitions strategy to the one it had used at Varian Semiconductor in 2012. The company is currently on the process (presumably closed by second mid-term of 2014) of merging with Tokyo Electron Device Ltd. (TSE) (11% of the market share), one of the three big names in the industry. This will create a new company worth $29 billion. Combined with the 14% market share of Applied Materials, this new company would capture the biggest slice of the market share, and the broad product portfolio of both companies ensures the coverage of many segments of the market. The new company would use Tokyo Electron's material supplies to improve its costs.

Best Oil Service Stocks To Invest In 2014: Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA Usiminas (USIM3)

Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA Usiminas, formerly COSIPA - Companhia Siderurgica Paulista, is a Brazil-based company engaged in the steel industry. The Company is principally involved in the production and sale of flat rolled steel. The Company and its subsidiaries operate throughout the steel production process. The Company divides its business into four segments: Mining; Solutions Usiminas and Automotive Usiminas, both units are related to steel processing and unit of capital goods and services through Usiminas Mechanics. The Company provides its products to various industrial sectors, such as automotive, marine, oil and gas, construction, machinery and equipment, among others. The Company offers its services both in Brazil and abroad. On December 20, 2013, the Company concluded transfer of the total stake in the share capital of Automotiva Usiminas SA to Aethra Sistemas Automotivos SA. Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Ney Hayashi]

  The Ibovespa rebounded from its biggest two-day drop since July 2012 as Usinas Siderurgicas de Minas Gerais SA (USIM3) led steelmakers higher, following a rally in commodity prices.

Best Oil Service Stocks To Invest In 2014: iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund (EFA)

iShares MSCI EAFE Index Fund (the Fund) seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the MSCI EAFE Index (the Index). The Index has been developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International, Inc. as an equity benchmark for international stock performance. The Index includes stocks from Europe, Australasia and the Far East. The Index is a capitalization-weighted index that aims to capture 85% of the (publicly available) total market capitalization.

The Fund invests in a representative sample of securities included in the Index that collectively has an investment profile similar to the Index. The Fund�� investment advisor is Barclays Global Fund Advisors.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Dan Caplinger]

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Best Oil Service Stocks To Invest In 2014: Sino-Global Shipping America Ltd.(SINO)

Sino-Global Shipping America, Ltd., through its subsidiaries, provides shipping agency services for foreign ships coming to and departing from Chinese ports. Its services include preparing documents, husbanding vessels, working through customs issues, coordinating matters with port authorities, overseeing and settling cargo claims, tracking shipments, recommending trucking, warehousing, and complementary services. The company offers these services for bulk and break-bulk general cargo, and vehicle transport, as well as raw materials, such as crude oil, oil products, iron, manganese, and other metal ores in 76 ports in the People?s Republic of China. Sino-Global Shipping America, Ltd. was founded in 2001 and is based in Flushing, Virginia.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By James E. Brumley]

  The recent strength from Sino-Global Shipping America, Ltd. (NASDAQ:SINO) and the now-renewed strength from Safe Bulkers, Inc. (NYSE:SB) would suggest those two stocks are among the very best ways to play the rebound currently unfurling in the shipping sector. And to be fair, both are fine companies in their own right. The top play in the dry goods maritime shipping arena, however, may well be Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE:DSX). No, DSX isn't one of the fun and exciting small caps in the maritime shipping space. But, there's a lot to be said for size and stability, which SB and SINO can't offer.

Best Oil Service Stocks To Invest In 2014: Star Gas Partners L.P.(SGU)

Star Gas Partners, L.P., through its subsidiaries, operates as a home heating oil distributor and services provider in the United States. It provides its services to residential and commercial customers to heat their homes and buildings. As of March 31, 2011, the company served approximately 408,000 full-service residential and commercial home heating oil, and propane customers. It also sold home heating oil, gasoline, and diesel fuel to approximately 40,000 customers. In addition, Star Gas Partners installed, maintained, and repaired heating and air conditioning equipment, as well as provided ancillary home services, including home security and plumbing to approximately 11,000 customers. Kestrel Heat, LLC operates as the general partner of the company. Star Gas Partners, L.P. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Louis Navellier]

  Star Gas Parnters (SGU) is in the home heating oil and propane business in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. The company has used smart acquisitions of smaller competitors to become the nation’s largest retail distributor of home heating oil — Star Gas sells heating oil to about 450,000 residential and commercial customers in its region.

• [By Rich Smith]

  Stamford, Conn.-based Star Gas Partners (NYSE: SGU  ) is about to get a new CEO.

  The company (which, despite the name, actually spends more time delivering oil than gas for home heating), announced Tuesday that Chief Executive Officer Dan Donovan intends to retire on Sept. 30. When that happens, Chief Operating Officer Steve Goldman will move up to take the CEO's chair.

Best Oil Service Stocks To Invest In 2014: Forbes Energy Services Ltd (FES)

Forbes Energy Services Ltd. (FES Ltd) is an independent oilfield services contractor that provides a range of well site services to oil and natural gas drilling and producing companies to help develop and enhance the production of oil and natural gas. These services include fluid hauling, fluid disposal, well maintenance, completion services, workovers and recompletions, plugging and abandonment, and tubing testing. FES Ltd operates in two segments: well servicing and fluid logistics and other. Its operations are concentrated in the onshore oil and natural gas producing regions of Texas, with additional locations in Mississippi, in Pennsylvania and, prior to the disposition of its Mexican assets in January 2012, which is discussed below, in Mexico. In January 2012, the Company sold its assets located in Mexico, as well as its equity interests in Forbes Energy Services Mexico Servicios de Personal, S. de R.L. de C.V. Advisors' Opinion:

• [By CRWE]

  Forbes Energy Services Ltd. (NASDAQ:FES), a leader in well servicing and fluid logistics management in the oilfield services industry, will participate in the GHS 100 Energy Conference being held June 25-26, 2012, at the Intercontinental Hotel in San Francisco.