10 Best Safest Stocks To Invest In 2014

10 Best Safest Stocks To Invest In 2014: Alpha Natural Resources inc. (ANR)

Alpha Natural Resources, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in producing, processing, and selling steam and metallurgical coal in the United States. The company has mining operations in Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Wyoming. As of December 31, 2011, it owned or leased approximately 4.7 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves; and operated 145 mines in northern and central Appalachia and the Powder River basin. The company is also involved in repairing and reselling equipment and parts used in surface mining; manufacturing particulate scrubbers and filters for underground diesel engine applications; rebuilding underground mining equipment; and providing coal and environmental analysis, and degassing services. In addition, it engages in the sale of non-strategic assets, such as timber, gas, and oil rights, as well as the lease and sale of non-strategic surface properties and reserves; coal brokerage; and road construction business. The company serves electric utilities, steel and coke producers, industrial customers, and energy traders and brokers. Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. was founded in 2002 and is based in Abingdon, Virginia.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Victor Selva]

  Finally, I always like to see one of the most important financial ratios applying to stockholders, the best measure of performance for a firm's management: the return on equity. With a ROE of 13.2%, it is well above the industry mean of 3.7% and competitors such as Alpha Natural Resources Inc. (ANR), Arch Coal Inc. (ACI) and Peabody Energy Corp. (BTU).

• [By gurujx]

  Alpha Natural Resources Inc (ANR) Reached the Three-Year Low of $4.80

  The prices of Alpha Natural Resources Inc. (ANR) shares have declined to close to the three-year low of $4.80, which is 92.2%! off the three-year high of $61.66.

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  Goldman Sachs lowered its forecast for met-coal prices today–and its rating on Alpha Natural Resources (ANR).

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  Goldman analysts Neil Mehta and Vinit Joshi explain why they downgraded Alpha Natural Resources:

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