Stillwater Mining Company (SWC)

Growth Stock Wire and Stock Tiger reported earlier on Stillwater Mining Company (SWC) and today we are highlighting the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Stillwater Mining Company engages in the development, extraction, processing, smelting, refining, and marketing of palladium, platinum, and associated metals. Palladium and platinum are precious metals that are part of the platinum group of metals or PGM's. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Stillwater Mining Company has a market capitalization of $241.23 million.

Founded in 1992, and headquartered in Billings , Montana , Stillwater Mining Company is the only United States producer of palladium and platinum. Their Stillwater Mine is near Nye , Montana in the Stillwater Valley . The Company performs their operations in a geological formation know as the Johns-Manville or J-M Reef, located in southern Montana . This area is the only known major source of platinum group metals in America . Stillwater also conducts mining at the East Boulder Mine south of McLeod , Montana . This mine is also on the 28-mile long J-M Reef. Active mining from the J-M Reef produces a high-grade ore containing a palladium/platinum ratio of just over 3:1

Stillwater Mining Company has concentrating plants, which they operate at both mines to upgrade ore into a concentrate form. Stillwater also operates a smelter, refinery, and laboratory at Columbus , Montana . This is to upgrade the concentrate to a platinum group metal rich filter cake. In addition, the Company recycles used catalyst material at the smelter and refinery to recover PGM's. Platinum group metals are rare precious metals and find use in a variety of ways for auto catalysts (catalytic converters), fuel cells, hydrogen purification, electronics, jewelry, dentistry, medicine, water treatment, coinage, and other uses.

Stillwater had proven and probable ore reserves of approximately 40.0 million tons with an average grade of 0.53 ounce of PGM's per ton containing approximately 21.2 million ounces of palladium and platinum as of December 31, 2007.

On Monday, Stillwater Mining Company reported a third quarter 2008 net loss of $0.3 million, or less than $0.01 per diluted share, on revenues of $248.7 million. This compares to a third quarter 2007 loss of $11.1 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, on revenues of $163.1 million.

Net income for the first nine months of 2008 was $20.1 million, or $0.22 per diluted share. The Company reported a net loss of $14.6 million, or $0.16 per share for the first nine months of 2007. The stronger 2008 results come from significantly higher realized prices for platinum group metals and from growth in the volume of recycled material processed.

Today, Stillwater Mining Company (SWC) closed at $2.44 down $0.02 or 0.81 percent. Volume was 921,982 for a 3-month average volume of 1,510,400. The 52-week range is $2.46 to $22.72.

Threshold Pharmaceuticals Inc. (THLD)

Stock Stars reported previously on Threshold Pharmaceuticals Inc. (THLD) and we are highlighting the Company here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Threshold Pharmaceuticals Inc. is a biotechnology company focusing on the discovery and development of therapeutics based on Tumor Hypoxia. This scientific platform offers the potential to treat most solid tumors. By selectively targeting tumor cells, the company is developing a pipeline of drugs that have the potential to be more effective and less toxic to healthy tissues than conventional drugs. Threshold Pharmaceuticals trades on the NASDAQ Capital Market and has a current market capitalization of $4.88 million.

The company's product pipeline is focusing on the following three candidates right now. One is Glufosfamide, which completed Phase 3 clinical trial for the treatment of pancreatic cancer and completed Phase 2 trials for the treatment of ovarian cancer, small cell lung cancer, and soft tissue sarcoma. They also have 2-Deoxyglucose (2DG), which is in Phase 1 clinical trials for the treatment of solid tumors.

The company also has their TH-302, a new drug candidate that activates under the metabolic condition typical of cancer cells — hypoxia. This drug is in phase 1 trials for the treatment of solid tumors. In addition to the ongoing Phase 1 clinical trial of TH-302, Threshold recently commenced two additional clinical trials of TH-302. This is in combination with chemotherapy in patients with advanced solid tumors.

The first is a Phase 1/2 clinical trial evaluating the activity of TH-302 against multiple tumor types in combination with established chemotherapeutic agents. The second is a Phase 1/2 clinical trial of TH-302 in combination with doxorubicin in patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma.

Last week, Threshold Pharmaceuticals reported financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2008. The net loss for the third quarter of 2008 was $4.6 million compared to $6.6 million for the third quarter of 2007. For the nine months ended September 30, 2008, the net loss was $13.5 million, compared to $23.3 million in 2007.

Threshold Pharmaceuticals Inc. (THLD) closed today at $0.46 up $0.02 or 4.55 percent. Their 52-week spread is $0.21 to $4.56. The company's share volume was 13,033 for a 3-month average volume of 30,986.40.

Vital Products Inc. (VTLP)

Stock Guru and Shazamstocks.com reported today on Vital Products Inc. (VTLP), Stock Guru did yesterday, All Penny Stocks did recently, and today we are highlighting the Company here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Headquartered in Concord , Ontario , close to Toronto, Vital Products, Inc. is a distributor of industrial packaging products. Trading on the OTCBB, the Company plans to identify and invest in emerging market segments in the industrial packaging sector. They will also research and develop products they can patent and license in the environmentally sustainable packaging markets.

Founded in 2004, Vital Products operates in two market segments. These are industrial packaging distribution and manufacturing. These two segments will feed the company's distribution, while they set up new manufacturing units to produce new environmentally appropriate products. The company is positioning itself to move to the next phase of their growth strategy. They are basing this next phase on their expertise in sales, logistics, and customer service. These areas of expertise have brought the Company to profitability in the last two years.

Vital Products Inc. has more than 4,000 stocked products. These products cover virtually every wrapping, packing, or shipping need their customers' may have. They also provide custom sized and printed products for special applications.

The Company is developing various products. Biofill is biobased foam in place packaging material used as cushioning in electronic, giftware, automotive, and machine parts. E-coplank is a biobasd packaging foam plank used in fabrication of cushion packaging for high-end products currently in development. E-Foam is biobased flexible foam used in automotive components such as head rests, and Enviro-fill is loose fill packaging biobased foam used in void fill packaging in giftware and electronics markets

Vital Products Inc. announced on November 4 that they began conducting commercial trials of their new Bio-Based Technology. A recent trial was conducted in Toronto allowing a strategic global packaging distributor and major customer of the product the ability to validate the technology in real world applications.

Vital Products Chief Executive Officer, Michael Levine said, "The trial revealed a number of significant advantages our bio-based technology has over the typical foam in place being used. Our cell structure was smaller and more consistent resulting in greater cushioning characteristics. On an environmental front the off gassing was 30 to 40 percent less and the odor was not acidic."

Vital Products Inc. (VTLP) closed Wednesday's session at $0.17 down $0.11 or 39.29 percent. Volume was 232,394 for a 3-month average volume of 15,216.70. The 52-week range is $0.11 to $0.38.

Power-One Inc. (PWER)

Clip Report, Knobias, and Stock Stars all reported on Power-One Inc. (PWER) and today we choose to highlight the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Power-One Inc. is a leading designer and manufacturer of power conversion products. Founded in 1973, they are also a provider of power management solutions. Headquartered in Camarillo , California , the Company has approximately 4,000 employees and is part of the Diversified Electronics industry. Power-One Inc. lists on the NASDAQ Global Market.

Power-One provides their solutions for alternative/renewable energy, routers, data storage and servers, wireless communications, optical networking, medical diagnostics, railway controls, custom applications, and automated/semiconductor test equipment. The Company offers their clients a wide variety of energy saving "green' products. Their products save energy by providing more useable output power and by generating less waste heat. This in turn saves energy by reducing host-system and facility-level cooling requirements.

Power-One's product portfolio includes alternative-energy inverters that facilitate taking in clean power from the sun and wind. They also include AC-DC products that refine AC electricity into DC lower voltages, and DC-DC converters that convert DC voltage into another value that circuit boards and semi-conductors need. In addition, their portfolio includes "intelligent controls' that manage energy use in residential, utility, and industrial applications. They also provide network power systems that enable high-availability power for telecom landline and wireless systems.

Power-One's diverse customer base includes premier enterprises such as Alcatel/Lucent, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Huawei, Motorola, Nokia-Siemens Networks, Nortel Networks, Siemens AG, Sun Microsystems, and Teradyne. The Company sells their products via a network of manufacturers' representatives and distributors worldwide.

In September, Power-One announced that their Aurora PVI-Central commercial renewable energy inverters won Electronic Product Design Magazine's 2008 e-Legacy Award in the Environmental Design Category. This award recognizes products that provide innovative electronic design solutions for responsible energy use.

The Company's PVI-Central Inverters are for large solar applications, such as apartment buildings and industrial facilities. These grid-tie products are pre-configured and pre-tested. They reduce the need for on-site installation wiring and testing, and are available from 50kW to 330kW.

Today, Power-One Inc. (PWER) closed trading at $1.00 for no change. Volume was 184,360 for a 3-month average volume of 394,897. The stock's 52-week range is $0.85 to $5.74.

Sun Cal Energy Inc. (SCEY)

Streetwise Reports, SmallCap Voice, Stock Stars, HotOTC.com, and OTC Picks reported on Sun Cal Energy Inc. (SCEY) earlier, and we are highlighting the Company here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Sun Cal Energy Inc. is an independent oil and gas exploration company with headquarters in Calgary , Alberta . They also have an operational office in San Francisco , California . Trading on the OTCBB, their corporate mission is to build a diversified portfolio of low-risk, high-reward, oil, and gas properties. They seek to minimize their cash requirements by acquiring properties with established infrastructures. They also look for properties that are easy to access.

The company has projects throughout the United States . They have their Jonah Prospects in the Greater Green River Basin in Wyoming , and their Lokern Prospect in Kern County , California . They also have their Breton Sound Prospect in the Tuscaloosa Trend in Louisiana , and their City of Hobart Lease Prospect in Washita County , Oklahoma . The company's Centurion Property spreads across acreage in Texas , Oklahoma , Alabama , Louisiana , and Mississippi . The company works to maintain their costs by leaving high cost drilling activities to their partners. Sun Cal's strategy is to balance exploration of new properties with development of their proven properties.

This past summer, Sun Cal Energy Inc announced that the first of several wells set for drilling in the multi-pay prospect in the West Gomez Field, the Sibley 84 #1 well, had reached its target depth, and is now in commercial production. This well is in Pecos County , Texas .

In September, the Company gave an overview of current operations and developments in the Hobart Prospect in Oklahoma . They announced that sales volume for the Sturgeon 1-11 and Cunningham 1-2 wells have exceeded 1,750,000 mcf. Sales volume continues to remain strong particularly for their Cunningham 1-2 well. For the last three months of available data, ending June 2008, average monthly sales volume for this well was nearly 150,000 mcf while the average sales price was nearly $9/ mcf.

Sun Cal Energy Inc. (SCEY) closed today's session at $0.10 up $0.01 or 5.26 percent. Volume for the stock was 53,775 for a 3-month average of 129,932. The 52-week range for the stock is $0.08 to $1.49.

Universal Energy Corp. (UVSE)

Today, Bull in Advantage reported on Universal Energy Corp. (UVSE), Penny Stocks Finder Blog, Greenbackers, and Micro-Cap Opportunity did earlier and we choose to highlight the Company as well, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Universal Energy Corp. is an energy company engaged in the acquisition and development of crude oil and natural gas leases in the United States . Their prospect areas include lands in Louisiana and Texas . Trading on the OTCBB, the Company pursues oil and gas prospects in partnership with oil and gas companies with exploration, development, and production expertise.

Universal Energy Corp. has two energy business subsidiaries, Universal Explorations Inc. and Universal Energy Services Inc. The Company overall focuses on a disciplined approach of investing in lower risk development drilling with exposure to higher return exploration opportunities. They combine this with their acquisition strategy of acquiring growth oriented profitable companies.

The Company's strategy is to acquire producing properties in their target areas that contain proved reserve value. In addition, they look for these properties to have meaningful exploitation and exploration upside potential. Universal Energy also looks for small to mid-size energy companies that display profitability, strong revenue growth, and significant cash flows.

In September, Universal Energy Corp. announced that gas and oil production quantities increased for the seventh consecutive month in July of this year. July 2008 production increased 83 percent over the first month of the second quarter 2008, which was also a 52 percent increase over the average monthly production of the second quarter 2008.

Also in September, Universal Energy announced that they selected a world-renowned processing and development services provider to reprocess the proprietary seismic data at the Company's Lone Oak prospect. The processing techniques will provide the necessary data to develop further the Lone Oak prospect.

Billy Raley, Chief Executive Officer of Universal Energy Corp. commented, "We want to utilize all of the information available to us in order to maximize the probability of drilling an excellent well later this year. We will use this data along with the Wallis and Odyssey offsetting wells to fully explore Lone Oak's potential opportunities."

Universal Energy Corp. (UVSE) closed today's session at $0.0009 up $0.0001 or 12.50 percent. Volume was 54,623,437 for a 3-month average volume of 20,578,300. The 52-week spread for the stock is $0.01 to $1.29.

Collexis Holdings Inc. (CLXS)

Yesterday, SmallCap Voice reported on Collexis Holdings Inc. (CLXS), CEOcast, HotOTC.com, OTC Picks, Knobias did previously, and today we highlight the Company as well, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Headquartered in Columbia , South Carolina, Collexis Holdings, Inc. is an OTCBB traded company and a leading developer of semantic search and knowledge discovery software. The Company has major operations in Cincinnati , Ohio , Geldermalsen, the Netherlands , and Cologne , Germany . The Company's current clients are in the public, private and academic sectors. They include the Mayo Clinic; Johns Hopkins University; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the University of California, San Francisco; the University of South Carolina; Erasmus University Library; Bristol-Myers Squibb; Lockheed Martin; the World Health Organization; Wellcome Trust; the National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Department of Defense.

Collexis offers the first pre-populated scientific social network for life science researchers, at www.biomedexperts.com. Their proprietary technology builds conceptual profiles of text, called "Fingerprints", from documents, Websites, email s, and other digitized content. It then matches them with a comprehensive list of pre-defined "fingerprinted" concepts to make research results more relevant and efficient. The Collexis Fingerprint allows users to identify and search for documents, experts, trends, and new discoveries more quickly, precisely, and thoroughly than conventional search engines.

High Definition Search positions Collexis as a leader in the area of knowledge management and discovery software. Collexis can build unique applications to search, index, and aggregate information as well as prioritize, trend, and predict data based on sources in multiple industries without the limitations of language or dialect.

In September, Collexis Holdings Inc. announced they received naming as one of KMWorld magazine's Trend-Setting Products of 2008. This is the second consecutive year Collexis received recognition for their technology. KMWorld (www.kmworld.com) is the leading information provider serving the Knowledge Management systems market and covers the latest in Content, Document, and Knowledge Management.

Yesterday, Collexis announced that the National, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) chose the company to deliver the Collexis Reviewer Finder Platform to help them efficiently find the most qualified grant reviewers.

NHLBI's Review Branch of the Division of Extramural Research Activities is seeking to optimize grant reviewer selection by increasing their pool of qualified grant reviewers. Using Collexis' proprietary Fingerprint technology, the Collexis Reviewer Finder will deliver a list of the most qualified candidate reviewers, from 1.8 Million Collexis Profiled Biomedical Experts, specific to the ideas in the grant being reviewed.

Today, Collexis Holdings Inc. (CLXS) closed at $0.19 up $0.03 or 18.75 percent. Volume was 62,500 for a 3-month average volume of 81,121.20. The 52-week spread for the stock is $0.15 to $1.20.

Soyo Group Inc. (SOYO)

Small Cap Voice reported recently on Soyo Group Inc. (SOYO), Greenbackers, HotOTC.com, Dutton Associates, Penny Stocks Finder Blog, Knobias, Micro-Cap Opportunity did earlier, and today we highlight the Company, here at the QualityStocks Daily Newsletter.

Established in 1985, Soyo Group Inc. is a worldwide provider of computer, consumer electronics, and broadband telecommunications products and services. With corporate headquarters in Ontario , California , the company also has sales offices in Sao Paulo , Brazil .

Trading on the OTCBB, with a current market capitalization $19.53 million, Soyo forges strategic relationships with premier global manufacturers to deliver state-of-the-art affordable products to consumers.

The company sells LCD monitors, LCD Televisions, computer motherboards, Bluetooth headsets, portable storage devices, home-theater furniture products, and broadband products and services. Soyo recently signed a licensing agreement with Honeywell Intellectual Properties Inc. to produce Consumer Electronics products. Soyo's brand name product line up also includes SOYO, Dragon, Onyx, Dymond, Le Vello, and Prive. In July, Soyo announced that they signed a five-year agreement to lease a 74,731 square foot multi-purpose facility. This facility will almost double their headquarters, operations, and warehouse space. It will provide the Company the improved infrastructure they need to further develop the sales of their products in the coming years.

The company sells their products through a network of distributors, resellers, retailers, online retailers, mail-order catalogs, and other channels. They began their transition into LCD and computer accessories in 2005 as they saw the demand for LCD products increasing. This division of their business has now moved to the top of their product offerings.

Soyo saw their 2007 sales top $100 million, a 95.4 percent increase over the previous year. Their 17, 19, and 24 inch LCD Monitors are currently in over 900 OfficeMax stores in the United States . Last year they expanded their product availability to include Canada and Mexico. Soyo's Le Véllo Furniture line, is their margin-driven product offering which they sell through online retailers, distributors, and retail stores.

Yesterday, Soyo announced some year-to-date highlights. Net revenues increased by $14,143,525 or 19.55 percent, to $86,472,214 to the nine months ended September 30, 2008, as compared to $72,328,689 in 2007. This increase in revenues was primarily due to strong U.S. sales in the first six months of the year, and several new accounts opened during the first half of the year.

Today, Soyo Group Inc. (SOYO) closed trading at $0.35, which was up $0.08 or 29.63 percent. Volume was 15,850 for a 3-month average volume of 47,257.80. The stock's 52-week spread is $0.36 to $1.80.