Raleigh, NC. The Technology Stock Advisor, a weekly online newsletter for technology stock investors, published by Thomas Vass, a portfolio manager based in Raleigh, N. C., initiated coverage on NACCO Industries today.

The Technology Stock Advisor stock selections are based upon a 2007 stock selection and  portfolio management patent issued to Thomas Vass, the investment advisor to the newsletter. The method of the patent explains what stocks to buy, the target buy price, the target sell price and the best asset allocation for an investor’s risk profile.

NACCO Industries, Inc. engages in lift trucks, small appliances, specialty retail, and mining businesses worldwide. The company designs, engineers, manufactures, sells, and services a line of lift trucks and aftermarket parts primarily under the Hyster, Yale, UNISOURCE, MULTIQUIP, and PREMIER brands to light and heavy manufacturers, trucking and automotive companies, rental companies, building materials and paper suppliers, lumber, metal products, warehouses, retailers, food distributors, container handling companies, and governmental agencies through independent dealers and National Accounts program.

NC was added to the TSA B-rated portfolio, with an initial target price to sell of $117 per share.

“We have long liked the mix of technology products that are sold by NACCO,” said Vass, “and we have followed the company in our TSA Watch Portfolio for many years.” Vass noted that beginning in the June quarter of 2011, NACCO began to aggressively reduce long-term debt.

“In our patented method for selecting technology stocks, the treatment of long term debt is a key indicator of how senior corporate management is positioning the company for future growth. In the case of NACCO, they have reduced long term debt, while maintaining top line revenues, which indicates to me that the company has excellent long term potential,” said Vass.

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About Thomas Vass: Vass is fee-based investment portfolio manager located in Raleigh, N. C., and the author of Predicting Technology: Identifying Future Market Opportunities and Disruptive Technologies, (2007) which explains his theory of technology evolution. His theory formed the basis of his 2007 patent that explains his method for selecting technology stocks for inclusion in an investment account.  For questions about portfolio management services, please contact 919 975 4856. Connect on LinkedIn.

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Ceradyne,                     CRDN,

Quality Systems,               QSII,

Vicor Corporation,           VICR,

Raleigh, N. C. The Technology Stock Advisor, a weekly online newsletter for technology stock investors, published by Thomas Vass, an investment advisor located in Raleigh, N. C., released its weekly top 3 technology stock selections today.

All of the stocks mentioned in the TSA Newsletter were selected based upon a 2007 stock selection and portfolio management patent issued to Vass. The method of the patent explains what stocks to buy, the target buy price, the target sell price and the best asset allocation for an investor’s risk profile.

After a stock has been selected by TSA, it is placed in one of three model portfolios, (A, B, C,), based upon a quality and risk rating. Stocks are added to a client account based upon the client’s asset allocation goals and risk preferences, as stated in the client Investment Policy Statement (IPS).

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Ceradyne, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and market of technical ceramic products, ceramic powders, and components in the United States and internationally.

Quality Systems, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops and markets healthcare information systems in the United States. The company operates through four divisions: QSI Dental, NextGen, Inpatient Solutions, and Practice Solutions.

Vicor Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of modular power components and power systems worldwide. It offers a range of high current density/low voltage component-level DC-DC power converters, bus converters, and individual models for regulation and transformation; configurable products, such as high-power AC-DC and DC-DC power systems, and configurable power supplies; and customer specific power system products.

Investment Disclosure: The past performance of an investment is no guarantee of future performance. All investments bear risk of loss of principal invested. There are no guarantees related to investing. Some of the stocks mentioned in this news release may be owned in the personal or business accounts of the investment advisor. For information about investment fees and advisory services, please download and read a copy of the investment advisor’s ADV Part II Disclosure Document.

About Thomas Vass: Vass is a fee-based investment portfolio manager located in Raleigh, N. C., and has been managing investment accounts since 1988. Vass is an economist and the author of Predicting Technology: Identifying Future Market Opportunities and Disruptive Technologies, (2007) which explains his theory of technology evolution. His theory formed the basis of his 2007 patent that explains his method for selecting technology stocks for inclusion in an investment account.  For questions about portfolio management services, please contact 919 975 4856. Connect on LinkedIn

Please visit his economic research papers on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at  http://ssrn.com/author=831853

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Thursday, May 03, 2012
Raleigh, NC. The Technology Stock Advisor, a weekly online newsletter for technology stock investors, published by Thomas Vass, a  money manager in Raleigh, N. C., initiated coverage on 3 technology stocks today.

The Technology Stock Advisor stock selections are based upon a 2007 stock selection and  portfolio management patent issued to Thomas Vass, the investment advisor to the newsletter. The method of the patent explains what stocks to buy, the target buy price, the target sell price and the best asset allocation for an investor’s risk profile.

Plantronics, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of lightweight communications headsets, telephone headset systems, and accessories for the business and consumer markets under the Plantronics name worldwide. It also offers specialty telephone products, such as telephones for the hearing impaired and other related products for people with special communication needs under the Clarity brand name.
PLT was added to the TSA B-rated stock portfolio. It has a current dividend yield of .6% and invests about 10% of top line revenues per quarter in research and development.

Analogic Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells medical imaging and security systems, and subsystems to original equipment manufacturers and end users primarily in the healthcare and airport security markets worldwide.
ALOG was added as a B-rated stock, which means the stock price may have greater volatility than the a-rated stocks. ALOG has a current dividend yield of .6%.

Alamo Group Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in designing, manufacturing, distributing, and servicing agricultural and infrastructure maintenance equipment for governmental and industrial use primarily in the United States, England, France, Canada, and Australia. It offers industrial equipment, such as boom mounted mowers, and other types of cutters and replacement parts for heavy-duty, intensive use applications, including maintenance around highway, airport, recreational, and other public areas; heavy-duty, tractor-and truck-mounted mowing and vegetation maintenance equipment, and replacement parts; air, mechanical broom, and regenerative air sweepers, as well as pothole patchers and replacement parts; and products for excavation, grading, shaping, and similar tasks involved in land clearing, road building, or maintenance.
ALG is a TSA A-rated stock.

“When we begin our search for stocks, we define 9 high tech value chains, where we believe most of America’s innovation occurs in sustaining product innovations and radical disruptive technology commercialization,” said Vass.
“We suspect that companies within any given value chain category would be from industrial sectors whose trading relationships and linkages with one another are stronger than their linkages with sectors outside the group, and we believe that these types of relationships explain much about the future stock price of a company,” Vass added.

Investors who want detailed daily investment advice and news on what to do today to manage their TSA stock investments may subscribe to the TSA Detailed Newsletter for $15 per quarter.

Investment Disclosure: The past performance of an investment is no guarantee of future performance. All investments bear risk of loss of principal invested. There are no guarantees related to investing. Please visit technologystockadvisor.com to read the IM&I ADV Part II Disclosure Document. Stocks mentioned in this release may be owned in the personal and business accounts of the investment advisor.

About Thomas Vass: Vass is fee-based investment portfolio manager located in Raleigh, N. C., and the author of Predicting Technology: Identifying Future Market Opportunities and Disruptive Technologies, (2007) which explains his theory of technology evolution. His theory formed the basis of his 2007 patent that explains his method for selecting technology stocks for inclusion in an investment account.  For questions about portfolio management services, please contact 919 975 4856.

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May 2, 2012

Raleigh, N. C. The Social Science Research Network (SSRN.com), the world’s #1 Open Access Repository for scholarly articles (http://repositories.webometrics.info/toprep.asp) has cited, “HOW CROWD FUNDING SOLVES ONE OF THE BIGGEST CAPITAL MARKET GAPS IN AMERICA”, as one of the most widely downloaded economic articles in the world.

According to data compiled and released by Michael C. Jensen, Chairman of the Social Science Research Network, the paper by Thomas Vass was top 10 rated in the Entrepreneurs and Finance Topics Category on the SSRN global platform.

The paper available for free at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2031051.

”I wrote the paper to alert executives of private technology companies about new funding opportunities under the new JOBS Act,” said Vass. “Most of the media attention about crowd funding has focused on the opportunities for startup firms, but I think the bigger story is about growth capital for existing firms that are over 3 years old,” he added.

Vass noted that he manages a crowd funding website called The Private Capital Market that allows private companies to raise either debt or equity or to obtain a commercial bank loan through a process called a direct corporate private offering (DCPO).

“The JOBS Act is a game-changer for the world of private equity in the United States,” said Vass. “I believe that the new provisions for raising capital will go a long way to solving one of the biggest capital gaps in America for small private technology companies.”

About Thomas Vass: Vass is a regional economist and fee-based investment portfolio manager located in Raleigh, N. C., and the author of Predicting Technology: Identifying Future Market Opportunities and Disruptive Technologies, (2007) which explains his theory of technology evolution. He is currently ranked in the top 2.5% of all economists on the SSRN platform and his papers are available for free at http://ssrn.com/author=831853

Raleigh, N. C.  The Technology Stock Advisor, a weekly online newsletter for technology stock investors, published by Thomas Vass, an investment manager located in Raleigh, N. C., released a news update today on Badger Meter (BMI).

The Technology Stock Advisor selected Badger Meter on January 2, 2012, as the single best technology stock to buy if Obama loses the election in November. At the time of selection, the stock was trading around $28 per share, and the target price to buy issued by TSA was under $30 per share.

“I advised my readers in January that eager beaver investors may soon start anticipating an Obama loss, and start piling into this stock pushing the price up,” said Vass. The stock price is currently around $38 per share. The chart below shows the past six months of price movement of BMI (Chart from Yahoo Finance).
 

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Badger Meter, Inc. (BMI) engages in manufacturing and marketing liquid flow measurement and control technology products worldwide. Its products are used in various applications, including water, oil, and chemicals. The company offers water meters, and related technologies and services for use by water utilities, as well as for other water-based purposes, including irrigation, water reclamation, and industrial process applications. It also provides other meters, and related technologies and services for measuring various fluids in industries, such as food and beverage, pharmaceutical production, petroleum, heating, and ventilating and air conditioning; and measuring and dispensing automotive fluids. In addition, the company sells registers and radios to upgrade existing meters in the field, as well as radio technology to natural gas utilities for installation on their gas meters.

BMI is a Technology Stock Advisor A-rated stock, which means it should not be as risky and volatile as the TSA B or C rated stocks. It has a current dividend yield of 2%, and the target price to buy is at or below $30 per share.

Vass cautioned readers that the stock price is about $8 above the target price to buy, and is not currently an investment candidate for his readers, unless the stock falls back under $30 per share.

“As I mentioned back in January,” said Vass, “if Obama loses, there is going to be a lot of OOUK and dark matter that will need to be pumped out of Washington, D. C. and BMI has the right stuff to do the job… under a new President.”

“On the other hand, if Obama wins, BMI will probably drop way below $30 per share, along with most of the other stocks domiciled in America, and would probably be a fire-sale stock for years to come,” noted Vass.

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Raleigh, NC. The Technology Stock Advisor, a weekly online newsletter for technology stock investors, published by Thomas Vass, a portfolio manager based in Raleigh, N. C., initiated coverage on Ceradyne, Inc., (CRDN), Ebix, Inc. (EBIX), FutureFuel Corp, (FF), and  U.S. Home Systems, (USHS).

The Technology Stock Advisor stock selections are based upon a 2007 stock selection and  portfolio management patent issued to Thomas Vass, the investment advisor to the newsletter. The method of the patent explains what stocks to buy, the target buy price, the target sell price and the best asset allocation for an investor’s risk profile.

Ceradyne, Inc. engages in the development, manufacture, and market of technical ceramic products, ceramic powders, and components in the United States and internationally. CRDN was added to the TSA B-rated portfolio, which means that the stock price may have more volatility and risk than A-rated stocks.

Ebix, Inc. provides on-demand software and e-commerce solutions to the insurance industry. The company operates data exchanges, which connects multiple entities within the insurance markets and enables the participant to carry and process data from one end to another in the areas of life insurance, annuities, employee health benefits, risk management, workers compensation, and property and casualty (P&C) insurance.  EBIX was added to the TSA B-rated portfolio. The stock has a .4% dividend yield.

FutureFuel Corp., through its subsidiary, FutureFuel Chemical Company, engages in the manufacture and sale of specialty chemicals and bio-based products primarily in the United States.
FF was added to the TSA C-rated portfolio, which means it has greater risk than the TSA A or B-rated stocks. It has a current dividend yield of 3.9%, and has no long term debt.

U.S. Home Systems, Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, procurement, sale, and installation of custom specialty home improvement products in the United States.
USHS is a TSA B-rated stock. It has a current dividend yield of 1.4% and has no long term debt.

“When we begin our search for stocks, we define 9 high tech value chains, where we believe most of America’s innovation occurs in sustaining product innovations and radical disruptive technology commercialization,” said Vass.

“We suspect that companies within any given value chain category would be from industrial sectors whose trading relationships and linkages with one another are stronger than their linkages with sectors outside the group, and we believe that these types of relationships explain much about the future stock price of a company,” Vass added.

The TSA stock selection methodology is based upon the identification of companies undergoing technological product innovation, and to then to establish the portfolio investment criteria of when to buy the stocks at their low periods of innovation and when to sell them at their higher period of financial success.

“We suspect that it takes the stock of a company about 3 years to reflect the success of its technology innovation,” said Vass. Two of our new stocks today are trading just above the TSA target price to buy.

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Investment Disclosure: The past performance of an investment is no guarantee of future performance. All investments bear risk of loss of principal invested. There are no guarantees related to investing. Please visit technologystockadvisor.com to read the IM&I ADV Part II Disclosure Document. Stocks mentioned in this release may be owned in the personal and business accounts of the investment advisor.

About Thomas Vass: Vass is fee-based investment portfolio manager located in Raleigh, N. C., and the author of Predicting Technology: Identifying Future Market Opportunities and Disruptive Technologies, (2007) which explains his theory of technology evolution. His theory formed the basis of his 2007 patent that explains his method for selecting technology stocks for inclusion in an investment account.  For questions about portfolio management services, please contact 919 975 4856.

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Tech Company Has No Long Term Debt, Has 1.3% Dividend Yield, and Spends 5% of Top Line Revenues on R & D

Raleigh, NC. The Technology Stock Advisor, a weekly online newsletter for technology stock investors, published by Thomas Vass, a portfolio manager based in Raleigh, N. C., initiated coverage on Allied Motion Technologies today.

The Technology Stock Advisor stock selections are based upon a 2007 stock selection and  portfolio management patent issued to Thomas Vass, the investment advisor to the newsletter. The method of the patent explains what stocks to buy, the target buy price, the target sell price and the best asset allocation for an investor’s risk profile.

Allied Motion Technologies Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells motors, electronic motion controls, gearing, and optical encoder products worldwide. It provides brushless DC motors, including servo motors, frameless motors, torque motors, and slotless motors, and high resolution encoders and motor/encoder assemblies for medical equipment, semiconductor, industrial, and aerospace and defense markets. The company also offers fractional horsepower permanent magnet DC and brushless DC motors for a range of original equipment applications; gearing solutions for the commercial and industrial equipment, healthcare, medical and non-automotive transportation markets; and fractional horsepower brushless DC motors for medical, industrial, and commercial aviation applications.

AMOT was added to the TSA B-rated portfolio, with an initial target price to sell of $8.7.

“When we begin our search for stocks, we define 9 high tech value chains, where we believe most of America’s innovation occurs in sustaining product innovations and radical disruptive technology commercialization,” said Vass.

“We suspect that companies within any given value chain category would be from industrial sectors whose trading relationships and linkages with one another are stronger than their linkages with sectors outside the group, and we believe that these types of relationships explain much about the future stock price of a company,” Vass added.

“AMOT is a supplier of high technology intermediate products to two distinct value chains, Vass explained.

“We suspect that it takes the stock of a company about 3 years to reflect the success of its investments in technology innovation,” said Vass. “With the rate of capital investment in R & D AMOT has been making in the past three years, we suspect that it will not be long before the stock price begins to reflect the success of that management strategy.”

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Investment Disclosure: The past performance of an investment is no guarantee of future performance. All investments bear risk of loss of principal invested. There are no guarantees related to investing. Please visit technologystockadvisor.com to read the IM&I ADV Part II Disclosure Document. Stocks mentioned in this release may be owned in the personal and business accounts of the investment advisor.

About Thomas Vass: Vass is fee-based investment portfolio manager located in Raleigh, N. C., and the author of Predicting Technology: Identifying Future Market Opportunities and Disruptive Technologies, (2007) which explains his theory of technology evolution. His theory formed the basis of his 2007 patent that explains his method for selecting technology stocks for inclusion in an investment account.  For questions about portfolio management services, please contact 919 975 4856.

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Raleigh, N.C. The Technology Stock Advisor, an online newsletter for investors, managed by Thomas E. Vass, an investment manager located in Raleigh, N. C., released the first quarter performance of his top ten technology stock selections for 2012.

All 10 of the TSA 2012 stocks were selected on January 2, 2012, based upon a 2007 stock selection and portfolio management patent issued to Vass. The method of the patent explains what stocks to buy, the target buy price, the target sell price and the best asset allocation for an investor’s risk profile.

Investment Disclosure: The past performance of an investment is no guarantee of future performance. All investments bear risk of loss of principal invested. There are no guarantees related to investing. Some of the stocks mentioned in this news release may be owned in the personal or business accounts of the investment advisor. For information about investment fees and advisory services, please download and read a copy of the investment advisor’s ADV Part II Disclosure Document.                        

“Our method begins with a search of stocks in defined industrial sectors, or technology clusters, that we suspect have strong inter-industry trading relationships,” said Vass. “Our stock selection method is based upon the idea that linkages in technological innovation, and technological commercialization of new products, within these clusters explains much of the movement of a company’s stock price over a 3 year period.”

“We try to buy the stocks when they may be at the lower end of their innovation cycle and sell them within the three year innovation cycle,” said Vass, adding that the target sell price for a stock is generally set at about a 40% above the target buy price.”

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About Thomas E. Vass: Vass is fee-based portfolio manager located in Raleigh, N. C., and the author of Predicting Technology: Identifying Future Market Opportunities and Disruptive Technologies, (2007). The book explains his theory of technology evolution and formed the basis of his patent application for technology stock selection. His research articles about technology were recently cited by The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) a global publishing platform for over 181,000 social scientists, as being in the top 3% of most widely downloaded articles in the world. Contact 919 975 4856 tvass@privatecapitalmarket.com

March 13, 2012

Raleigh, N. C.  The Social Science Research Network (SSRN.com), the world’s #1 Open Access Repository for scholarly articles (http://repositories.webometrics.info/toprep.asp) released its updated global rankings of economic and social science writers.

According to data released on March 7, 2012, by Dr. Michael C. Jensen, Chairman, Managing Director of Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc., articles by Thomas Vass had the following statistics:

• 4,885 Vass AUTHOR RANK, based on 3,512 TOTAL DOWNLOADS.

•  5,888 Vass AUTHOR RANK, based on 490 DOWNLOADS IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS.

• 20,167 Vass AUTHOR RANK, based on 10 TOTAL CITATIONS.

The author ranking in total downloads of the 61 scholarly articles published by Vass on the SSRN platform place him in the top 2.6% of all authors.

Vass is the author of  Predicting Technology: Identifying Future Market Opportunities and Disruptive Technologies (2007), that explains his theory of technology evolution. He is the holder of an investment method patent that is based upon his theory.

Most of his writings on the SSRN platform are about the relationship between capital investments and regional technological innovation.

About Thomas Vass: Vass located in Raleigh, N. C. He is an investment portfolio manager and capital market advisor to private technology companies,   His entire archive of scholarly articles is available on the SSRN platform.

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Company Is Restructuring Current and Long Term Debt In Preparation for Growth

Raleigh, NC. The Technology Stock Advisor, a weekly online newsletter for technology stock investors, published by Thomas Vass, a portfolio manager based in Raleigh, N. C., initiated coverage on Schawk, Inc., today.

The Technology Stock Advisor stock selections are based upon a 2007 stock selection and  portfolio management patent issued to Thomas Vass, the investment advisor to the newsletter. The method of the patent explains what stocks to buy, the target buy price, the target sell price and the best asset allocation for an investor’s risk profile.

Schawk, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides graphic services and solutions to clients in the consumer products packaging, retail, pharmaceutical, and advertising markets in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

The company recently completed a short term credit restructuring that provides access to working capital to fund growth over the next five years. The short term credit restructuring comes after last year’s long term debt restructuring which dropped long term debt from about $28 million to under $7 million.

SGK was added to the TSA B stock portfolio, with an initial target sell price of $19.

“When we begin our search for stocks, we define 9 high tech value chains, where we believe most of America’s innovation occurs in sustaining product innovations and radical disruptive technology commercialization,” said Vass.

“We suspect that companies within any given value chain category would be from industrial sectors whose trading relationships and linkages with one another are stronger than their linkages with sectors outside the group, and we believe that these types of relationships explain much about the future stock price of a company,” Vass added.

“Schawk is a technology supplier to the pharma cluster, and we had been watching this company for several years because it fit some, but not all of our criteria for selection into our universe of stocks,” Vass added. He noted that the recent debt restructuring indicates that the senior management is taking steps to prepare for revenue growth.

The TSA stock selection methodology is based upon the identification of companies undergoing technological product innovation, and to then to establish the portfolio investment criteria of when to buy the stocks at their low periods of innovation and when to sell them at their higher period of financial success.

“We suspect that it takes the stock of a company about 3 years to reflect the success of its technology innovation,” said Vass.

Investors who want detailed daily investment advice and news on what to do today to manage their TSA stock investments may subscribe to the TSA Detailed Newsletter for $15 per quarter.

Investment Disclosure: The past performance of an investment is no guarantee of future performance. All investments bear risk of loss of principal invested. There are no guarantees related to investing. Please visit technologystockadvisor.com to read the IM&I ADV Part II Disclosure Document. Stocks mentioned in this release may be owned in the personal and business accounts of the investment advisor.

About Thomas Vass: Vass is fee-based investment portfolio manager located in Raleigh, N. C., and the author of Predicting Technology: Identifying Future Market Opportunities and Disruptive Technologies, (2007) which explains his theory of technology evolution. His theory formed the basis of his 2007 patent that explains his method for selecting technology stocks for inclusion in an investment account.  For questions about portfolio management services, please contact 919 975 4856.

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