Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Invest In Right Now

Even in the world of commodities, brand can mean a lot. Since oil is part of our everyday lives, companies like ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM  ) and Chevron (NYSE: CVX  ) have become two of the most recognized brands around the world. With natural gas looking to have its day in the sun, perhaps there are a few companies that could become household names as well.�

Exporting liquefied natural gas, or LNG, certainly has become one of the most talked about topics in the United States. One company that is leading the LNG export charge is Cheniere Energy (NYSEMKT: LNG  ) . As the first mover in this space for the U.S., it has the best chance of any other company to make a big splash in this market.

If you are looking for brand recognition, though, then look no further than Exxon's and Chevron's gas stations to see why everyone knows their name. For this reason, perhaps Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ: CLNE  ) has a shot at being a company we recognize from seeing its stations all over the place. Tune in to the video below where Fool.com contributor Tyler Crowe takes a look at a couple other natural gas companies that could become part of the everyday energy conversation.�

Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Invest In Right Now: William Hill(WMH.L)

William Hill PLC, together with its subsidiaries, provides gaming and betting services across online, on the high street, and on the phone channels primarily in the United Kingdom. It operates licensed betting offices (LBOs), which combine over-the-counter (OTC) sports-betting and gaming machines that enable customers to bet on sporting and other events. The company also operates williamhill.com and a series of other gaming Web sites that provide sports betting, casino games, poker, bingo, skills games, financial betting, in-play betting, and other gaming products; and call centers in Leeds and Sheffield, which offer telephone betting services, including telephone bet capture positions, SMS text betting, and live commentary services. In addition, William Hill provides on-course betting services; and owns and operates two greyhound stadia in Sunderland and Newcastle. As of June 21, 2011, it operated approximately 2,300 betting shops in Ireland and Britain. The company was f ounded in 1934 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Invest In Right Now: Sims Metal Management Limited(SMS)

Sims Metal Management Limited operates in the metal recycling industry. The company engages in ferrous secondary recycling, non-ferrous secondary recycling, secondary processing, and recycling solutions businesses. Its ferrous secondary recycling activities comprise the collection, processing, and trading of iron and steel secondary raw material; non-ferrous secondary recycling activities consists of the collection, processing, and trading of other metal alloys and residues, principally aluminum, lead, copper, zinc, and nickel bearing materials; and secondary processing activities include the melting, refining, and ingoting of certain non-ferrous metals; and the reclamation and reprocessing of plastics. The company also provides recycling solutions, such as the provision of environmentally responsible solutions for the disposal of post-consumer electronic products comprising information technology assets recycled for commercial customers. Its recycling solutions include ne gative value materials, such as refrigerators, and electrical and electronic equipment. It operates primarily in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, India, Singapore, Hong Kong, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Croatia. The company was formerly known as Sims Group Limited and changed its name to Sims Metal Management Limited in November 2008. Sims Metal Management Limited was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Best Warren Buffett Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Key Tronic Corporation(KTCC)

Key Tronic Corporation, doing business as KeyTronicEMS Co., together with its subsidiaries, provides electronic manufacturing services (EMS) to original equipment manufacturers primarily in the United States, Mexico, and China. Its EMS services include product design, surface mount technologies for printed circuit board assembly, tool making, precision plastic molding, liquid injection molding, automated tape winding, prototype design, and full product builds. The company also manufactures keyboards and other input devices for personal computers. Key Tronic markets its products and services primarily through its direct sales department aided by field sales people and distributors. The company was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in Spokane Valley, Washington.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Lisa Levin]

  Computer Peripherals: This industry rose 2.21% by 10:15 am ET. The top performer in this industry was Key Tronic (NASDAQ: KTCC), which gained 0.3%. Key Tronic's trailing-twelve-month ROE is 14.57%.

Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Invest In Right Now: ARIAD Pharmaceuticals Inc.(ARIA)

ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of small-molecule drugs for the treatment of cancer. The company?s lead cancer product, ridaforolimus is being studied in multiple clinical trials in patients with various types of cancers, including metastatic sarcomas, breast cancer, endometrial cancer, prostate cancer, and non-small cell lung cancer. Its product pipeline also includes ponatinib, a pan BCR-ABL inhibitor in phase 2 clinical trial for applications in various hematological cancers and solid tumors; and AP26113, an anaplastic lymphoma kinase inhibitor in preclinical studies for the treatment of various cancers, including non-small cell lung cancer, lymphoma, and neuroblastoma. In addition, the company focuses on a drug discovery program centered on small-molecule therapies that are molecularly targeted to cell-signaling pathways implicated in cancer. Further, it licenses its ARGENT cell-sign aling regulation technologies to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to develop and commercialize therapeutic products, and to conduct drug discovery research. The company has collaboration and license agreements with Merck & Co., Inc. for the development, manufacture, and commercialization of ridaforolimus; and license agreements with Medinol Ltd. and ICON Medical Corp. to develop and commercialize stents and other medical devices to deliver ridaforolimus to prevent restenosis of injured vessels. ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Brian Orelli]

  ARIAD Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ARIA  ) , for instance, fell more than 20% after receiving FDA approval for its leukemia drug Iclusig. ARIAD had more than doubled from the year before as it ran up to the decision. Shares still haven't recovered to their pre-run-up level. Binary event traders have moved on. To add to its $3.6 billion valuation from here, ARIAD is going to have to do it the old-fashioned way: increasing sales.

• [By Monica Gerson]

  Ariad Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ARIA) surged 9.76% to $4.16 in the pre-market session. Sarissa Capital Management LP has taken a 6.22% stake in Ariad Pharmaceuticals.

• [By Luke Jacobi]

  Ariad Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ARIA) tumbled 40.67 percent to $2.67 after the company announced discontinuation of the Phase 3 EPIC trial of Iclusig.

Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Invest In Right Now: McDonald's Corporation(MCD)

McDonald?s Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a worldwide foodservice retailer. It franchises and operates McDonald?s restaurants that offer various food items, soft drinks, coffee, and other beverages. As of December 31, 2009, the company operated 32,478 restaurants in 117 countries, of which 26,216 were operated by franchisees; and 6,262 were operated by the company. McDonald?s Corporation was founded in 1948 and is based in Oak Brook, Illinois.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Daniel Sparks]

  To add some context, it's useful to compare Apple with another megacap cash cow: McDonald's (NYSE: MCD  ) . Ironically, Apple and McDonalds share some common characteristics as stocks. Like Apple, McDonald's growth seems to be slowing. In the company's first quarter, global comparable sales decreased 1% from the year-ago quarter. Revenue increased just 1%. Furthermore, the stock's dividend yield just barely tops Apple's; both are close to 3%.�

• [By Douglas A. McIntyre]

  The arms war among the fast-food chains escalated as McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) confirmed that it would begin to sell chicken wings nationwide next month. Dubbed “Mighty Wings,” the new offering will come to market along with a growing set of coffee flavors and desserts. The move is just the kind of competitive menu maneuver that in this case threatens Yum Brands! Inc.’s (NYSE: YUM) KFC, but has been part of McDonald’s strategy for years — launch products meant to take customers from competitors and to build the bottom line.

• [By Tamara Rutter]

  2. McDonald's (NYSE: MCD  )
  This fast-food chain also earns high marks as a dividend aristocrat. McDonald's has boosted its dividend every year since 1976 and now rewards investors with an annual dividend amount of $3.08 per share. Similar to Pepsi, the McDonald's brand is recognized around the world. Today, the Golden Arches serve more than 69 million customers in 119 countries every day.

• [By Eric Parnell]

  After taking these risks into consideration, maintaining an allocation to stocks remains worthwhile in such an environment. Given the volatility that often accompanies the turbulent May to October period, it may offer some particularly good trading opportunities as either broader markets or specific securities experience steep corrections followed by swift rallies. But risks must be monitored closely and holdings should be viewed with a potentially shorter time horizon depending on how events unfold in the coming months. Emphasizing stocks that exhibit quality, low volatility, value and current income that are also not technically overbought provides an additional way to control risk in the current environment. This includes allocations such as the Vanguard Dividend Appreciation ETF (VIG) and high quality individual names such as Exxon Mobil (XOM), International Business Machines (IBM), McDonald's (MCD), General Electric (GE) and Oracle (ORCL). It should be noted that IBM, General Electric and Oracle were all positions that were scooped up following recent sharp pullbacks.

Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Invest In Right Now: Nomura Holdings Inc ADR (NMR)

Nomura Holdings, Inc. provides financial services in Japan and internationally. The company operates in three divisions: Retail, Asset Management, and Wholesale. The Retail division primarily offers investment consultation services to retail clients. It also provides various financial instruments, such as stocks, debt securities, investment trusts, and variable annuity insurance products for the short, medium, and long term. As of March 31, 2011, this division operated a network of approximately 174 branches. The Asset Management division involves in the development and management of investment trusts. This division also offers investment advisory services to public and private pensions, governments and their agencies, central banks, and institutional investors. The Wholesale division engages in the fixed income and equity trading, and asset finance businesses. It provides debt securities, foreign currencies, and stocks, as well as related derivatives; and equities securit ies and equity-linked derivatives; and execution services, such as algorithmic trading and transaction cost analysis. This division also involves in underwriting various types of stocks, convertible and exchangeable securities, investment grade debt, sovereign and emerging market debt, high yield debt, structured securities, and other securities; offers financial advisory services and solutions on business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, capital structuring, corporate defense activities, leveraged buyouts, and risk solutions; and operates private equity investment business. The company primarily serves individuals, corporations, financial institutions, governments, and governmental agencies, as well as retail and asset management clients. Nomura Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Dan Carroll]

  Japan's Nikkei (NIKKEIINDICES: ^NI225  ) has topped indexes around the world this year, but investors wouldn't know it by looking at its recent performance. One need look no further than the yen's fluctuations as the country's central bank tries to weaken its currency through stimulus. Financial stocks are the kings of volatility across the Pacific: Nomura Holdings (NYSE: NMR  ) has posted a whopping 129% gain over the past year, but over the last month the stock has performed horribly, losing more than 9%.

• [By Dan Carroll]

  The best certainly hasn't come this week in the financial sector, however. Financial stocks have surged in Japan on stimulus optimism, but fears over its future have blasted this sector's best over the last five days. Nomura Holdings (NYSE: NMR  ) , one of the biggest victims of investor fear, fell 11.5% over the course of the week. Nomura has done well lately on the back of easy money and is preparing to increase sales staff in Europe, Asia, and the Americas to boost profitability overseas. While investors have panicked over Thursday's drop and bailed out of Nomura's stock, this is one financial firm looking strong. Like the Nikkei, Nomura has been a victim of its own success this year: With the stock's 42% year-to-date rise, a correction was bound to occur.

• [By Dan Carroll]

  Financial stocks have had a good week as well, as Nomura Holdings (NYSE: NMR  ) reported outstanding earnings. Nomura pulled in a net profit of more than 82 billion yen, more than tripling the result from the quarter a year ago, with the company's retail operations flourishing on the back of the Nikkei's rise. Revenue also jumped more than 30% at the company.

Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Invest In Right Now: Dialight Plc(DIA.L)

Dialight plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and sale of signals/illumination products, electromagnetic components, and LED indication components primarily in North America, the United Kingdom, and rest of Europe. The company provides industrial solutions, including wallpacks, area lights, high and low bays, and linear fixtures; infrastructure solutions comprising street lights and roadway sign lights; hazardous location solutions; and architectural solutions, such as linear architectural fixtures, circular fixtures, lighting modules, drivers, and optics, as well as offers high and medium intensity strobes, and medium intensity beacons. It also offers transportation signals consisting of traffic and intersection products, rail signals, and vehicle signals; obstruction and visual signals; hazardous location signals; circuit board indicators, which include throughhole circuit board indicators, prism right angle SMT and surface mount products, and light pipes; and LED panel mount indicators, LED replacement bulbs, neon/incandescent indicators, and military indicators. The company was formerly known as The Roxboro Group PLC and changed its name to Dialight plc in September 2005. Dialight plc was founded in 1938 and is based in Newmarket, the United Kingdom.

Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Invest In Right Now: Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Inc.(LXRX)

Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery and development of drug candidates for the treatment of various human diseases. The company utilizes gene knockout technologies and an integrated platform of medical technologies to systematically study the physiological and behavioral functions of approximately 5,000 genes in mice and assessed the utility of the proteins encoded by the corresponding human genes as drug targets. Its portfolio of orally-delivered small molecule compounds that have completed or are presently conducting phase 2 clinical trails includes LX4211 for the treatment of type 2 diabetes; LX1031 for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome and other gastrointestinal disorders; LX1032 for the treatment of the symptoms associated with carcinoid syndrome; and LX2931 for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. The company also develops LX1033, an orally-delivered small molecule compound that is in phase 1 clinical trails for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome and other gastrointestinal disorders. In addition, it develops three orally-delivered small molecule compounds in preclinical development stage that include LX7101 for treatment of glaucoma; LX5061 for the treatment of osteoporosis; and LX2311 for the treatment of autoimmune diseases. Further, the company has small molecule compounds from various additional drug discovery programs in various stages of preclinical research. It has drug discovery and development collaborations with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; Genentech, Inc.; N.V. Organon; and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited. The company also has a series of agreements with Symphony Icon, Inc. for the financing of clinical development programs; and an alliance with Nuevolution A/S to access Nuevolution?s Chemetics chemistry technology. Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Luke Jacobi]

  Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: LXRX) shot up 21.43 percent to $2.89 on kidney-drug data.

  Myriad Genetics (NASDAQ: MYGN) rose 7.70 percent to $25.31 after the company reported that CPT code pricing error should take a 'week or two' to correct. Ladenburg Thalmann upgraded the stock from Neutral to Buy.

Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Invest In Right Now: Antioquia Gold Inc (AGD.V)

Antioquia Gold Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of mineral resource properties primarily in Colombia. The company primarily explores for precious metals. Its principal property includes the Cisneros project consisting of 10 concessions with a total area of approximately 5,630 hectares located in the Department of Antioquia, Colombia. The company has an option to acquire Caicedo and Concordia-Betulia properties located in the prolific Cauca Porphyry Belt of Colombia. Antioquia Gold Inc. is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Top 10 Clean Energy Companies To Invest In Right Now: Sarin Technologies Ltd (U77.SI)

Sarin Technologies Ltd. develops, manufactures, markets, and sells precision technology products for the planning, processing, evaluation, and measurement of diamonds and gems. Its products include Advisor software, a computerized rough diamonds mapping and analysis system; Colibri, a diamond color grading product for polished diamonds; AGS cut grading, re-cutting, and rough planning software; DiaExpert, a rough diamond software and hardware package for rough diamond planning; DiaExpert XL, a diamond measurement, planning, and marking system; DiaMension, a diamond cut grading product; DiaMark-Z, a rough planning package; DiaMark-Z Eye, which helps in detecting and charting inclusions; and DiaExpert Eye, which enables users to view the interior of a rough diamond and chart inclusions. The company�s products also comprise DiaScribe, a laser inscription software package; DiaVision, a diamond cut grading software; DiaMobile XL, a mobile system for evaluating and planning roug h diamonds; GIA Facetware, a diamond cut grading system; OrchiDia, a rough diamond color predictor; Quazer, a diamond processing laser; TruScan, a diamond laser mapping solution; Instructor, a software package that runs on polished diamond measuring equipment; DiaMension HD, which offers highfidelity 3D-modeling for the measurement of polished and semi-polished diamonds; Galaxy 1000 that enables diamond manufacturers to detect and map inclusions in a rough diamond; and Solaris 100, which enables diamond manufacturers to detect and map inclusions in a small rough diamond. It also offers support services. The company serves diamond manufacturers, diamond dealers, retailers, and gem labs. It operates primarily in India, Africa, Europe, and North America. The company was formerly known as Sarin Research, Development and Manufacture (1988) Limited and changed its name to Sarin Technologies Ltd. in 1994. Sarin Technologies Ltd. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Kfar Saba , Israel.