Hot Dividend Stocks To Own Right Now

First-quarter earnings are pouring in, and there are plenty of lessons to be learned from this quarter's results. Let's look at a few reports, identify common trends, and decide whether dividend stocks will soar or stumble in the quarters ahead.

Did Exelon excel?
Exelon (NYSE: EXC  ) reported earnings Thursday, beating both top- and bottom-line expectations. Even with major gains across the board, a cursory look at Exelon's earnings left investors wanting more. Merger synergies didn't meet their expected mark, and misjudged hedges pushed the company to take a $235 million one-time hit. But its hedged position also hints at profit potential in the months ahead. As natural gas prices head higher, the nuclear-centric utility is poised for increasing cost competitiveness. The dividend stock is up 18% over the last quarter, and favorable energy prices could present the utility with even more upside in the months ahead.

Hot Dividend Stocks To Own Right Now: ClearOne Communications Inc.(CLRO)

ClearOne Communications, Inc., a communications solutions company, develops and sells conferencing, collaboration, and streaming multimedia systems for audio, video, and Web applications. It develops, manufactures, markets, and services a line of audio conferencing products for personal, tabletop, premium, and professional uses by businesses and organizations, such as enterprise, healthcare, education and distance learning, government, legal, and finance organizations. The company also offers various residential products under the NetStreams DigilinX brand and commercial products under the VIEW brand, which deliver the Internet protocol (IP) A/V experience by streaming high definition audio and video, and control over TCP/IP networks. Its audio and video, and control solutions support virtually various digital or analog sources, including high definition audio and video content sources, and an unlimited number of networked end points on existing IP networks and infrastruct ure. In addition, the company manufactures and sells media carts for audio and video conferencing. It serves end-users, including small and medium-sized businesses, educational institutions, government organizations, and individual consumers primarily through a network of independent distributors who in turn sell the products to dealers, systems integrators, and other value-added resellers, as well as through a network of residential electronics dealers. ClearOne Communications, Inc. was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Hot Dividend Stocks To Own Right Now: SodaStream International Ltd.(SODA)

SodaStream International Ltd. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of home beverage carbonation systems and related products. Its home beverage carbonation systems enable consumers to transform ordinary tap water into carbonated soft drinks and sparkling water. The company offers a range of soda makers; exchangeable carbon-dioxide (CO2) cylinders; beverage-grade CO2 refills; reusable carbonation bottles; and various flavors comprising fruit, carbonated soft drink, and enhanced flavors to add to the carbonated water. It also sells additional accessories for its products, including bottle cleaning materials and ice cube trays manufactured by third parties. The company sells its products under the SodaStream and Soda-Club brand names through approximately 50,000 retail stores in 42 countries, as well as through the Internet; and distributes its products directly in 12 countries and indirectly through local distributors in other markets. It operates in Europe , North and Central America, Israel, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and east Asia. The company was formerly known as Soda-Club Holdings Ltd. and changed its name to SodaStream International Ltd. in March 2010. SodaStream International Ltd. is headquartered in Airport City, Israel.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Roberto Pedone]

  SodaStream International (SODA) is engaged in developing, manufacturing and marketing home beverage carbonation systems and related products. This stock is trading up 7.3% at $59.56 in recent trading.

  Today's Volume: 1.28 million 
  Average Volume: 919,761 
  Volume % Change: 156%

  From a technical perspective, SODA is soaring higher here and breaking out above some near-term overhead resistance at $56.62 with above-average volume. This move has started to push shares of SODA into new 52-week high territory, which is bullish technical price action.

  Traders should now look for long-biased trades in SODA as long as it's trending above $56.62 with strong upside volume flows. I would consider any upside volume day that registers near or above its three-month average action of 919,761 shares as bullish. If SODA can maintain this trend, then this stock will set up to re-test or possibly take out its next major overhead resistance levels at $65 to $70.

Best Warren Buffett Stocks To Buy For 2014: Greenlight Capital Re Ltd.(GLRE)

Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd., through its subsidiaries, operates in the property and casualty reinsurance business in the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, and internationally. The company?s frequency business includes contracts containing smaller losses emanating from multiple events and enables the clients to increase their own underwriting capacity; and severity business consists of contracts with the potential for significant losses emanating from one event or multiple events. It offers personal and commercial property, general and marine liability, motor liability, motor physical damage, professional liability, financial, health, medical malpractice, and workers? compensation reinsurance products. Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. sells its products primarily through reinsurance brokers. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Grand Cayman, the Cayman Islands.