Best Value Companies To Invest In Right Now

On Monday, the Department of Defense awarded 19 contracts, which added up to just under $1.5 billion in total value. The largest award actually went to a private company to pay for "full line food distribution" in Okinawa. But the second-largest contract went to Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT  ) .

Lockheed's win, a sole-source, cost-plus-incentive-fee/cost-plus-award-fee/cost-plus-technical-schedule incentive fee contract modification, is worth $295 million to Lockheed's Mission Systems and Training division. That's a fair amount of revenue, but seeing as MST is Lockheed's second least�profitable unit (after Information Systems & Global Solutions�), it's not as good news for Lockheed investors as it might have been.

Under the contract, Lockheed will continue to develop the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Baseline, working to move the 5.1 variant of the system through Critical Design Review, and moving Increment-2 through Preliminary Design Review.�Work on these efforts will continue through March 30, 2015.

Best Value Companies To Invest In Right Now: Kootenay Gold Inc. (KTN.V)

Kootenay Silver Inc., an exploration stage company, engages in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties in North America. The company explores for gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc ores. It principally has interests in the Promontorio silver mine that covers an area of approximately 79,000 hectares and is located in Sierra Madre region of northwest Mexico. The company was formerly known as Kootenay Gold Inc. and changed its name to Kootenay Silver Inc. in February 2012. Kootenay Silver Inc. is based in Vancouver, Canada.

Best Value Companies To Invest In Right Now: Patterson-UTI Energy Inc.(PTEN)

Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides onshore contract drilling services to oil and natural gas exploration and production companies in the United States and Canada. The company offers pressure pumping services that consist of well stimulation and cementing for completion of new wells and remedial work on existing wells, as well as hydraulic fracturing, nitrogen, cementing, and acid pumping services in Texas and the Appalachian Basin; and contract drilling services primarily in Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and western Canada. It also owns and invests in oil and natural gas assets located primarily in Texas and New Mexico. As of December 31, 2011, it had a drilling fleet of 330 marketable land-based drilling rigs. Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

Top Stocks To Watch Right Now: Universal Corporation(UVV)

Universal Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a leaf tobacco merchant and processor worldwide. It engages in selecting, procuring, buying, processing, packing, storing, supplying, shipping, and financing leaf tobacco for sale to, or for the account of, manufacturers of consumer tobacco products. The company processes and/or sells flue-cured and burley tobaccos, dark air-cured tobaccos, and oriental tobaccos; and provides value-added services, including blending, chemical and physical testing of tobacco, just-in-time inventory management, and manufacturing reconstituted sheet tobacco. Its flue-cured, burley, and oriental tobaccos are used principally in the manufacture of cigarettes; and dark air-cured tobaccos are used in the manufacture of cigars, pipe tobacco, and smokeless tobacco products. The company was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.