5 Best Tech Stocks To Invest In Right Now

Whether or not you've been keeping tabs, the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting is less than two weeks away. ASCO, as it's more commonly known, is arguably the single-most important event in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sector each year.

You might be straining for a reason why a mention of ASCO would find its way into a discussion about high-cholesterol medications, but the release this week of the hundreds of study abstracts from this upcoming conference have potentially shed positive light on a class of LDL-lowering drugs known as statins.

Statins: the gold standard in high-cholesterol treatment
Those with high cholesterol who are at high risk of cardiovascular disease really have five options when it comes to cholesterol medications: statins, bile acid resins, fibrates, niacin, and cholesterol absorption inhibitors. Despite this handful of choices, statins are the most commonly prescribed medication in the world because of their superior results in trials compared with the remaining cholesterol-lowering choices with relatively few serious adverse events.

5 Best Tech Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Photronics Inc.(PLAB)

Photronics, Inc. engages in the manufacture and sale of photomasks primarily in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Photomasks are high precision photographic quartz plates containing microscopic images of electronic circuits, which are used in the manufacture of semiconductors and flat panel displays; and used as masters to transfer circuit patterns onto semiconductor wafers and flat panel substrates during the fabrication of integrated circuits, various flat panel displays, and other types of electrical and optical components. The company sells its photomasks to semiconductor designers, manufacturers, foundries, and other high performance electronics manufacturers through its sales personnel and customer service representatives. Photronics, Inc. was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Brookfield, Connecticut.

5 Best Tech Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Symmetricom Inc.(SYMM)

Symmetricom, Inc. provides timekeeping technologies, instruments, and solutions worldwide. Its Communications business unit provides timing technologies and services for communications infrastructure. The Communications business unit products comprise primary reference sources; edge clocks and distribution products for synchronization outside the network core; building integrated timing supply and sync supply unit for the central office; the PackeTime product suite; data over cable service interface specifications timing interface systems; network management and monitoring software; and embedded hardware and software solutions for integration with various elements of the communications ecosystem, such as silicon, routers, switches, microwave backhaul, and base stations. The company?s Government business unit offers time technology products for aerospace/defense, IT infrastructure, power infrastructure, and science and metrology applications. The Government business unit p roduct portfolio comprises timescale clock sources; network time servers; network time displays; time code generators; bus level timing cards; primary reference standards, such as rubidium and cesium oscillator standards; high stability masers; chip-scale atomic clocks; ruggedized crystal oscillators; and custom time and frequency systems. It offers timekeeping in GPS satellites, national time references, and national power grids, as well as in critical military and civilian networks, which enable data, voice, mobile, and video networks and services. The company sells its products through distributors, systems integrators, and manufacturer sales representatives. It serves various markets, including communications service providers; network equipment manufacturers; silicon suppliers; aerospace/defense; power utility infrastructure; IT infrastructure; underwater exploration and navigation; and science and metrology. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in San J ose, California.

Top Stocks For 2014: MoSys Inc.(MOSY)

MoSys, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, markets, and licenses embedded memory intellectual property (IP) for systems on chips (SOCs) designs. It provides a semiconductor memory technology, 1T-SRAM, which offers a combination of high density, low power consumption, and high-speed; and licenses this technology to companies that incorporate or embed memory on integrated circuits (ICs), such as system-on-chips. The company also designs, develops, markets, and licenses high-speed parallel and serial interface IP that includes physical layer circuitry, which allows ICs to communicate with each other or to discrete memory devices in networking, storage, computer, and consumer devices. Additionally, it supports serial I/O technologies, such as 10G KR, XAUI, PCI Express, and SATA, as well as parallel interfaces comprising DDR3. MoSys, Inc. offers its memory and I/O IP technologies to semiconductor companies, electronic product manufacturers, foundries, intel lectual property companies, and design companies through product development, technology licensing, and joint marketing relationships. It operates in Japan, the United States, Taiwan, and rest of Asia. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

5 Best Tech Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Vendtek Systems Inc(VSI.V)

VendTek Systems Inc. develops, markets, and licenses automated transaction system software and support technologies primarily for the prepaid telecom and financial services industries. The company offers efresh, a software product that provides electronic distribution infrastructure to service providers, retailers, and retail distributors for selling their products and services electronically. It is also involved in the resale and distribution of prepaid telecommunication products, such as prepaid cellular and prepaid long distance products; and manufacture of vending machines. The company serves its customers in the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. VendTek Systems Inc. was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Port Coquitlam, Canada.

5 Best Tech Stocks To Invest In Right Now: China Telecom Corp Ltd (CHA)

China Telecom Corporation Limited, together with its subsidiaries, provides wireline and mobile telecommunications services in the People's Republic of China. The company?s services include wireline voice, mobile voice, Internet, managed data and leased line, value-added services, integrated information application services, and other related services, as well as prepaid calling cards. Its wireline voice services include local wireline services, domestic long distance wireline services, and international long distance wireline services. The company's mobile voice services comprise local calls, domestic long distance calls, international long distance calls, intra-provincial roaming, inter-provincial roaming, and international roaming. Its Internet access services consist of wireline Internet access services, including dial-up and broadband services, and wireless Internet access services. The company's integrated information application services include Best Tone services, which provide customers with phone number storage, enquiry, and call transfer services; and information technology-based integrated solutions, such as system integration, outsourcing, special advisory, information application, knowledge services, and software development. Its managed data and leased line services consist of services relating to optic fiber and circuits, such as optic fiber and circuit leasing, virtual private network, and bandwidth leasing. The company also offers other services, such as sales, rental, repairs, and maintenance of equipment; and provides consulting services, and e-commerce and booking services, as well as in the sale of telecommunications terminals. It serves government, enterprise, and residential customers. The company was founded in 2002 and is based in Beijing, the People's Republic of China. China Telecom Corporation Limited is a subsidiary of China Telecommunications Corporation.