Best Asian Stocks To Invest In 2015

Best Asian Stocks To Invest In 2015: Garmin Ltd.(GRMN)

Garmin Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets global positioning system (GPS) enabled products and other navigation, communication, and information products for the automotive/mobile, outdoor, fitness, marine, and general aviation markets worldwide. The company offers a range of automotive navigation products, and various products and applications designed for the mobile GPS market; GPS enabled handheld products for hunters, hikers, geocachers, outdoors enthusiasts, cyclists, and golfers; dog tracking systems; tracker systems; and training assistants for athletes. It also provides handhelds, network products and multifunction displays, fixed-mount GPS/chartplotter products, instruments, fish finders, radars, autopilots, VHF radios, marine networking products, and sounder products. In addition, the company offers GPS-enabled navigation, VHF communications transmitters/receivers, multi-function displays, electronic flight instrumen tation systems, automatic flight control systems, traffic advisory systems and traffic collision avoidance systems, terrain awareness and warning systems, instrument landing system receivers, surveillance products, audio panels, and cockpit datalink systems. The company?s sells its products through a network of independent dealers and distributors, as well as through original equipment manufacturers. Garmin Ltd. was founded in 1990 and is based in Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Rich Bieglmeier]

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  Garmin is a provider of navigation, communication and information devices and applications, which are enabled by global positioning system (GPS) technology. Garmin designs, develops, manufactures and markets a diverse family of hand-held, portable and fixed-! mount GPS-enabled products and other navigation, communications and information products for the automotive/mobile, outdoor, fitness, marine, and general aviation markets. Garmin has four segments: Automotive/Mobile, Aviation, Marine, Outdoor and Fitness.

• [By Bryan Murphy]

  In 2008, the world was relatively certain that Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRMN) - yes, the GPS maker - wasn't going to survive the advent of the smartphone. As this Slate article by Chadwick Matlin explained that year, "Every new iPhone sold means one fewer person needs a GPS unit in his car. Considering that the Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) 3G iPhone starts at $200 and integrates music, phone, gaming, the Web, and GPS into one unit, the thing is going to siphon serious business away from the old-line GPS manufacturers Garmin's entry-level portable GPS models hover north of $100. Almost all of the rest retail for more than $200, which isn't looking like a great deal right about now." And, that was the consensus opinion about how disruptive Apple could be to the core business of Garmin.

• [By Louis Navellier]

  A year ago shares of electronics company Garmin (GRMN) was rated a "strong sell." Now that everyone has a smartphone with an accurate GPS, demand for Garmin's satellite-based navigation systems had pretty much evaporated. But management has turned this company around by developing devices for the sporting markets used by hunters, hikers, cyclists, and golfers. Garmin also started selling things like dog tracking systems and expanded its offerings for the marine and aviation markets.

• [By Daniel Kline]

  There are a number of watches and wearables already available. Fredric Paul wrote about the many companies that showed wearables at the 2014 Consumer Electronic Show on Broadcom's blog. He pointed out that companies ranging from fashion brands including Skechers (NYSE: SKX  ) to technology companies including Magellan and Garmin (NASDAQ: GRMN  ) ! (among m! any others) were all showing off wearables.

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