Caprock Stock Ratings for Selected Stocks
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- CSCO, CISCO SYS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 16.977468
- E, E N I SPA ADR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.960598
- BOOM, DYNAMIC MATERIALS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 62.769264
- MSFT, MICROSOFT CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 33.356476
- CBI, CHGO BRIDGE & IRO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 52.780762
- SWN, SOUTHWESTERN ENER Current Caprock Strength Rating: 58.015549
- STLD, STEEL DYNAMICS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 67.851242
- NTES, NETEASE.COM ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 41.118614
- NG, NOVAGOLD RESOURCE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 51.406807
- CRZO, CARRIZO OIL & GAS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 70.660477
- LRCX, LAM RESEARCH CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 2.127981
- WFT, WEATHERFORD INTL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 45.275726
- CME, CHICAGO MER EXC A Current Caprock Strength Rating: 47.395073
- HUM, HUMANA INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 51.502563
- CASY, CASEY S GEN STORE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 6.080657
- SCG, SCANA CP NEW Current Caprock Strength Rating: 8.227404
- AZ, ALLIANZ SE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 0.075494
- ACL, ALCON INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 28.498165
- WW, WATSON WYATT WLD Current Caprock Strength Rating: -0.966976
- TMK, TORCHMARK CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 2.721993
Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures and sells Internet protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry, and provides services associated with these products and their use. It provides a line of products for transporting data, voice and video within buildings, across campuses and around the world. Its products, which include primarily routers, switches and products that the Company refers to as its advanced technologies, are installed at enterprises, public institutions, telecommunications companies, commercial businesses and personal residences. The Company conducts its business globally and are managed geographically in five segments: the United States and Canada; European Markets; Emerging Markets; Asia Pacific, and Japan. In June 2007, the Company acquired BroadWare Technologies, and IronPort Systems, Inc. In October 2007, the Company acquired Cognio, Inc.and Latigent, LLC.
Eni S.p.A. (Eni) is an Italy-based company producing, supplying and distributing petroleum and natural gas, as well as producing electricity and offering engineering, construction and petrochemical services. The Company operates in three segments: Exploration and Production, Gas and Power, and Refining and Marketing. Eni is present in 70 countries. On April 4, 2007, EniNefteGaz, a joint venture of Eni and Enel S.p.A., acquired Lot number 2 in the Yukos liquidation procedure. The Lot number 2 includes a 100% stake in Arctic Gas Company, a 100% stake in ZAO Urengoil Inc., a 100% stake in OAO Neftegaztechnologia and a 20% stake in OAO Gazprom Neft. In May 2007, Eni acquired interests in exploration and production onshore activities operated by Maurel & Prom in Congo.
Dynamic Materials Corporation provides products and services requiring explosive metalworking. It operates in two segments: Explosive Metalworking or DMC Clad and AMK Welding. Detaclad is the trade name, under which DMC Clad markets its explosion-welded clad products. DMC CladG??s products are used in critical applications in a variety of industries, including upstream oil and gas, oil refinery, chemical and petrochemical, hydrometallurgy, aluminum production, shipbuilding, power generation and industrial refrigeration. The CompanyG??s Explosive Metalworking operations are located in Pennsylvania, France and Sweden. Through its AMK Welding segment, the Company also provides advanced welding services, primarily to the power turbine and aircraft engine manufacturing industries. AMK Welding is a specialized welding subcontracting shop for complex shapes used principally in gas turbines and aircraft engines. AMK WeldingG??s operations are conducted at its South Windsor, Connecticut facility.
Microsoft Corporation develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a range of software products for computing devices. The Company software products include operating systems for servers, personal computers (PCs) and intelligent devices, server applications for distributed computing environments, information worker productivity applications, business solution applications, high-performance computing applications and software development tools. It provides consulting and product support services, and trains and certifies computer system integrators and developers. The Company sells the Xbox 360 video game console, the Zune digital music and entertainment device, PC games and peripherals. Online offerings are delivered through its Windows Live, Office Live, and MSN portals and channels. It has five segments: Client, Server and Tools, the Online Services Business, the Microsoft Business Division, and the Entertainment and Devices Division. In August 2007, it acquired aQuantive Inc.
Chicago Bridge & Iron Company N.V. (CB&I) is an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) company specializing in projects for customers that produce, process, store and distribute natural resources. CB&I is an integrated EPC service provider, offering a package of conceptual design, engineering, procurement, fabrication, field erection, mechanical installation and commissioning. Its projects include hydrocarbon processing plants, liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals and peak shaving plants, offshore structures, pipelines, bulk liquid terminals, water storage and treatment facilities, and other steel structures and their associated systems. During 2006, the Company executed approximately 500 projects for customers in a variety of industries. The Company provides a range of value-added EPC services, including LNG, refining and related and related processes and steel plate structures.
Southwestern Energy Company is an integrated energy company primarily focused on natural gas. Through its wholly owned subsidiaries, the Company is engaged in natural gas and oil exploration and production business. It operates principally in three segments: exploration and production, natural gas distribution and marketing. The Company’s exploration and production activities are concentrated in the Arkoma Basin, East Texas, the Permian Basin and the onshore Gulf Coast. It’s wholly owned subsidiary, Arkansas Western Gas Company, referred to as Arkansas Western, operates integrated natural gas distribution systems in northern Arkansas. The Company provides marketing services in each of its core areas of operation through its gas-marketing subsidiary, Southwestern Energy Services Company.
Steel Dynamics, Inc. (SDI) is a steel producer in the United States, with an annual steelmaking capability of 5.2 million tons. During the year ended December 31, 2006, consolidated shipments, which excluded shipments between the CompanyG??s operating divisions, totaled 4.7 million tons. The Company has three segments: steel operations, fabrication operations and steel scrap and scrap substitute operations. On April 11, 2006, the Company acquired Roanoke Electric Steel Corporation (Roanoke Electric). In July 2007, SDI completed the acquisition of The Techs, a flat-rolled steel galvanizing company. The TechsG?? operations consist of three facilities in the Pittsburgh area: GalvTech, MetalTech and NexTech. Each plant specializes in the galvanizing of specific types of flat-rolled steels. In October 2007, SDI completed the acquisition of OmniSource Corporation, a privately owned ferrous and non-ferrous scrap processing and trading company.
NetEase.com, Inc. operates an interactive online community in China and is a provider of Chinese language content and services through its online games, Internet portal and wireless value-added services businesses. The Company operates through its subsidiaries and contracts with its affiliates Guangzhou NetEase, Guangyitong Advertising and Guangzhou Ling Yi Electronics Technology Limited (Ling Yi) and their respective shareholders. The Company generates revenues from fees it charges users of its online games and, to a much lesser extent, of wireless value-added and other fee-based services, as well as from selling advertisements on the NetEase websites. The CompanyG??s basic service offerings on the NetEase Websites are available without charge to its users.
NovaGold Resources Inc. (NovaGold) is engaged in the exploration of mineral properties in Alaska and Western Canada progressing three of its properties towards development. The Company’s primary focus is gold properties some of which have significant copper, silver and zinc resources. The Company conducts its operations through wholly owned subsidiaries and joint ventures. It has assembled a portfolio of gold and polymetallic properties, which include Galore Creek project, the Nome Operations (including Rock Creek, Big Hurrah and Nome Gold) and the Ambler project. Three of these properties are advanced stage exploration projects with defined gold resources, and one property, the Ambler project, is a polymetallic massive sulphide deposit. In addition, NovaGold holds several earlier stage exploration projects that have not advanced to the resource definition stage.
Carrizo Oil & Gas, Inc. (Carrizo) is an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas and oil. Its operations are focused in proven, producing natural gas and oil geologic trends along the onshore Gulf Coast area in Texas and Louisiana, primarily in the Miocene, Wilcox, Frio and Vicksburg trends, and, since mid-2003, in the Barnett Shale area in North Texas. Its other interests include properties in East Texas, the United Kingdom North Sea, and acreage in shale plays in the Barnett/Woodford in West Texas/New Mexico, Floyd/Neal in Mississippi, the western New Albany in Kentucky/Illinois and the Fayetteville in Arkansas. It also has a coalbed methane investment in the Rocky Mountains.
Lam Research Corporation (Lam) designs, manufactures, markets and services semiconductor processing equipment used in the fabrication of integrated circuits and is a provider of such equipment to the worldwide semiconductor industry. It markets and sells product offerings that include single-wafer plasma etch systems with a range of applications and an array of services designed to optimize the utilization of these systems by its customers. The Company’s products selectively remove portions of various films from the wafer in the creation of semiconductors. Its etch products and services are defined around the Alliance and 2300 Etch Series platforms. The Company sells its products and services primarily to companies involved in the production of semiconductors in the United States, Europe, Japan, Korea and Asia Pacific.
Weatherford International Ltd. (Weatherford) is a provider of equipment and services used for the drilling, evaluation, completion, production and intervention of oil and natural gas wells. The Company operates in approximately 100 countries through approximately 800 service, sales and manufacturing locations. During the year ended December 31, 2006, Weatherford conducted its operations through two principal operating divisions: Evaluation, Drilling & Intervention Service, and Completion & Production Systems. Evaluation, Drilling & Intervention Services division provides performance drilling and evaluation services, well construction, drilling tools and intervention services. Completion & Production Systems division provides conventional and intelligent completion systems, all forms of artificial lift systems, injection services, fracturing technologies, production optimization, well services and pipeline services.
CME Group Inc., formerly Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc., is engaged in futures exchange in the United States, for the trading of futures contracts and options on futures contracts, called derivatives. The Company posted trading volume of 1.3 billion contracts during the year ended December 31, 2006. In 2006, its customers, who include its members, traded futures contracts and options on futures contracts with an underlying value of $824 trillion. As of December 31, 2006, its open interest record was 52.5 million contracts set on September 14, 2006. The Company’s products provide a means for hedging, speculation and asset allocation relating to the risks associated with, among other things, interest rate sensitive instruments, equity ownership, changes in the value of foreign currency and changes in the prices of commodities. In July 2007, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings, Inc. and CBOT Holdings, Inc. completed their merger to form CME Group Inc.
Humana Inc. (Humana) is a health benefits companies. The Company offers coordinated health insurance coverage and related services through a variety of traditional and consumer-choice plans for government-sponsored programs, employer groups and individuals. As of December 31, 2006, Humana had approximately 11.3 million members in its medical benefit programs, as well as approximately 1.9 million members in its specialty products programs. The Company manages its business with two segments: Government and Commercial. The Government segment consists of members enrolled in government-sponsored programs, and includes three lines of business: Medicare, TRICARE and Medicaid. The Commercial segment consists of members enrolled in products marketed to employer groups and individuals, and includes two lines of business: medical (fully and self insured) and specialty. In March 2007, the Company acquired DefenseWeb Technologies, Inc. In October 2007, the Company acquired CompBenefits Corporation.
CaseyG??s General Stores, Inc. (CaseyG??s) operates convenience stores under the name CaseyG??s General Store in nine Midwest states, primarily Iowa, Missouri and Illinois. The stores carry a selection of food (including freshly prepared foods, such as pizza, donuts and sandwiches), beverages, tobacco products, health and beauty aids, automotive products, and other nonfood items. In addition, all stores offer gasoline for sale on a self-service basis. On April 30, 2007, there were a total of 1,463 CaseyG??s General Stores in operation, of which 1,448 were operated by the Company (Corporate Stores) and 15 stores were operated by franchisees (Franchise Stores). There were eight Corporate Stores constructed and 52 acquired stores opened during the fiscal year ended April 30, 2007. It operates a central warehouse, CaseyG??s distribution center, adjacent to its corporate headquarters in Ankeny, Iowa, through which it supplies grocery and general merchandise items to Corporate and Franchise Stores.
SCANA Corporation, through its wholly owned regulated subsidiaries, is primarily engaged in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in parts of South Carolina and the purchase, transmission and sale of natural gas in portions of North Carolina and South Carolina. Through a wholly owned non-regulated subsidiary, the Company markets natural gas to retail customers in Georgia and to wholesale customers primarily in the southeast. Other wholly owned non-regulated subsidiaries perform power plant management and maintenance services and provide fiber optic and other telecommunications services and provide service contracts to homeowners on certain home appliances and heating and air conditioning units. In November 2006, the Company’s wholly owned subsidiaries, South Carolina Pipeline Corporation (SCPC) and SCG Pipeline, Inc. (SCG), completed their merger and began operating under the name of Carolina Gas Transmission Corp.
Allianz SE, formerly known as Allianz AG, is an integrated financial services provider. The Company offers insurance, banking and asset management products and services. It has four operating segments. The Property-Casualty segment offers property-casualty insurance products, including individual motor, injury, liability and accident insurance. The Life/Health segmentG??s portfolio includes, among others, traditional life, endowment, annuity and term insurance products. The CompanyG??s Banking activities are primarily conducted through Dresdner Bank AG. The Asset Management segment consists of asset management products and services both for third-party investors and for the CompanyG??s insurance operations. It also has a fifth business segment known as Corporate. On October 13, 2006, with the effectiveness of the cross border merger of the Italian Riunione Adriatica di Sicurta S.p.A with and into the Company, the Company changed its legal form to a European company (Societas Europaea).
Alcon, Inc. (Alcon) is a research and development driven, global medical specialty company focused on eye care. The Company develops, manufactures and markets pharmaceuticals, surgical equipment and devices and consumer eye care products to treat diseases and disorders of the eye. As of March 19, 2007, AlconG??s products were sold in over 180 countries. Alcon manages its business through two segments: Alcon United States and Alcon International. Its portfolio spans three key ophthalmic categories: pharmaceutical, surgical and consumer eye care products. In its pharmaceutical category Alcon develops, manufactures and markets a range of prescription ophthalmic pharmaceutical products. Alcon offers a range of surgical equipment, single-use and disposable products. The Company markets contact lens care products, artificial tears and ocular vitamins, in its consumer eye care products category.
Watson Wyatt Worldwide, Inc. (Watson Wyatt), incorporated on February 17, 1958, is a global consulting firm, providing human capital and financial management consulting services. On February 1, 2007, the Company acquired the net assets of Watson Wyatt Brans & Co (Watson Wyatt Netherlands). On July 20, 2007, it acquired the outstanding stock of Dr. Dr. Heissmann GmbH (Heissmann). On July 2, 2007, Watson Wyatt acquired the net assets of WisdomNet. The global operations include five segments: Benefits, Technology and Administration Solutions, Human Capital, Investment Consulting and Insurance and Financial Services.
Torchmark Corporation (Torchmark) is an insurance holding company. The CompanyG??s primary operating subsidiaries are American Income Life Insurance Company (American Income), Liberty National Life Insurance Company (Liberty), Globe Life And Accident Insurance Company (Globe), United American Insurance Company (United American) and United Investors Life Insurance Company (United Investors).Through its subsidiaries, Torchmark markets primarily individual life and supplemental health insurance and annuities, to middle income households throughout the United States. The Company operates in two segments: insurance, which includes the insurance product lines of life, health and annuities, and investments, which supports the product lines. In January, 2007, Torchmark acquired Direct Marketing and Advertising Distributors, Inc. (DMAD), an advertising and publication company.
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