Caprock Stock Ratings for Selected Stocks
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- JCI, JOHNSON CONTROLS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 30.440308
- APC, ANADARKO PETROLEU Current Caprock Strength Rating: 40.894798
- PH, PARKER HANNIFIN C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 70.113190
- OLN, OLIN CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 9.486629
- PCL, PLUM CREEK TIM RE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 55.407715
- EAC, ENCORE ACQUISITIO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 48.623787
- WLT, WALTER INDS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 74.060120
- AFL, A F L A C INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 79.524246
- AVA, AVISTA CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: -0.015486
- IOO, ISHARE SP GBL 100 Current Caprock Strength Rating: 10.652552
- PPDI, PHARM PROD DEV Current Caprock Strength Rating: 54.010582
- XXIA, IXIA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 40.014420
- UNH, UNITEDHEALTH GROU Current Caprock Strength Rating: 33.012161
- SRE, SEMPRA ENERGY Current Caprock Strength Rating: 6.055386
- ABI, APPLERA CORP-APPL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 6.415118
- AVA, AVISTA CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: -0.015486
- HSC, HARSCO CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 44.196777
- CL, COLGATE PALMOLIVE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 86.067368
- MWV, MEADWESTVACO CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1.396551
- AYE, ALLEGHENY ENERGY Current Caprock Strength Rating: 47.769783
Johnson Controls, Inc. (Johnson Controls) is engaged in the building efficiency business. It is a global supplier of heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) mechanical equipment and services. The Company operates in three primary businesses: building efficiency, automotive experience, and power solutions. The building efficiency business is engaged in designing, producing, marketing and installing HVAC equipment and building control systems that monitor, automate and integrate building operating equipment and conditions. Automotive experience provides seating, instrument panel, overhead, floor console and door systems to more than 35 million vehicles annually. The Company’s power solutions business services both automotive original equipment manufacturers, and the general vehicle battery aftermarket. In June 2006, the Company acquired Berg Inc. In November 2007, Johnson Controls acquired Skymark International, Inc.
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (Anadarko) is an oil and gas exploration and production company with 3.01 billion barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) of proved reserves as of December 31, 2006. The CompanyG??s major areas of operations are located in the United States, the deepwater of the Gulf of Mexico and Algeria. Anadarko also has production in China, Venezuela and Qatar, a development project in Brazil and is executing exploration programs in several other countries. It markets natural gas, oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs) and owns and operates gas-gathering and processing systems. In addition, the Company engages in the hard minerals business through non-operated joint ventures and royalty arrangements in several coal, trona (natural soda ash) and industrial mineral mines located on lands within and adjacent to its Land Grant holdings. On August 10, 2006, the Company acquired Kerr-McGee Corporation. On August 23, 2006, Anadarko acquired Western Gas Resources, Inc.
Parker-Hannifin Corporation is a full-line diversified manufacturer of motion control products, including fluid power systems, electromechanical controls and related components. In addition to motion control products, the Company also is a producer of fluid purification, fluid and fuel control, process instrumentation, air conditioning, refrigeration, electromagnetic shielding and thermal management products and systems. Its manufacturing, service, distribution and administrative facilities are located in 35 states and in 42 foreign countries. Its motion control technology is used in the products of its three principal business segments: Industrial, Aerospace, and Climate & Industrial Controls. The products are sold as original and replacement equipment through product and distribution centers worldwide. Parker products are supplied to over 427,000 customers in manufacturing, transportation and processing industry. In November 2007, it acquired Kay Pneumatics Ltd and Scan Subsea ASA.
Olin Corporation is a manufacturer concentrated in two business segments: Chlor Alkali Products and Winchester. Chlor Alkali Products manufactures and sells chlorine and caustic soda, sodium hydrosulfite, hydrochloric acid, hydrogen, bleach products and potassium hydroxide, which represent 21% of sales during the year ended December 31, 2006. Winchester products, which represent 12% of sales, in 2006, include sporting ammunition, canister powder, reloading components, small caliber military ammunition and components, and industrial cartridges. In November 2007, the Company completed the sale of its Metals business to Global Brass and Copper, Inc., an affiliate of KPS Capital Partners, LP. The sale includes all of the CompanyG??s worldwide Metals operations, including its manufacturing facilities in East Alton, Illinois; Montpelier and Bryan, Ohio; Waterbury, Connecticut, and Cuba, Missouri, as well as its A. J. Oster metals service centers.
Plum Creek Timber Company, Inc. (Plum Creek) is a private timberland owner in the United States, with 8.2 million acres of timberlands located in 18 states. The Company manages its timberlands in two business segments: the Northern Resources Segment and the Southern Resources Segment. In addition, Plum Creek’s Other Segment includes its natural resource businesses that focus on opportunities relating to mineral extraction, natural gas production and communication and transportation rights of way resulting from it property ownership. The Real Estate Segment comprises the Company’s sales of higher and better use timberlands and sales of timberlands, some of which are sold through its wholly owned real estate investment trust (REIT) subsidiaries. Its Real Estate Segment includes development of certain properties, internally and through joint ventures, which is conducted through the Company’s wholly owned REIT subsidiaries.
Encore Acquisition Company (Encore) is engaged in the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas reserves from onshore fields in the United States. The Company’s properties and oil and natural gas reserves are located in four core areas: the Cedar Creek Anticline (CCA) in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota; the Permian Basin of West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico; the Rockies, which includes non-CCA assets in the Williston and Powder River Basins of Montana and North Dakota, and the Paradox Basin of southeastern Utah, and the Mid-Continent area, which includes the Arkoma and Anadarko Basins of Oklahoma, the North Louisiana Salt Basin, the East Texas Basin and the Barnett Shale of north Texas. In March 2007, the CompanyG??s subsidiaries completed the acquisition of the oil properties in the Big Horn Basin, from subsidiaries of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.
Walter Industries, Inc. (Walter) is a diversified company that operates in five segments: Natural Resources, Sloss, Financing, Homebuilding and Other. Through these operating segments, the Company offers a diversified line of products and services, including coal and natural gas, furnace and foundry coke and slag fiber, mortgage financing and home construction. The Natural Resources segment consists primarily of Jim Walter Resources, Inc. (JWR) and Kodiak Mining Company, LLC (Kodiak). Sloss primarily manufactures and markets foundry and furnace coke, which are used by foundries and blast furnaces in the production of iron and steel products. The Financing segment consists primarily of Mid-State Homes, Inc. (MSH) and Walter Mortgage Company (WMC). The Homebuilding segment includes Jim Walter Homes, Inc (JWH). On December 14, 2006, Walter completed the spin-off of Mueller Water Products, Inc. (Mueller Water), which included the Mueller, U.S. Pipe and Anvil operating segments.
Aflac Incorporated is a general business holding company and acts as a management company, overseeing the operations of its subsidiaries by providing management services and making capital available. Its principal business is supplemental health and life insurance, which is marketed and administered through its subsidiary, American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus (Aflac), which operates in the United States (Aflac U.S.) and as a branch in Japan (Aflac Japan). Aflac’s insurance business consists of two segments: Aflac Japan and Aflac U.S. Aflac Japan sells cancer plans, care plans, general medical indemnity plans, medical/sickness riders, living benefit life plans, ordinary life insurance plans and annuities. Aflac U.S. sells cancer plans and various types of health insurance, including accident/disability, fixed-benefit dental, sickness and hospital indemnity, vision care, hospital intensive care, long-term care, ordinary life and short-term disability plans.
Avista Corporation (Avista Corp.) is an energy company engaged in the generation, transmission and distribution of energy, as well as other energy-related businesses. The Company has four business segments: Avista Utilities, Energy Marketing and Resource Management, Advantage IQ, Inc. (Advantage IQ) and Other. Avista Utilities generates, transmits and distributes electricity and distributes natural gas. The utility also engages in wholesale purchases and sales of electricity and natural gas. Energy Marketing and Resource Management comprises its subsidiaries, Avista Energy, Inc. (Avista Energy) and Avista Power, LLC (Avista Power). Avista Energy is an electricity and natural gas marketing, trading and resource management business. Advantage IQ is a provider of facility information and cost management services for multi-site customers throughout North America. Other includes sheet metal fabrication, venture fund investments and real estate investments.
Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc. (PPD) is a global contract research organization engaged in providing drug discovery and development services, post-approval expertise and compound partnering programs. PPD operates in two segments: Discovery Sciences and Development. The Discovery Sciences Group focuses on the discovery research segment of the biopharmaceutical research and development outsourcing market. The Development Group has designed its various global services to be flexible and integrated in order to assist its clients in optimizing their research and development spending through the clinical stages of the development process. In addition, for marketed drugs, biologics and devices, PPD offers support services, such as product launch services, medical information, patient compliance programs, patient and disease registry programs, product safety and pharmacovigilance, Phase IV monitored studies and prescription-to-over-the-counter programs.
Ixia is a provider of test systems for Internet protocol (IP)-based infrastructure and services that allows its customers to test and measure the performance, functionality, service quality and conformance of IP equipment and networks, and the applications that run over them. The CompanyG??s solutions generate, capture, characterize and analyze high volumes of realistic network and application traffic, exposing problems, assessing performance, ensuring functionality and interoperability and verifying conformance to industry specifications. Ixia offers hardware platforms with interchangeable traffic generation interfaces, utilizing a common set of applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow its customers to create integrated and automated test environments. The networks its systems analyze include Ethernet networks operating at speeds of up to 10 gigabits per second, which carry data traffic over optical fiber or electrical cable.
UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (UnitedHealth Group) is a diversified health and well-being company, serving approximately 70 million Americans. The Company provides individuals with access to healthcare services and resources through more than 520,000 physicians and other care providers and 4,700 hospitals across the United States. UnitedHealth Group conducts its operations through four operating divisions: Uniprise, Health Care Services, Specialized Care Services (SCS) and Ingenix. On December 1, 2006, the CompanyG??s Health Care Services business segment acquired the Student Insurance Division (Student Resources) of The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company. On February 24, 2006, its Health Care Services business segment acquired John Deere Health Care, Inc.
Sempra Energy (Sempra) is an energy services holding company that, through its subsidiaries, develops energy infrastructure, operate utilities, and provide related products and services to more than 29 million consumers in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, South America and Asia. The Company has five separately managed segments comprising Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas), San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E), Sempra Commodities, Sempra Generation and Sempra Pipelines & Storage. SoCalGas and SDG&E are collectively referred to as the Sempra Utilities. In July 2006, the Company’s Subsidiary, Sempra Generation Sold Coleto Creek Power and Other Topaz Power Assets.
Applied Biosystems Inc serves the life science industry and research community by developing and marketing instrument-based systems, consumables, software, and services. The Company focuses on basic research, commercial research (pharmaceutical and biotechnology) and standardized testing, including forensic human identification, paternity testing and food testing. Applied Biosystems Inc has an installed base of approximately 180,000 instrument systems in nearly 100 countries. Basic research includes work at university, government and other non-profit institutions that focus on uncovering the basic laws of nature and understanding human disease. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies use Applied Biosystems Inc products to discover and develop new drugs more effectively. Standardized testing customers require systems that produce precise results from a high volume of automated tests.
Avista Corporation (Avista Corp.) is an energy company engaged in the generation, transmission and distribution of energy, as well as other energy-related businesses. The Company has four business segments: Avista Utilities, Energy Marketing and Resource Management, Advantage IQ, Inc. (Advantage IQ) and Other. Avista Utilities generates, transmits and distributes electricity and distributes natural gas. The utility also engages in wholesale purchases and sales of electricity and natural gas. Energy Marketing and Resource Management comprises its subsidiaries, Avista Energy, Inc. (Avista Energy) and Avista Power, LLC (Avista Power). Avista Energy is an electricity and natural gas marketing, trading and resource management business. Advantage IQ is a provider of facility information and cost management services for multi-site customers throughout North America. Other includes sheet metal fabrication, venture fund investments and real estate investments.
Harsco Corporation is a diversified, multinational provider of industrial services and engineered products. The Company’s operations fall into three segments: Mill Services, Access Services and Gas Technologies, and an all other category labeled Engineered Products and Services. In November 2006, the Company acquired the conveyor services and trading arm of Technic Gum, and Moldajes y Andamios TH S.A. In February 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of Excell Materials, Inc. (Excell), a multinational company that is engaged in the reclamation and recycling of content from steelmaking slag. In August 2007, the Company announced the acquisition of Alexander Mill Services International, a privately held company that provides mill services to steel producers in Poland and Romania. Alexander also provides steel mill services on a smaller scale in Greece and Portugal. In September 2007, it acquired ZETA-TECH Associates, Inc.
Colgate-Palmolive Company (Colgate) is a consumer products company. The Company manages its business in two product segments: Oral, Personal and Home Care, and Pet Nutrition. ColgateG??s Oral Care products include toothpaste, toothbrushes, mouth rinses, dental floss and pharmaceutical products for dentists and other oral health professionals. Other products in this segment include Colgate Max Fresh, Colgate Sensitive Plus Whitening and Colgate Time Control toothpastes, Colgate 360-? manual toothbrushes, Colgate Smiles line of manual toothbrushes for kids and Plax Overnight mouth rinse. The Personal Care market includes shower gels, shampoos, conditioners, and deodorants and antiperspirants, as well as liquid hand soaps. Colgate, through its HillG??s Pet Nutrition segment, is a producer of specialty pet nutrition products for dogs and cats with products marketed in over 90 countries around the world. On May 1, 2006, the Company acquired an 84% interest in TomG??s of Maine, Inc.
MeadWestvaco Corporation (MeadWestvaco) is a global company that operates in the packaging, consumer and office products, specialty chemicals and specialty papers markets. The Company operates in four segments. Packaging Resources produces bleached paperboard, Coated Natural Kraft paperboard (CNK), kraft paperboard, linerboard and saturating kraft, and packaging for consumer products. Consumer Solutions offers a range of converting and consumer packaging solutions. Consumer and Office Products manufactures, sources, markets and distributes school and office products, time-management products and envelopes in North America and Brazil through both retail and commercial channels. Specialty Chemicals manufactures, markets and distributes specialty chemicals derived from sawdust and byproducts of the papermaking process. In July 2006, the Company acquired Calmar. In September 2007, MeadWestvaco acquired Keltec Dispensing Systems, and Hayes Products.
Allegheny Energy, Inc. (Allegheny) is a diversified utility holding company that operates primarily through directly and indirectly owned subsidiaries. The Company is an integrated energy business that owns and operates electric generation facilities and delivers electric services to customers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia. Allegheny has two business segments: the Delivery and Services segment, which includes its electric transmission and distribution (T&D) operations, and the Generation and Marketing segment, which includes its power generation operations. Effective January 1, 2007, the CompanyG??s subsidiaries, Allegheny Energy Supply Company, LLC (AE Supply) and Monongahela Power Company (Monongahela) completed an intra-company transfer of assets (the Asset Swap), which realigned generation ownership and contractual arrangements within the Allegheny system. During the year ended December 31, 2006, the Company formed Trans-Allegheny Interstate Line Company.
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