Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings for Selected Stocks
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- PCU, SOUTHERN COPPER C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 14.524392
- TJX, T J X COS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 47.664700
- RBA, RITCHIE BROS AUCT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 174.723129
- INFA, INFORMATICA CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 84.239273
- ITC, ITC HOLDINGS CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 286.261017
- IAU, ISHARES COMEX GOL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 351.922455
- CCE, COCA COLA ENTRPR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 10.380109
- ENH, ENDURANCE SPLTY H Current Caprock Strength Rating: 42.870548
- LMT, LOCKHEED MARTIN C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 126.940300
- HAE, HAEMONETICS CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 56.928413
- MLHR, MILLER HERMAN INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.001966
- GTY, GETTY RLTY HLDG C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 35.647312
- OLN, OLIN CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 16.668947
- SCG, SCANA CP NEW Current Caprock Strength Rating: 4.660450
- ROSE, ROSETTA RESOURCES Current Caprock Strength Rating: 13.033669
- EAC, ENCORE ACQUISITIO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 57.562366
- SO, SOUTHERN CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 59.364277
- RAI, REYNOLDS AMERICAN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.465913
- VCP, VOTORANTIM CELULO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 201.740189
- SNH, SENIOR HSG SBI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 63.017380
Southern Copper Corporation is an integrated copper producer. The Company produces copper, molybdenum, zinc and silver. All of its mining, smelting and refining facilities are located in Peru and in Mexico, and it conducts exploration activities in those countries and Chile. Its Peruvian copper operations involve mining, milling and flotation of copper ore to produce copper concentrates and molybdenum concentrates; the smelting of copper concentrates to produce anode copper, and the refining of anode copper to produce copper cathodes. It operates the Toquepala and Cuajone mines in the Andes mountains. The Company also operates a smelter and refinery west of the Toquepala and Cuajone mines in the coastal city of Ilo, Peru. Its Mexican operations are conducted through the Company?s subsidiary, Minera Mexico S.A. de C.V. (Minera Mexico). Minera Mexico engages principally in the mining and processing of copper, molybdenum, zinc, silver, gold and lead.
The TJX Companies, Inc. (TJX) is an off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in the United States and worldwide. TJX operates five business segments, three in the United States and one each in Canada and Europe. All of the Company?s stores, except HomeGoods and HomeSense, sell apparel for the entire family, including footwear, jewelry and accessories, and a limited offering of giftware and home fashions. The HomeGoods and HomeSense stores offer home fashions and home furnishings. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2009 (fiscal 2009), TJX derived approximately 62% of its sales from clothing (including footwear), 25% from home fashions, and 13% from jewelry and accessories. In fiscal 2009, the Company sold Bob?s Stores, a branded apparel chain.
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Incorporated (Ritchie Bros.) is an auctioneer of industrial equipment. As of December 31, 2008, the Company operated from over 110 locations, including 38 auction sites, in more than 25 countries worldwide. Ritchie Bros. sells, through unreserved public auctions, a range of used and unused industrial assets, including equipment, trucks and other assets utilized in the construction, transportation, agricultural, material handling, mining, forestry, petroleum and marine industries. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company conducted 193 unreserved industrial auctions at locations in North America, Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia and Australia. During 2008, it also conducted 147 unreserved agricultural auctions in Canada and the United States. Ritchie Bros. offers rbauctionBid-Live, an Internet bidding service.
Informatica Corporation (Informatica) is a provider of enterprise data integration, and data quality software and services. Informatica software handles a variety of data integration initiatives, including data migration, data consolidation, data synchronization, data warehousing, establishment of data hubs, data services and cross-enterprise data exchange. Informatica platform enables and accelerates data integration initiatives, allowing enterprises to meet new business requirements by utilizing information technology (IT) systems. The Company has also introduced solutions designed to meet the on-demand data needs of the software-as-a-service market. In May 2008, Informatica completed the acquisition of Identity Systems, Inc. On February 13, 2009, Informatica acquired Applimation, Inc. (Applimation), which provides application Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) technology.
ITC Holdings Corp. (ITC Holdings) is a holding company whose business consists primarily of the operations of its Regulated Operating Subsidiaries, International Transmission Company (ITCTransmission), Michigan Electric Transmission Company, LLC (METC) and ITC Midwest LLC (ITC Midwest). Through its Regulated Operating Subsidiaries, the Company is engaged in the transmission of electricity in the United States. The Company?s Regulated Operating Subsidiaries? transmission facilities are located in the lower peninsula of Michigan and portions of Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois and Missouri, and have agreements with other utilities for the joint ownership of specific substations and transmission lines. The Company also has other subsidiaries focused primarily on business development activities, and a holding company whose activities include corporate debt and equity financings and general corporate activities.
Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc. is engaged in marketing, producing and distributing non-alcoholic beverages. The Company serves a market of approximately 419 million consumers throughout the United States, Canada, the United States Virgin Islands, and certain other Caribbean islands, Belgium, continental France, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Monaco and Netherlands. It represents 16% of the total Coca-Cola product volume globally. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company sold approximately 42 billion bottles and cans (or 2 billion physical cases) throughout its territories. Products licensed to the Company through The Coca-Cola Company (TCCC) and its affiliates and joint ventures represented approximately 93% of its volume in 2008. In March 2008, the Company acquired the Cen-Tex Coca-Cola Bottling Company, a franchised Coca-Cola bottling company in Mexia, Texas.
Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. (Endurance Holdings) is a holding company. Through its operating subsidiaries based in Bermuda, the United Kingdom and the United States, the Company underwrites specialty lines of personal and commercial property and casualty insurance and reinsurance on a global basis. The Company?s portfolio of specialty lines of business is organized into two business segments: Insurance and Reinsurance. As of December 31, 2008, Endurance Holdings? seven wholly owned operating subsidiaries are Endurance Bermuda, Endurance Worldwide Insurance Limited (Endurance U.K.), Endurance Reinsurance Corporation of America (Endurance U.S. Reinsurance), Endurance American Insurance Company (Endurance American), Endurance American Specialty Insurance Company (Endurance American Specialty), American Merchants Casualty Company (American Merchants) and American Agri-Business Insurance Company (ARMtech).
Lockheed Martin Corporation is a global security company that is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems and products. The Company provides a range of management, engineering, technical, scientific, logistic and information services. It serves both domestic and international customers with products and services that have defense, civil and commercial applications, with its principal customers being agencies of the United States Government. The Company operates in four segments: Electronic Systems, Information Systems and Global Services (IS&GS), Aeronautics and Space Systems. In September 2008, Lockheed Martin Corporation acquired Aculight Corporation. In January 2009, the Company completed its acquisition of Universal Systems & Technology, Inc. (UNITECH).
Haemonetics Corporation is engaged in developing and manufacturing blood processing technology that help ensures a safe and adequate blood supply. The Company has been engaged in manufacturing automated systems and single use consumables used in blood donation, blood processing, and surgical salvage of blood. Its direct customers are blood and plasma collectors, hospitals and hospital service providers. Haemonetics Corporation markets devices and related consumables, information technology platforms, and consulting services. The Company manages three global product families: Donor, which markets blood and plasma collection devices, consumables and other business solutions; Patient, which markets into hospitals surgical blood salvage and blood demand diagnostic devices and consumables, as well as blood management services, and Software/Services, which markets information technology platforms and consulting services to blood and plasma collectors and hospitals.
Herman Miller, Inc. researches, designs, manufactures, and distributes interior furnishings, for use in various environments, including office, healthcare, educational, and residential settings, and provides related services that support organizations and individuals all over the world. The Company also offers an array of seating, storage, wooden casegoods and freestanding furniture products. The Company operates in three segments: the North American Furniture Solutions segment includes the business associated with the design, manufacture, and sale of furniture products for office and healthcare environments throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico; the Non-North American Furniture Solutions segment includes the business associated with the design, manufacture, and sale of furniture products primarily for work-related settings outside North America, and the Other segment includes North American residential furniture business, as well as other business activities.
Getty Realty Corp. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States specializing in the ownership and leasing of retail motor fuel and convenience store properties and petroleum distribution terminals. As of December 31, 2008, the Company owned 878 properties and leased 182 additional properties. Getty Realty’s properties are located primarily in the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic regions in the United States. The Company also owns or leases properties in Texas, North Carolina, Hawaii, California, Florida, Arkansas, Illinois, Ohio and North Dakota. A substantial portion of Getty Realty’s revenues (75% as of December 31, 2008) are derived from leases (the Marketing Leases) with its primary tenant, Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. (Marketing).
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. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Chlor Alkali Products segment represents 72% of its sales. The Winchester products segment represents 28% of its 2008 sales. The Winchester products segment includes sporting ammunition, reloading components, small caliber military ammunition and components, and industrial cartridges. Its subsidiary, PCI Chemicals Canada Company/Societe PCI Chimie Canada, operates one chlor alkali facility in Becancour, Canada, which sells chlor alkali-related products within Canada and to the United States. The Company?s another subsidiary, Winchester Australia Limited, loads and packs sporting and industrial ammunition in Australia.
SCANA Corporation (SCANA) through its wholly-owned regulated subsidiaries, is primarily engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity in parts of South Carolina and in the purchase, transmission and sale of natural gas in portions of North Carolina and South Carolina. Through a wholly owned nonregulated subsidiary, SCANA markets natural gas to retail customers in Georgia and to wholesale customers primarily in the southeast. Other wholly owned nonregulated subsidiaries provide fiber optic and other telecommunications services and provide service contracts to homeowners on certain home appliances and heating and air conditioning units. Additionally, a service company subsidiary of SCANA provides administrative, management and other services to the other subsidiaries.
Rosetta Resources Inc. together with its subsidiaries (Rosetta) is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of oil and gas properties in North America. The Company?s operations are concentrated in the areas of the Sacramento Basin of California, the Rockies, and South Texas. In addition, Rosetta has non-core positions in the State Waters of Texas and the Gulf of Mexico. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company drilled 184 gross and 152 net wells, with a success rate of 89%. In 2008, the Company had 398.2 billion of cubic feet equivalents (Bcfe) of proved oil and natural gas reserves, including 376.5 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of natural gas and 3,603 million barrels (MBbls) of oil and condensate.
Encore Acquisition Company (EAC) 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, Big Horn and Powder River Basins in Wyoming, 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 Mississippi Salt Basin. In January 2009, the Company sold certain oil and natural gas producing properties and related assets in the Arkoma Basin and royalty interest properties in Oklahoma, as well as 10,300 unleased mineral acres to Encore Energy Partners LP (ENP).
The Southern Company (Southern Company) owns all of the outstanding common stock of Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, and Mississippi Power, each of which is an operating public utility company. The traditional operating companies supply electric service in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. In addition, Southern Company owns all of the common stock of Southern Power, which is also an operating public utility company. Southern Power constructs, acquires, owns, and manages generation assets and sells electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market. Southern Company also owns all the outstanding common stock or membership interests of SouthernLINC Wireless, Southern Nuclear, Southern Company Services, Inc., Southern Holdings and other direct and indirect subsidiaries. In June 2008, Southern Power completed construction on Plant Franklin Unit 3, which added 659 megawatts to the Southern Company system generating capacity.
Reynolds American Inc. (RAI) is a holding company for R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the cigarette manufacturer in the United States, and Conwood Company, LLC., the smokeless tobacco products manufacturer in the United States. The Company has two business segments: RJR Tobacco and Conwood. RAI?s wholly owned subsidiaries include R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc. (Santa Fe); Lane, Limited (Lane); R. J. Reynolds Global Products, Inc. (GPI), Conwood Holdings Inc. and Conwood Company, LLC and Rosswil LLC, collectively referred to as the Conwood companies. The RJR Tobacco segment consists of the primary operations of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. The Conwood segment consists of Conwood Holdings, Inc., the primary operations of the Conwood companies and Lane. On December 31, 2008, Conwood Sales Co., LLC and Scott Tobacco LLC merged into Conwood Company, LLC.
Votorantim Celulose e Papel S.A. (VCP) produces a variety of pulp and paper products in Brazil, including wood-free printing and writing papers and specialty papers. The Company operates in two business segments: pulp and paper. The Company produces bleached eucalyptus kraft pulp (BEKP), which is a high-quality variety of hardwood pulp. During the year ended December 31, 2007, VCP sold approximately 80% of its pulp production to third parties, and used the remainder internally to manufacture a range of printing and writing paper products, including coated and uncoated printing and writing papers, thermal papers, carbonless papers and other specialty papers. VCP produces paper for the domestic and international markets.
Senior Housing Properties Trust (Senior Housing) is a real estate investment trust (REIT). As of December 31, 2008, the Company owned 271 properties located in 34 states and Washington, D.C. The Company owns independent living and assisted living communities, continuing care retirement communities, nursing homes, wellness centers, and medical office, clinic and biotech laboratory buildings located throughout the United States.