Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings for Selected Stocks
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- NWN, NORTHWEST NAT GAS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 29.835892
- HCP, HEALTHCARE PROP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 3.127659
- SFY, SWIFT ERGY (HLDG Current Caprock Strength Rating: 19.959139
- STRA, STRAYER EDUCATION Current Caprock Strength Rating: 225.001740
- SXT, SENSIENT TECH COR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 87.146660
- KTC, KT CORP ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 12.977843
- WWE, WORLD WRESTLING E Current Caprock Strength Rating: 67.328812
- LKQX, LKQ CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 233.941666
- PHI, PHILIPPINE LG DS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 404.734253
- PHI, PHILIPPINE LG DS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 404.734253
- SDA, SADIA S.A. Current Caprock Strength Rating: 57.907032
- KEX, KIRBY CORPORATION Current Caprock Strength Rating: 156.771103
- CLC, CLARCOR INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.751421
- NFG, NATL FUEL GAS CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 82.851707
- MT, ARCELOR MITTAL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 73.886269
- BRS, BRISTOW GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: -0.767635
- GEO, GEO GROUP INC (TH Current Caprock Strength Rating: 0.920737
- CEG, CONSTELLATION ENG Current Caprock Strength Rating: 17.823517
- GFIG, GFI GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 104.983421
- CEG, CONSTELLATION ENG Current Caprock Strength Rating: 17.823517
Northwest Natural Gas Company, doing business as NW Natural, is principally engaged in the distribution of natural gas in Oregon and southwest Washington. The Company’s has two business segments: local gas distribution and gas storage. Local gas distribution also referred to as the utility, which involves building and maintaining a pipeline distribution system, purchasing gas from producers and marketers, contracting for the transportation of gas over pipelines from the supply basins to its service territory, and reselling the gas to customers subject to rates and terms approved by the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC) or by the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (WUTC). The gas storage business segment includes natural gas storage services provided to interstate and intrastate customers in the Pacific Northwest using underground gas storage and pipeline facilities which the Company owns and operates.
HCP, Inc. (HCP) is a real estate investment trust (REIT), focusing primarily on properties serving the healthcare industry. The Company acquires, develops, leases, disposes and manages healthcare real estate and provide mortgage and financing to healthcare providers. HCP?s portfolio comprises investments in the five healthcare segments: senior housing, life science, medical office, hospital, and skilled nursing. The Company makes investments within five healthcare segments using the five investment products: properties under lease, investment management, developments, mezzanine loans, and non-managing member LLCs (DownREITs). As of December 31, 2008, HCP had interests in 264 senior housing facilities, including 25 facilities owned by the Company?s Investment Management Platform. As of December 31, 2008, HCP had interests in 104 life science properties, including eight facilities owned by Investment Management Platform.
Swift Energy Company is engaged in developing, exploring, acquiring, and operating oil and natural gas properties, with a focus on oil and natural gas reserves onshore and in the inland waters of Louisiana and Texas. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company completed the selling of its New Zealand-based operations. In 2008, the total proved reserves for the Company was comprised of approximately 43% crude oil, 42% natural gas, and 15% natural gas liquids (NGLs); and 53% of the total proved reserves were proved developed. The proved reserves are concentrated with 61% of the total in Louisiana, 38% in Texas, and 1% in other states. The Company focuses its development and exploration in four areas: Southeast Louisiana, South Texas, Central Louisiana/East Texas and South Louisiana.
Strayer Education, Inc. is a post-secondary education services corporation. The Company offers a variety of academic programs through its wholly owned subsidiary, Strayer University, Inc., both in classroom courses and online via the Internet. The Strayer University is an institution of higher learning that offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology, education and public administration at 65 campuses in Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. As part of its program offering, the University also offers classes online via the Internet. As of December 31, 2008, the Company had more than 44,000 students enrolled in its programs.
Sensient Technologies Corporation is global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors and fragrances. Sensient develops specialty food and beverage systems, cosmetic and pharmaceutical systems, inkjet and specialty inks and colors, and other specialty chemicals. The Company?s customers include international manufacturers. The Company?s principal products include flavors, flavor enhancers and bionutrients; fragrances and aroma chemicals; dehydrated vegetables and other food ingredients; natural and synthetic food and beverage colors; cosmetic and pharmaceutical colors and additives, and technical colors, inkjet colors and inks, and specialty dyes and pigments. The Company?s two segments are the Flavors & Fragrances Group and the Color Group.
KT Corporation is an integrated telecommunications services provider in Korea. Its services include telephone services, including local, domestic and international long-distance fixed-line telephone services and Internet phone services; mobile phone services, including mobile telecommunication services and third generation (3G) mobile phone telecommunication services based on wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA) technology; Internet services, including broadband Internet services, wireless Internet services, wireless broadband (WIBRO) services and other value-added services; Internet television (TV) services, which are video on demand services under the name MegaTV; telegram services, including domestic telegram and international telegram services, as well as card services, providing prepaid phone cards, postpaid phone cards, public phone cards and worldpass cards.
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) is an integrated media and entertainment company. The Company develops creative content centered on its talent and presented at its live and televised events. Its three brands include Raw, SmackDown and ECW. The Company operates through four segments: Live and Televised Entertainment, Consumer Products, Digital Media and WWE Studios (formerly WWE Films).
LKQ Corporation is a provider of replacement systems, components, and parts needed to repair vehicles (cars and trucks). It participates in the market for recycled original equipment manufacturers (OEM) products, as well as the market for collision repair aftermarket products. It obtains aftermarket products and salvage vehicles from a range of sources, and dismantles the salvage vehicles to obtain a range of vehicle products that it distributes into the light vehicle repair market. It also refurbishes bumpers, wheels, head lamps and tail lamps. In August 2008, the Company acquired Pick-Your-Part Auto Wrecking (PYP), an operator of self-service facilities in the state of California. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company also acquired seven other businesses (three in the recycled OEM parts business, three in the recycled OEM heavy truck parts businesses and one wheel polishing business).
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) is a diversified telecommunications company in the Philippines. Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), PLDT’s wholly owned subsidiary, is the cellular service provider in the country. The Company operates through three segments: Wireless, Fixed Line, and Information and Communications Technology (ICT). On June 4, 2008, PLDT acquired the fixed line assets of Pilipino Telephone Corporation (Piltel). On March 24, 2008, ePLDT, Inc. (ePLDT) acquired additional shares from Airborne Access Corporation (Airborne Access) thereby increasing its 51% ownership interest to 99.4%. On May 1, 2008, Smart Broadband, Inc. (SBI) acquired from ePLDT the 99.4% equity ownership in Airborne Access. On April 28, 2008, Smart acquired PH Communications Holdings Corporation (PHC) and Francom Holdings, Inc. (FHI), which collectively own 100% of Connectivity Unlimited Resources Enterprises.
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) is a diversified telecommunications company in the Philippines. Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart), PLDT’s wholly owned subsidiary, is the cellular service provider in the country. The Company operates through three segments: Wireless, Fixed Line, and Information and Communications Technology (ICT). On June 4, 2008, PLDT acquired the fixed line assets of Pilipino Telephone Corporation (Piltel). On March 24, 2008, ePLDT, Inc. (ePLDT) acquired additional shares from Airborne Access Corporation (Airborne Access) thereby increasing its 51% ownership interest to 99.4%. On May 1, 2008, Smart Broadband, Inc. (SBI) acquired from ePLDT the 99.4% equity ownership in Airborne Access. On April 28, 2008, Smart acquired PH Communications Holdings Corporation (PHC) and Francom Holdings, Inc. (FHI), which collectively own 100% of Connectivity Unlimited Resources Enterprises.
Sadia SA is a Brazil-based company engaged in refrigerated and frozen products including poultry, pork, beef, turkey and chicken. The Company is also engaged in convenience products, such as ready meals, pizza, pasta, margarine and desserts. Its operations include 18 farms for poultry and hog stock, hatcheries, pork breeding centers, slaughterhouses, processing units, animal feed production plants, representative offices and distribution centers. In addition, the Company operates an international unit in Kaliningrad, Russia. Sadia SA has 16 distribution units located in 14 Brazilian states. In June 2008, Sadia SA announced the acquisition of a 73.93% stake in Baumhardt Comercio e Participacoes Ltda. Other subsidiaries of the Company include Big Foods Industria de Produtos Alimenticios Ltda, Sadia Industrial Ltda and Sadia Overseas Ltd.
Kirby Corporation is a marine transportation and diesel engine services company. The Company operates in two business segments: marine transportation and diesel engine services. The Company?s marine transportation segment is engaged in the inland transportation of petrochemicals, black oil products and agricultural chemicals by tank barges, and the offshore transportation of dry-bulk cargoes by barge. The Company?s diesel engine services segment is engaged in the overhaul and repair of diesel engines and reduction gears, and related parts sales in three markets: the marine market, providing aftermarket service for vessels powered by diesel engines utilized in the various inland and offshore marine industries; the power generation market, providing aftermarket service for diesel engines that provide standby, peak and base load power generation for users of industrial reduction gears and for generation components of the nuclear industry; and the railroad market.
CLARCOR Inc. conducts business in three segments: Engine/Mobile Filtration, Industrial/Environmental Filtration and Packaging. The Company?s Engine/Mobile Filtration Segment sells filtration products used on engines and in mobile equipment applications, including trucks, automobiles, buses and locomotives, and marine, construction, industrial, mining and agricultural equipment.. The Company?s Industrial/Environmental Filtration Segment centers on the manufacturing and marketing of filtration products used in industrial and commercial processes and in buildings, and infrastructures of various types. The Company?s consumer and industrial packaging products business is conducted, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, J.L. Clark, Inc. (J.L. Clark). In May 2008, the Company acquired a 30% share in BioProcess H2O LLC (BPT), a Rhode Island-based manufacturer of industrial waste water and water reuse filtration systems. The Company acquired 100% of the Keddeg Company on December 29, 2008.
National Fuel Gas Company is a holding company. The Company is a diversified energy company consisting of five business segments: Utility segment, Pipeline and Storage segment, and Exploration and Production segment, Energy Marketing segment and Timber segment. In August 2007, Seneca Resources Corporation (Seneca) sold all of the issued and outstanding shares of Seneca Energy Canada Inc. (SECI). Its subsidiaries include Horizon Energy Development, Inc., Horizon LFG, Inc., Leidy Hub, Inc. and Data-Track Account Services, Inc.
ArcelorMittal is a global steel producer. The Company has steel-making operations in 20 countries on four continents, including 66 integrated, mini-mill and integrated mini-mill steel-making facilities. ArcelorMittal operates its business in six operating segments: Flat Carbon Americas; Flat Carbon Europe; Long Carbon Americas and Europe; Asia, Africa and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) (AACIS); Stainless Steel; and Arcelor Mittal Steel Solutions and Services. ArcelorMittal?s steel-making operations have a high degree of geographic diversification. Approximately 36% of its steel is produced in the Americas, approximately 49% is produced in Europe and approximately 15% is produced in other countries, such as Kazakhstan, South Africa and Ukraine. ArcelorMittal produces a range of finished, semi-finished carbon steel products and stainless steel products.
Bristow Group Inc. is a provider of helicopter services to the offshore energy industry with global operations. The Company has operations in offshore oil and gas producing regions, including North Sea, the United States Gulf of Mexico, Nigeria and Australia. It generated 76% of its revenues from international operations in fiscal year ended March 31, 2008. The Helicopter Services segment operations are conducted through three divisions, Western Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere and Global Training. Western Hemisphere includes North America, and South and Central America. Eastern Hemisphere includes Europe, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Other International and Eastern Hemisphere (EH) Centralized Operations. Global Training includes Bristow Academy. On November 2, 2007, it sold its Grasso business, which comprised its entire Production Management Services segment. As of March 31, 2008, it operated 406 aircrafts.
The GEO Group, Inc. (GEO) is a provider of government-outsourced services specializing in the management of correctional, detention and mental health and residential treatment facilities in the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom. It operates a range of correctional and detention facilities, including maximum, medium and minimum security prisons, immigration detention centers, minimum security detention centers and mental health and residential treatment facilities. The Company conducts its business through four business segments: United States corrections segment; International services segment; GEO Care segment, and Facility construction and design segment.
Constellation Energy Group Inc. is an energy company that conducts its business through various subsidiaries, including a merchant energy business and Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE). The Company?s merchant energy business is a provider of energy-related products and services for a variety of customers. BGE is a regulated electric transmission and distribution utility company and a regulated gas distribution utility company with a service territory that covers the City of Baltimore and all or part of 10 counties in central Maryland. Its segments include Merchant Energy, Regulated Electric and Regulated Gas. Its remaining non-regulated businesses include design, construct and operate renewable energy, heating, cooling and cogeneration facilities for commercial, industrial and governmental customers. In March 2009, the Company divested its Houston-based downstream gas unit, as well as the majority of its London-based coal, freight and international commodities business.
GFI Group Inc. is an inter-dealer broker and vendor of related products and services in global markets for over-the-counter (OTC) derivative products and related securities. It provides brokerage services, trading system software and data and analytics products to institutional clients in markets for a range of credit, financial, equity and commodity instruments. The Company is a provider of inter-dealer brokerage services for various products in the credit, financial, equity and commodity markets on which it focuses. It offers its clients a hybrid brokerage approach, combining a range of telephonic and electronic trade execution services, depending on the needs of the individual markets. It has three segments: Americas Brokerage, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Brokerage, and Asia Brokerage. On January 31, 2008, it acquired Trayport Limited (Trayport), a provider of electronic trading software and services to the commodities, fixed income, currencies and equities markets.
Constellation Energy Group Inc. is an energy company that conducts its business through various subsidiaries, including a merchant energy business and Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE). The Company?s merchant energy business is a provider of energy-related products and services for a variety of customers. BGE is a regulated electric transmission and distribution utility company and a regulated gas distribution utility company with a service territory that covers the City of Baltimore and all or part of 10 counties in central Maryland. Its segments include Merchant Energy, Regulated Electric and Regulated Gas. Its remaining non-regulated businesses include design, construct and operate renewable energy, heating, cooling and cogeneration facilities for commercial, industrial and governmental customers. In March 2009, the Company divested its Houston-based downstream gas unit, as well as the majority of its London-based coal, freight and international commodities business.