Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings for Selected Stocks
posted in Stock Screens |Caprock Analytics highlights selected stocks from the over 4,000 stocks tracked and analyzed by Caprock Analytics. These stock selections include a recent Caprock Analytics Strength metric and a brief description of the company. Note that stocks with negative strength ratings indicate a degree of weakness that has been detected. These stocks are a selection of stocks, and are NOT the top rated stocks. To view the top rated stocks, please register for FREE at Caprock Analytics, login, and view the updated Stock rating lists on the website.
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- PPDI, PHARM PROD DEV Current Caprock Strength Rating: 183.971298
- FTI, FMC TECHNOLOGIES Current Caprock Strength Rating: 73.609726
- MT, ARCELOR MITTAL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 73.886269
- VVC, VECTREN CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 25.719864
- ARA, ARACRUZ CELULOSE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 52.415356
- WRE, WASH REAL EST INV Current Caprock Strength Rating: 0.690000
- DSM, DREYFUS STRA MUNI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 0.445373
- FMC, F M C CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 349.872070
- DUK, DUKE ENERGY CP HL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 38.342281
- RJET, REPUBLIC AIRWAYS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 26.193539
- IHS, IHS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 339.527802
- HEW, HEWITT ASSOC INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 116.713028
- ONB, OLD NATIONAL BANC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 24.371874
- AIZ, ASSURANT INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 147.249084
- AG, AGCO CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 525.557983
- SO, SOUTHERN CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 59.364277
- TRE, TANZANIAN ROYALTY Current Caprock Strength Rating: 9.442011
- NBL, NOBLE ENERGY INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 209.519943
- IVGN, INVITROGEN CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 25.317347
- MIN, M F S INTRMDT INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 386.896362
Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc. is a global contract research organization engaged in providing drug discovery and development services, post-approval expertise and compound partnering programs. The Company?s customers and partners include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, academic and government organizations. It 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 provides a range of development services, either individually or as an integrated package. In April 2009, the Company acquired Magen BioSciences, Inc. In April 2009, the Company completed the acquisition of AbC.R.O., Inc. (AbCRO).
FMC Technologies, Inc. (FMC Technologies) is a global provider of technology solutions for the energy industry. The Company designs, manufactures and services systems and products, such as subsea production and processing systems, surface wellhead production systems, high-pressure fluid control equipment, measurement solutions, and marine loading systems for the oil and gas industry. The Company operates in two segments: Energy Production Systems and Energy Processing Systems. On July 31, 2008, FMC Technologies completed the spin-off of its FoodTech and Airport Systems businesses into John Bean Technologies Corporation.
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.
Vectren Corporation (Vectren) is an energy holding company. The Company?s wholly owned subsidiary, Vectren Utility Holdings, Inc. (Utility Holdings), serves as the intermediate holding company for three operating public utilities: Indiana Gas Company, Inc. (Indiana Gas), Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company (SIGECO) and the Ohio operations (VEDO). Utility Holdings also has other assets that provide information technology and other services to the three utilities. Indiana Gas provides energy delivery services to over 568,000 natural gas customers located in central and southern Indiana. SIGECO provides energy delivery services to over 141,000 electric customers and approximately 111,000 gas customers located near Evansville in southwestern Indiana. SIGECO also owns and operates electric generation.
Aracruz Celulose SA (Aracruz) is a Brazil-based company engaged in forestry and in the production of pulp and derivatives. The Company produces eucalyptus pulp, which is a variety of hardwood pulp used in such products as tissues, printing and writing papers, liquid packaging boards and specialty papers. It has production three units: Barra do Riacho, in the estate of Espirito Santo, the Guaiba unit, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, and the Veracel unit, in the state of Bahia. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company produced 3.1 million tons of bleached eucalyptus pulp. The Company’s subsidiaries include Mucuri Agroflorestal SA, Aracruz Riograndense Ltda, both active in forestry and support activities for the forestry industry, and Portocel – Terminal Especializado de Barra do Riacho SA, operating maritime port services, among others.
Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (WREIT) is a self-administered, self-managed, equity real estate investment trust (REIT). The business consists of the ownership and operation of income-producing real properties in the greater Washington metro region. WREIT owns a portfolio of office buildings, medical office buildings, industrial/flex properties, multifamily buildings and retail centers. WREIT operates in five business segments: regional office, medical office, retail, multifamily and industrial/flex properties. In September 2008, WRIT acquired The Kenmore, a 374-unit, 270,000 square foot apartment building located in Washington, DC.
Dreyfus Strategic Municipal Bond Fund, Inc. (the fund) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The fund?s investment objective is to maximize current income exempt from federal income tax to the extent consistent with the preservation of capital. The Dreyfus Corporation serves as the fund?s investment adviser. The fund invests at least 80% of its assets in municipal bonds. The fund also issues auction rate preferred stock and invests the proceeds in a manner consistent with its investment objective.
FMC Corporation (FMC) is a diversified, global chemical company providing solutions, applications and products to a variety of markets. It operates in three segments: Agricultural Products, Specialty Chemicals and Industrial Chemicals. Its Agricultural Products segment focuses on insecticides, which are used in agriculture to enhance crop yield and quality by controlling a range of insects and weeds. Specialty Chemicals consists of FMC?s BioPolymer and lithium businesses, and focuses on food ingredients that are used to enhance texture, structure and physical stability, pharmaceutical additives for binding, encapsulation and disintegrant applications, ultrapure technologies for medical devices and lithium specialties for pharmaceutical synthesis, specialty polymers and energy storage. Its Industrial Chemicals segment manufactures a range of inorganic materials, including soda ash, hydrogen peroxide, specialty peroxygens and phosphorus chemicals.
Duke Energy Corporation (Duke Energy) is an energy company that provides its services through three business segments. The Company?s business segments are U.S. Franchised Electric and Gas, Commercial Power and International Energy. During the year ended December 31, 2008, Crescent was a reportable business segment of Duke Energy. However, in 2008, the Company included the operations of Crescent Other business segment. In September 2008, the Company acquired Catamount Energy Corporation from Diamond Castle Partners.
Republic Airways Holdings Inc. operates three airlines: Chautauqua Airlines, Inc., (Chautauqua Airlines), Republic Airline Inc. (Republic Airline) and Shuttle America Corporation (Shuttle America). As of December 31, 2008, the Company offered scheduled passenger service on approximately 1,250 flights daily to 109 cities in 35 states, Canada, Mexico and Jamaica pursuant to code-share agreements with AMR Corp., the parent of American Airlines, Inc. (American), Continental Airlines, Inc. (Continental), Delta Air Lines, Inc. (Delta), Midwest Airlines, Inc. (Midwest), Mokulele Flight Service, Inc. (Mokulele), United Air Lines, Inc. (United), and US Airways, Inc. (US Airways). The Company provides its partners with regional jet service, operating as AmericanConnection, Continental Express, Delta Connection, Frontier Airlines, US Airways Express or United Express, including service out of their hubs and focus cities.
IHS Inc. (IHS) is a provider and source of Critical Information and Insight in the global information market. The Company provides information-driven solutions to meet its customers’ needs, which include providing insight into global energy market movements, managing product lifecycles, meeting growing environmental challenges, assessing national or corporate security issues. IHS customers range from governments and multinational corporations to small companies and technical professionals, doing business in more than 180 countries. At the center of its Critical Information products and services is data obtained from public sources, third parties and its own databases. The Company transforms that data into Critical Information and Insight that is both useful to its customers and available where and when they need it by combining data with the Company?s and third-party technology to create graphical user interfaces, interactive search and navigation tools, and online databases.
Hewitt Associates, Inc. (Hewitt) is a global provider of human resource benefits, outsourcing and consulting services. The Company operates in three business segments: Benefits Outsourcing, Human Resource Business Process Outsourcing (HR BPO) and Consulting. Through these segments it helps clients develop, implement and deliver strategies and programs for human resources business process design, administration and technologies, as well as manage the human elements necessary to acquire, develop, motivate and retain the talent required to meet business objectives. In March 2008, Hewitt acquired New Bridge Street Consultants. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2008, it also acquired CSi, a specialist compensation consultancy and LCG, which provides an array of integrated disability, leave and absence-management solutions.
Old National Bancorp (Old National) is a financial holding company. The Company, through its wholly-owned banking subsidiary, provides range of services, including commercial and consumer loan and depository services, investment and brokerage services, lease financing and other traditional banking services. Through its non-bank affiliates, the Company provides services to supplement the banking business including fiduciary and wealth management services, insurance and other financial services. Old National Bank is its wholly owned banking subsidiary. It provides financial services primarily in Indiana, eastern and southeastern Illinois, and central and western Kentucky. The Company operates in two segments: community banking and treasury.
Assurant, Inc. (Assurant) is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, it is engaged in providing specialized insurance products and related services in North America and selected other international markets. Its four segments include Assurant Solutions, Assurant Specialty Property, Assurant Health and Assurant Employee Benefits. These segments provide debt protection administration, credit insurance, warranties and service contracts, pre-funded funeral insurance, creditor?placed homeowners insurance, manufactured housing homeowners insurance, individual health and small employer group health insurance, group dental insurance, group disability insurance and group life insurance. In October 2008, it announced that it has completed its acquisition of Signal Holdings LLC, a provider of wireless handset protection programs and repair services, from Trident II L.P. On September 26, 2008, it completed the acquisition of Warranty Management Group business from GE Consumer & Industrial.
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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.
Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation is a Canada-based exploration-stage company. The Company is engaged in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties, including the optioning out of properties for pre-production option payments and royalties on future gold production. All of the Company?s concessions are located in Tanzania. The Itetemia property is located in the Mwanza region of the Lake Victoria Archean Greenstone Belt, some 90 kilometers southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania. The Company?s Luhala property consists of six licenses totaling 75.76 square kilometers. The Kigosi property consists of 20 prospecting licenses. The Lunguya property consists of nine prospecting licenses. The Company?s Kanagele property consists of 11 prospecting licenses. The Company?s Tulawaka property consists of 11 prospecting licenses.
Noble Energy, Inc. (Noble Energy) is an independent energy company that has been engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development, production and marketing of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids (NGLs). The Company?s activities include geophysical and geological evaluation and exploratory drilling on properties, for which it has acquired exploration rights. Its properties consist primarily of interests in developed and undeveloped crude oil and natural gas leases and concessions. It also owns natural gas processing plants and natural gas gathering and other crude oil and natural gas related pipeline systems which are primarily used in the processing and transportation of its crude oil, natural gas and NGL production. The Company operates primarily in the Rocky Mountains, Mid-continent, and deepwater Gulf of Mexico areas in the United States, with international operations in offshore Israel, the North Sea and West Africa.
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MFS Intermediate Income Trust (the Fund) is a closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s investment objective is to seek high current income. The Fund maintains a portfolio that includes investments in short and intermediate-term United States Government, and foreign sovereign and high-grade securities. Its assets are primarily invested in investment-grade debt instruments. The Fund may invest its assets in United States and foreign securities, including emerging market securities. It may also invest in mortgage dollar rolls. Its portfolio includes non-United States Government bonds, high-grade corporate securities, mortgage-backed securities, United States Government agency securities, the United States Treasury securities, emerging market bonds, commercial mortgage-backed securities, residential mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities. The Fund’s investment advisor is Massachusetts Financial Services Company.