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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- NYT, N Y TIMES CL A Current Caprock Strength Rating: 10.988705
- MMT, M F S MULTIMKT IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 11.363444
- PVA, PENN VIRGINIA CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 53.993431
- GFIG, GFI GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 104.983421
- PHI, PHILIPPINE LG DS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 404.734253
- BXS, BANCORPSOUTH INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.531313
- MATK, MARTEK BIOSCIENCE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 17.617764
- MBT, MOBILE TELSYS OJS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 94.943077
- UST, U S T INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 41.726654
- ZOLL, ZOLL MEDICAL CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 15.852735
- ACG, ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 49.761440
- CFFN, CAPITOL FEDERAL F Current Caprock Strength Rating: 69.011314
- CHL, CHINA MOBILE LIMI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 204.887497
- OLN, OLIN CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 16.668947
- OXY, OCCIDENTAL PET Current Caprock Strength Rating: 164.502548
- ORA, ORMAT TECHNOLOGIE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 9.656561
- PX, PRAXAIR INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 103.292290
- XTXI, CROSSTEX ENERGY I Current Caprock Strength Rating: 60.320435
- CHL, CHINA MOBILE LIMI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 204.887497
- OLN, OLIN CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 16.668947
The New York Times Company is a diversified media company, including newspapers, Internet businesses, a radio station, investments in paper mills and other investments. The Company is organized in two segments: News Media Group and the About Group. Additionally, the Company owns equity interests in a Canadian newsprint company, a supercalendered paper manufacturing partnership in Maine, and Metro Boston LLC, which publishes a free daily newspaper in the greater Boston area. In February 2008, it acquired a 25% ownership interest in quadrantONE LLC, an online advertising network that sells bundled premium, targeted display advertising onto local newspaper and other Websites. The Websites of the New England and Regional Media Groups participate in this network. The Company also owns a 17.75% interest in New England Sports Ventures, LLC, which owns the Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park and adjacent real estate, approximately 80% of New England Sports Network and 50% of Roush Fenway Racing.
MFS Multimarket Income Trust (the Trust) is a closed-end fund and maintains a portfolio that includes investments in investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds, United States Government securities, and international investment-grade and emerging markets debt securities. The Trust’s investment objective is to seek high current income, but may also consider capital appreciation. The Fund?s portfolio includes high yield corporates, high grade corporates, non-United States Government bonds, emerging markets bonds, mortgage-backed securities, United States Treasury securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities, floating rate loans, asset-backed securities, United States Government agencies, residential mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations. The Trust is managed by Massachusetts Financial Services Company (MFS).
Penn Virginia Corporation is an independent oil and gas company primarily engaged in the development, exploration and production of natural gas and oil in various domestic onshore regions including East Texas, the Mid-Continent, Appalachia, Mississippi and the Gulf Coast. The Company also indirectly owns partner interests in Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P. (PVR). The Company?s ownership interests in PVR are held principally through its general partner interest and its 77% limited partner interest in Penn Virginia GP Holdings, L.P. (PVG). The Company is engaged in three business segments: oil and gas, coal and natural resource management and natural gas midstream. The Company operates its oil and gas segment. PVR operates the coal and natural resource management and natural gas midstream segments.
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.
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.
BancorpSouth, Inc., incorporated in 1982, is a financial holding company for its principal subsidiary, BancorpSouth Bank (the Bank). The Company conducts commercial banking and financial services operations through 313 offices in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Missouri. The Bank and its subsidiaries provide a range of financial services to individuals and small-to-medium size businesses. The Bank operates investment services, credit insurance and insurance agency subsidiaries, which engage in investment brokerage services and sales of other insurance products. The Bank?s trust department offers a range of services, including personal trust and estate services, employee benefit accounts and plans, including individual retirement accounts, and limited corporate trust functions.
Martek Biosciences Corporation (Martek) develops omega-3 docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) products. The Company produces life?sDHA, a vegetarian source of the omega-3 fatty acid DHA, for use in infant formula, pregnancy and nursing products, foods and beverages, dietary supplements and animal feed, and life?sARS, a vegetarian source of the omega-6 fatty acid, arachidonic acid (ARA) for use in infant formula. The Company has developed production methods for two fatty acids, DHA and ARA. It sells oils containing these fatty acids under the names life?sDHA, DHASCO, Neuromins, ARASCO and life?sARA. Martek derives DHA from microalgae and ARA from fungi, using its own processes. The Company has entered into license agreements with 30 infant formula manufacturers. Its licensees include infant formula manufacturers, such as Mead Johnson Nutritionals, Nestle, Abbott Laboratories, Wyeth and Danone, each of whom is selling infant formula supplemented with Martek?s nutritional oils.
Mobile TeleSystems OJSC is a provider of mobile cellular communications services in Russia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Armenia and Ukraine. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company had a subscriber base of 91.33 million (64.63 million in Russia, 18.12 million in Ukraine, 5.65 million in Uzbekistan, 0.93 million in Turkmenistan and 2.02 million in Armenia). In addition to standard voice services, the Company offers its subscribers value added services, including voice mail, short message service (SMS), general packet radio service (GPRS), augmented by enhanced data rates for GSM evolution (EDGE), high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA), and various SMS- and GPRS/EDGE/HSDPA-based information and entertainment services (including multi media message service (MMS)). It also offers its subscribers the ability to roam automatically throughout Europe and in much of the rest of the world.
ZOLL Medical Corporation (ZOLL) develops technologies and software that help clinicians, emergency medical services (EMS) personnel and lay rescuers advance the practice of resuscitation. ZOLL’s Line of resuscitation products include professional defibrillators, automated external defibrillator (AED), AutoPulse Non-invasive Cardiac Support Pump, documentation and information management, wearable automatic defibrillator, fluid replacement and disposable electrodes. The Company also designs and markets software that automates the documentation, and management of both clinical and non-clinical information. On May 22, 2007, the Company acquired the fire records management software business and related assets from BIO-key International, Inc. On September 18, 2007, the Company acquired certain assets from Radiant Medical, Inc., a private medical technology company developing endovascular temperature therapy products.
AllianceBernstein Income Fund Inc. (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to provide high current income consistent with the preservation of capital. The Fund normally invests at least 80% of its net assets in income-producing securities. The Fund normally invests at least 65% of its total assets in securities issued or guaranteed by the United States Government, its agencies or instrumentalities, and repurchase agreements pertaining to the United States Government securities. The Fund may also invest up to 35% of its total assets in other fixed-income securities, including those issued by non-governmental issuers in the United States and those issued by foreign governments. The Fund may invest up to 35% of its net assets in below-investment grade securities. In addition, the Fund may utilize other investment instruments, including options, swaps, forwards and futures. The Fund?s investment advisor is AllianceBernstein L.P.
Capitol Federal Financial is a federally chartered mid-tier mutual holding company that operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Capitol Federal Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a federally chartered and insured savings bank headquartered in Topeka, Kansas. The Bank is majority-owned by Capitol Federal Savings Bank MHC, a federally chartered mutual holding company. The Bank attracts retail deposits from the general public and invests those funds primarily in permanent loans secured by first mortgages on owner-occupied, one- to four-family (single-family) residences. It also originates consumer loans, loans secured by first mortgages on non-owner-occupied one- to four-family residences, permanent and construction loans secured by one- to four-family residences, commercial real estate loans and multi-family real estate loans. The Bank has 30 traditional and nine in-store banking offices.
China Mobile Limited,is an investment holding company.The Company?s principal activity is providing mobile telecommunications and related services in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and directly administered municipalities in Mainland China and Hong Kong. The Company?s global system for mobile communications (GSM), global roaming services covered 237 countries and regions and its general packet radio service (GPRS) roaming services covered 179 countries and regions. As of December 31, 2008, the total number of subscribers reached 457 million. The Company?s businesses can be primarily divided into voice business and new businesses.
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.
Occidental Petroleum Corporation (Occidental) conducts its operations, through various oil and gas, chemical, midstream, marketing and other subsidiaries, and affiliates. The Company operates in three business segments: oil and gas segment, chemical segment, and midstream, marketing and other segment. The oil and gas segment explores for, develops, produces and markets crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGLs), condensate and natural gas. The chemical segment (OxyChem) manufactures and markets basic chemicals, vinyls and performance chemicals. The midstream, marketing and other segment (midstream and marketing) gathers, treats, processes, transports, stores, trades and markets crude oil, natural gas, NGLs, condensate and carbon dioxide (CO2) and generates and markets power. In February 2008, Occidental purchased from Plains a 50% interest in oil and gas properties in the Permian Basin and western Colorado.
Ormat Technologies, Inc. (Ormat) is engaged in the geothermal and recovered energy power business. The Company designs, develops, builds, owns and operates geothermal recovered energy-based power plants, usually using equipment that it designs and manufactures. Ormat conducts its business activities in two business segments: Electricity and Products. In the Electricity Segment, the Company develops, builds, owns and operates geothermal and recovered energy-based power plants in the United States and geothermal power plants in other countries around the world, and sells the electricity generated by these plants. In the Products Segment, Ormat designs, manufactures and sells equipment for geothermal and recovered energy-based electricity generation, remote power units and other power generating units, and provides services relating to the engineering, procurement, construction, operation and maintenance of geothermal and recovered energy power plants.
Praxair, Inc. (Praxair) is an industrial gas supplier in North and South America. Praxair’s primary products for its industrial gases business are atmospheric gases (oxygen, nitrogen, argon, rare gases) and process gases (carbon dioxide, helium, hydrogen, electronic gases, specialty gases, acetylene). The Company also designs, engineers, and builds equipment that produces industrial gases for internal use and external sale. The Company’s surface technologies segment, operated through Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc., supplies wear-resistant and high-temperature corrosion-resistant metallic and ceramic coatings and powders. Praxair serves approximately 25 industries, such as healthcare and petroleum refining; computer-chip manufacturing and beverage carbonation; fiber-optics and steel making, and aerospace, chemicals and water treatment. During the year ended December 31, 2008, Praxair acquired Kirk Welding Supply, Inc., an independent packaged gas distributor.
Crosstex Energy, Inc. is engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the gathering, transmission, treating, processing and marketing of natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL). The Company?s assets consists of partnership interests in Crosstex Energy, L.P. (Partnership) engaged in the gathering, transmission, treating, processing and marketing of natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGL). The Partnership has two operating segments, Midstream and Treating. The Midstream division focuses on the gathering, processing, transmission and marketing of natural gas and NGLs, while the Treating division focuses on the removal of impurities from natural gas to meet pipeline specifications. Its subsidiaries include LIG Acquisition, Crosstex Pipeline Partners, Graco Operations, Cardinal Gas Services and Hanover Amine Treating.
China Mobile Limited,is an investment holding company.The Company?s principal activity is providing mobile telecommunications and related services in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and directly administered municipalities in Mainland China and Hong Kong. The Company?s global system for mobile communications (GSM), global roaming services covered 237 countries and regions and its general packet radio service (GPRS) roaming services covered 179 countries and regions. As of December 31, 2008, the total number of subscribers reached 457 million. The Company?s businesses can be primarily divided into voice business and new businesses.
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.