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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- WG, WILLBROS GRP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 17.125874
- SU, SUNCOR ENERGY INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 15.074671
- CHU, CHINA UNICOM LTD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 363.561218
- ARO, AEROPOSTALE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 9.264440
- SIGI, SELECTIVE INS GP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 53.364811
- AUY, YAMANA GOLD INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 145.119125
- TJX, T J X COS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 47.664700
- HCN, HEALTH CARE REIT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 49.511654
- SFY, SWIFT ERGY (HLDG Current Caprock Strength Rating: 19.959139
- BCR, BARD C R INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 345.886597
- OFIX, ORTHOFIX INTL NV Current Caprock Strength Rating: 27.007980
- LKQX, LKQ CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 233.941666
- SO, SOUTHERN CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 59.364277
- FORR, FORRESTER RESRCH Current Caprock Strength Rating: 25.737383
- NMO, NUVEEN MU MKT OPP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 12.084943
- NBR, NABORS INDS INC N Current Caprock Strength Rating: 24.269753
- FMC, F M C CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 349.872070
- TIP, ISHARES LEHMAN TI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 211.759079
- DCM, NTT DOCOMO ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 14.530607
- PTNR, PARTNER COMM ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 209.521347
Willbros Group, Inc. (Willbros) is an independent international contractor serving the oil, gas and power industries, government entities, and the refinery and petrochemical industries. Willbros operates its business in three segments: Upstream Oil & Gas, Downstream Oil & Gas, and Engineering. These segments operate primarily in the United States, Canada, and Oman. The Company provides engineering; construction; engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), and specialty services to industry and governmental entities worldwide, specializing in pipelines and associated facilities for onshore and coastal locations. For the downstream oil and gas markets, primarily refineries, the Company also provides turnaround services, tank services, heater services, construction services and safety services. It manufactures specialty items for refinery and petrochemical process units.
Suncor Energy Inc. (Suncor) is an integrated energy company focused on developing Canada?s Athabasca oil sands. The Company has three operating segments: oil sands, natural gas, and refining and marketing. The Company also invests in renewable energy opportunities. Suncor is a partner in four wind power projects and operates an ethanol plant. The Company also explores for, acquires, develops, produces and markets crude oil and natural gas, transports and refines crude oil and markets petroleum and petrochemical products. The Company also markets third party petroleum products. Suncor also carries on energy trading activities focused principally on buying and selling futures contracts and other derivative instruments based on the commodities it produces.
China Unicom (Hong Kong) Limited (Unicom), formerly China Unicom Limited, is an operator providing a range of telecommunications services, including mobile and fixed-line service, in China. On October 1, 2008, the Company completed the disposal of its code division multiple access (CDMA) business to China Telecom Corporation Limited (China Telecom). The Company?s wholly owned subsidiary, China United Network Communications Corporation Limited (CUCL) merged with China Netcom (Group) Company Limited (CNC China), a wholly owned subsidiary of China Netcom Group Corporation (Hong Kong) Limited (China Netcom), in January 2009. In addition, in January 2009, China United Network Communications Group Company Limited (Unicom Group), the Company?s parent company, merged with and absorbed China Network Communications Group Corporation (Netcom Group), the parent company of China Netcom.
Aeropostale, Inc. is a mall-based specialty retailer of casual apparel and accessories. The Company designs, markets and sells its own brand of merchandise principally targeting 14 to 17 year-old young women and young men. The Company also sells Aeropostale merchandise through its e-commerce Website, www.aeropostale.com. As of January 31, 2009, it operated 914 stores, consisting of 874 Aeropostale stores in 48 states and Puerto Rico, 29 Aeropostale stores in Canada, and 11 Jimmy?Z stores in 10 states. The Company locates its stores primarily in shopping malls, outlet centers and, to a much lesser degree, lifestyle and off-mall shopping centers. The Company has developed a new retail store concept called P.S. from Aeropostale, which will offer casual clothing and accessories focusing on elementary school children between the ages of seven and 12. It offers a focused collection of apparel, including graphic t-shirts, tops, bottoms, sweaters, jeans, outerwear and accessories.
Selective Insurance Group, Inc., through its subsidiaries, offers property and casualty insurance products and diversified insurance services and products. The Company operates three segments: Insurance Operations, which sells property and casualty insurance products and services primarily in 22 states in the Eastern and Midwestern United States; Investments, and Diversified Insurance Services, which provides human resource administration outsourcing (HR Outsourcing) products and services, and federal flood insurance administrative services (Flood).
Yamana Gold Inc. is a Canada-based gold producer engaged in gold mining and related activities, including exploration, extraction, processing and reclamation. It has significant properties involved in gold production, gold development, exploration and land positions throughout the Americas, including Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Central America. The Company is producing gold and other precious metals at intermediate company production levels in addition to significant copper production. During the year ended December 31, 2008, total production from all mines totaled approximately one million gold equivalent ounces. During 2008, its projects included Chapada Mine (Brazil), El Penon Mine (Chile), Gualcamayo Mine (Argentina), Jacobina Mine (Brazil), Minera Florida/Alhue Mine (Chile), Fazenda Brasileiro Mine (Brazil), Sao Vicente Mine (Brazil), Sao Francisco Mine (Brazil), San Andres Mine (Honduras), Ernesto/Pau-a-Pique (Brazil), Pilar (Brazil) and Mercedes (Mexico).
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.
Health Care REIT, Inc. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests in senior housing and health care real estate. It also provides a range of property management and development services. As of March 31, 2008, the Company had 633 properties located in 39 states. The Company?s primary property types include investment properties and medical office buildings. Investment properties are those, in which the Company do not participate in the management of the property and are primarily land, building, improvements and related rights that are leased to operators under long-term operating leases. The Company?s medical office building properties are leased to tenants under gross leases, modified gross leases or triple-net leases, to multiple tenants, and require a certain level of property management. The Company through its subsidiary, HCN Development Services Group, Inc. (DSG), develops specialty medical properties.
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.
C. R. Bard, Inc. (Bard) is engaged in the design, manufacture, packaging, distribution and sale of medical, surgical, diagnostic and patient care devices. The Company sells a range of products worldwide to hospitals, individual healthcare professionals, extended care facilities and alternate site facilities. Bard has four product group categories: vascular, urology, oncology and surgical specialties. On January 11, 2008, Bard acquired LifeStent family of stents from Edwards Lifesciences Corporation. On June 5, 2008, the Company acquired Specialized Health Products International, Inc.
Orthofix International N.V. (Orthofix) is medical device company offering a line of surgical and non-surgical products for the spine, orthopedics, sports medicine and vascular market sectors. Its products are designed to address the lifelong bone-and-joint health needs of patients of all ages, and to help them achieve a more active and mobile lifestyle. Orthofix?s business is divided into four segments: Orthofix Domestic (Domestic), Blackstone, Breg, and Orthofix International (International). Domestic consists of operations of its subsidiary Orthofix Inc. Blackstone specializes in the design, development and marketing of spinal implant and related human cellular, and tissue based products (HCT/P) through Blackstone Medical, Inc. (Blackstone). Breg designs, manufactures and distributes orthopedic products for post-operative reconstruction and rehabilitative patient use and sells those Sports Medicine products.
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).
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.
Forrester Research, Inc. is an independent research company that provides advice to global companies in business and technology. The Company’s products and services are targeted to 19 specific roles, including senior management, business strategists, and marketing and information technology professionals. Research serves as the foundation for all the Company?s offerings and consists primarily of annual memberships to its syndicated research offering RoleView, which provides access to its core research on a range of business and technology issues. In addition to RoleView, the Company also provides a portfolio of products and services that allow its clients to interact directly with analysts and their peers and explore in detail the issues and topics covered by RoleView on a role and client-specific basis. In July 2008, the Company acquired JupiterResearch, LLC, and its parent company, JUPR Holdings, Inc.
Nuveen California Performance Plus Municipal Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a closed-end exchange traded fund. The Fund’s primary investment objective is to provide current income exempt from both regular federal and California income tax. The Fund invests substantially all of its assets in a diversified portfolio of investment-grade tax-exempt California municipal obligations rated within the four highest grades (Baa/BBB or better). The Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in unrated California municipal obligations, considered to be of comparable quality. The Fund may employ financial futures and options. It is authorized to invest in inverse floating-rate securities, futures contracts and zero coupon securities. The Fund?s investment adviser is Nuveen Asset Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc.
Nabors Industries Limited (Nabors) is a global land drilling contractor, approximately 528 actively marketed land drilling rigs. The Company conducts oil, gas and geothermal land drilling operations in the United States Lower 48 states, Alaska, Canada, South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, the Middle East, the Far East, Russia and Africa. Nabors is engaged in the land well-servicing and contracting in the United States and Canada. The Company market approximately 592 land workover and well-servicing rigs in the United States, primarily in the southwestern and western United States, and actively market approximately 171 land workover and well-servicing rigs in Canada. Nabors is a provider of offshore platform workover and drilling rigs, and actively markets 37 platform rigs, 13 jack-up units and three barge rigs in the United States and multiple international markets. The Company has a 51% ownership interest in a joint venture in Saudi Arabia.
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.
NTT DoCoMo, Inc. is a mobile telecommunication services provider belonging to NTT group, whose parent company is Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT). The Company focuses on the development of mobile multimedia services, such as i-mode service (Internet access service for mobile terminals). In addition to offering music and video services and mobile credit payment services, the Company offer services and functions to match customers? lifestyles and needs and providing services that make use of the characteristics of mobile phones, such as services tailored to use scenarios through collaboration with mobile phones and customer lifestyle support tools. The Company also provide handsets adapted for this range of services and contents, offering a handset lineup that has been tailored to customer values and lifestyles. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2009 (fiscal 2008), the total number of subscriptions to the cellular services was approximately 540.6 million.
Partner Communications Company Ltd. (Partner) is an Israeli mobile telephone network operator providing global system for mobile (GSM). The Company markets its services under the Orange brand. As of December 31, 2008, the Company?s GSM network covered approximately 98% of the Israeli population. The Company operates its GSM network in the 900 megahertz and 1800 megahertz bands. Its GSM services include enhanced GSM services, as well as value-added services and products, such as roaming, voice mail, voice messaging, color picture messaging, ringtone and game downloads, information services and General Packet Radio Services (GPRS), which enables the packet transfer of data.