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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- WIW, WESTERN/CLAYMR FD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 190.254791
- LIFC, LIFECELL CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 39.990746
- JBHT, JB HUNT TRANS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 26.248028
- OFIX, ORTHOFIX INTL NV Current Caprock Strength Rating: 27.007980
- DUC, DUFF PHELPS UTL B Current Caprock Strength Rating: 26.486977
- R, RYDER SYSTEM INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 121.216743
- BAS, BASIC ENERGY SRVC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 11.607390
- BUCY, BUCYRUS INTL CL A Current Caprock Strength Rating: 196.695038
- CLB, CORE LABS NV Current Caprock Strength Rating: 114.552124
- GLDN, GOLDEN TELECOM IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 330.825806
- WTI, W&T OFFSHORE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 120.783859
- GIM, TEMPLETON GLOBAL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 100.861855
- LUK, LEUCADIA NATL CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 110.056374
- NGPC, NGP CAPITAL RESOU Current Caprock Strength Rating: 23.226631
- IDXX, IDEXX LABS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.505745
- HSC, HARSCO CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 38.473587
- CLC, CLARCOR INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.751421
- WLT, WALTER INDS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 203.552536
- NWN, NORTHWEST NAT GAS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 29.835892
- ZTR, ZWEIG TOTL RETURN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 21.609512
Western Asset/Claymore Inflation-Linked Opportunities & Income Fund (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s primary investment objective is to provide current income. Its secondary objective is capital appreciation. The Fund seeks to invest at least 80% of its total managed assets in inflation-linked securities. It will invest not more that 40% of its total managed assets in below investment-grade securities. It may invest up to 100% of its total managed assets in non-United States dollar investments. It may invest up to 20% of the portfolio in debt instruments of emerging markets issuers that are not inflation-linked securities. Reverse repurchase agreements and other forms of leverage will not exceed 38% of the Fund?s total managed assets. The Fund?s investment advisor is Claymore Advisors, LLC. Its investment manager is Western Asset Management Company.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (JBHT), incorporated on August 10, 1961, is a holding company. The Company provides a range of transportation services to customers throughout the continental United States, Canada and Mexico. Through its subsidiaries, the Company offers transportation of full-load freight, which it directly transports in multi-modal arrangements utilizing Company-owned revenue equipment and Company drivers, independent contractors, or third parties. JBHT also provides customized freight movement, revenue equipment, labor and systems services that are tailored to meet individual customers? requirements and involve long-term contracts. JBHT operates in four business segments: intermodal (JBI), dedicated contract services (DCS), full-load dry-van (JBT) and integrated capacity solutions (ICS).
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.
Duff & Phelps Utility and Corporate Bond Trust Inc. (the Fund) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s investment objective is to seek high current income consistent with investing in securities of investment-grade quality. The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing substantially all of its assets in a portfolio of Utility Income Securities, Corporate Income Securities, Mortgage-Backed Securities and Asset-Backed Securities. Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co., a subsidiary of Virtus Investment Partners Inc., serves as the Fund?s investment advisor.
Ryder System, Inc. (Ryder) is a provider of transportation and supply chain management solutions. The Company operates in three segments: Fleet Management Solutions (FMS), which provides full-service leasing, contract maintenance, contract-related maintenance and commercial rental of trucks, tractors and trailers to customers principally in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom; Supply Chain Solutions (SCS), which provides supply chain solutions, including distribution and transportation services throughout North America, and in Europe, South America and Asia, and Dedicated Contract Carriage (DCC), which provides vehicles and drivers as part of a dedicated transportation solution in the United States. On February 2, 2009, it acquired the assets of Edart Leasing LLC (Edart), which included Edart?s fleet of approximately 1,600 vehicles.
Basic Energy Services, Inc. provides a range of well site services to oil and gas drilling and producing companies. The Company operates in four business segments: well servicing, fluid services, completion and remedial services, and contract drilling. Well servicing segment encompasses a range of services performed with a mobile well servicing rig. Through the fluid services segment, it provides, transports, stores and disposes of a variety of fluids, and provides well site construction and maintenance services. The completion and remedial services segment provides pressure pumping services focused on cementing, acidizing and fracturing services. Contract drilling segment operates nine drilling rigs and related equipment. On January 28, 2008, it acquired Xterra Fishing and Rental Tools Co. On September 26, 2008, it acquired substantially all of the operating assets of Azurite Services Company, Inc., Azurite Leasing Company, LLC and Freestone Disposal, L.P. (collectively, Azurite).
Bucyrus International, Inc. designs, manufactures mining equipment for the extraction of coal, copper, oil sands, iron ore and other minerals in mining centers throughout the world. In addition to the manufacture of original equipment, the Company also provides the aftermarket replacement parts and service for equipment. The Company operates in two business segments: surface mining and underground mining. As of December 31, 2008, all of the Company?s products and services were marketed under a single name, Bucyrus. The Company?s manufacturing facilities include Australia, China, Germany, Poland and the United States, and service and sales centers include Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, England, India, Mexico, Peru, Russia, South Africa and the United States. In December 2008, the Company announced that it has completed the acquisition of OKD, Bastro a.s. (Bastro). In October 2008, it acquired Appalachian Mine Sales, Inc., a belt conveyor manufacturer.
Core Laboratories N.V. (Core Lab) is a provider of reservoir description, production enhancement and reservoir management services to the oil and gas industry. Core Lab has over 70 offices in more than 50 countries. The Company derives its revenues from services and product sales to clients primarily in the oil and gas industry. Its reservoir optimization services and technologies are interrelated and are organized into three complementary segments: Reservoir Description, which encompasses the characterization of petroleum reservoir rock, fluid and gas samples; Production Enhancement, which includes products and services relating to reservoir well completions, perforations, stimulations and production, and Reservoir Management, which combines and integrates information from reservoir description and production enhancement services. In July 2008, it acquired Catoni Persa, a petroleum testing laboratory specializing in the characterization of crude oil and its derivative products.
W&T Offshore, Inc. (W&T) is an independent oil and natural gas producer engaged in the acquisition, exploitation, exploration and development of oil and natural gas properties in the Gulf of Mexico. The Company has acquired rights to develop and exploit new prospects, and has acquired existing oil and natural gas properties in both the deepwater and the deep shelf, while at the same time continuing its focus on the conventional shelf. As of December 31, 2008, it had four fields of major significance, which were Ship Shoal 349 field, Main Pass 108 field, Brazos A-133 field and East Cameron 321 field. As of December 31, 2008, the Company had interests in leases covering approximately 1.4 million gross acres (0.8 million net acres) spanning across the outer continental shelf off the coasts of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama. On January 29, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of the Ship Shoal 349 field, from Apache Corporation.
Templeton Global Income Fund (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end investment company. The Fund seeks current income, with a secondary objective of capital appreciation. The Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in income-producing securities, including debt securities of United States and foreign issuers, including emerging markets. The Fund also has the ability to invest in investment-grade and sub-investment-grade sovereign debt. Its portfolio includes government bonds, municipal bonds and short-term investments. The Fund may purchase or write options. The Fund may invest in the Franklin Institutional Fiduciary Trust Money Market Portfolio (Sweep Money Fund), an open-end investment company managed by the Fund?s investment adviser. The Fund?s investment adviser is Franklin Advisers, Inc.
Leucadia National Corporation (Leucadia) is a diversified holding company engaged in a variety of businesses, including manufacturing, telecommunications, property management and services, gaming entertainment, real estate activities, medical product development and winery operations. The Company also owns equity interests in operating businesses and investment partnerships, including a broker-dealer engaged in making markets and trading of high yield and special situation securities, land-based contract oil and gas drilling, real estate activities and development of a copper mine in Spain. The Company?s operating segments include Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Property Management and Services, Gaming Entertainment, Domestic Real Estate, Winery and Medical Product Development. On October 1, 2008, STi Prepaid, LLC (STi Prepaid) completed the acquisition of Sprint. As of December 31, 2008, the Company had acquired approximately 25% interest in AmeriCredit Corp. (ACF).
NGP Capital Resources Company is a financial services company established to invest primarily in debt securities of small and mid-size private energy companies. The Company?s investment objective is to generate both current income and capital appreciation primarily through debt investments with certain equity components. It is a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company (BDC) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the 1940 Act). A key focus area for its targeted investments in the energy industry is domestic upstream businesses that produce, develop, acquire and explore for oil and natural gas. The Company also evaluates investment opportunities in such businesses as coal, power, electricity, energy services and alternative energy.
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (IDEXX) develops, manufactures and distributes products, and provides services primarily for the veterinary, and the food and water testing markets. IDEXX?s primary products and services include point-of-care veterinary diagnostic products, comprising rapid assays and instruments and consumables; laboratory and consulting services used by veterinarians; information products and services, and digital radiography systems used by veterinarians, and point-of-care electrolytes and blood gas analyzers used in the human medical diagnostics market. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company operated primarily through three business segments: products and services for the veterinary market, which it refers to as Companion Animal Group (CAG); water quality products (Water), and products for production animal health, which it refers to as the Production Animal Segment (PAS).
Harsco Corporation is a diversified, multinational provider of industrial services and engineered products. The Company?s operations fall into three segments: Harsco Infrastructure, Harsco Metals and all other category, labeled Harsco Minerals & Rail. The Harsco Infrastructure segment includes the Company’s SGB Group Plc, Hunnebeck Group GmbH and Patent Construction Systems Divisions. The Harsco Metals segment is a provider of onsite, outsourced services to the global metals industries. The All Other Category includes the Excell Minerals, Reed Minerals, Harsco Rail, IKG Industries, Air-X-Changers and Patterson-Kelley Divisions. In April 2008, the Company acquired Sovereign Access Services Limited, a United Kingdom-based provider of mastclimber work platform rental equipment. In March 2008, the Company acquired Romania-based Baviera S.R.L., a distributor of formwork and scaffolding products in Romania. In February 2008, the Company acquired Northern Ireland-based Buckley Scaffolding.
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.
Walter Energy, Inc. (Walter Energy), formerly Walter Industries, Inc., is a producer and exporter of premium United States metallurgical coal for the global steel industry. The Company also produces steam coal and industrial coal, metallurgical coke and coal bed methane gas. The Company, through its operating segments, offers products and services, including coal and natural gas, metallurgical coke, mortgage financing and home construction. Its segments include Natural Resources, Sloss, Financing, Homebuilding and Other. The Natural Resources segment consists primarily of Jim Walter Resources, Inc., Tuscaloosa Resources, Inc., Taft Coal Sales & Associates and United Land Corporation. The Financing segment includes Walter Mortgage Company, services non-conforming instalment notes and loans that are secured by mortgages and liens. The Homebuilding segment includes Jim Walter Homes, Inc., which is an on-your-lot homebuilder. On September 2, 2008, it acquired Taft Coal Sales & Associates.
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.
The Zweig Total Return Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a closed-end, diversified management investment company. The Fund’s objective is to seek the highest total return, consisting of capital appreciation and current income, consistent with the preservation of capital. The fund will normally invest up to 50% of its total assets in the high quality fixed-income securities, and up to 50% of its total assets in equity securities. It invests in sectors, such as financials, consumer staples, industrials, information technology and healthcare. The Fund?s investment adviser is Zweig Advisers, LLC.