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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- MQY, BLACKROCK MUNIYIE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 35.532555
- BTI, BRITISH AMER TOB Current Caprock Strength Rating: 195.369827
- XTXI, CROSSTEX ENERGY I Current Caprock Strength Rating: 60.320435
- PIF, INSURD MUNI INCM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 16.223713
- AGP, AMERIGROUP CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 225.436966
- GLD, STREETTRACKS GOLD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 354.687714
- FPL, F P L GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.367302
- ANF, ABERCROMBIE & FIT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 22.515133
- WGL, WGL HOLDINGS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 23.206200
- PG, PROCTER GAMBLE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 53.672508
- OII, OCEANEERING INTL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 67.048775
- DUK, DUKE ENERGY CP HL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 38.342281
- MSB, MESABI TRUST CTF Current Caprock Strength Rating: 143.796799
- BLKB, BLACKBAUD INC. Current Caprock Strength Rating: 22.222506
- HXM, DESARROLLADORA HO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1.585304
- MQY, BLACKROCK MUNIYIE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 35.532555
- PVTB, PRIVATEBANCORP IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 41.539383
- CSTR, COINSTAR INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 25.980988
- AF, ASTORIA FINL CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 44.930077
- WIA, WESTERN ASSET/CLA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 144.874588
BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to provide a high level of current income exempt from federal income taxes by investing primarily in a portfolio of long-term, high-grade municipal obligations, the interest on which is exempt from federal income taxes. It may invest in zero-coupon bonds. The Fund invests in sectors, such as transportation, utilities, health, tobacco, corporate, housing and education. The Fund?s investment advisor is BlackRock Advisors, LLC, an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. Its sub-advisor is BlackRock Investment Management, LLC, an affiliate of BlackRock Advisors, LLC.
British American Tobacco plc is a holding company that owns, directly or indirectly, investments in the numerous companies constituting the British American Tobacco Group of companies. The Company is an international tobacco company, with its brands sold in over 180 markets. Its four Global Drive Brands include Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike and Pall Mall. The Company operates in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, and America-Pacific. On June 24, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of the cigarette business assets of Tekel, a Turkish state-owned tobacco company. On July 2, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of the cigarette and snus businesses of Skandinavisk Tobakskompagni (ST). In June 2009, the Company acquired an 85% stake in Indonesia’s cigarette maker, PT Bentoel Internasional Investama Tbk.
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.
Insured Municipal Income Fund Inc. (the Fund) is a closed-end diversified management investment company. The FundG??s investment objective is to achieve a high-level of current income that is exempt from federal income tax, consistent with the preservation of capital. In the normal course of business the Fund may enter into contracts that contain a variety of representations or that provide indemnification for certain liabilities. UBS Global Asset Management (Americas) Inc. (UBS Global AM) serves as investment advisor and administrator of the Fund. UBS Global AM is an indirect wholly owned asset management subsidiary of UBS AG, an internationally diversified organization with headquarters in Zurich and Basel, Switzerland, and operations in areas of the financial services industry.
AMERIGROUP Corporation is a multi-state managed healthcare company focused on serving people, who receive healthcare benefits through publicly sponsored programs, including Medicaid, Children?s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Medicaid expansion programs and Medicare Advantage. The Company designs its programs to address the particular needs of its members, for whom AMERIGROUP Corporation facilitates access to healthcare benefits pursuant to agreements with the applicable state and Federal governments. The Company combines medical, social and behavioral health services to help its members obtain healthcare in an efficient manner. As of December 31, 2008, AMERIGROUP Corporation provided an array of products to approximately 1,579,000 members in Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. On February 1, 2009, it commenced operations serving approximately 50,000 Medicaid and CHIP eligible members in Nevada.
FPL Group, Inc. (FPL Group) is a provider of electricity-related services. The Company has two principal operating subsidiaries, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) and NextEra Energy Resources. FPL is a rate-regulated utility engaged primarily in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy. NextEra Energy Resources is the Company?s competitive energy subsidiary, which produces the majority of its electricity from clean and renewable fuels. FPL Group Capital Inc. (FPL Group Capital), a wholly owned subsidiary of FPL Group, holds the capital stock of, or has equity interests in, FPL Group’s operating subsidiaries, other than FPL, and provides funding for those subsidiaries, including NextEra Energy Resources. FPL FiberNet, LLC (FPL FiberNet), a wholly subsidiary of the Company, provides fiber-optic services to FPL, telecommunications companies and other customers throughout Florida.
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (A&F), through its subsidiaries, is a specialty retailer that operates stores and Websites. The Company sells casual sportswear apparel, including knit and woven shirts, graphic t-shirts, fleece, jeans and woven pants, shorts, sweaters, outerwear, personal care products and accessories for men, women and kids under the Abercrombie & Fitch, abercrombie, Hollister and RUEHL brands. In addition, the Company operates stores and a Website offering bras, underwear, personal care products, sleepwear and at-home products for women under the Gilly Hicks brand. As of January 31, 2009, the Company operated 1,125 stores in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The operating segments of the Company include Abercrombie & Fitch, abercrombie, Hollister, RUEHL and Gilly Hicks.
WGL Holdings, Inc. (WGL Holdings) is a holding company that was established to own subsidiaries that sell and deliver natural gas and provide a variety of energy-related products and services to customers primarily in the District of Columbia, and the surrounding metropolitan areas in Maryland and Virginia. The Company owns all of the shares of common stock of Washington Gas Resources Corporation (Washington Gas Resources), Hampshire Gas Company (Hampshire) and Crab Run Gas Company (Crab Run). Washington Gas Resources owns three unregulated subsidiaries that include Washington Gas Energy Services, Inc. (WGEServices), Washington Gas Energy Systems, Inc. (WGESystems) and Washington Gas Credit Corporation (Credit Corp.). It operates in three business segments: regulated utility segment, retail energy-marketing segment, and the design-build energy systems segment.
The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is focused on providing branded consumer packaged goods. The Company?s products are sold in over 180 countries worldwide primarily through mass merchandisers, grocery stores, membership club stores, drug stores and in high-frequency stores, the neighborhood stores, which serve consumers in developing markets. As of June 30, 2009, the Company was organized into three Global Business Units: Beauty; Health and Well-Being, and Household Care. The Company had six business segments under United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP): Beauty; Grooming; Health Care; Snacks and Pet Care; Fabric Care and Home Care, and Baby Care and Family Care. In August 2009, AnimalScan, LLC announced that it has acquired Iams Pet Imaging, LLC from The Procter & Gamble Company and ProScan Imaging. In November 2008, the Company completed the divestiture of its Coffee business through the merger of its Folgers coffee subsidiary into The J.M. Smucker Company.
Oceaneering International, Inc. a global oilfield provider of engineered services and products primarily to the offshore oil and gas industry, with a focus on deepwater applications. Through the use of its applied technology, the Company also serves the defense and aerospace industries. The Company?s business segments are contained within two businesses: services and products provided to the oil and gas industry (Oil and Gas) and all other services and products (Advanced Technologies). Its five business segments within the Oil and Gas business are Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), Subsea Products, Subsea Projects, Inspection and Mobile Offshore Production Systems. The services and products provided to the oil and gas industry include ROVs, built-to-order specialty hardware, engineering and project management, subsea intervention services, non-destructive testing and inspection, manned diving and mobile offshore production systems. In March 2008, the Company acquired GTO Subsea AS.
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. In June 2009, the Company’s affiliate acquired Aguaytia Energy, LLC from The Maple Gas Development Corporation, a partially owned subsidiary of Maple Energy plc.
Mesabi Trust (the Trust) conserves and protects the Trust Estate, and collects and distributes the income and proceeds there from to the Trust’s certificate holders. The Agreement of Trust prohibits the Trust from engaging in any business. The lessee/operator of Mesabi Trust’s mineral interests is Northshore Mining Corporation (NMC). The assets of Mesabi Trust consist of two different interests in certain properties in the Mesabi Iron Range: Mesabi Trust’s interest as assignor in the Amended Assignment of Peters Lease and the Amended Assignment of Cloquet Lease, which together cover properties aggregating approximately 9,750 contiguous acres in St. Louis County, Minnesota (the Peters and Cloquet Lease Lands), and Mesabi Trust’s ownership of the entire beneficial interest in the Mesabi Land Trust, which has a 20% interest as fee owner in the Peters Lease Lands and a 100% fee ownership in certain non-mineral-bearing lands adjacent to the Peters and Cloquet Lease Lands (the Trust Estate).
Blackbaud, Inc. is a global provider of software and related services designed specifically for non-profit organizations. It offers an operational platform through core software applications, plus an additional 40 extended applications to provide distinct, add-on functionality tailored to meet the specific needs of its diverse customer base. The Company also offers a suite of analytical tools and related services that enable non-profit organizations to extract, aggregate and analyze data to make operational decisions. The Company operates in six segments: license fees, maintenance fees, subscription fees, consulting and education services, analytic services, and others. Its customers operate in multiple verticals within the non-profit market, including religion, education, foundations, health and human services, arts and cultural, public and societal benefits, environment and animal welfare, and international and foreign affairs. In April 2009, Blackbaud, Inc. acquired RLC CCT.
Homex Development Corp. is a home-development company engaged in the development, construction and sale of affordable entry-level, middle-income and upper-income housing in Mexico. To carry out its activities, the Company engages in land acquisition, obtaining permits and licenses, designing, constructing, marketing and selling homes, obtaining individual financing for its customers and developing communities for the housing needs in Mexico. Additionally, the Company participates in the market, where mortgage financing is provided by commercial banks and cash transactions.
BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to provide a high level of current income exempt from federal income taxes by investing primarily in a portfolio of long-term, high-grade municipal obligations, the interest on which is exempt from federal income taxes. It may invest in zero-coupon bonds. The Fund invests in sectors, such as transportation, utilities, health, tobacco, corporate, housing and education. The Fund?s investment advisor is BlackRock Advisors, LLC, an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. Its sub-advisor is BlackRock Investment Management, LLC, an affiliate of BlackRock Advisors, LLC.
PrivateBancorp, Inc. (PrivateBancorp) is a bank holding company. PrivateBancorp, through its PrivateBank subsidiaries (the Bank), provides business and personal financial services to middle-market commercial and commercial real estate companies, as well as business owners, executives, entrepreneurs and wealthy families. The Banks offers a suite of credit and non-credit solutions, including lending, treasury management, investment products, capital markets products and wealth management and trust services. The clients also have access to mortgage loans offered through The PrivateBank Mortgage Company, a subsidiary of PrivateBancorp. In December 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of Midwest Financial Services, Inc (MFS).
Coinstar, Inc. (Coinstar) is a multi-national company offering a range of 4th Wall solutions for retailers? storefronts. The Company?s services consist of self-service coin counting; self-service digital versatile disc (DVD) kiosks where consumers can rent or purchase movies; entertainment services, such as skill-crane machines, bulk vending machines and kiddie rides, money transfer services, and electronic payment (e-payment) services, such as stored value cards, payroll cards, prepaid debit cards and prepaid wireless products via point-of-sale terminals and stored value kiosks. The Company operates in four segments: Coin and Entertainment services, DVD services, Money Transfer services and E-payment Services. On January 1, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of GroupEx Financial Corporation, JRJ Express Inc. and Kimeco, LLC (collectively, GroupEx).
Astoria Financial Corporation is the unitary savings and loan association holding company of Astoria Federal Savings and Loan Association, and its consolidated subsidiaries (collectively referred to as Astoria Federal). Astoria Federal?s primary business is attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those deposits, together with funds generated from operations, principal repayments on loans and securities and borrowings, primarily in one- to-four family mortgage loans, multi-family mortgage loans, commercial real estate loans and mortgage-backed securities. To a lesser degree, Astoria Federal also invests in construction loans, and consumer and other loans, United States government, government agency and government-sponsored enterprise (GSE), securities and other investments permitted by federal banking laws and regulations.
Western Asset/Claymore Inflation-Linked Securities & Income Fund (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s primary investment objective is to provide current income. Capital appreciation is a secondary investment objective. The Fund invests at least 80% of its total managed assets in inflation-linked securities; at least 60% of its total managed assets in the United States Treasury inflation-protected securities, and not more than 40% of its total managed assets in non-United States dollar investments (not more than 20% of its non-United States dollar exposure may be unhedged). Up to 20% of the Fund?s portfolio securities may represent corporate debt securities of investment-grade quality at the time of their purchase 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 Western Asset Management Company.