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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- CVS, CVS CAREMARK CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 104.376015
- IGT, INTL GAME TECH Current Caprock Strength Rating: 129.132645
- UIL, UIL HLDGS CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.508133
- EXC, EXELON CORPORATIO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1.499933
- LTC, L T C PROP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 131.236832
- TMO, THERMO FISHER SCI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 145.394485
- WRE, WASH REAL EST INV Current Caprock Strength Rating: 0.690000
- BHP, BHP BILLITON LIMI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 27.263964
- MTD, METTLER TOLEDO IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 61.375210
- CCC, CALGON CARBON CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 159.372314
- KTC, KT CORP ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 12.977843
- X, UNITED STATES STE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 31.435993
- RTN, RAYTHEON CO (NEW) Current Caprock Strength Rating: 561.782532
- SNN, SMITH&NEPHEW PLC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 48.221367
- SU, SUNCOR ENERGY INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 15.074671
- SPW, S P X CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 514.885315
- FPL, F P L GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.367302
- AF, ASTORIA FINL CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 44.930077
- WHQ, W-H ENERGY SVCS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 8.501338
- ICLR, ICON PLC ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 865.258606
CVS Caremark Corporation (CVS Caremark) is a provider of prescriptions and related healthcare services in the United States. It is a pharmacy services company and drives value for its customers through its approximately 6,900 CVS/pharmacy and Longs Drug retail stores; CVS Caremark?s pharmacy benefit management, mail order and specialty pharmacy division, Caremark Pharmacy Services; its retail-based health clinic subsidiary, MinuteClinic, and Its online pharmacy, CVS.com. The Company operates in two business segments: Pharmacy Services and Retail Pharmacy. October 20, 2008, CVS Caremark acquired Longs Drug Stores Corporation, which includes 529 retail drug stores (the Longs Drug Stores) and RxAmerica LLC (RxAmerica), which provides pharmacy benefit management services, and certain other related assets.
International Game Technology (IGT) is a global gaming company specializing in the design, manufacture, and marketing of electronic gaming equipment and network systems, as well as licensing and services. The Company maintains an array of entertainment-inspired gaming product lines. In addition to its United States production facilities in Nevada, it manufactures gaming products in the United Kingdom and through a third-party manufacturer in Japan. The Company derives its revenues from the distribution of electronic gaming equipment and network systems, as well as licensing and services. Gaming operations generate recurring revenues by providing customers with its proprietary gaming equipment and network systems, as well as licensing, services, and component parts. Its product sales include the sale of gaming equipment and network systems, as well as licensing, services, and component parts. In January 2009, it acquired certain operating assets of Progressive Gaming International Corp.
UIL Holdings Corporation (UIL Holdings), is engaged in operating its regulated utility business. The utility business consists of the electric transmission and distribution operations of The United Illuminating Company (UI). UIL Holdings also has a non-utility business, United Capital Investments, Inc. (UCI), which primarily holds passive minority ownership interests in two investment funds. As of December 31, 2008, the non-utility businesses included a minority ownership interest in Bridgeport Energy, LLC (BE) held by United Bridgeport Energy, Inc. (UBE), until the completion of the sale of that interest to an affiliate of Duke Energy on March 28, 2006; UCI?s minority ownership interest in Cross-Sound Cable Company, LLC (Cross-Sound) until the completion of the sale of that interest to Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Ltd. on February 27, 2006, and the operations of Xcelecom, Inc. (Xcelecom), until the sale of that business effective December 31, 2006.
Exelon Corporation (Exelon) is a utility services holding company. It operates through its principal subsidiaries Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Generation), Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd) and PECO Energy Company (PECO). Generation?s business consists of its owned and contracted electric generating facilities, its wholesale energy marketing operations and its retail supply operations. ComEd?s energy delivery business consists of the purchase and regulated retail sale of electricity and the provision of distribution and transmission services to retail customers in northern Illinois, including the City of Chicago. PECO?s energy delivery business consists of the purchase and regulated retail sale of electricity and the provision of transmission and distribution services to retail customers in southeastern Pennsylvania, including the City of Philadelphia.
LTC Properties, Inc., is a healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests primarily in long-term care and other healthcare related properties through mortgage loans, property lease transactions and other investments. The Company invests in properties that provide opportunity for additional value and diversifies its investment portfolio by geographic location, operator and form of investment. The Company provides mortgage financing on such properties based on established investment underwriting criteria. At December 31, 2008, the Company?s direct real estate investment portfolio (properties that it own or on which it holds promissory notes secured by first mortgages) consisted of investments in 101 skilled nursing properties with 11,707 beds, 101 assisted living properties with 4,598 units and two schools located in 30 states.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Thermo Fisher), incorporated in 1956, is engaged in serving science. It provides analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software and services for research, manufacturing, analysis, discovery and diagnostics. The Company operates through two segments: analytical technologies and laboratory products and services. Analytical technologies segment includes pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic, government and other research and industrial markets. Laboratory products and services segment offers combination of products and services that allows its customers to engage in their core business functions of research, development, manufacturing, clinical diagnosis and drug discovery. In April 2009, Alesco Corporation Ltd. sold its Scientific & Medical division to Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. In October 2009, the Company acquired B.R.A.H.M.S. AG.
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.
BHP Billiton plc is a diversified natural resources company. The Company is engaged in extracting and processing minerals, oil and gas from its production operations located primarily in Australia, the Americas and southern Africa. It sells its product worldwide with its marketing activities centralized in Singapore, The Hague and Antwerp. The Company operates in nine customer sector groups (CSGs): petroleum, aluminum, base metals, diamonds and specialty products, stainless steel materials, iron ore; manganese, metallurgical coal, and energy coal. Its Petroleum CSG is a global oil and gas business with producing assets in six countries and exploration opportunities in a further six countries. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2009 (fiscal 2009), the Company realized annual production volumes of 137.2 million barrels of oil equivalent. Its sells its crude oil production to refiners worldwide at market prices.
Mettler-Toledo International Inc. is a global supplier of precision instruments and services. The Company is a provider of analytical instruments for use in life science, reaction engineering and real-time analytic systems used in drug and chemical compound development, and process analytics instruments used for in-line measurement in production processes. The Company is also a supplier of end-of-line inspection systems used in production and packaging for food, pharmaceutical and other industries. The Company operates in five business segments: U.S. Operations, Swiss Operations, Western European Operations, Chinese Operations and Other. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company derived 43% of the net sales from Europe, 35% from North and South America and 22% from Asia and other countries.
Calgon Carbon Corporation (Calgon) is a provider of services, products and solutions for purifying water and air. The Company operates in three segments: Activated Carbon and Service, Equipment, and Consumer. The Activated Carbon and Service segment manufactures granular and powdered activated carbon for use in applications to remove organic compounds from water, air, and other liquids and gases. The service aspect of the segment consists of the leasing, monitoring and maintenance of carbon adsorption equipment. The Equipment segment provides solutions to customers? air and water purification problems through the design, fabrication, and operation of systems that utilize a combination of the Company?s enabling technologies: carbon adsorption, ultraviolet light (UV) and advanced ion exchange separation (ISEP) among others. The Consumer segment primarily consists of the manufacture and sale of carbon cloth, and new consumer products based on the Company?s technologies.
KT Corporation is a telecommunications service provider in Korea. As an integrated telecommunications service provider, its principal services include telephone services, including local, domestic long-distance and international long-distance fixed-line telephone services and interconnection services to other telecommunications companies; broadband Internet access service and other Internet-related services, including Internet protocol television (IP-TV) services; personal communications system (PCS) mobile telecommunications service and third-generation High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA)-based IMT-2000 wireless Internet and video multimedia communications services, and various other services, including leased line service and other data communication service, satellite service and information technology and network services. In addition, it operates nationwide PCS and HSDPA-based IMT-2000 networks.
United States Steel Corporation (U. S. Steel) is an integrated steel producer with production operations in North America and Europe. The Company has annual raw steel production capability of 31.7 million net tons (tons) (24.3 million tons in North America and 7.4 million tons in Europe). U. S. Steel is also engaged in other business activities including the production of coke in both North America and Europe and iron ore pellets in North America, and transportation services (railroad and barge operations), real estate operations, and engineering and consulting services in North America. U. S. Steel has three reportable operating segments: Flat-rolled Products (Flat-rolled), U. S. Steel Europe (USSE) and Tubular Products (Tubular). On January 31, 2009, the Company completed the sale of a majority of the operating assets of Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company (EJ&E) to a subsidiary of Canadian National Railway Company.
Raytheon Company designs, develops, manufactures, integrates, supports and provides a range of products, services and solutions for principally governmental customers in the United States and worldwide. The Company operates in six business segments: Integrated Defense Systems (IDS), Intelligence and Information Systems (ibis’), Missile Systems (MS), Network Centric Systems (NCS), Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) and Technical Services (TS). In April 2008, the Company acquired SI Government Solutions. In July 2008, Raytheon Company acquired Telemus Solutions, Inc., a provider of information security, intelligence and technical services to defense, intelligence and other federal customers.
Smith & Nephew plc is a global business engaged in the development, manufacture, marketing and sales of medical devices in the sectors of orthopaedics, which includes reconstruction, trauma and clinical therapies, endoscopy and advanced wound management. The Company is organised into three global business units of Orthopaedics (which includes Reconstruction, Trauma and Clinical Therapies), Endoscopy and Advanced Wound Management.
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. On August 1, 2009, Suncor completed its merger with Petro-Canada.
SPX Corporation is a global multi-industry manufacturing company with operations in over 40 countries and sales in over 150 countries around the world. The majority of its revenues, approximately 56% during the year ended December 31, 2008, are driven by global infrastructure development.The Company has four operating segments: Flow Technology, Test and Measurement, Thermal Equipment and Services, and Industrial Products and Services. In September 2008, the Company acquired Autoboss Tech, Inc., a China-based manufacturer of diagnostic tools and equipment. In January 2009, the Company sold its remaining portion of its DeZurik product line to Sartell Valves Inc. In July 2008, it announced the completion of the sale of its air filtration business unit to the Riverside Company. In December 2008, the Company sold its operations of Vibration Testing and Data Acquisition Equipment business (LDS) and Scales and Counting Systems business.
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.
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.
ICON plc (ICON) is a contract research organization (CRO), providing outsourced development services on a global basis to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. The Company specializes in the development, management, and analysis of programs that support clinical development, from compound selection to Phase I-IV clinical studies. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company operated 71 locations in 38 countries providing Phase I-IV clinical trial management, drug development support services, data management and biostatistics, and central laboratory and imaging services. During 2008, ICON commenced operations in Edinburgh, Scotland; Bogota, Colombia, and New Dehli, India. On December 31, 2008, the Company acquired remaining 30% interest in Beacon Bioscience Inc. In April 2009, the Company acquired Qualia Clinical Services, a Phase I facility based in Omaha, Nebraska. In July 2009, ICON acquired Veeda Laboratories Ltd.