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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- BKE, BUCKLE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 75.173958
- XTXI, CROSSTEX ENERGY I Current Caprock Strength Rating: 60.320435
- UST, U S T INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 41.726654
- UST, U S T INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 41.726654
- LIFC, LIFECELL CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 39.990746
- BKT, BLACKROCK INCOME Current Caprock Strength Rating: 60.136936
- AIZ, ASSURANT INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 147.249084
- BHP, BHP BILLITON LIMI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 27.263964
- CMZ, COMPTON PETROLEUM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 50.024284
- HEW, HEWITT ASSOC INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 116.713028
- CCC, CALGON CARBON CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 159.372314
- CLHB, CLEAN HARBORS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 45.791763
- DUC, DUFF PHELPS UTL B Current Caprock Strength Rating: 26.486977
- MSB, MESABI TRUST CTF Current Caprock Strength Rating: 143.796799
- IIF, MS INDIA INV FD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 42.700409
- PDX, PEDIATRIX MED GRO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 131.663162
- TEVA, TEVA PHARM INDS A Current Caprock Strength Rating: 40.720695
- RRC, RANGE RES CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 499.272614
- ABT, ABBOTT LABORATORI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 36.519253
- MSB, MESABI TRUST CTF Current Caprock Strength Rating: 143.796799
The Buckle, Inc. is a retailer of medium to better-priced casual apparel, footwear and accessories for fashion conscious young men and women. As of January 31, 2009, the Company operated 387 retail stores in 39 states throughout the continental United States under the names Buckle and The Buckle. The Company markets a selection of mostly brand name casual apparel, including denims, other casual bottoms, tops, sportswear, outerwear, accessories and footwear. The Company provides customer services, such as free hemming, free gift-wrapping, easy layaways, the Buckle private label credit card and a frequent shopper program. Most stores are located in regional shopping malls and lifestyle centers. The Company had 387 stores as of January 31, 2009.
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. In October 2009, Crosstex Energy, L.P. and Crosstex Energy, Inc. completed the sale of its natural gas treating business to Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P.
BlackRock Income Trust, Inc. (the Trust) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Trust?s seeks to provide monthly income while preserving capital by investing in a portfolio of mortgage-backed securities. The Trust?s portfolio include United States Government agency mortgage-backed securities, United States Government agency mortgage-backed securities – collateralized mortgage obligations, non-United States Government agency mortgage backed securities, United States Government and agency obligations, and asset-backed securities.
Assurant, Inc. (Assurant) is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, it is engaged in providing specialized insurance products and related services in North America and selected other international markets. Its four segments include Assurant Solutions, Assurant Specialty Property, Assurant Health and Assurant Employee Benefits. These segments provide debt protection administration, credit insurance, warranties and service contracts, pre-funded funeral insurance, creditor?placed homeowners insurance, manufactured housing homeowners insurance, individual health and small employer group health insurance, group dental insurance, group disability insurance and group life insurance. In October 2008, it announced that it has completed its acquisition of Signal Holdings LLC, a provider of wireless handset protection programs and repair services, from Trident II L.P. On September 26, 2008, it completed the acquisition of Warranty Management Group business from GE Consumer & Industrial.
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.
Compton Petroleum Corporation (Compton) is engaged in the exploration for and, development and production of natural gas, natural gas liquids, and crude oil in western Canada. The Company?s operations are located in the deep basin fairway of the western Canada sedimentary basin in the province of Alberta. Compton is active in three deep basin natural gas development plays: the Basal Quartz sands at Hooker in southern Alberta, the Gething/Rock Creek sands at Niton and Caroline in central Alberta, and the shallower Plains Belly River sand play in southern Alberta. Its subsidiaries include Compton Petroleum Finance Corporation and Hornet Energy Ltd.
Hewitt Associates, Inc. (Hewitt) is a global provider of human resource benefits, outsourcing and consulting services. The Company operates in three business segments: Benefits Outsourcing, Human Resource Business Process Outsourcing (HR BPO) and Consulting. Through these segments it helps clients develop, implement and deliver strategies and programs for human resources business process design, administration and technologies, as well as manage the human elements necessary to acquire, develop, motivate and retain the talent required to meet business objectives. In March 2008, Hewitt acquired New Bridge Street Consultants. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2008, it also acquired CSi, a specialist compensation consultancy and LCG, which provides an array of integrated disability, leave and absence-management solutions. In July 2009, the Company acquired the remaining interest in BodeHewitt AG & Co KG, from Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG (HVB).
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.
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.
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).
Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s investment objective is long-term capital appreciation through investments primarily in equity securities of Indian issuers. It will invest in currency spot, forward and non-deliverable forward transactions. The Fund may write covered call and put options on portfolio securities and other financial instruments. The Fund may invest in unregistered or otherwise restricted securities. It invests in industries, such as automobiles, commercial banks, electrical equipment, food products, information technology services, media, pharmaceuticals and wireless telecommunication services. The Fund?s investment advisor and administrator is Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc.
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited (Teva) is a global pharmaceutical company that develops, produces and markets generic drugs covering all treatment categories. The Company has a pharmaceutical business, whose principal products are Copaxone for multiple sclerosis and Azilect for Parkinson?s disease and respiratory products. Teva?s active pharmaceutical ingredient business provides vertical integration to Teva?s own pharmaceutical production and sells to third party manufacturers. The Company?s global operations are conducted in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Israel. Teva has operations in more than 60 countries, as well as 38 finished dosage pharmaceutical manufacturing sites in 17 countries, 20 generic research and development centers operating mostly within certain manufacturing sites and 20 API manufacturing sites around the world. In January 2009, Phibro Animal Health Corporation completed the acquisition of the Abic Animal Health business from the Company.
Range Resources Corporation (Range) is engaged in the exploration, development and acquisition of oil and gas properties, primarily in the Southwestern, Appalachian and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. During the year ended December 31, 2008 the Company?s proved reserves comprised 2.7 trillion cubic feet equivalents (Tcfe) of proved reserves; 83% natural gas; 62% proved developed; 77% operated, and a reserve life of 17.9 years. During 2008, Range owned 3,694,000 gross (2,952,000 net) acres of leasehold, including 407,800 acres where it also owns a royalty interest. The Company has built a multi-year inventory drilling that is estimated to contain over 12,000 drilling locations. In 2008, the Company?s annual production averaged 385.6 millions of cubic feet equivalent (Mmcfe) per day. In 2008, Range drilled 634 gross wells. In 2008, Range purchased producing and non-producing Barnett Shale properties. Also in 2008, the Company sold properties located in East Texas.
Abbott Laboratories is engaged in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of a range of health care products. It operates through four business segments: Pharmaceutical Products, Nutritional Products, Diagnostic Products, and Vascular Products. The Pharmaceutical Products segment?s products include a line of adult and pediatric pharmaceuticals manufactured, marketed and sold worldwide. The Diagnostic Products segment?s products include diagnostic systems and tests manufactured, marketed and sold worldwide to blood banks, hospitals, commercial laboratories. The Nutritional Products segment?s products include a line of pediatric and adult nutritional products manufactured, marketed, and sold worldwide. The Vascular Products segment?s products include a line of coronary, endovascular, and vessel closure devices manufactured, marketed and sold worldwide. In January 2009, the Company acquired Ibis Biosciences, Inc. In February 2009, it acquired Advanced Medical Optics (AMO).
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).