Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings for Selected Stocks
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- VE, VEOLIA ENVIRONN A Current Caprock Strength Rating: 54.246994
- HGT, HUGOTON ROYALTY T Current Caprock Strength Rating: 45.132065
- LG, LACLEDE GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 56.185394
- MCR, M F S CHARTR INCM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 50.591106
- VCP, VOTORANTIM CELULO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 201.740189
- CEG, CONSTELLATION ENG Current Caprock Strength Rating: 17.823517
- WMGI, WRIGHT MEDICAL GR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 31.325432
- ASR, GRUPO AEROPORTUAR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 7.714497
- FFIC, FLUSHING FIN CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 64.347054
- KOF, COCA COLA FEMSA S Current Caprock Strength Rating: 130.109680
- CCC, CALGON CARBON CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 159.372314
- CCC, CALGON CARBON CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 159.372314
- HCP, HEALTHCARE PROP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 3.127659
- AGP, AMERIGROUP CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 225.436966
- CLB, CORE LABS NV Current Caprock Strength Rating: 114.552124
- DUC, DUFF PHELPS UTL B Current Caprock Strength Rating: 26.486977
- AF, ASTORIA FINL CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 44.930077
- NBL, NOBLE ENERGY INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 209.519943
- GLD, STREETTRACKS GOLD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 354.687714
- K, KELLOGG CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 3.465094
Veolia Environnement is a provider of environmental management services, which include water and wastewater services, environmental services, energy services (excluding the production, trading and sale of electricity, other than production through co-generation) and transportation services. Its operations are conducted through four divisions: water, environmental services, energy services and transportation. Its principal operating subsidiaries in each division include Veolia Eau Compagnie Generale des Eaux (water), Veolia Proprete (environmental services), Dalkia (energy services) and Veolia Transport (transportation). On October 1, 2008, the Company acquired Ridgeline Energy, which is engaged in the development of wind energy projects. On December 16, 2008, the Company sold the Clemessy and Crystal businesses in the Energy services division.
Hugoton Royalty Trust (the Trust) is an express trust created under the laws of Texas pursuant to the Hugoton Royalty Trust Indenture entered into on December 1, 1998 between XTO Energy Inc., as grantor, and NationsBank, N.A., as trustee. Bank of America, N.A. succeeded NationsBank as the trustee of the Trust. XTO Energy conveyed to the Trust 80% net profits interests in certain natural gas producing working interest properties in Kansas, Oklahoma and Wyoming under three separate conveyances. In exchange for these net profits interest conveyances to the Trust, 40 million units of beneficial interest were issued to XTO Energy. XTO Energy distributed all of its remaining 21.7 million trust units. As of December 31, 2008, XTO Energy is not a unitholder of the trust. The net profits interests entitle the Trust to receive 80% of the net proceeds from the sale of oil and gas from the underlying properties.
The Laclede Group, Inc. (Laclede Group) is a public utility holding company. Laclede Group is committed to providing natural gas service through its regulated core utility operations, while engaging in non-regulated activities that provide sustainable growth. All of the Company?s subsidiaries are wholly owned. The Regulated Gas Distribution segment includes Laclede Gas Company (Laclede Gas or the Utility), Laclede Group?s largest subsidiary and core business unit. Laclede Gas is a public utility engaged in the retail distribution and sale of natural gas. The Non-Regulated Gas Marketing segment includes Laclede Energy Resources, Inc. (LER), a subsidiary engaged in the non-regulated marketing of natural gas and related activities. Other non-regulated subsidiaries provide less than 10% of revenues. In March 2008, Laclede Group announced that it has closed on the sale of 100% of its interest in SM&P Utility Resources, Inc.
MFS Charter Income Trust (the Fund) is a closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s investment objective is to seek high current income, but may also consider capital appreciation. It maintains a portfolio that includes investments in investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds, the United States Government securities, and international investment-grade and emerging markets debt securities. It invests its assets primarily in debt instruments. The Fund may invest its assets in the United States Government securities, foreign government securities, mortgage-backed and other asset-backed securities of United States and/or foreign issuers, corporate bonds of United States and/or foreign issuers, and/or debt instruments of issuers located in emerging market countries. It may invest up to 100% of its assets in lower-quality debt instruments. It may also invest in mortgage dollar rolls. The Fund?s investment advisor is Massachusetts Financial Services Company.
Votorantim Celulose e Papel SA (VCP) is a Brazil-based paper product company. The Company produces bleached eucalyptus kraft pulp (BEKP), which is a variety of hardwood pulp. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company sold 84% of its pulp production to third parties, and the Company uses the remainder internally to manufacture a range of printing and writing paper products, including coated and uncoated printing and writing papers, thermal papers, carbonless papers and other specialty papers. The Company produces a variety of pulp and paper products. The Company produces pulp both for sale (market pulp) and for use in its paper production. VCP sells BEKP to both the Brazilian domestic and export market. VCP produce coated and uncoated printing and writing paper and other specialty/chemical papers.
Constellation Energy Group Inc. is an energy company that conducts its business through various subsidiaries, including a merchant energy business and Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE). The Company?s merchant energy business is a provider of energy-related products and services for a variety of customers. BGE is a regulated electric transmission and distribution utility company and a regulated gas distribution utility company with a service territory that covers the City of Baltimore and all or part of 10 counties in central Maryland. Its segments include Merchant Energy, Regulated Electric and Regulated Gas. Its remaining non-regulated businesses include design, construct and operate renewable energy, heating, cooling and cogeneration facilities for commercial, industrial and governmental customers. In March 2009, the Company divested its Houston-based downstream gas unit, as well as the majority of its London-based coal, freight and international commodities business.
Wright Medical Group, Inc. (Wright) is a global orthopaedic medical device company specializing in the design, manufacture and marketing of reconstructive joint devices and biologics products. Reconstructive joint devices are used to replace knee, hip and other joints that have deteriorated or have been damaged through disease or injury. The Company operates through Wright Medical Technology, Inc. and other operating subsidiaries. The Company offers products in four primary market sectors: knee reconstruction, hip reconstruction, extremity reconstruction and biologics. Biologics are used to replace damaged or diseased bone, to stimulate bone growth and to provide other biological solutions for surgeons and their patients. In April 2008, the Company acquired Inbone Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer and marketer of the INBONE Total Ankle Replacement System and Intra-Osseous Fusion Rods.
Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste, S.A.B. de C.V. (ASUR) is engaged in operating, maintaining and developing nine airports in the southeast region of Mexico. The Company?s concessions include the concession for Cancun International Airport. It also holds concessions to operate the airports in Cozumel, Huatulco, Merida, Minatitlan, Oaxaca, Tapachula, Veracruz and Villahermosa. As operators of these airports, the Company charges airlines, passengers and other users fees for the use of the airports? facilities. It also derives rental and other income from commercial activities conducted at its airports, such as the leasing of space to restaurants and retailers.
Flushing Financial Corporation serves as the holding company for Flushing Savings Bank FSB (the Savings Bank). The Savings Bank owns four subsidiaries: Flushing Commercial Bank, Flushing Preferred Funding Corporation (FPFC), Flushing Service Corporation and FSB Properties Inc. (Properties). The Bank’s principal business is attracting retail deposits from the general public and investing those deposits together with funds generated from ongoing operations and borrowings, primarily in originations and purchases of one- to four-family (focusing on mixed-use properties, or properties that contain both residential dwelling units and commercial units), multi-family residential and commercial real estate mortgage loans; construction loans, primarily for residential properties; small business administration (SBA) loans and other small business loans, and mortgage loan surrogates, such as mortgage-backed securities. It also operates an Internet branch, iGObanking.com.
Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A.B. de C.V. (Coca-Cola FEMSA) is a bottler of Coca-Cola trademark beverages in Latin America. The Company operates in territories, including Mexico, a substantial portion of central Mexico (including Mexico City) and southeast Mexico (including the Gulf region); Central America, Guatemala (Guatemala City and surrounding areas), Nicaragua (nationwide), Costa Rica (nationwide) and Panama (nationwide); Colombia; Venezuela; Brazil, including the area of greater Sao Paulo, Campinas, Santos, the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and part of the state of Goias, and Argentina, including Buenos Aires and surrounding areas. In July 2008, it acquired the Agua De Los Angeles jug water business. In February 2009, it acquired with The Coca-Cola Company the Brisa bottled water business in Colombia from Brisa de Bavaria, a subsidiary of SABMiller.
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.
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.
HCP, Inc. (HCP) is a real estate investment trust (REIT), focusing primarily on properties serving the healthcare industry. The Company acquires, develops, leases, disposes and manages healthcare real estate and provide mortgage and financing to healthcare providers. HCP?s portfolio comprises investments in the five healthcare segments: senior housing, life science, medical office, hospital, and skilled nursing. The Company makes investments within five healthcare segments using the five investment products: properties under lease, investment management, developments, mezzanine loans, and non-managing member LLCs (DownREITs). As of December 31, 2008, HCP had interests in 264 senior housing facilities, including 25 facilities owned by the Company?s Investment Management Platform. As of December 31, 2008, HCP had interests in 104 life science properties, including eight facilities owned by Investment Management Platform.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Noble Energy, Inc. (Noble Energy) is an independent energy company that has been engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development, production and marketing of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids (NGLs). The Company?s activities include geophysical and geological evaluation and exploratory drilling on properties, for which it has acquired exploration rights. Its properties consist primarily of interests in developed and undeveloped crude oil and natural gas leases and concessions. It also owns natural gas processing plants and natural gas gathering and other crude oil and natural gas related pipeline systems which are primarily used in the processing and transportation of its crude oil, natural gas and NGL production. The Company operates primarily in the Rocky Mountains, Mid-continent, and deepwater Gulf of Mexico areas in the United States, with international operations in offshore Israel, the North Sea and West Africa.
Kellogg Company (Kellogg), together with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the manufacture and marketing of ready-to-eat cereal and convenience foods, such as cookies, crackers, toaster pastries, cereal bars, fruit snacks, frozen waffles and veggie foods. These products were, as of February 23, 2009, manufactured by Kellogg in 19 countries and marketed in more than 180 countries. Its cereal products are generally marketed under the Kellogg?s name, and are sold principally to the grocery trade through direct sales forces for resale to consumers. The Company uses broker and distribution arrangements for certain products. Kellogg?s also market cookies, crackers and other convenience foods under brands, such as Kellogg?s, Keebler, Cheez-It, Murray, Austin and Famous Amos, to supermarkets in the United States through a direct store-door (DSD) delivery system. In September 2008, the Company acquired Specialty Cereals of Sydney, Australia.