Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings for Selected Stocks
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- KTC, KT CORP ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 12.977843
- NLY, ANNALY CAPITAL MA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 566.720886
- TNS, TNS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 44.113876
- PBT, PERMIAN BASIN ROY Current Caprock Strength Rating: 252.514313
- UFCS, UNITED FIRE CASUA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 30.556551
- DNEX, DIONEX CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 22.569416
- HXM, DESARROLLADORA HO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1.585304
- MUR, MURPHY OIL CP HLD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 106.178574
- MOH, MOLINA HEALTHCARE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 13.734159
- SSL, SASOL LTD ADR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 74.745232
- PPDI, PHARM PROD DEV Current Caprock Strength Rating: 183.971298
- AEM, AGNICO EAGLE MINE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 290.837463
- GFIG, GFI GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 104.983421
- BNI, BURLINGTN N SANTE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 7.647608
- TX, TERNIUM S.A. ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.619476
- PRXL, PAREXEL INTL CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 352.510712
- MT, ARCELOR MITTAL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 73.886269
- BNI, BURLINGTN N SANTE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 7.647608
- ERF, ENERPLUS RES FD Current Caprock Strength Rating: -0.796765
- BXS, BANCORPSOUTH INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.531313
KT Corporation is an integrated telecommunications services provider in Korea. Its 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; personal communications system (PCS) mobile telecommunications service through its subsidiary, KT Freetel Co., Ltd. (KTF), and various other services, including leased line service and other data communication service. It operates in two segments: wireline communications segment and mobile services segment. Wireline communications include services provided to fixed-line customers, including Internet access services, data communication services, leased line services and telephone services. Mobile services include both personal communications system (PCS) service and IMT-2000 service.
Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (Annaly) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and manages a portfolio of mortgage-backed securities. It also owns, manages, and finances a portfolio of investment securities, including mortgage pass-through certificates, collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), agency callable debentures, and other securities representing interests in or obligations backed by pools of mortgage loans. Fixed Income Discount Advisory Company (FIDAC) is the wholly owned taxable REIT subsidiary of the Company. The Company is focused in generating net income for distribution to the stockholders from the spread between the interest income on the investment securities and the cost of borrowings to finance the acquisition of investment securities.
TNS, Inc. (TNS) is a global data communications company, which provides networking, data communications and value-added services. Its secure networks are used by retailers, banks/processors, telecommunications companies and financial markets. TNS has designed and implemented multiple data networks each created specifically for the transport of transaction-oriented data. TNS’ networks support a variety of communications protocols and are designed to be scalable and accessible by multiple methods. TNS has offices throughout the world, serving customers in 28 countries with the ability to provide services in other countries. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company transported approximately 5.8 billion dial-up transactions for more than 130 point-of-sale/point-of-service (POS), processing customers in the United States and Canada. In addition, as of December 31, 2007, it provided network services to more than 575 financial services companies.
The Permian Basin Royalty Trust (the Trust) is an express trust. The net overriding royalties conveyed to the Trust (the Royalties) include a 75% net overriding royalty carved out of Southland Royalty?s fee mineral interests in the Waddell Ranch in Crane County, Texas (the Waddell Ranch properties), and a 95% net overriding royalty carved out of Southland Royalty?s major producing royalty interests in Texas (the Texas Royalty properties). The Waddell Ranch properties consist of 76,922 gross (33,246 net) producing acres. A majority of the proved reserves are attributable to six fields: Dune, Sand Hills (Judkins), Sand Hills (McKnight), Sand Hills (Tubb), University-Waddell (Devonian) and Waddell. The Texas Royalty properties consist of royalty interests in mature producing oil fields, such as Yates, Wasson, Sand Hills, East Texas, Kelly-Snyder, Panhandle Regular, N. Cowden, Todd, Keystone, Kermit, McElroy, Howard-Glasscock, Seminole and others.
United Fire & Casualty Company (United Fire) is engaged in the business of writing property and casualty insurance, and life insurance. The Company operates in two segments: property and casualty insurance, and life insurance. The property and casualty insurance segment markets forms of commercial and personal property, and casualty insurance products, including surety bonds and reinsurance. The Company is licensed as a property and casualty insurer in 42 states, primarily in the Midwest, West and South and is represented by 865 independent agencies. The Company?s life insurance subsidiary is licensed in 28 states, primarily in the Midwest and West and is represented by 927 independent agencies. United Fire focuses on its commercial lines, which represented 92.6% of its property and casualty premiums written for the year ended December 31, 2007. United Fire?s principal life insurance products are single premium annuities, universal life products and traditional life products.
Dionex Corporation (Dionex) designs, manufactures, markets and services analytical instrumentation and related accessories and chemicals. The Company?s products are used to analyze chemical substances in the environment and in a range of industrial and scientific applications. Dionex design, manufacture, market and service a range of liquid chromatography systems, sample preparation devices and related products that are used by chemists to separate and quantify the individual components of complex chemical mixtures relevant to many major industrial, research and laboratory markets. Its liquid chromatography systems are focused in two product areas: ion chromatography (IC) and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The Company offers a mass spectrometer coupled with either an IC or HPLC system. For sample preparation, it provides accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) systems.
Desarrolladora Homex, S.A.B. de C.V. (Homex) is a vertically integrated home development company engaged in the development, construction and sale of entry level, middle-income and upper-income housing in Mexico. During the year ended December 31, 2007, Homex sold 51,672 homes. As of December 31, 2007, it had 98 developments under construction in 33 cities located in 21 Mexican states. It had total land reserves under title of approximately 67.5 million square meters as of December 31, 2007. Homex operates in markets throughout Mexico, from Tijuana in the north to Tapachula in the south, which represent 21 states and 33 cities as of December 31, 2007. In 2007, 34% of the Company?s revenues originated in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area, and 17% in Guadalajara. The remaining revenues were originated in 31 cities.
Murphy Oil Corporation (Murphy) is a worldwide oil and gas exploration and production company, with refining and marketing operations in the United States and the United Kingdom. Its operations are classified into two business activities: Exploration and Production, and Refining and Marketing. Murphy?s exploration and production activities are subdivided into six geographic segments, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Ecuador and all other countries. Murphy?s refining and marketing activities are subdivided into geographic segments for North America and United Kingdom. Murphy exited the gasoline retailing business in Canada during the year ended December 31, 2007.
Molina Healthcare, Inc. (Molina Healthcare) is a multi-state managed care organization participating exclusively in government-sponsored health care programs for low-income persons, such as the Medicaid program and the State Children?s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). The Company also serves a small number of members who are dually eligible under both the Medicaid and Medicare programs. Molina Healthcare conducts its business primarily through nine licensed health plans in the states of California, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, Utah and Washington. The health plans are locally operated by the Company?s respective wholly owned subsidiaries in those nine states, each of which is licensed as a health maintenance organization (HMO). In November 2007, the Company acquired Mercy CarePlus, a Medicaid managed care organization based in St. Louis, Missouri.
Sasol Limited is an integrated oil and gas company with substantial chemical interests. Sasol mines coal in South Africa. Through Sasol Synfuels, this coal, along with Mozambican natural gas, is converted into fuels and chemical feedstock using Fischer-Tropsch technology. The Company also has chemical manufacturing and marketing operations in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Its larger chemical portfolios include monomers, polymers, solvents, olefins, surfactants, surfactant intermediates, comonomers, waxes, phenolics and nitrogenous products. Sasol produces crude oil offshore Gabon. The Company operates through three segments clusters: South African energy cluster (Sasol Mining, Sasol Synfuels, Sasol Oil and Sasol Gas), international energy cluster (Sasol Synfuels International and Sasol Petroleum International) and chemical cluster (Sasol Polymers, Sasol Solvents, Sasol Olefins & Surfactants, Sasol Nitro, Sasol Wax and Infrachem).
Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc. (PPD) is a global contract research organization engaged in providing drug discovery and development services, post-approval expertise and compound partnering programs. The Discovery Sciences Group focuses on the discovery research segment of the biopharmaceutical research and development outsourcing market. The Development Group has designed its various global services to be integrated in order to assist its clients in optimizing their research and development spending through the clinical stages of the development process. The Development Group provides a range of development services to meet clients’ needs. In addition, for marketed drugs, biologics and devices, PPD offers support services, such as product launch services, medical information, patient compliance programs, patient and disease registry programs, product safety and pharmacovigilance, Phase IV monitored studies and prescription-to-over-the-counter programs.
Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited (Agnico-Eagle) is a gold producer with mining operations located in northwestern Quebec, mine construction projects in northwestern Quebec, northern Finland, Nunavut and northern Mexico and exploration activities in Canada, Finland, Mexico and the United States. The Company operates through four regional units: the Quebec Region, the European Region, the Mexican Region and the Nunavut Region. The Quebec region includes the LaRonde Mine, the LaRonde Mine extension project and the Goldex and Lapa mine projects, each of which is held directly by the Company. The Company’s operations in the European Region are conducted through its indirect subsidiary, Riddarhyttan Resources AB (Riddarhyttan), which indirectly owns the Kittila mine project in Finland. The Company’s operations in the Mexican Region are conducted through its subsidiary, Agnico Eagle Mexico S.A. de C.V., which owns the Pinos Altos mine project.
GFI Group Inc. is an inter-dealer broker specializing in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives products and related securities. The Company provides brokerage services and data and analytics products to institutional clients in markets for a range of credit, financial, equity and commodity instruments. It functions as an intermediary on behalf of its brokerage clients by matching their trading needs with counterparties having reciprocal interests. The Company focuses primarily on the more complex, and often less commoditized, markets for sophisticated financial instruments, primarily OTC derivatives. The Company offers its clients a hybrid brokerage approach, combining a range of telephonic and electronic trade execution services, depending on the needs of the individual markets. It complements its hybrid brokerage capabilities with decision support products, such as value-added data and analytics products. On January 31, 2008, the Company acquired Trayport Limited.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF), through its subsidiaries, is engaged primarily in the freight rail transportation business. BNSF transports a range of products and commodities derived from manufacturing, agricultural and natural resource industries. Its freight business consists of consumer products, industrial products, coal and agricultural products. The Consumer Products? consists of three business areas: international intermodal, domestic intermodal and automotive. Industrial Products? consists of five business areas: building products, construction products, petroleum products, chemicals and plastics products, and food and beverages. The Agricultural Products? freight business transports agricultural products, including corn, wheat, soybeans, bulk foods and fertilizer. As of December 31, 2007, BNSF Railway operated over a railroad system consisting of approximately 32,000 route miles of track, approximately 23,000 miles, of which are owned route miles.
Ternium S.A (Ternium) is a steel company in the Americas. The Company is a producer of crude steel in Latin America, with manufacturing, processing and finishing facilities, which produced approximately 11 million tons of crude steel during the year ended December 31, 2007. Ternium produces and distributes a range of semi-finished and finished steel products, including value-added steel products, such as tinplate, cold rolled coils and sheets, galvanized and electro-galvanized sheets, pre-painted sheets, welded pipes, hot rolled pickled and annealed and tailor-made flat products. It also produces long steel products, such as bars and wire rod. Ternium primarily sells its steel products in the regional markets of North, Central and South America. Approximately 56.1% of Ternium?s sales were made to South and Central America, 41.8% to North America and 2.1% to Europe and other markets in 2007. The Company operates in three segments: flat steel products, long steel products and others.
PAREXEL International Corporation (PAREXEL) is a biopharmaceutical services company, providing a range of capability in clinical research, medical communications services, consulting, and informatics and technology products and services to the worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries. The Company?s product and service offerings include clinical trials management, data management, biostatistical analysis, medical communications services, clinical pharmacology, patient recruitment, regulatory and product development consulting, health policy and reimbursement, performance improvement, industry training and publishing, medical imaging services, interactive voice response systems (IVRS), clinical trial management systems (CTMS), Web-based portals, systems integration, patient diary applications, and other drug development services. In August 2008, PAREXEL completed the acquisition of ClinPhone plc.
ArcelorMittal is a global steel producer. The Company has steel-making operations in 20 countries on four continents, including 65 integrated, mini-mill and integrated mini-mill, steel-making facilities. It produces a range of finished and semi-finished carbon steel products and stainless steel products. Specifically, Mittal Steel produces flat products, including sheet and plate, long products, including bars, rods and structural shapes, and stainless steel products. The Company sells its products primarily in local markets and through its centralized marketing organization to a range of customers in approximately 170 countries, including the automotive, appliance, engineering, construction and machinery industries. Mittal Steel operates its business in six segments: Flat Carbon Americas; Flat Carbon Europe; Long Carbon Americas and Europe; Asia, Africa and CIS (AACIS); Stainless Steel, and Arcelor Mittal Steel Solutions and Services (trading and distribution).
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation (BNSF), through its subsidiaries, is engaged primarily in the freight rail transportation business. BNSF transports a range of products and commodities derived from manufacturing, agricultural and natural resource industries. Its freight business consists of consumer products, industrial products, coal and agricultural products. The Consumer Products? consists of three business areas: international intermodal, domestic intermodal and automotive. Industrial Products? consists of five business areas: building products, construction products, petroleum products, chemicals and plastics products, and food and beverages. The Agricultural Products? freight business transports agricultural products, including corn, wheat, soybeans, bulk foods and fertilizer. As of December 31, 2007, BNSF Railway operated over a railroad system consisting of approximately 32,000 route miles of track, approximately 23,000 miles, of which are owned route miles.
Enerplus Resources Fund (Enerplus) is an open-end investment trust. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Fund?s production averaged 82,319 barrels of oil equivalent per day. The Company?s natural gas portfolio in 2007, comprised aggregator, AECO, and downstream direct sales. In 2007, the Company sold 40% of its natural gas on the daily AECO market and 40% on the monthly AECO market, as well as 20% against the day and month New York Mercantile Exchange indices. The Company?s crude oil portfolio in 2007, was approximately 74% light/medium and 26% heavy. During 2007, daily production averaged 80,959 barrels of oil equivalent per day. During 2007, the average production was weighted 53% to natural gas and 47% to liquids on a barrel of oil equivalent basis. On June 22, 2007, the Fund completed the acquisition of Kirby Oil Sands Partnership. On February 13, 2008, Enerplus closed the acquisition of Focus Energy Trust.
BancorpSouth, Inc., incorporated in 1982, is a financial holding company for its principal subsidiary, BancorpSouth Bank (the Bank). The Company conducts commercial banking and financial services operations through 295 offices in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Missouri. The Bank and its subsidiaries provide a range of financial services to individuals and small-to-medium size businesses. The Bank operates investment services, credit insurance and insurance agency subsidiaries, which engage in investment brokerage services and sales of other insurance products. The Bank?s trust department offers a range of services, including personal trust and estate services, employee benefit accounts and plans, including individual retirement accounts, and limited corporate trust functions. On March 1, 2007, BancorpSouth, Inc. completed its merger with City Bancorp.