Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings for Selected Stocks
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- AHL, ASPEN INSURANCE H Current Caprock Strength Rating: 101.554764
- DNEX, DIONEX CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 22.569416
- WMT, WAL MART STORES Current Caprock Strength Rating: 39.768475
- HCP, HEALTHCARE PROP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 3.127659
- PHI, PHILIPPINE LG DS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 404.734253
- FPL, F P L GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.367302
- LH, LABORATORY CORP N Current Caprock Strength Rating: 39.657993
- CMO, CAPSTEAD MTG CP N Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1118.925537
- NHP, NATIONWIDE HLTH P Current Caprock Strength Rating: 134.354874
- MDR, MCDERMOTT INT PAN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 58.341206
- ANDE, ANDERSONS INC (TH Current Caprock Strength Rating: 4.495631
- PCU, SOUTHERN COPPER C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 14.524392
- JBHT, JB HUNT TRANS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 26.248028
- INFA, INFORMATICA CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 84.239273
- CENX, CENTURY ALUMINUM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 26.985502
- TEVA, TEVA PHARM INDS A Current Caprock Strength Rating: 40.720695
- CHK, CHESAPEAKE ENERGY Current Caprock Strength Rating: 161.471542
- FWRD, FOWARD AIR CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: -0.111200
- FCX, FREEPORT MCMORAN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 2.827534
- DNEX, DIONEX CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 22.569416
Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited (Aspen Holdings) is a Bermuda-based holding company. Aspen Holdings conducts insurance and reinsurance business through its wholly owned subsidiaries in three jurisdictions: Aspen Insurance UK Limited (Aspen U.K.) in United Kingdom, Aspen Insurance Limited (Aspen Bermuda) in Bermuda and Aspen Specialty Insurance Company (Aspen Specialty) in United States. It operates in the global markets for property and casualty reinsurance, and specialty insurance and reinsurance. The Company also provides commercial property and casualty insurance in the domestic markets of the United States and the United Kingdom. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company wrote $1,818.5 million in gross premiums. The Company operates in four segments: property reinsurance, casualty reinsurance, international insurance and United States insurance.
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.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Wal-Mart) operates retail stores in various formats around the world. The Company earns the trust of its customers every day by providing an assortment of merchandise and services at every day low prices (EDLP), while fostering a culture that rewards and embraces mutual respect, integrity and diversity. Wal-Mart?s operations comprise three business segments: Wal-Mart Stores, Sam?s Club and International. Its Wal-Mart Stores segment is the largest segment of the Company?s business, accounting for 64% of its net sales, during the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008 (fiscal 2008), and operates stores in three different formats in the United States, as well as Wal-Mart?s online retail operations, walmart.com. Its Sam?s Club segment consists of membership warehouse clubs in the United States and the segment?s online retail operations, samsclub.com. Sam?s Club accounted for 11.8% of the Company?s net sales during fiscal 2008.
HCP, Inc. (HCP), formerly Health Care Property Investors, Inc., is a real estate investment trust (REIT) focusing primarily on properties serving the healthcare industry. HCP is a self-administered REIT that invests directly or through joint ventures in healthcare facilities. The Company acquires, develop, lease, dispose and manage healthcare real estate and provide mortgage and other financing to healthcare providers. The Company?s holdings include 753 properties distributed among distinct sectors of healthcare, including senior housing, medical office, life science, hospital and skilled nursing. Its portfolio includes investments in five healthcare segments: senior housing, life science, medical office, hospital and skilled nursing. In August 2007, the Company acquired Slough Estates USA Inc.
Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co (PLDT) is a diversified telecommunications company in the Philippines. The Company operates through three segments: Wireless, Fixed Line, and Information and Communications Technology. The Company offers a range of telecommunications services to approximately 32 million subscribers in the Philippines. The Company is a fixed line service provider in the Philippines with approximately 59% of the total reported fixed line subscribers as of December 31, 2007. Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) it?s wholly owned subsidiary, is the cellular service provider, with approximately 37% of total reported cellular subscribers as of December 31, 2007. In April 2008, Smart acquired a local telecommunications company. Smart acquired the entire issued and outstanding capital stock of PH Communications Holdings Corp. and Francom Holdings Inc., which collectively own 100% of Connectivity Unlimited Resource Enterprise Inc. (CURE).
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 FPL Energy, LLC (FPL Energy). FPL is a rate-regulated utility engaged primarily in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy. FPL Energy is the Company?s competitive energy subsidiary, which produces the majority of its electricity from clean and renewable fuels. FPL Group Capital Inc., 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 FPL Energy. As at December 31, 2007, FPL’s and FPL Energy’s generating assets, together, represented approximately 37,700 megawatt of capacity. FPL FiberNet, LLC, a wholly subsidiary of the Company, provides fiber-optic services to FPL, telecommunications companies and other customers throughout Florida.
Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings is an independent clinical laboratory company in the United States. The Company has a national network of 37 primary laboratories and over 1,600 patient service centers along with a network of branches and STAT laboratories, which are laboratories that have the ability to perform certain routine tests and report the results to the physician immediately. Through its national network of laboratories, the Company offers a range of clinical laboratory tests, which are used by the medical profession in routine testing, patient diagnosis, and in the monitoring and treatment of disease. In addition, the Company has developed specialty testing businesses based on certain types of specialized testing capabilities and client requirements, such as oncology testing, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) genotyping and phenotyping, diagnostic genetics and clinical research trials.
Capstead Mortgage Corporation (Capstead) operates as a self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) that earns income from investing in real estate-related assets on a leveraged basis. These investments consist primarily of a core portfolio of residential adjustable-rate mortgage (ARM) securities issued and guaranteed by government-sponsored entities, either Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), or by an agency of the federal government, Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) (Agency Securities). Capstead may also invest a portion of its investment capital in credit-sensitive commercial real estate-related assets, including subordinate commercial real estate loans.
Nationwide Health Properties, Inc. (NHP) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests primarily in healthcare-related senior housing, long-term care properties and medical office buildings. As of December 31, 2007, the Company had investments in 560 healthcare facilities located in 43 states. Its operations are organized into two segments: triple-net leases and multi-tenant leases. In the triple-net leases segment, NHP invests in healthcare related properties and lease the facilities to unaffiliated tenants. In the multi-tenant leases segment, it invests in healthcare related properties that have several tenants under separate leases. As of December 31, 2007, approximately 93% of NHP?s revenues are derived from its leases, with the remaining 7% from the Company?s mortgage loans and other financing activities.
McDermott International, Inc. is an engineering and construction company with specialty manufacturing and service capabilities and is the parent company of the McDermott group of companies, including J. Ray McDermott, S.A. (JRMSA) and The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W). The Company operates in three business segments: Offshore Oil and Gas Construction, Government Operations and Power Generation Systems. On July 27, 2007, the Company acquired Secunda International Limited. On May 1, 2007, it acquired Marine Mechanical Corporation.
Andersons, Inc. is an entrepreneurial company with diversified interests in the agriculture and transportation markets. The Company operates in five business segments. The Grain and Ethanol Group purchases and merchandises grain, operates grain elevator facilities located in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois and performs grain trading risk management and other services for its customers. The Rail Group sells, repairs, reconfigures, manages and leases railcars and locomotives. The Plant Nutrient Group manufactures and sells dry and liquid agricultural nutrients and distributes nutrients, chemicals, seed and supplies to dealers and farmers. The Turf and Specialty Group produces granular fertilizer products for the professional lawn care and golf course markets and private label fertilizer and corncob-based animal bedding and cat litter. The Retail Group operates six retail stores, a specialty food market and a distribution center in Ohio.
Southern Copper Corporation is an integrated copper producer. The Company produces copper, molybdenum, zinc and silver. All of its mining, smelting and refining facilities are located in Peru and in Mexico, and it conducts exploration activities in those countries and Chile. Southern Copper Corporation?s Peruvian copper operations involve mining, milling and flotation of copper ore to produce copper concentrates and molybdenum concentrates; the smelting of copper concentrates to produce anode and blister copper, and the refining of blister/anode copper to produce copper cathodes. It operates the Toquepala and Cuajone mines high in the Andes mountains. It also operates a smelter and refinery west of the Toquepala and Cuajone mines in the coastal city of Ilo, Peru. Its Mexican operations are conducted through the Company?s subsidiary, Minera Mexico S.A. de C.V. (Minera Mexico). Minera Mexico engages in the mining and processing of copper, molybdenum, zinc, silver, gold and lead.
J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. (JBHT) is a holding company. The Company provides a range of transportation services to customers throughout the continental United States, Canada and Mexico. Through its subsidiaries, the Company offers transportation of full-load freight, which it directly transports in multi-modal arrangements utilizing Company-owned revenue equipment and Company drivers, independent contractors, or third parties. JBHT also provides customized freight movement, revenue equipment, labor and systems services that are tailored to meet individual customers? requirements and involve long-term contracts. These arrangements are referred to as dedicated services and may include multiple pickups and drops, local and home deliveries, freight handling, specialized equipment and network design. JBHT operates in four business segments: intermodal (JBI), dedicated contract services (DCS), full-load dry-van (JBT) and integrated capacity solutions (ICS).
Informatica Corporation (Informatica) is a provider of enterprise data integration, and data quality software and services. Informatica software handles a variety of complex enterprise-wide data integration initiatives, including data migration, data consolidation, data synchronization, data warehousing, establishment of data hubs, data services, cross-enterprise data exchange, and data quality. The Informatica enterprise data integration platform enables and accelerates data integration initiatives, allowing enterprises to meet new business requirements by utilizing cost-effective information technology (IT) systems; to reduce overall IT expenses by extending and adapting IT systems. The Company has also introduced solutions with partners designed to meet the on-demand data needs of the software-as-a-service market. In May 2008, Informatica completed the acquisition of Identity Systems, from Nokia Corporation.
Century Aluminum Company (Century Aluminum) is a holding company engaged in producing aluminium. The Company?s principal subsidiaries are Century Aluminum of West Virginia, Inc. (Century of West Virginia), Berkeley Aluminum, Inc. (Berkeley), Century Kentucky, Inc. (Century Kentucky) and Nordural ehf (Nordural). Century of West Virginia operates a primary aluminium reduction facility in Ravenswood, West Virginia (Ravenswood). Berkeley holds a 49.7% interest in a partnership, which operates a primary aluminium reduction facility in Mt. Holly, South Carolina (Mt. Holly) and a 49.7% undivided interest in the property, plant, and equipment comprising Mt. Holly. The remaining interest in the partnership and the remaining undivided interest in Mt. Holly are owned by Alumax of South Carolina, Inc., a subsidiary of Alcoa (ASC).
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. is a Global pharmaceutical company that develops, produces and markets generic drugs covering all major treatment categories. The Company has an innovative pharmaceutical business, whose principal products are Copaxone for multiple sclerosis and Azilect for Parkinson?s disease, as well as a proprietary specialty pharmaceutical business, which consists primarily of respiratory products. Teva?s active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) business sells to third-party manufacturers and provides vertical integration to Teva?s own pharmaceutical production. Teva?s global operations are conducted in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Israel. Teva has operations in more than 50 countries, as well as 36 pharmaceutical manufacturing sites in 16 countries, 17 generic R&D centers operating mostly within certain manufacturing sites and 18 API manufacturing sites around the world. In July 2008, Teva acquired Bentley Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Chesapeake Energy Corporation is a producer of natural gas in the United States (first among independents). It owns interests in approximately 38,500 producing oil and natural gas wells that are producing approximately 2.2 billion cubic feet equivalent (bcfe), per day, 92% of which is natural gas. Its operations are located in the Mid-Continent region, which includes Oklahoma, Arkansas, southwestern Kansas and the Texas Panhandle; the Forth Worth Basin in north-central Texas; the Appalachian Basin, principally in West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, eastern Ohio and southern New York; the Permian and Delaware Basins of West Texas and eastern New Mexico; the Ark-La-Tex area of East Texas and northern Louisiana, and the South Texas and Texas Gulf Coast regions. In August 2008, Chesapeake announced that it has closed the sale of its Arkoma Basin Woodford Shale assets to BP America Inc.
Forward Air Corporation provides time-definite surface transportation and related logistics services to the North American deferred airfreight market. The Company offers its customers scheduled surface transportation of cargo as an alternative to air transportation. It operates through terminals located in 85 cities on or near airports in the United States and Canada, including a central sorting facility in Columbus, Ohio, and 10 regional hubs serving key markets. During the year ended December 31, 2007, Forward Air Corporation’s age shipment weighed over 720 pounds. The Company offers its customers logistics services, including expedited truckload (TLX); pool distribution; dedicated fleets; local pick-up and delivery; warehousing; customs brokerage; and shipment consolidation, deconsolidation and handling. It markets its services primarily to airfreight forwarders, integrated air cargo carriers, and passenger and cargo airlines.
Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary, Phelps Dodge, and its majority-owned subsidiary, PT Freeport Indonesia, is a copper, gold and molybdenum mining company. In North America, the Company has six operating copper mines: Morenci, Bagdad, Sierrita and Safford in Arizona, and Chino and Tyrone in New Mexico, as well as one operating molybdenum mine: Henderson in Colorado. In South America, the Company has four operating copper mines: Cerro Verde in Peru, and Candelaria, Ojos del Salado and El Abra in Chile. The Company owns a 53.56% interest in Cerro Verde, an 80% interest in both Candelaria and Ojos del Salado and a 5% interest in El Abra. It owns 90.64% of PT Freeport Indonesia, including 9.36% owned through its wholly owned subsidiary, PT Indocopper Investama. The Company also operates Atlantic Copper S.A. (Atlantic Copper). Atlantic Copper?s operations involve the smelting and refining of copper concentrates.
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.