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- CHD, CHURCH DWIGHT CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 95.218185
- UIL, UIL HLDGS CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.508133
- WRE, WASH REAL EST INV Current Caprock Strength Rating: 0.690000
- HCBK, HUDSON CITY BNCP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 395.573456
- WABC, WESTAMERICA BNCP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 62.256195
- R, RYDER SYSTEM INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 121.216743
- ENH, ENDURANCE SPLTY H Current Caprock Strength Rating: 42.870548
- HXM, DESARROLLADORA HO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1.585304
- MTD, METTLER TOLEDO IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 61.375210
- KGC, KINROSS GOLD CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 371.050720
- APD, AIR PRODUCTS CHEM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 83.468361
- TRP, TRANSCANADA CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 55.040035
- LIFC, LIFECELL CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 39.990746
- CLF, CLEVELAND CLIFFS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 237.817490
- NAVG, NAVIGATORS GP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 24.101583
- PBNY, PROVIDENT NEW YOR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 68.846123
- GOLD, RANDGOLD RES LTD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 703.888306
- PACR, PACER INTL INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 2.644479
- WTI, W&T OFFSHORE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 120.783859
- BRS, BRISTOW GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: -0.767635
Church & Dwight Co., Inc. develops, manufactures and markets a range of household, personal care and specialty products under brand names, including ARM & HAMMER and TROJAN. The Consumer Domestic segment includes household products for deodorizing and cleaning, such as ARM & HAMMER baking soda and cat litter, and SCRUB FREE and BRILLO cleaning products; and laundry products, such as XTRA and ARM & HAMMER laundry detergents, OXICLEAN pre-wash laundry additive and XTRA NICE?N FLUFFY fabric softeners. The Consumer International segment primarily sells a variety of personal care products in international markets, including France, the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Spain, Brazil and China. The Specialty Products segment is a producer of sodium bicarbonate, which it sells together with other specialty inorganic chemicals for a variety of industrial, institutional, medical and food applications. This segment also sells a range of animal nutrition and specialty cleaning products.
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, 2007, 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.
Washington Real Estate Investment Trust (WRIT) is a self-administered, self-managed, equity real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company?s business consists of the ownership and development of real properties in the greater Washington metro region. As of December 31, 2007, WRIT owned a diversified portfolio of 89 properties, consisting of 14 retail centers, 25 office properties, 17 medical office properties, 23 industrial/flex properties, 10 multifamily properties encompassing in the aggregate 12.8 million net rentable square feet, and land for development. In September 2008, WRIT acquired The Kenmore, a 374-unit, 270,000 square foot apartment building located in Washington, DC.
Hudson City Bancorp, Inc. (Hudson City Bancorp) serves as the holding company of its only wholly owned subsidiary, Hudson City Savings Bank (Hudson City Savings), a retail savings bank offering traditional deposit products, residential real estate mortgage loans and consumer loans. In addition, it purchases mortgages, mortgage-backed securities, securities issued by the United States Government and government-sponsored agencies and other investments. The Company retains in its portfolio substantially all of the loans it originates. Hudson City Savings? revenues are derived principally from interest on its mortgage loans and mortgage-backed securities, and interest and dividends on its investment securities. City Savings conducts its operations out of its corporate offices in Paramus, Bergen County, New Jersey and through 119 branches in the New York metropolitan area. It operates 91 branches located in 16 counties throughout the State of New Jersey.
Westamerica Bancorporation is a bank holding company that provides a range of banking services to individual and corporate customers in Northern and Central California, through its subsidiary, Westamerica Bank (the Bank). The principal communities served are located in Northern and Central California, from Mendocino, Lake and Nevada Counties in the North to Kern County in the South. The Company focuses on the banking needs of small businesses. The Bank is engaged in the banking business through 86 offices in 21 counties in Northern and Central California including 13 offices in Fresno County, 11 each in Marin and Sonoma Counties, seven in Napa County, five each in Stanislaus, Lake, Contra Costa and Solano Counties, four in Kern, County, three each in Alameda and Sacramento Counties, two each in Mendocino, Nevada, Placer and Tulare Counties, and one each in Merced, San Francisco, Tuolumne, Kings, Madera, and Yolo Counties.
Ryder System, Inc. (Ryder) is a provider of transportation and supply chain management solutions. The Company operates in three segments: Fleet Management Solutions (FMS), which provides full-service leasing, contract maintenance, contract-related maintenance and commercial rental of trucks, tractors and trailers to customers principally in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom; Supply Chain Solutions (SCS), which provides supply chain solutions, including distribution and transportation services throughout North America, and in Latin America, Europe and Asia, and Dedicated Contract Carriage (DCC), which provides vehicles and drivers as part of a dedicated transportation solution in the United States. In September 2008, Ryder announced the completion of acquisition of the full service truck leasing, commercial truck rental and contract maintenance businesses of Gordon Truck Leasing.
Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. (Endurance Holdings) is a holding company. Through its operating subsidiaries based in Bermuda, the United Kingdom and the United States, the Company underwrites specialty lines of personal and commercial property, and casualty insurance and reinsurance on a global basis. Endurance Holdings’ portfolio of specialty lines of business is organized into two segments: Insurance and Reinsurance. Endurance Holdings? seven wholly owned operating subsidiaries are: Endurance Bermuda, Endurance Worldwide Insurance Limited (Endurance U.K.), Endurance Reinsurance Corporation of America (Endurance U.S. Reinsurance), American Agri-Business Insurance Company, Endurance American Insurance Company (Endurance American), Endurance American Specialty Insurance Company (Endurance American Specialty) and American Merchants Casualty Company (American Merchants). In December 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of ARMtech Insurance Services, Inc. and its affiliates.
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.
Mettler-Toledo International Inc. is a global supplier of precision instruments and services. It is a provider of weighing instruments for use in laboratory, industrial and food retailing applications. It is also 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 inline measurement in production processes. In addition, the Company is a supplier of end-of-line inspection systems used in production and packaging for food, pharmaceutical and other industries. Its business is geographically diversified, with net sales during the year ended December 31, 2007, derived 43% from Europe, 38% from North and South America and 19% from Asia and other countries. The Company has five segments: U.S. Operations, Swiss Operations, Western European Operations, Chinese Operations and Other.
Kinross Gold Corporation (Kinross) is engaged in gold mining and related activities, including exploration and acquisition of gold-bearing properties, the extraction and processing of ore, and reclamation of mining properties. Kinross? gold production and exploration activities are carried out in the United States, Brazil, Chile and the Russian Federation. The Company had gold production and exploration activities in Canada up until December 21, 2007, when the Porcupine Joint Venture and Musselwhite Joint Venture were sold as part of the Goldcorp asset swap transactions. Kinross?s operating mines, in which it owns 100% interest, include Fort Knox, Round Mountain, Paracatu, La Coipa, Maricunga and Kettle River. In January 2008, the Company announced it sold its 98.1% stake in Omoloskaya zolotorudnaya kompaniya OAO, gold mining company to Polimetall OAO. In October 2008, Kinross Gold Corporation acquied Aurelian Resources Inc.
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. serves technology, energy, industrial and healthcare customers globally with a portfolio of products, services and solutions that include atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials, equipment and services. It is a supplier of hydrogen and helium, and has built positions in markets, such as semiconductor materials, refinery hydrogen, natural gas liquefaction, and advanced coatings and adhesives. It has six business segments: Merchant Gases, Tonnage Gases, Electronics and Performance Materials, Equipment and Energy, Healthcare and Chemicals. In May 2008, it acquired Goar, Allison & Associates (GAA), Inc. In July 2008, Ashland Inc. purchased the pressure-sensitive adhesive business and the atmospheric emulsions business from the Company. In August 2008, it acquired Harvest Energy Technology, Inc. In September 2008, the Company sold its United States healthcare businesses, A&J Care and COPD Services to Landauer Metropolitan Inc.
TransCanada Corporation (TransCanada) is a North American energy infrastructure company focused on pipelines and energy. At December 31, 2007, Pipelines accounted for approximately 53% of revenues and 73% of TransCanada?s total assets and the Energy business accounted for approximately 47% of revenues and 23% of TransCanada?s total assets. TransCanada?s business segments comprise Pipelines and Energy. Pipelines principally comprise the Company?s pipelines in Canada, the United States and Mexico, and its regulated natural gas storage operations in the United States. Energy includes the Company?s power operations, the non-regulated natural gas storage business and liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects. In August 2008, TransCanada announced that through its subsidiaries, it has acquired KeySpan-Ravenswood, LLC and KeySpan Ravenswood Services Corp. In September 2008, TransCanada acquired Bison Pipeline LLC from Northern Border Pipeline Company.
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Cleveland-Cliffs Inc is an international mining company, a producer of iron ore pellets in North America and a supplier of metallurgical coal to the global steelmaking industry. The Company operates six iron ore mines in Michigan, Minnesota and Eastern Canada, and three coking coal mines in West Virginia and Alabama. Cliffs also owns 80.4% of Portman, an iron ore mining company in Australia, serving the Asian iron ore markets with direct-shipping fines and lump ore. In addition, the Company has a 30% interest in the Amapa Project, a Brazilian iron ore project, and a 45% economic interest in the Sonoma Project, an Australian coking and thermal coal project. It is organized into three business segments: North America Iron Ore, North American Coal and Asia-Pacific Iron Ore. In July 2008, the Company acquired the remaining 30% interest in United Taconite (UTAC), an iron ore mining and pelletizing operation located in Eveleth, Minnesota, from United Mining Co. Ltd.
The Navigators Group, Inc. (Navigators Group) is an international insurance holding company focused on specialty products within the overall property/casualty insurance market. The Company’s underwriting operations consist of insurance company operations and operations at Lloyd’s of London. Its product line includes ocean marine insurance, professional liability insurance and specialty liability insurance. It conducts operations through its insurance company subsidiaries (Insurance Companies) and its operations at Lloyd’s of London (Lloyd’s Operations). The Insurance Companies consist of Navigators Insurance Company, which includes a United Kingdom Branch and Navigators Specialty Insurance Company, which underwrites specialty and professional liability insurance on an excess and surplus lines basis fully reinsured by Navigators Insurance Company. The Company?s Lloyd?s Operations include Navigators Underwriting Agency Ltd. and Lloyd?s of London underwriting agency.
Provident New York Bancorp (Provident Bancorp) is a unitary savings and loan holding company that owns all of the outstanding shares of Provident Bank (the Bank). Provident Bank is a full-service, community-oriented savings bank that provides financial services to individuals and businesses. The Company operates 33 branches that serve the Hudson Valley region, including 32 branches located in Rockland, Orange, Sullivan, Ulster and Putnam Counties in New York, and one branch in Bergen County, New Jersey that operates under the name Towncenter Bank, a division of Provident Bank, New York. The Bank also offers deposit services to municipalities located in the State of New York through Provident Bank’s wholly owned subsidiary, Provident Municipal Bank. Provident Bank offers a line of commercial, community business and retail banking products and services.
Randgold Resources Limited is engaged in gold mining and exploration. Its discoveries as of December 31, 2007, include the 7.5 million ounce Morila deposit in southern Mali, the seven million ounce Yalea deposit at Loulo in western Mali and the four million ounce Tongon deposit in the Cote d?Ivoire. The Company financed and developed the Morila mine, which was brought into production in October 2000, and as of December 31, 2007, has produced approximately 4.75 million ounces of gold. It also financed and developed the Loulo project, which went into production, in November 2005, with two open-pit mines. Randgold Resources? focus is on the discovery and development of gold projects. This is supported by exploration projects in the major gold regions of Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Cote d?Ivoire, Ghana and Tanzania.
Pacer International, Inc. (Pacer International) is a non-asset based North American logistics provider. Using the Company?s information systems, it provides logistics services to numerous Fortune 500 and multi-national companies, including Big Lots, C.H. Robinson, General Electric, Sony, Union Pacific, Toyota and Conagra, which together represented approximately 19.0% of its revenues for the year ended December 28, 2007, as well as to numerous intermodal marketing companies. The Company provides its transportation services from two operating segments, its intermodal segment, which provides services principally to transportation intermediaries, beneficial cargo owners and international shipping companies who utilize intermodal transportation, and its logistics segment, which provides truck brokerage, truck transport (including specialized haulage), supply chain services, freight forwarding, ocean shipping and warehousing and distribution services to a range of end user customers.
W&T Offshore, Inc. (W&T) is an independent oil and natural gas producer, active in the acquisition, exploitation, exploration and development of oil and natural gas properties in the Gulf of Mexico area. The Company holds working interests in approximately 155 producing fields in federal and state waters. It operates wells accounting for approximately 62% of its average daily production. The Company has interests in leases covering approximately 1.7 million acres spanning across the outer continental shelf off the coasts of Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Alabama. It owns interests in approximately 539 offshore structures, of which 340 are platforms in the fields that it operates. W&T maintains these platforms and uses them to separate oil and natural gas produced from nearby wells. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company?s total proved reserves were 638.8 billions of cubic feet equivalent (Bcfe).
Bristow Group Inc. is a provider of helicopter services to the offshore energy industry with global operations. The Company has operations in offshore oil and gas producing regions, including North Sea, the United States Gulf of Mexico, Nigeria and Australia. It generated 76% of its revenues from international operations in fiscal year ended March 31, 2008. The Helicopter Services segment operations are conducted through three divisions, Western Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere and Global Training. Western Hemisphere includes North America, and South and Central America. Eastern Hemisphere includes Europe, West Africa, Southeast Asia, Other International and Eastern Hemisphere (EH) Centralized Operations. Global Training includes Bristow Academy. On November 2, 2007, it sold its Grasso business, which comprised its entire Production Management Services segment. As of March 31, 2008, it operated 406 aircrafts.