26th October 2008

Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings for Selected Stocks

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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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  • CRM, SALESFORCE.COM IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 67.232422
  • salesforce.com, inc. is a provider of software on demand. The Company provides customer relationship management (CRM) service to businesses of all sizes and industries worldwide. Approximately 41,000 customers worldwide use salesforce.com to manage their vital customer, sales and operational data. As of January 31, 2008, its customer base had grown to approximately 41,000 worldwide from approximately 29,800 customers as of January 31, 2007. During the fiscal year ended January 31, 2008 (fiscal 2007), salesforce.com had approximately 1.1 million paying subscriptions. Its on-demand technology platform, Force.com, which was introduced, during fiscal 2007, allows customers and partners to customize and integrate Salesforce CRM applications or build entirely new on-demand applications beyond CRM without having to invest in new software, hardware and related infrastructure. The Company also offers the AppExchange, an online directory for on-demand applications.

  • NYT, N Y TIMES CL A Current Caprock Strength Rating: 10.988705
  • The New York Times Company is a diversified media company, including newspapers, Internet businesses, television and radio stations, and investments in paper mills and other investments. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company operated in two segments: News Media Group and the About Group. In May 2007, the Company closed the sale of its Broadcast Media Group to Oak Hill Capital Partners. During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 (fiscal 2007), the Company also acquired UCompareHealthCare.com, a site that provides consumers with access to quality ratings and related information on hospitals, nursing homes and doctors and ConsumerSearch.com, an online aggregator and publisher of reviews of consumer products.

  • IRM, IRON MOUNTAIN (DE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 99.393646
  • Iron Mountain Incorporated is engaged in information protection and storage services. The Company offers records management and data protection solutions, along with the focus on address complex information challenges, such as rising storage costs, litigation, regulatory compliance and disaster recovery. The Company has a diversified customer base, which consists of commercial, legal, banking, healthcare, accounting, insurance, entertainment and government organizations. As of December 31, 2007, the Company provided services in 37 countries on five continents, employed over 20,000 people and operated over 1,000 records management facilities. In June 2007, the Company announced that it has acquired Accutrac Software, Inc., a provider of records management software and professional services. In November 2007, Iron Mountain Incorporated announced the acquisition of Xepa Digital, LLP.

  • PACR, PACER INTL INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 2.644479
  • 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.

  • HGT, HUGOTON ROYALTY T Current Caprock Strength Rating: 45.132065
  • 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. Effective December 1, 1998, 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. In May 2006, XTO Energy distributed all of its remaining 21.7 million trust units. As of December 31, 2006, 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.

  • UVV, UNIVERSAL CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 31.137901
  • Universal Corporation (Universal) is a leaf tobacco merchant and processor. The Company operates in three reportable segments, North America, Other Regions and Other Tobacco Operations. During the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008 (fiscal 2008), the North America and Other Regions segments was part of the Company?s flue-cured and burley tobacco operations. Its tobacco operations has eight segments: North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Dark Air-Cured, Oriental, and Special Services. North America, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia are primarily involved in flue-cured and/or burley leaf tobacco operations for supply to cigarette manufacturers. Dark Air-Cured supplies dark air-cured tobacco principally to manufacturers of cigars, pipe tobacco, and smokeless tobacco products, and Oriental supplies oriental tobacco to cigarette manufacturers. The remaining non-tobacco businesses, which were not part of the sale of Deli Operations, were sold in fiscal 2008.

  • ARO, AEROPOSTALE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 9.264440
  • Aeropostale, Inc. is a mall-based specialty retailer of casual apparel and accessories. The Company design, market and sell brand of merchandise targeting 14 to 17 year-old young women and young men. Jimmy?Z Surf Co., Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Aeropostale, Inc., is a California lifestyle-oriented brand targeting trend-aware young women and men aged 18 to 25. The Company also sells Aeropostale merchandise through the e-commerce Website, www.aeropostale.com. As of February 2, 2008, the Company operated 828 stores, consisting of 802 Aeropostale stores in 47 states, 12 Aeropostale stores in Canada, and 14 Jimmy?Z stores in 11 states.

  • LMT, LOCKHEED MARTIN C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 126.940300
  • Lockheed Martin Corporation principally researches, designs, develops, manufactures, integrates, operates and sustains advanced technology systems, products, and provides a range of management, engineering, technical, scientific, logistic and information services. It serves both domestic and international customers with products and services that have defense, civil and commercial applications, with its principal customers being agencies of the United States Government. The Company operates in four segments: Aeronautics, Electronic Systems, Information Systems and Global Services (IS&GS) and Space Systems. In September 2008, Lockheed Martin Corporation announced that it has completed its acquisition of Aculight Corporation.

  • AGU, AGRIUM INC. Current Caprock Strength Rating: 430.409576
  • Agrium Inc. (Agrium) is a global producer and marketer of agricultural nutrients, industrial products and specialty products, and a retail supplier of agriculture products and services in North and South America. Agrium produces and markets three primary groups of nutrients: nitrogen, potash, and phosphate, as well as controlled-release products and micronutrients. The Company operates through three business segments. The Retail segment markets crop nutrients, crop protection products, seeds, custom application and other agronomic services to customers through 444 outlets in the United States, Argentina and Chile. The Wholesale segment manufactures, purchases and markets a range of nutrients, including nitrogen-based, potash and phosphate-based crop nutrient products. The Advanced Technologies segment consists of crop nutrient technologies and professional products, including the controlled-release crop nutrient and professional products businesses of Nu-Gro and Pursell Technologies.

  • KNDL, KENDLE INTL INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 19.166256
  • Kendle International Inc. is a global clinical research organization (CRO) that provides a range of Phase I-IV global clinical development services to the biopharmaceutical industry. The Company augments the research and development activities of biopharmaceutical companies by offering clinical research services and information technology designed to reduce drug development time and expense. It delivers integrated clinical development services, including clinical trial management, clinical data management, statistical analysis, medical writing, regulatory consulting and organizational meeting management and publications services on a contract basis. Its Early Stage business focuses on the Company?s Phase I operations, while Late Stage is comprised of clinical development services related to Phases II through IV clinical trials, regulatory affairs and biometrics offerings. In June 2008, the Company announced the acquisition of DecisionLine Clinical Research Corporation.

  • WDC, WESTERN DIGITAL C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 111.287331
  • Western Digital Corporation (WD) designs, develops, manufactures and sells hard drives. It sells its products worldwide to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufactures (ODMs) for use in computer systems, subsystems or consumer electronics (CE) devices, and to distributors, resellers and retailers. The Company?s hard drives are used in desktop computers, notebook computers and enterprise applications, such as servers, workstations, network attached storage, storage area networks and video surveillance equipment. Additionally, its hard drives are used in CE applications, such as digital video recorders, and satellite and cable set-top boxes. It markets its hard drives under brand names, including WD Caviar, WD Raptor, WD VelociRaptor, WD Scorpio, WD Elements, My Passport, My Book, My DVR Expander and GreenPower. On September 5, 2007, WD, through its indirect wholly owned subsidiary, State M Corporation, completed the acquisition of of Komag, Incorporated.

  • EXC, EXELON CORPORATIO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1.499933
  • Exelon Corporation (Exelon) is a utility services holding company. It operates through its principal subsidiaries Exelon Generation Company, LLC (Generation), Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd) and PECO Energy Company (PECO). Generation?s business consists of its owned and contracted electric generating facilities, its wholesale energy marketing operations and its competitive retail sales operations. ComEd?s energy delivery business consists of the purchase and regulated retail and wholesale sale of electricity and the provision of distribution and transmission services to retail customers in northern Illinois, including Chicago. PECO?s energy delivery business consists of the purchase and regulated retail sale of electricity and the provision of transmission and distribution services to retail customers in southeastern Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia, as well as the purchase and regulated retail sale of natural gas to retail customers in the Pennsylvania counties.

  • MM, METAL MGMT INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 145.575363
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  • NYT, N Y TIMES CL A Current Caprock Strength Rating: 10.988705
  • The New York Times Company is a diversified media company, including newspapers, Internet businesses, television and radio stations, and investments in paper mills and other investments. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company operated in two segments: News Media Group and the About Group. In May 2007, the Company closed the sale of its Broadcast Media Group to Oak Hill Capital Partners. During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007 (fiscal 2007), the Company also acquired UCompareHealthCare.com, a site that provides consumers with access to quality ratings and related information on hospitals, nursing homes and doctors and ConsumerSearch.com, an online aggregator and publisher of reviews of consumer products.

  • RTN, RAYTHEON CO (NEW) Current Caprock Strength Rating: 561.782532
  • Raytheon Company designs, develops, manufactures, integrates, supports and provides a range of technologically advanced products, services and solutions for governmental customers in the United States and worldwide. The Company operates through six business segments: Integrated Defense Systems (IDS), Intelligence and Information Systems (IIS), Missile Systems (MS), Network Centric Systems (NCS), Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) and Technical Services (TS). During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company completed the sale of Raytheon Aircraft Company (Raytheon Aircraft) and Flight Options LLC (Flight Options), two former operating commercial aviation businesses. In October 2007, the Company acquired Oakley Networks, Inc., a privately held technology company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, which provides cyber security and data leakage prevention systems. In April 2008, the Company acquired SI Government Solutions. In July 2008, the Company acquired Telemus Solutions, Inc.

  • ENH, ENDURANCE SPLTY H Current Caprock Strength Rating: 42.870548
  • 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.

  • MFA, MFA MTG INVTS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 492.858124
  • MFA Mortgage Investments, Inc. is a real estate investment trust primarily engaged in the business of investing, on a leveraged basis, in mortgage-backed securities (MBS). The Company?s assets consist of hybrid and adjustable-rate MBS (collectively, ARM-MBS) issued or guaranteed by a federally chartered corporation, such as Federal National Mortgage Association or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or an agency of the United States Government, such as the Government National Mortgage Association, ARM-MBS rated by at least one nationally recognized rating agency, and MBS-related receivables and cash. At December 31, 2007, 94.8% of total assets consisted of Agency MBS, 5.1% consisted of non-Agency AAA-rated MBS. Non-Agency MBS rated below AAA unrated, comprised less than 0.1% of its remaining assets. In addition, the Company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries, provides investment advisory services to third-party institutions with respect to their MBS portfolio investments.

  • CDE, COEUR D ALENE CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 29.986561
  • Coeur d?Alene Mines Corporation (Coeur) is a silver producer located in North America and is engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the operation and/or ownership, development and exploration of silver and gold mining properties and companies located primarily within the United States (Nevada and Alaska), South America (Chile, Argentina and Bolivia), Australia (New South Wales), Mexico (Chihuahua) and Africa (Tanzania). The Company, either directly or through wholly owned subsidiaries, owns, leases and has interests in certain exploration-stage mining properties located in the United States, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico and Tanzania. On December 21, 2007, the Company acquired all of the outstanding stock of Bolnisi Gold NL (Bolnisi) and Palmarejo Silver and Gold Corporation (Palmarejo).

  • IHS, IHS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 339.527802
  • IHS Inc. (IHS) is a provider and source of Critical Information and Insight in the global information market. The Company provides information-driven solutions to meet its customers’ needs, which include gaining insight into global energy market movements, managing product lifecycles, meeting growing environmental challenges, and assessing national or corporate security issues. IHS customers range from governments and large multinational corporations to small companies and technical professionals, doing business in more than 180 countries. At the center of its Critical Information products and services is data obtained from public sources, third parties and its own databases. The Company operates through two segments. The Energy segment is focused primarily on the Energy information domain while its Engineering segment is focused primarily on the Product Lifecycle, Security and Environmental information domains. In September 2008, IHS acquired Documental Solutions LLC.

  • KOF, COCA COLA FEMSA S Current Caprock Strength Rating: 130.109680
  • 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; Argentina, Buenos Aires and surrounding areas, and Brazil, the area of greater Sao Paulo, Campinas, Santos, the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and part of the state of Goias. On May 30, 2008, the Company entered into a purchase agreement with The Coca-Cola Company to acquire its wholly owned bottling franchise located in the state of Minas Gerais (Refrigerantes Minas Gerais Ltda., or REMIL) in Brazil. On December 21, 2007, and on May 30, 2008, it sold to The Coca-Cola Company most of its brands.

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