Caprock Analytics Stock Ratings for Selected Stocks
posted in Stock Screens |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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- BKT, BLACKROCK INCOME Current Caprock Strength Rating: 60.136936
- BMI, BADGER METER INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 50.240925
- BBG, BILL BARRETT CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 99.990746
- WWE, WORLD WRESTLING E Current Caprock Strength Rating: 67.328812
- HCP, HEALTHCARE PROP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 3.127659
- FRO, FRONTLINE LTD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 48.227261
- CTRP, CTRIP.COM INTL LT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 158.403076
- PACR, PACER INTL INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 2.644479
- AGP, AMERIGROUP CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 225.436966
- CSTR, COINSTAR INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 25.980988
- GIM, TEMPLETON GLOBAL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 100.861855
- BXS, BANCORPSOUTH INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.531313
- RRC, RANGE RES CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 499.272614
- CBU, COMMUNITY BK SYS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 98.150024
- FCN, FTI CONSULTING IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 154.865845
- CRM, SALESFORCE.COM IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 67.232422
- HEW, HEWITT ASSOC INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 116.713028
- RTN, RAYTHEON CO (NEW) Current Caprock Strength Rating: 561.782532
- AG, AGCO CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 525.557983
- WIA, WESTERN ASSET/CLA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 144.874588
BlackRock Income Trust Inc. (the Trust) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Trust?s investment objective is to manage a portfolio of high quality securities to achieve high monthly income consistent with the preservation of capital. BlackRock Income Trust Inc.’s portfolio includes agency multiple class mortgage pass-through securities, mortgage pass-through securities, the United States Government and Agency securities, interest only mortgage-backed securities, principal only mortgage-backed securities, inverse floating-rate mortgage securities, Federal Housing Administration securities, corporate bonds, and non-agency multiple class mortgage pass-through securities. The Trust’s investment advisor is BlackRock Advisors, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc.
Badger Meter, Inc. is a manufacturer of flow measurement and control products, serving water utilities, municipalities and industrial customers worldwide. Measuring a variety of liquids, from potable water to oil and lubricants, to industrial processes, the Company?s products provide timely measurement information to its customers. Its product lines fall into two general categories: utility and industrial flow measurement. The utility category comprises residential and commercial water meters that are used by water utilities as the basis for generating water and wastewater revenues. Badger Meter?s industrial products serve a variety of specialty markets, providing flow measurement solutions in industries, such as petroleum, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, concrete, and in chemical processing applications. Common products include Research Control and Series 9000 valves, industrial flow meters, and automotive, insertion, and electromagnetic flow meters.
Bill Barrett Corporation is engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas and crude oil, and all of the Company?s operations are conducted in the United States. The Company began active natural gas and oil operations with the acquisition of properties in the Wind River Basin. It acquired these properties from a subsidiary of the Williams Companies, which acquired these properties in connection with the Williams Companies? acquisition of Barrett Resources Corporation. In June 2007, it sold its Williston Basin properties.
World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) is an integrated media and entertainment company. The Company develops creative content centered on its talent and presented at its live and televised events. Its three brands include Raw, SmackDown and ECW. The Company operates through four segments: Live and Televised Entertainment, Consumer Products, Digital Media and WWE Films.
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.
Frontline Ltd. (Frontline) is engaged primarily in the ownership and operation of oil tankers, including oil/bulk/ore (OBO) carriers. The Company operates tankers of two sizes: very large crude carriers (VLCCs), which are between 200,000 and 320,000 deadweight tons (dwt), and Suezmaxes, which are vessels between 120,000 and 170,000 dwt. As of February 29, 2008, the Company operated a tanker fleet consisting of 76 vessels. The fleet consists of 42 VLCCs, which are either owned or chartered in, 20 Suezmax tankers, which are either owned or chartered in, eight Suezmax OBOs, which are chartered in, and five VLCCs, and one Aframax tanker under its commercial management. In January 2008, the Company established Independent Tankers Corporation Limited (ITCL), as a wholly owned subsidiary for the purpose of holding, by way of contribution, its interests in Independent Tankers Corporation (ITC). In March 2008, Frontline spun off 20% of ITCL to its shareholders.
Ctrip.com International, Ltd. (Ctrip) is a travel service provider for hotel accommodations, airline tickets and packaged-tours in China. The Company also sells packaged-tours that include transportation and accommodations, as well as guided tours in some instances. Ctrip targets its services primarily at business and leisure travelers in China who do not travel in groups. It acts as agent in all of its transactions, and does not take inventory risks with respect to the hotel rooms and airline tickets booked through the Company. It derives its hotel reservation, air-ticketing and packaged-tour revenues through commissions from its travel suppliers, primarily based on the transaction value of the rooms, airline tickets and packaged-tour products, respectively, booked through its services.
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.
AMERIGROUP Corporation is a multi-state managed healthcare company focused on serving people, who receive healthcare benefits through publicly sponsored programs, including Medicaid, State Children?s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), FamilyCare 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 regulatory authority. The Company combines medical, social and behavioral health services to help its members obtain healthcare in an efficient manner. As of December 31, 2007, AMERIGROUP Corporation provided an array of products to approximately 1,711,000 members in the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
Coinstar, Inc. (Coinstar) is a multi-national company offering a range of solutions for retailers? storefronts consisting of self-service coin counting; entertainment services, such as skill-crane machines, bulk vending machines and kiddie rides, and e-payment services, such as money transfer services, prepaid wireless products, stored value cards, payroll cards and prepaid debit cards. In addition, the Company offers self-service digital versatile disc (DVD) kiosks where consumers can rent or purchase movies. As of December 31, 2007, Coinstar owned and operated more than 15,400 coin-counting machines in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom. On January 1, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of GroupEx Financial Corporation, JRJ Express Inc. and Kimeco, LLC (collectively, GroupEx). On January 1, 2008, Coinstar exercised an option to acquire a majority ownership interest in Redbox Automated Retail, LLC.
Templeton Global Income Fund (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end investment company. The Fund seeks current income, with a secondary objective of capital appreciation. The Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in income-producing securities, including debt securities of United States and foreign issuers, including emerging markets. The Fund also has the ability to invest in investment-grade and sub-investment-grade sovereign debt. Its portfolio includes government bonds, municipal bonds and short-term investments. The Fund may purchase or write options. The Fund may invest in the Franklin Institutional Fiduciary Trust Money Market Portfolio (Sweep Money Fund), an open-end investment company managed by the Fund?s investment adviser. The Fund?s investment adviser is Franklin Advisers, Inc.
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.
Range Resources Corporation (Range) is engaged in the exploration, development and acquisition of oil and gas properties, primarily in the Southwestern, Appalachian and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company?s proved reserves comprised 2.2 trillion cubic feet equivalents (Tcfe) of proved reserves; 82% natural gas; 64% proved developed; 77% operated, and a reserve life of 17.7 years. During 2007, Range owned 3,385,000 gross (2,695,000 net) acres of leasehold, including 407,800 acres it also owns a royalty interest. The Company has built a multi-year inventory drilling that is estimated to contain over 11,000 drilling locations, with approximately 8,500 drilling locations in its Appalachian region. In 2007, the Company?s annual production averaged 319 millions of cubic feet equivalent (Mmcfe) per day. In 2007, Range drilled 967 gross wells. In January 2008, Range purchased producing and non-producing Barnett Shale properties.
Community Bank System, Inc. is a single bank holding company, which wholly owns five subsidiaries: Community Bank, N.A. (the Bank), Benefit Plans Administrative Services, Inc. (BPAS), CFSI Closeout Corp. (CFSICC), First of Jermyn Realty Co. (FJRC) and Town & Country Agency LLC (T&C). BPAS owns three subsidiaries, Benefit Plans Administrative Services LLC (BPA), Harbridge Consulting Group LLC and Hand Benefit & Trust Company. BPAS provides administration, consulting and actuarial services to sponsors of employee benefit plans. CFSICC, FJRC and T&C are inactive companies. The Company also wholly owns three unconsolidated subsidiary business trusts established for the purpose of issuing mandatorily redeemable preferred securities, which are considered Tier I capital under regulatory capital adequacy guidelines. On May 18, 2007, BPAS acquired Hand Benefits & Trust, Inc. On June 1, 2007, the Company acquired TLNB Financial Corporation, parent company of Tupper Lake National Bank.
FTI Consulting, Inc. (FTI) is a global consulting firm to organizations confronting the critical legal, financial and reputational issues that shape their futures. Its teams of professionals provide consulting services in many areas, including fraud, damages, lost profits, valuation, anti-trust and anti-competition, accountant?s liability and malpractice, contract disputes, patent infringement, price fixing, solvency and insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, preferences, disclosure statements, trademark and copyright infringement, the financial impact of government regulations, and electronically stored information and repository services. FTI has capabilities in specialized industries, including telecommunications, healthcare, transportation, utilities and energy, chemicals, commercial and investment banking, pharmaceuticals, tobacco, retail and information technology (IT). In March 2008, the Company announced the acquisitions of Brewer Consulting Ltd. and Forensic Accounting LLP.
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.
Hewitt Associates, Inc. (Hewitt) is a global provider of human resource benefits, outsourcing and consulting services. Hewitt?s three business segments: Benefits Outsourcing, Human Resource Business Process Outsourcing (HR BPO) and Consulting, help clients develop, implement, and deliver strategies and programs that for human resources business process design, administration, and technologies, as well as help manage the human elements necessary to acquire, develop, motivate, and retain the talent required to meet business objectives. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, approximately of the Company?s net revenues 50% were generated by its Benefits Outsourcing business, approximately 30% by its Consulting segment and approximately 20% by its HR BPO segment. It has ownership interest in Hewitt Associates LLC that serves as its operating entity in the United States. In September 2007, it acquired RealLife HR. In March 2008, Hewitt acquired New Bridge Street Consultants.
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.
AGCO Corporation (AGCO) manufactures and distributes agricultural equipment and related replacement parts. AGCO sells a range of agricultural equipment, including tractors, combines, self-propelled sprayers, hay tools, forage equipment and implements, and a line of diesel engines. Its products are marketed under a number of brand names, including AGCO, Challenger, Fendt, Gleaner, Hesston, Massey Ferguson, RoGator, Spra-Coupe, Sunflower, Terra-Gator, Valtra and White Planters. AGCO distributes most of its products through a combination of approximately 3,000 independent dealers and distributors in more than 140 countries. In addition, the Company provides retail financing in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and Austria through its finance joint ventures with Cooperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. (Rabobank). On September 10, 2007, the Company acquired Industria Agricola Fortaleza Limitada (SFIL).
Western Asset/Claymore Inflation-Linked Securities & Income Fund (the Fund), formerly Western Asset/Claymore U.S. Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Fund, is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund’s primary investment objective is to provide current income. Its secondary investment objective is capital appreciation.