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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- HCN, HEALTH CARE REIT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 49.511654
- DUK, DUKE ENERGY CP HL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 38.342281
- CEO, CNOOC LTD ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 217.421051
- WG, WILLBROS GRP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 17.125874
- CLB, CORE LABS NV Current Caprock Strength Rating: 114.552124
- MMT, M F S MULTIMKT IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 11.363444
- SXT, SENSIENT TECH COR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 87.146660
- KND, KINDRED HEALTHCAR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 8.169164
- INTU, INTUIT INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.931304
- EQT, EQUITABLE RES INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 178.694778
- IAU, ISHARES COMEX GOL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 351.922455
- BKN, BLACKROCK INV MUN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 34.977795
- KNSY, KENSEY NASH CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 20.144695
- UMBF, UMB FIN CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 43.275982
- GIM, TEMPLETON GLOBAL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 100.861855
- NJ, NIDEC CP (NIHON) Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1.335129
- CRA, APPLERA CP-CELERA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 30.164644
- TIP, ISHARES LEHMAN TI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 211.759079
- PDC, PIONEER DRILLING Current Caprock Strength Rating: 7.302444
- TNS, TNS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 44.113876
Health Care REIT, Inc. is an equity real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests across the spectrum of senior housing and health care real estate, including continuing care retirement communities, independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing, hospitals, long-term acute care hospitals and medical office buildings. It also offers an array of property management and development services. As of March 31, 2008, the Company had 646 properties located in 38 states. In May 2007, it completed the acquisition of 17 medical office buildings and Paramount Real Estate Services, a property management company, from affiliates of Rendina Companies.
Duke Energy Corporation (Duke Energy) is an energy company located in the Americas that provides its services through four business units. The Company?s business units are U.S. Franchised Electric and Gas, Commercial Power, International Energy and Duke Energy?s 50% interest in the Crescent Resources joint venture (Crescent JV or Crescent). In May 2007, Duke Energy acquired the wind power development assets of Energy Investor Funds from Tierra Energy. The purchase includes more than 1,000 megawatts of wind assets in various stages of development in the Western and Southwestern United States. On January 2, 2007, Duke Energy completed the spin-off of its natural gas businesses, named Spectra Energy Corp., including its wholly owned subsidiary Spectra Energy Capital, LLC. The natural gas businesses spun off primarily consisted of Duke Energy?s Natural Gas Transmission business segment and Duke Energy?s 50% ownership interest in DCP Midstream, LLC.
CNOOC Limited is a producer of offshore crude oil and natural gas and an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. It mainly engages in oil and natural gas exploration, development, production and sales. The Company has four major oil production areas offshore China: Bohai Bay, western South China Sea, eastern South China Sea and East China Sea. It is an offshore oil producer in Indonesia. The Company also has certain upstream assets in regions, such as Africa and Australia. As of December 31, 2007, the Company owned net proved reserves of approximately 2.6 billion barrels-of-oil (BOE) equivalent and its average daily net production was 469,407 barrels-of-oil equivalent.
Willbros Group, Inc. (Willbros) is an independent international contractor serving the oil, gas and power industries and government entities worldwide. It provides engineering; construction; engineering, procurement and construction (EPC), and specialty services to industry and governmental entities, specializing in pipelines and associated facilities for onshore, coastal and offshore locations. The Company also provides turnaround services, tank services, heater services, construction services and safety services to the downstream oil and gas markets, primarily refineries. It manufactures specialty items for refinery and petrochemical process units. The Company provides, from time to time, asset development, and participates in ownership and operations as an extension of its portfolio of industry services. Willbros operates its business in three segments: Upstream Oil & Gas, Downstream Oil & Gas, and Engineering. On November 20, 2007, Willbros acquired Integrated Service Company LLC.
Core Laboratories N.V. (Core Lab) is a provider of reservoir description, production enhancement and reservoir management services to the oil and gas industry. Core Lab has over 70 offices in more than 50 countries. The Company derives its revenues from services and product sales to clients primarily in the oil and gas industry. Its reservoir optimization services and technologies are interrelated and are organized into three complementary segments: Reservoir Description, which encompasses the characterization of petroleum reservoir rock, fluid and gas samples; Production Enhancement, which includes products and services relating to reservoir well completions, perforations, stimulations and production, and Reservoir Management, which combines and integrates information from reservoir description and production enhancement services.
MFS Multimarket Income Trust (the Trust) is a closed-end fund and maintains a portfolio that includes investments in investment-grade and high-yield corporate bonds, United States Government securities, and international investment-grade and emerging markets debt securities. The Trust’s investment objective is to seek high-current income, but may also consider capital appreciation. During the fiscal year ended October 31, 2007, shares of the Trust provided a total return of 5.19%, at net asset value, underperforming the Multimarket Income Trust Blended Index, the EMBI Global, Government/Mortgage and United States High-Yield indices. The Trust is managed by Massachusetts Financial Services Company (MFS).
Sensient Technologies Corporation is a global manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors and fragrances. The Company?s principal products include flavors, flavor enhancers and bionutrients; fragrances and aroma chemicals; dehydrated vegetables and other food ingredients; natural and synthetic food colors; cosmetic and pharmaceutical additives; technical colors, inkjet colors and inks, and specialty dyes and pigments, and chemicals for laser printing and flat screen displays. The Company?s operations, except for the Asia Pacific Group, are managed on a products and services basis. It operates in two segments: Flavors and Fragrances Group, and the Color Group.
Kindred Healthcare, Inc. is a healthcare services company that through its subsidiaries operates hospitals, nursing centers and a contract rehabilitation services business across the United States. As of December 31, 2007, the Company’s hospital division operated 84 long-term acute care (LTAC) hospitals (6,567 licensed beds) in 24 states. Kindred Healthcare’s health services division operated 228 nursing centers (29,106 licensed beds) in 27 states. The Company also operated a contract rehabilitation services business that provides rehabilitative services primarily in long-term care settings. Kindred Healthcare is organized into three operating divisions: the hospital division, the health services division and the rehabilitation division. The hospital division operates LTAC hospitals. The health services division operates nursing centers. The rehabilitation division provides rehabilitation services primarily in long-term care settings.
Intuit Inc. (Intuit) is a provider of business, financial management solutions for small and medium sized businesses, financial institutions, consumers and accounting professionals. The Company?s flagship products and services, including QuickBooks, Quicken and TurboTax software, enable small business management and payroll processing, personal finance, and tax preparation and filing. It has six business segments: QuickBooks, Payroll and Payments, Consumer Tax, Accounting Professionals, Financial Institutions and Other Businesses. The Company?s Small Business division consists of two segments: QuickBooks segment, and Payroll and Payments segment. The QuickBooks segment includes QuickBooks financial and business management software and services, technical support, financial supplies, and Website design and hosting services for small businesses. In December 2007, Intuit Inc. acquired Homestead Technologies Inc. In February 2008, it acquired Electronic Clearing House Inc.
Equitable Resources, Inc. (Equitable Resources) is an integrated energy company engaged on Appalachian area natural gas activities, including production, gathering and processing, and distribution, transmission, storage and marketing. The Company and its subsidiaries offer energy (natural gas, and a limited amount of natural gas liquids and crude oil) products and services to wholesale and retail customers. The segments of the Company include Equitable Supply and Equitable Utilities. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Equitable Supply segment sold to Pine Mountain Oil and Gas, Inc. (PMOG), a subsidiary of Range Resources Corporation (Range), a portion of the Company?s interests in certain gas properties in the Nora area totaling approximately 74 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of proved reserves. In 2007, the Company purchased an additional working interest of approximately 13.5% in the Roaring Fork area in Virginia and certain gathering assets from a minority interest holder.
BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust, Inc. (the Trust) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Trust’s investment objective is to provide current income exempt from regular federal income tax. BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust, Inc. invests in various sectors, including hospitals, power, education, transportation, housing, water and sewer, tobacco, and industrial and pollution control. The Trust’s investment advisor is BlackRock Advisors, Inc. and its sub-advisor is BlackRock Financial Management, Inc., both of which are wholly owned subsidiaries of BlackRock, Inc.
Kensey Nash Corporation is a medical device company known for product development and technology in the fields of resorbable biomaterials used in a variety of medical procedures and endovascular devices. The Company provides a range of products into multiple medical markets, primarily in the cardiovascular markets, the orthopedic markets of sports medicine, spine and extremities, and the endovascular markets. The Company sells its products through partners and do not sell direct to the end user. On May 30, 2008, the Company completed the sale of its remaining endovascular business, including the ThromCat, QuickCat and SafeCross products, to The Spectranetics Corporation.
UMB Financial Corporation is a financial holding company. The Company owns four commercial banks, a brokerage company, a community development corporation, a consulting company, a mutual fund servicing company and 14 other subsidiaries. The four commercial banks (UMB Bank, n.a., UMB Bank Colorado, n.a., UMB National Bank of America, n.a. and UMB Bank Arizona, n.a.) are engaged in general commercial banking business in the United States. One of the banks is in Missouri, one bank in Kansas, one bank in Colorado and one bank in Arizona. The Company operates in six segments: Commercial Banking and Lending, Payment and Technology Solutions, Banking Services, Consumer Services, Asset Management and Investment Services Group. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the UMB Bank, Warsaw, n.a. based affiliate was merged into the UMB Bank, n.a.
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.
Nidec Corporation (Nidec) is a manufacturer of spindle motors for computer hard disk drives. The Company also produces a variety of other small precision brushless direct current (DC) motors. In addition to spindle motors, Nidec focuses on the production of other small precision brushless DC motors used in high-speed, continuous-duty applications, such as compact disk-read only memory (CD-ROM) drives, CD-read/write (R/W), digital versatile disc (DVD) drives, high-capacity floppy disk drives, as well as in office equipment, such as facsimile machines, laser printers and photocopy machines; brushless DC fans, which are incorporated in computers, game consoles and other electronic equipment to disperse heat and lower the temperature of critical components; mid-size motors used in household appliances, automobiles and industrial equipment; machinery; electronic and optical components, and other products. In April 2007, the Company acquired a 51.7% of Japan Servo Co., Ltd.
Celera Corporation (Celera) is a healthcare business delivering personalized disease management through a combination of products and services. The Company operates in three segments: a clinical laboratory testing service business (Lab Services), a products business (Products), and a segment which includes other activities under corporate management (Corporate). Its Lab Services business, conducted through Berkeley HeartLab, Inc., (BHL), offers a portfolio of clinical laboratory tests and disease management services to help healthcare providers improve cardiovascular disease treatment regimens for patients. Its Products business develops, manufactures, and oversees the commercialization of molecular diagnostic products, which are commercialized through its relationship with Abbott Molecular, a subsidiary of Abbott Laboratories. On July 1, 2008, Celera announced that it has completed its split-off from Applera Corporation.
Pioneer Drilling Company provides contract land drilling services to independent and major oil and gas exploration and production companies. It also provides drilling crews and ancillary equipment needed to operate the drilling rigs. The Company conducts its operations in the United States through its operating subsidiary, Pioneer Drilling Services, Ltd. and it conducts the operations in Colombia through Pioneer de Colombia SDAD, Ltda, Surcusal Colombia. On March 1, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of WEDGE Wireline Services, Inc.(WEDGE Wireline), WEDGE Well Services, L.L.C.(WEDGE Well), WEDGE Fishing & Rental Services, L.L.C.(WEDGDE Fishing), WEDGE Group Incorporated, WEDGE Energy, WEDGE Oil & Gas Services, L.L.C.(WEDGE Oil & Gas).
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.