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• AIQ, ALLIANCE IMAGING Current Caprock Strength Rating: 25.709152

Alliance Imaging, Inc. is a provider of shared-service and fixed-site diagnostic imaging services. The Company?s principal sources of revenue are derived from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography and positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET and PET/CT). It provides imaging and therapeutic services primarily to hospitals and other healthcare providers on a shared-service and full-time service basis. The Company also provides services through a number of fixed sites primarily to hospitals or health systems. The Company?s services normally include the use of its imaging systems, technologists to operate the systems, equipment maintenance and upgrades and management of day-to-day shared-service and fixed-site diagnostic imaging operations. It also provides non scan-based services, which includes only the use of its imaging systems under a short-term contract. In July 2008, the Company acquired Medical Outsourcing Services, LLC.

• CRK, COMSTOCK RES Current Caprock Strength Rating: 88.390938

Comstock Resources, Inc. (Comstock) is engaged in the acquisition, development, production and exploration of oil and natural gas. The Company?s oil and gas operations are concentrated onshore in the east Texas/north Louisiana and south Texas regions and offshore in state and federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Its offshore operations are conducted through Bois d?Arc Energy, Inc. (Bois d?Arc Energy). Comstock?s oil and natural gas properties have proved reserves of 1,048.7 billion cubic feet equivalent (Bcfe). Its consolidated proved oil and natural gas reserve base is 80% natural gas and 68% proved developed on a Bcfe basis as of December 31, 2007. In June 2007 Comstock acquired additional working interests in oil and gas properties in the Javelina field in South Texas from Abaco Operating LLC. In August 2008, the Company announced that its 49% interest in its subsidiary, Bois d?Arc Energy, was acquired by Stone Energy Corporation.

• FCX, FREEPORT MCMORAN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 2.827534

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.

• AHL, ASPEN INSURANCE H Current Caprock Strength Rating: 101.554764

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.

• ACV, ALBERTO-CULVER CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 200.841766

Alberto-Culver Company (New Alberto-Culver), through its subsidiaries, operates two segments: Consumer Packaged Goods and Cederroth International. The Consumer Packaged Goods business, formerly Alberto-Culver Consumer Products Worldwide, develops, manufactures, distributes and markets branded beauty care products, as well as branded food and household products in the United States and more than 100 other countries. Cederroth International manufactures, markets and distributes beauty and healthcare products throughout Scandinavia and in other parts of Europe. Prior to November 16, 2006, New Alberto-Culver also operated a beauty supply distribution business, which included two segments: Sally Beauty Supply and Beauty Systems Group. These two segments comprised Sally Holdings, Inc. (Sally Holdings), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company.

• UFCS, UNITED FIRE CASUA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 30.556551

United Fire & Casualty Company (United Fire) is engaged in the business of writing property and casualty insurance, and life insurance. The Company operates in two segments: property and casualty insurance, and life insurance. The property and casualty insurance segment markets forms of commercial and personal property, and casualty insurance products, including surety bonds and reinsurance. The Company is licensed as a property and casualty insurer in 42 states, primarily in the Midwest, West and South and is represented by 865 independent agencies. The Company?s life insurance subsidiary is licensed in 28 states, primarily in the Midwest and West and is represented by 927 independent agencies. United Fire focuses on its commercial lines, which represented 92.6% of its property and casualty premiums written for the year ended December 31, 2007. United Fire?s principal life insurance products are single premium annuities, universal life products and traditional life products.

• OSIP, OSI PHARMACEUTIC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 50.800850

OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OSI) is a biotechnology company primarily focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of molecular targeted therapies addressing unmet medical needs in oncology, diabetes and obesity. The Company’s primary focus is oncology and its flagship product is Tarceva (erlotinib), a small molecule inhibitor of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. also has research and development programs in diabetes and obesity, which are conducted through Prosidion Limited, the Company’s United Kingdom subsidiary. In October 2007, Roche Holding Ltd. and OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that Tarceva (erlotinib) has been approved in Japan for the treatment of patients with nonresectable, recurrent and advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), which is aggravated following chemotherapy.

• BTI, BRITISH AMER TOB Current Caprock Strength Rating: 195.369827

British American Tobacco PLC is a holding company that owns, directly or indirectly, investments in the numerous companies constituting the British American Tobacco Group of companies. The Company is an international tobacco company engaged in the sale of cigarettes, cigars, leaf and other tobacco products. It produces and markets a diverse range of brands to suit consumers? preferences, with a particular focus on its four Global Drive Brands (GDBs), which are Dunhill, Kent, Lucky Strike and Pall Mall. Its cigar portfolio includes the handmade Dunhill Signed Range. The Company has over 300 brands in its portfolio and its brands are sold in over 180 markets. In June 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of the cigarette business assets of Tekel, a Turkish state-owned tobacco company. In July 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of the cigarette businesses of Skandinavisk Tobakskompagni A/S (ST) and certain snus and roll-your-own tobacco interests.

• IIF, MS INDIA INV FD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 42.700409

The Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s investment objective is long-term capital appreciation through investments primarily in equity securities of Indian Issuers. The Fund’s investment advisor is Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. The Fund invests in various holdings, including electrical equipment, commercial banks, information technology services, construction materials, wireless telecommunication services and short-term investments.

• WDR, WADDELL&REED FIN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 102.671936

Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc. conducts business through its subsidiaries, and primarily provides investment management, investment product underwriting and distribution, and shareholder services administration to mutual funds and institutional and separately managed accounts. The Company sells its investment products through three distribution channels: the Advisors channel, the Wholesale channel and the Institutional channel. In the Advisors channel, its sales force consists of 2,293 financial advisors, who focus their efforts primarily on the sale of investment products advised by the Company. The Advisors channel’s primary market is middle income and mass affluent individuals, families and businesses across the United States.

• DLB, DOLBY LABORATORIE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 247.120453

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. develops and delivers products and technologies that improve the entertainment experience. The Company?s technologies are used in digital versatile disc (DVD) players and personal computer DVD playback software, digital televisions and portable electronic devices, and also in a variety of consumer electronic products, such as gaming systems and audio/video receivers. Dolby cinema products are used in movie theatres around the world. Dolby broadcast products distribute audio around the world. The Company delivers technologies, products and services at each stage of the entertainment chain, content creation, content distribution and content playback. In April 2007, the Company acquired Brightside Technologies Inc. On November 9, 2007, the Company acquired Coding Technologies AB, a privately held provider of audio compression technologies for the mobile, digital broadcast and Internet markets.

• MIN, M F S INTRMDT INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 386.896362

MFS Intermediate Income Trust (the Trust) is a closed-end management investment company. The Trust?s investment objective is to seek high current income. The Trust maintains a portfolio that includes investments in short and intermediate-term United States Government and foreign high-grade securities. Its assets are primarily invested in investment-grade debt instruments. The Trust may invest its assets in United States and foreign securities, including emerging market securities. It may also invest in mortgage dollar rolls. Its portfolio includes non-United States Government bonds, mortgage-backed securities, the United States Government agency securities, the United States Treasury securities, emerging market bonds, commercial mortgage-backed securities, residential mortgage-backed securities and high-grade corporate securities. The Trust’s investment advisor is Massachusetts Financial Services Company.

• ICLR, ICON PLC ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 865.258606

ICON plc is a contract research organization (CRO), providing outsourced development services on a global basis to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. The Company specializes in the development, management and analysis of programs that support clinical development, from compound selection to Phase I-IV clinical studies. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company operated 67 locations in 36 countries, providing Phase I-IV clinical trial management, drug development support services, data management and biostatistics and central laboratory and imaging services. During 2007, it commenced operations in Prague, Czech Republic; Kiev, Ukraine; Bucharest, Romania; Auckland, New Zealand; Osaka, Japan; Lima, Peru, and San Antonio, United States of America. On July 12, 2007, the Company acquired 100% of the common stock of DOCS International BV, a European-based clinical research staffing organization.

• FCL, FOUNDATION COAL H Current Caprock Strength Rating: 137.504166

Foundation Coal Holdings, Inc. (Foundation Coal) is a coal producer in the United States that operates a group of 13 mines located in Wyoming, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company sold 73.6 million tons of coal, including 71.8 million tons that were produced and processed at its operations. As of December 31, 2007, it had approximately 1.6 billion tons of proven and probable coal reserves. Foundation Coal is also involved in marketing coal produced by others to supplement its own production. The Company is primarily a supplier of steam coal to United States utilities for use in generating electricity. It also sells steam coal to industrial plants. Steam coal sales accounted for 97% of its coal sales volume and 89% of its coal sales revenue in 2007. The Company also sells metallurgical coal to steel producers; metallurgical sales accounted for 3% of its coal sales volume and 11% of its coal sales revenue in 2007.

• UPL, ULTRA PETROLEUM C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 127.758949

Ultra Petroleum Corp. (Ultra) is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the development, production, operation, exploration and acquisition of oil and natural gas properties. The Company?s operations are primarily in the Green River Basin of southwest Wyoming. The Company continually evaluates other opportunities for the acquisition, exploration and development of oil and natural gas properties. As of December 31, 2007, Ultra owns interests in approximately 121,652 gross (62,756 net) acres in Wyoming covering approximately 230 square miles. The Company owns an interest in approximately 676 gross producing wells in this area and is operator of approximately 50% of the 676 gross wells. The Company owns interests in 252,629 gross acres in Pennsylvania. On October 22, 2007, the Company sold Sino-American Energy Corporation (Sino-American), which owned its Bohai Bay assets in China.

• PTY, PIMCO CP OPPORTUN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 67.936417

PIMCO Corporate Opportunity Fund (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to seek total return through a combination of current income and capital appreciation in a diversified portfolio of United States dollar-denominated corporate debt obligations of varying maturities and other income producing securities. These include corporate bonds, debentures, notes and other similar types of corporate debt instruments. It focuses on corporate debt obligations rated in the lowest investment-grade category (Baa or BBB) and in the highest non-investment-grade category (Ba or BB). It invests in residual interest municipal bonds and residual interest tax exempt bonds (inverse floaters), whose interest rates bear an inverse relationship to the interest rate on another security or the value of an index. The FundG??s investment manager is Allianz Global Investors Fund Management LLC. Its sub-advisor is Pacific Investment Management Company LLC.

• PGH, PENGROWTH EGY UTS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 14.609730

Pengrowth Energy Trust (the Trust) is a Canada-based closed-end investment trust. The purpose of the Trust is to directly and indirectly explore for, develop and hold interests in petroleum and natural gas properties, through investments in securities, royalty units, net profits interests and notes issued by subsidiaries of the Trust. The activities of Pengrowth Corporation (the Corporation) and its subsidiaries are financed by issuance of royalty units and interest bearing notes to the Trust and third party debt. The Trust owns all of the royalty units and 91% of the common shares of the Corporation. The Corporation directly and indirectly acquires, owns and manages working interests and royalty interests in oil and natural gas properties. The Trust owns all of the issued and outstanding shares of Esprit Exploration Ltd. The Trust and the Corporation are managed by Pengrowth Management Limited.

• 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.

• DCM, NTT DOCOMO ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 14.530607

NTT DoCoMo, Inc. (DoCoMo) is a mobile telecommunications services provider and a cellular phone service operator. The Company offers a range of telecommunications services, such as third generation (3G) and second generation (2G) cellular services, and other specialized wireless telecommunications services, including satellite telephone services. As of March 31, 2008, 47.99 million cellular subscriptions had signed up for i-mode services. i-mode is an optional service available to cellular voice subscribers offered on its nationwide 2G and 3G networks, which allows users to send and receive e-mail, access online services, including banking services and airline and ticket reservations, access an array of information from i-mode servers and execute and settle retail transactions directly through their handsets. The Company terminated terminated Personal Handyphone System (PHS) services on January 7, 2008.

• 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.

• AIZ, ASSURANT INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 147.249084

Assurant, Inc. (Assurant) is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the Company provides specialized insurance products and related services in North America and selected international markets. Assurant provides creditor-placed homeowners insurance, manufactured housing homeowners insurance, debt protection administration, credit insurance, warranties and extended service contracts, individual health and small employer group health insurance, group dental insurance, group disability insurance, group life insurance and pre-funded funeral insurance. Assurant operates through five segments: Assurant Solutions, Assurant Specialty Property, Assurant Health, Assurant Employee Benefits, and Corporate and Other. The Corporate and Other segment includes activities of the holding company. On October 1, 2007, it acquired Centrepoint Insurance Services Limited. On July 12, 2007, the Company acquired Swansure Group. On July 1, 2007, Assurant acquired Mayflower National Life Insurance Company.

• USB, US BANCORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 44.086376

U.S. Bancorp and its subsidiaries is a multi-state financial services holding company. The Company provides financial services, including lending and depository services in 24 states. It provides credit card, merchant, and automated teller machine (ATM) processing, mortgage banking, insurance, trust and investment management, brokerage, and leasing activities in domestic markets. The Company?s segments include Wholesale Banking, Consumer Banking, Wealth Management & Securities Services, Payment Services, and Treasury and Corporate Support. The banking subsidiaries are engaged in the general banking business in domestic markets. The non-banking subsidiaries offer investment and insurance products to customers and mutual fund processing services to a range of mutual funds. In August 2008, Elavon, formerly NOVA Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp, announced that it has acquired substantially all of the merchant processing portfolio of Capital City Bank.

• AIQ, ALLIANCE IMAGING Current Caprock Strength Rating: 25.709152

Alliance Imaging, Inc. is a provider of shared-service and fixed-site diagnostic imaging services. The Company?s principal sources of revenue are derived from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography and positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET and PET/CT). It provides imaging and therapeutic services primarily to hospitals and other healthcare providers on a shared-service and full-time service basis. The Company also provides services through a number of fixed sites primarily to hospitals or health systems. The Company?s services normally include the use of its imaging systems, technologists to operate the systems, equipment maintenance and upgrades and management of day-to-day shared-service and fixed-site diagnostic imaging operations. It also provides non scan-based services, which includes only the use of its imaging systems under a short-term contract. In July 2008, the Company acquired Medical Outsourcing Services, LLC.

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• XRAY, DENTSPLY INTL INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 34.091137

DENTSPLY International Inc. (DENTSPLY) is a designer, developer, manufacturer and marketer of a range of products for the dental market. The Company?s principal dental product categories are dental consumables, dental laboratory products and dental specialty products. Sales of DENTSPLY?s dental products accounted for approximately 97% of its net sales, excluding precious metal content, during the year ended December 31, 2007. The remaining 3% of consolidated sales are related to materials sold to the investment casting industry and various medical products. As of December 31, 2007, the Company conducted its business through four operating segments, all of which were primarily engaged in the design, manufacture and distribution of dental products in three principal categories: dental consumables, dental laboratory products and dental specialty products. DENTSPLY conducts its business in over 120 foreign countries, principally through its foreign subsidiaries.

• PBNY, PROVIDENT NEW YOR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 68.846123

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.

• XEC, CIMAREX ENERGY CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 83.668793

Cimarex Energy Co. is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. The Company’s operations are mainly located in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, Louisiana and Wyoming. Proved oil and gas reserves as of December 31, 2007, totaled nearly 1.5 trillion cubic feet equivalent (Tcfe), consisting of 1.1 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of gas and 58.3 million barrels of oil and natural gas liquids. Of total proved reserves, 76% are gas and 79% are classified as proved developed. The Company operates the wells that account for 82% of its total proved reserves and approximately 79% of production. The Company?s operations are focused in the Mid-Continent region, which consists of Oklahoma, the Texas Panhandle and southwest Kansas; the Permian Basin region of west Texas and southeast New Mexico, and the Gulf Coast areas of Texas, south Louisiana, and offshore Louisiana. It also has operations in Michigan and Wyoming.

• 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.

• GNA, GERDAU AMERISTEEL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 48.507683

Gerdau Ameristeel Corporation (Gerdau Ameristeel) is a minimill steel producer in North America with an annual manufacturing capacity of 12 million tons of mill finished steel products. Through its vertically integrated network of 19 mills (including one 50%-owned minimill), 19 scrap recycling facilities and 61 downstream operations, the Company primarily serves customers throughout the United States and Canada. The Company’s operations are segmented into two operating divisions: minimills and downstream operations. Gerdau Ameristeel conducts its operations directly and indirectly through subsidiaries and joint ventures in Canada and the United States. In October 2007, Gerdau Ameristeel acquired Enco Materials, Inc. In September 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of Chaparral Steel Company. In April 2008, the Company announced that Pacific Coast Steel (PCS), a majority-owned Gerdau Ameristeel joint venture, acquired all the assets of Century Steel, Inc.

• JNJ, JOHNSON AND JOHNS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 8.617534

Johnson & Johnson is engaged in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the healthcare field. Johnson & Johnson has more than 250 operating companies. The Company operates in three segments: Consumer, Pharmaceutical, and Medical Devices and Diagnostics. Sales of the Company’s two largest products, RISPERDAL and REMICADE, accounted for approximately 6% and 5% of Johnson & Johnson?s total revenues, respectively, during the fiscal year ended December 30, 2007 (fiscal 2007). During fiscal 2007, the Company acquired three companies: Conor Medsystems, Inc., which is a cardiovascular device company, with new drug delivery technology; Robert Reid, Inc., which is a Japanese orthopedic product distributor, and Maya?s Mom, Inc., which is a social media company.

• WYNN, WYNN RESORTS LTD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 11.379389

Wynn Resorts, Limited (Wynn Resorts) is a developer, owner and operator of destination casino resorts. It owns and operates two destination casino resorts: Wynn Las Vegas, on the Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Wynn Macau, located in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People?s Republic of China (Macau). The Company is also constructing Encore Suites at Wynn Las Vegas (Encore) and Wynn Diamond Suites at Wynn Macau. The Company?s segments include Wynn Las Vegas, which includes Encore, and Wynn Macau.

• XRTX, XYRATEX LTD. Current Caprock Strength Rating: 7.393254

Xyratex Limited (Xyratex) is a provider of modular enterprise-class data storage solutions and storage process technology. The Company designs, develops and manufactures enabling technology that provides the customers with data storage products to support high-performance storage and data communication networks. The segments of the Company include Networked Storage Solutions (NSS) and Storage Infrastructure (SI). The NSS products provide modular, highly scalable, high-speed, high-density, reliable and flexible data storage. The SI products include disk drive production test systems, process automation for disk drive and solar panel manufacturing, servo track writers and disk cleaning systems. Xyratex sells its NSS products to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and SI products to disk drive manufacturers or their component suppliers.

• INTU, INTUIT INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.931304

Intuit Inc. is a provider of business, financial management solutions for small and medium sized businesses, financial institutions, including banks and credit unions, 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, Professional Tax, Financial Institutions and Other Businesses. The Company?s Small Business division consists of two segments: QuickBooks segment and Payroll and Payments segment. In August 2007, the Company sold its Intuit Distribution Management Solutions business. In March 2007, the Company sold its Complete Payroll and Premier Payroll Service businesses to Automatic Data Processing, Inc. In February 2008, the Company acquired Electronic Clearing House Inc.

• ZOLL, ZOLL MEDICAL CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 15.852735

ZOLL Medical Corporation (ZOLL) develops technologies and software that help clinicians, emergency medical services (EMS) personnel and lay rescuers advance the practice of resuscitation. ZOLL’s Line of resuscitation products includes professional defibrillators, automated external defibrillator (AED), AutoPulse Non-invasive Cardiac Support Pump, information management, fluid replacement and disposable electrodes. On September 18, 2007, the Company acquired certain assets from Radiant Medical, Inc. (Radiant), a private medical technology company developing endovascular temperature therapy products. On April 10, 2006, ZOLL completed the acquisition of Lifecor, Inc. (Lifecor), a privately owned medical equipment company that designs, manufactures and markets a wearable external defibrillator system (LifeVest), and formed the subsidiary ZOLL Lifecor Corporation to manufacture and market wearable external defibrillator systems.

• PCN, PIMCO CORP INC FD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.610695

PIMCO Corporate Income Fund (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s primary investment objective is to seek high current income with capital preservation and capital appreciation as secondary objectives by investing at least 80% of its total assets in a diversified portfolio of United States dollar-denominated corporate debt obligations of varying maturities and other income-producing securities. The Fund may purchase and write (sell) put and call options. The Fund invests in residual interest municipal bonds (RIBs) and residual interest tax-exempt bonds (RITEs) (inverse floaters), whose interest rates bear an inverse relationship to the interest rate on another security or the value of an index. The Fund?s investment manager is Allianz Global Investors Fund Management LLC, an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Allianz Global Investors of America L.P. The Fund?s sub-advisor is Pacific Investment Management Company LLC.

• MC, MATSUSHITA EL IND Current Caprock Strength Rating: 20.698673

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Matsushita) is engaged in the production and sales of electronic and electric products in an array of business areas. It offers a range of products, systems and components for consumer, business and industrial use. Most of the Company?s products are marketed under the Panasonic brand name worldwide, along with other product, or region, specific brand names, including National primarily for home appliances and household electric equipment sold in Japan, and Technics for certain high-fidelity products. Some of its subsidiaries also use their own brand names, such as PanaHome. The Company?s segments comprise audiovisual connection (AVC) networks, home appliances, components and devices, Matsushita Electric Works, Ltd. (MEW) and PanaHome Corporation (PanaHome), and others. In August 2007, Victor Company of Japan Ltd. (JVC) and its consolidated subsidiaries became associated companies from Matsushita?s consolidated subsidiaries.

• MM, METAL MGMT INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 145.575363

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• FMC, F M C CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 349.872070

FMC Corporation is a diversified, global chemical company providing solutions, applications and products to a variety of end markets. The Company operates in three segments. Its Agricultural Products segment focuses on insecticides, which are used to enhance crop yield and quality by controlling a pests, and on herbicides, which are used to reduce the need for manual or mechanical weeding. Specialty Chemicals consists of FMC?s BioPolymer and lithium businesses, and focuses on food ingredients, pharmaceutical additives for binding, encapsulation and disintegrant applications, ultrapure technologies for medical devices and lithium specialties for pharmaceutical synthesis, specialty polymers and energy storage. Its Industrial Chemicals segment manufactures a range of inorganic materials, including soda ash, hydrogen peroxide, specialty peroxygens and phosphorus chemicals. In February 2008, the Company sold its European subsidiary, FMC Foret, S.A. (Foret)?s sodium sulfate assets.

• NUE, NUCOR CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 80.432022

Nucor Corporation is engaged in the manufacture and sale of steel and steel products. The Company operates in two business segments: steel mills and steel products. Principal products from the steel mills segment include hot-rolled steel and cold-rolled steel. Steel mills segment?s hot-rolled steel products include angles, rounds, flats, channels, sheet, wide-flange beams, pilings, billets, blooms, beam blanks and plate. Principal products from the steel products segment include steel joists and joist girders, steel deck, cold finished steel, steel fasteners, metal building systems and light gauge steel framing. In March 2008, Nucor Corporation completed the acquisition of SHV North America Corporation, which owns 100% of The David J. Joseph Company (DJJ) and related affiliates. In April 2008, Nucor Corporation completed the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Metal Recycling Services Inc. MRS will operate under the name, Metal Recycling Services, LLC.

• KWK, QUICKSILVER RES I Current Caprock Strength Rating: 213.799698

Quicksilver Resources Inc. (Quicksilver) is an independent oil and gas company. The Company is primarily engaged in the development, exploitation, exploration, acquisition and production and sale of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and crude oil. It is also involved in the marketing, processing and transmission of natural gas. Quicksilver owns natural gas and oil properties in the United States, principally in Texas, Wyoming and Montana, and in Canada, principally in Alberta. As of December 31, 2007, the Company had total proved reserves of approximately 1.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas equivalents (Tcfe). It owns approximately 73% of Quicksilver Gas Services LP, a midstream master limited partnership. The Company also owns approximately 32% of the limited partner units of BreitBurn Energy Partners L.P. The Company previously held properties in Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky (Northeast Operations), which were divested to BreitBurn on November 1, 2007.

• UFCS, UNITED FIRE CASUA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 30.556551

United Fire & Casualty Company (United Fire) is engaged in the business of writing property and casualty insurance, and life insurance. The Company operates in two segments: property and casualty insurance, and life insurance. The property and casualty insurance segment markets forms of commercial and personal property, and casualty insurance products, including surety bonds and reinsurance. The Company is licensed as a property and casualty insurer in 42 states, primarily in the Midwest, West and South and is represented by 865 independent agencies. The Company?s life insurance subsidiary is licensed in 28 states, primarily in the Midwest and West and is represented by 927 independent agencies. United Fire focuses on its commercial lines, which represented 92.6% of its property and casualty premiums written for the year ended December 31, 2007. United Fire?s principal life insurance products are single premium annuities, universal life products and traditional life products.

• VVC, VECTREN CORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 25.719864

Vectren Corporation (Vectren) is an energy holding company. The Company?s wholly owned subsidiary, Vectren Utility Holdings, Inc. (Utility Holdings), serves as the intermediate holding company for three operating public utilities: Indiana Gas Company, Inc. (Indiana Gas or Vectren North), Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company (SIGECO or Vectren South), and the Ohio operations (VEDO or Vectren Ohio). Utility Holdings also has other assets that provide information technology and other services to the three utilities. Indiana Gas provides energy delivery services to over 568,000 natural gas customers located in central and southern Indiana. SIGECO provides energy delivery services to over 141,000 electric customers and approximately 112,000 gas customers located near Evansville in southwestern Indiana. SIGECO also owns and operates electric generation to serve its electric customers and optimizes those assets in the wholesale power market.

• FCN, FTI CONSULTING IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 154.865845

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.

• HSIC, HENRY SCHEIN INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 151.201889

Henry Schein, Inc. is a distributor of healthcare products and services primarily to office-based healthcare practitioners in the combined North American and European markets. The Company serves more than 550,000 customers worldwide, including dental practitioners and laboratories, physician practices and animal health clinics, as well as government and other institutions. The Company has operations in the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The Company conducts its business through two segments: healthcare distribution and technology. Effective September 29, 2007, it acquired Software of Excellence International Ltd., a provider of clinical and practice management solutions. On August 29, 2007, it acquired W&J Dunlop, Ltd. In April 2008, the Company acquired Minerva Dental Limited.

• PHI, PHILIPPINE LG DS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 404.734253

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).

• OSIP, OSI PHARMACEUTIC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 50.800850

OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OSI) is a biotechnology company primarily focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of molecular targeted therapies addressing unmet medical needs in oncology, diabetes and obesity. The Company’s primary focus is oncology and its flagship product is Tarceva (erlotinib), a small molecule inhibitor of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. also has research and development programs in diabetes and obesity, which are conducted through Prosidion Limited, the Company’s United Kingdom subsidiary. In October 2007, Roche Holding Ltd. and OSI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that Tarceva (erlotinib) has been approved in Japan for the treatment of patients with nonresectable, recurrent and advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), which is aggravated following chemotherapy.

• NWN, NORTHWEST NAT GAS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 29.835892

Northwest Natural Gas Company, doing business as NW Natural, is principally engaged in the distribution of natural gas in Oregon and southwest Washington. The Company’s has three business segments: local gas distribution, gas storage and other. Local gas distribution also referred to as the utility, which involves purchasing gas from producers, transporting the gas over interstate pipelines from the supply basins to its service territory, and reselling the gas to customers at rates and terms approved by the Oregon Public Utility Commission (OPUC) or by the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission (WUTC). The gas storage business segment includes NW Natural?s underground natural gas storage services to interstate and intrastate customers using NW Natural?s storage and related transportation capacity that is in excess of core utility customer requirements.

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• FE, FIRSTENERGY CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 124.292145

FirstEnergy Corp. (FirstEnergy) is principally a holding company that holds, directly or indirectly, eight principal electric utility operating subsidiaries: Ohio Edison Company (OE), The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (CEI), The Toledo Edison Company (TE), Pennsylvania Power Company (Penn), American Transmission Systems, Inc. (ATSI), Jersey Central Power & Light Company (JCP&L), Metropolitan Edison Company (Met-Ed) and Pennsylvania Electric Company (Penelec). The Company?s revenues are primarily derived from electric service provided by its utility operating subsidiaries and the revenues of its other principal subsidiary, FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. FirstEnergy also holds all the common stock of other direct subsidiaries, including FirstEnergy Properties, Inc., FirstEnergy Ventures Corp., FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company, FirstEnergy Securities Transfer Company, GPU Diversified Holdings, LLC, GPU Telecom Services, Inc., GPU Nuclear, Inc. and FirstEnergy Service Company.

• IDXX, IDEXX LABS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.505745

IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (IDEXX) develops, manufactures and distributes products, and provides services primarily for the veterinary, and the food and water testing markets. IDEXX?s primary products and services includes point-of-care veterinary diagnostic products, comprising rapid assays and instruments and consumables; laboratory and consulting services used by veterinarians; information products and services, and digital radiography systems used by veterinarians, and veterinary pharmaceutical products. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company operated through three segments: products and services for the veterinary market, which it refers to as Companion Animal Group; water quality products (Water), and products for production animal health, which it refers to as the Production Animal Segment (PAS). It also has two smaller segments that comprise products for dairy quality (Dairy), and products for the human medical diagnostic market (OPTI Medical).

• ANSS, ANSYS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 122.079567

ANSYS, Inc. (ANSYS) develops and globally markets engineering simulation software and services used by engineers and designers across a range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, electronics, biomedical and defense. The Company focuses on the development of open and flexible solutions that enable users to analyze designs directly on the desktop, providing a common platform for product development, from design concept to final-stage testing and validation. ANSYS distributes its ANSYS suite of simulation technologies, including ANSYS Workbench, ANSYS CFX, ANSYS ICEM CFD, ANSYS AUTODYN and ANSYS FLUENT products, through a global network of channel partners and direct sales offices in global locations. On May 1, 2006, ANSYS completed its acquisition of Fluent Inc. (Fluent), a global provider of computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based, computer-aided engineering software and services. In July 2008, ANSYS completed the acquisition of Ansoft Corporation.

• FPL, F P L GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.367302

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.

• MANT, MANTECH INTL CP A Current Caprock Strength Rating: 174.232559

ManTech International Corporation (ManTech) is a provider of technologies and solutions for mission-critical national security programs for the Intelligence Community, Departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security and Justice, and other United States federal government agencies. The Company?s expertise includes engineering, systems integration, software services, enterprise architecture, information assurance and security architecture, intelligence operations and analysis support, network and critical infrastructure protection, information operations and computer forensics, information technology (IT), communications integration and engineering support and global logistics and supply chain management. ManTech organizes its offerings into four basic categories: Information Technology Solutions, Intelligence Analysis & Mission Operations, Systems Engineering & Integration Solutions, and Global Logistics & Supply Chain Management. On December 18, 2007, it acquired McDonald Bradley Inc.

• BDX, BECTON DICKINSON Current Caprock Strength Rating: 380.990540

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), is a medical technology company engaged in the manufacture and sale of a range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products used by healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, industry and the general public. The segments in which the Company operates include BD Medical, BD Diagnostics and BD Biosciences. As of December 20, 2006, BD acquired the outstanding shares (approximately 93.8%) of TriPath Imaging, Inc (TriPath). As of May 4, 2007, BD acquired all of the outstanding shares of Plasso Technology, Ltd. (Plasso). BD?s operations outside the United States are conducted in Canada, Japan, Asia Pacific, South Latin America and North Latin America. In May 2008, the Company acquired Cytopeia.

• HK, PETROHAWK ENERGY Current Caprock Strength Rating: 35.155827

Petrohawk Energy Corporation (Petrohawk) is an independent oil and natural gas company engaged in the acquisition, development, production and exploration of oil and natural gas properties located onshore in North America. The Company?s properties are primarily located in the Mid-Continent region, including North Louisiana, the Fayetteville Shale in the Arkoma basin of Arkansas and in the Western region, including the Permian Basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. At December 31, 2007, the Company?s estimated total proved oil and natural gas reserves were approximately 1,062 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent, consisting of 18 million barrels of oil, and 955 billion cubic feet of natural gas and natural gas liquids.

• MLHR, MILLER HERMAN INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.001966

Herman Miller, Inc. researches, designs, manufactures, and distributes interior furnishings, for use in various environments, including office, healthcare, educational, and residential settings, and provides related services that support organizations and individuals all over the world. The Company also offers an array of seating, storage, wooden casegoods and freestanding furniture products. The Company operates in three segments: the North American Furniture Solutions segment includes the business associated with the design, manufacture, and sale of furniture products for office and healthcare environments throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico; the Non-North American Furniture Solutions segment includes the business associated with the design, manufacture, and sale of furniture products primarily for work-related settings outside North America, and the Other segment includes North American residential furniture business, as well as other business activities.

• CHD, CHURCH DWIGHT CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 95.218185

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.

• TMO, THERMO FISHER SCI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 145.394485

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Thermo Fisher) is engaged in serving science. The Company serves its customers through two principal brands: Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific. Thermo Scientific is its technology brand, offering customers a range of analytical instruments, as well as laboratory equipment, software, services, consumables and reagents to enable integrated laboratory workflow solutions. Its portfolio of products includes technologies for mass spectrometry, elemental analysis, molecular spectroscopy, sample preparation, informatics, fine- and high-purity chemistry production, cell culture, Ribonucleic Acid (RNA)-interference analysis, immunodiagnostic testing, microbiology, as well as environmental monitoring and process control. It operates in two business segments: Analytical Technologies and Laboratory Products and Services. In June 2008, the Company acquired the Analytical Technologies and Environment Instrumentation divisions of Chemito Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

• SIGI, SELECTIVE INS GP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 53.364811

Selective Insurance Group, Inc. (Selective), through its subsidiaries, offers property and casualty insurance products, and diversified insurance services and products. The Company operates through three business segments: Insurance Operations, Investments and Diversified Insurance Services. The Insurance Operations segment sells property and casualty insurance products and services primarily in 21 states in the Eastern and Midwestern United States. Diversified Insurance Services provides human resource administration outsourcing products and services, and federal flood insurance administrative services. The Company?s Insurance Operations segment includes commercial lines, which markets primarily to businesses, and represents approximately 87% of Selective?s net premiums written (NPW), and personal lines, which markets primarily to individuals and represents approximately 13% of NPW.

• FMX, FOMENTO ECONOMICO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 106.265846

Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. (FEMSA) is a holding company engaged in the beverage business. Its operating subsidiaries include Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A. de C.V. (Coca-Cola FEMSA), FEMSA Cerveza, S.A. de C.V. (FEMSA Cerveza) and FEMSA Comercio, S.A. de C.V. (FEMSA Comercio). Coca-Cola FEMSA is engaged in the production, distribution and marketing of certain Coca-Cola trademark beverages in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina. FEMSA Cerveza produces, distributes and markets beer through its three operating subsidiaries. FEMSA Comercio is engaged in the operation of a chain of Oxxo convenience stores. As of December 31, 2007, FEMSA Comercio operated 5,563 Oxxo stores located in 31 states of the country, particularly in the northern part of Mexico.

• LIHR, LIHIR GOLD LTD AD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 94.448135

Lihir Gold Limited is a gold producer in the Australasian region. The Company?s principal activities consist of the exploration for, development of and mining, processing and sale of gold assets. The company operates gold mines and processing facilities on the island of Lihir, 900 kilometers northeast of Port Moresby in New Ireland province of Papua New Guinea. In March 2007, the Company completed a merger with Victorian gold mining company Ballarat Goldfields NL. Ballarat is building an underground mine and process plant at the historic gold mining centre of Ballarat, 110 kilometers north-west of Melbourne in Victoria. In March 2008, the Company and Equigold NL announced the merger of their businesses.

• WMB, WILLIAMS COS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 35.454456

The Williams Companies, Inc. (Williams) is a natural gas company. The Company primarily finds, produces, gathers, processes and transports natural gas. Its operations are concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountains, Gulf Coast and the Eastern Seaboard. Its activities are primarily operated through business segments, which include Exploration & Production, Gas Pipeline, Midstream Gas & Liquids, and Gas Marketing Services. Exploration & Production produces, develops and manages natural gas reserves primarily located in the Rocky Mountain and Mid-Continent regions of the United States. Gas Pipeline includes interstate natural gas pipelines and pipeline joint venture investments. Midstream Gas & Liquids includes natural gas gathering, treating and processing business. Gas Marketing Services manage its natural gas commodity risk. Other primarily consists of corporate operations. Other also includes the Company?s interest in Longhorn Partners Pipeline, L.P.

• CMO, CAPSTEAD MTG CP N Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1118.925537

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.

• AGN, ALLERGAN INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 34.217606

Allergan, Inc. is a multi-specialty healthcare company focused on developing and commercializing pharmaceuticals, biologics and medical devices. The Company discovers, develops and commercializes specialty pharmaceutical, medical device and over-the-counter products for the ophthalmic, neurological, medical aesthetics, medical dermatological, breast aesthetics, obesity intervention, urological, and other specialty markets in more than 100 countries around the world. In January 2007, Allergan, Inc. acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Groupe Corneal Laboratoires (Corneal), a healthcare company that develops, manufactures and markets dermal fillers, viscoelastics, and a range of ophthalmic surgical device products. In October 2007, the Company acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Esprit Pharma Holding Company, Inc. (Esprit). Allergan, Inc. operates in two business segments: specialty pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

• HP, HELMERICH PAYNE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 111.265259

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. is primarily engaged in contract drilling of oil and gas wells for others. The contract drilling business accounts for almost all of the Company’s operating revenues. It is also engaged in the ownership, development and operation of commercial real estate. It is organized into two separate operating entities: contract drilling and real estate. The Company’s contract drilling business consists of three business segments: U.S. land drilling, offshore platform drilling and international drilling. The Company’s U.S. land drilling is conducted primarily in Oklahoma, California, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, New Mexico, and North Dakota, and offshore from platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, California, Trinidad and Equatorial Guinea. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, the Company’s international land segment operated in seven international locations: Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia, Tunisia and Chile.

• EGLE, EAGLE BULK SHIPPI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 49.591938

Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. is primarily engaged in the ocean transportation of a range of major and minor bulk cargoes, including iron ore, coal, grain, cement and fertilizer, along worldwide shipping routes. The Company operates in the Handymax sector of the dry bulk industry, with particular emphasis on the Supramax class of vessels. As of December 31, 2007, Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. owned and operated a fleet of 18 Handymax dry bulk vessels, 16 of which were of the Supramax class, with a combined carrying capacity of 915,502 deadweight tons and an average age of approximately six years. The Company carries out the commercial management of its fleet through its wholly owned subsidiary, Eagle Shipping International (USA) LLC. The Company, either directly or through Eagle Shipping International (USA) LLC, provides services, such as commercial operations and technical supervision, safety monitoring, vessel acquisition, and financial, accounting and information technology services.

• STT, STATE STREET CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 233.163345

State Street Corporation is a financial holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, including its banking subsidiary, State Street Bank and Trust Company, State Street Corporation, provides a range of products and services for institutional investors globally. The Company operates in three lines of business: Investment Management, Investment Research and Trading, and Investment Servicing. The business provide services to support institutional investors, including custody, daily pricing and administration, brokerage and other trading services, deposit and short-term investment facilities, loan and lease financing, investment manager and hedge fund manager operations outsourcing, performance, risk and compliance analytics, investment research and investment management, including passive and active United States and non-United States equity and fixed income strategies.

• HSIC, HENRY SCHEIN INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 151.201889

Henry Schein, Inc. is a distributor of healthcare products and services primarily to office-based healthcare practitioners in the combined North American and European markets. The Company serves more than 550,000 customers worldwide, including dental practitioners and laboratories, physician practices and animal health clinics, as well as government and other institutions. The Company has operations in the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The Company conducts its business through two segments: healthcare distribution and technology. Effective September 29, 2007, it acquired Software of Excellence International Ltd., a provider of clinical and practice management solutions. On August 29, 2007, it acquired W&J Dunlop, Ltd. In April 2008, the Company acquired Minerva Dental Limited.

• PG, PROCTER GAMBLE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 53.672508

The Procter & Gamble Company is focused on providing branded consumer goods. The Company?s products are sold in over 180 countries around the world primarily through mass merchandisers, grocery stores, membership club stores, drug stores and in high-frequency stores, the neighborhood stores, which serve consumers in developing markets. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008 (fiscal 2008), one product category accounted for 10% or more of consolidated net sales. The laundry category constituted approximately 16% of net sales during fiscal 2008. In fiscal 2008, the Company was organized into three Global Business Units: Beauty; Health and Well-Being, and Household Care. The Company had six business segments under United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP): Beauty; Grooming; Health Care; Snacks, Coffee and Pet Care; Fabric Care and Home Care, and Baby Care and Family Care.

• NLY, ANNALY CAPITAL MA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 566.720886

Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (Annaly) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and manages a portfolio of mortgage-backed securities. It also owns, manages, and finances a portfolio of investment securities, including mortgage pass-through certificates, collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), agency callable debentures, and other securities representing interests in or obligations backed by pools of mortgage loans. Fixed Income Discount Advisory Company (FIDAC) is the wholly owned taxable REIT subsidiary of the Company. The Company is focused in generating net income for distribution to the stockholders from the spread between the interest income on the investment securities and the cost of borrowings to finance the acquisition of investment securities.

• ORA, ORMAT TECHNOLOGIE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 9.656561

Ormat Technologies, Inc. (Ormat) is engaged in the geothermal and recovered energy power business. The Company designs, develops, builds, owns and operates geothermal recovered energy-based power plants, usually using equipment that it designs and manufactures. Ormat conducts its business activities in two business segments: Electricity and Products. In the Electricity Segment, the Company develops, builds, owns and operates geothermal and recovered energy-based power plants in the United States and geothermal power plants in other countries around the world, and sells the electricity generated by these plants. In the Products Segment, Ormat designs, manufactures and sells equipment for geothermal and recovered energy-based electricity generation, remote power units and other power generating units, and provides services relating to the engineering, procurement, construction, operation and maintenance of geothermal and recovered energy power plants.

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• FE, FIRSTENERGY CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 124.292145

FirstEnergy Corp. (FirstEnergy) is principally a holding company that holds, directly or indirectly, eight principal electric utility operating subsidiaries: Ohio Edison Company (OE), The Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company (CEI), The Toledo Edison Company (TE), Pennsylvania Power Company (Penn), American Transmission Systems, Inc. (ATSI), Jersey Central Power & Light Company (JCP&L), Metropolitan Edison Company (Met-Ed) and Pennsylvania Electric Company (Penelec). The Company?s revenues are primarily derived from electric service provided by its utility operating subsidiaries and the revenues of its other principal subsidiary, FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. FirstEnergy also holds all the common stock of other direct subsidiaries, including FirstEnergy Properties, Inc., FirstEnergy Ventures Corp., FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company, FirstEnergy Securities Transfer Company, GPU Diversified Holdings, LLC, GPU Telecom Services, Inc., GPU Nuclear, Inc. and FirstEnergy Service Company.

• IDXX, IDEXX LABS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.505745

IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (IDEXX) develops, manufactures and distributes products, and provides services primarily for the veterinary, and the food and water testing markets. IDEXX?s primary products and services includes point-of-care veterinary diagnostic products, comprising rapid assays and instruments and consumables; laboratory and consulting services used by veterinarians; information products and services, and digital radiography systems used by veterinarians, and veterinary pharmaceutical products. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company operated through three segments: products and services for the veterinary market, which it refers to as Companion Animal Group; water quality products (Water), and products for production animal health, which it refers to as the Production Animal Segment (PAS). It also has two smaller segments that comprise products for dairy quality (Dairy), and products for the human medical diagnostic market (OPTI Medical).

• ANSS, ANSYS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 122.079567

ANSYS, Inc. (ANSYS) develops and globally markets engineering simulation software and services used by engineers and designers across a range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, manufacturing, electronics, biomedical and defense. The Company focuses on the development of open and flexible solutions that enable users to analyze designs directly on the desktop, providing a common platform for product development, from design concept to final-stage testing and validation. ANSYS distributes its ANSYS suite of simulation technologies, including ANSYS Workbench, ANSYS CFX, ANSYS ICEM CFD, ANSYS AUTODYN and ANSYS FLUENT products, through a global network of channel partners and direct sales offices in global locations. On May 1, 2006, ANSYS completed its acquisition of Fluent Inc. (Fluent), a global provider of computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based, computer-aided engineering software and services. In July 2008, ANSYS completed the acquisition of Ansoft Corporation.

• FPL, F P L GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.367302

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.

• MANT, MANTECH INTL CP A Current Caprock Strength Rating: 174.232559

ManTech International Corporation (ManTech) is a provider of technologies and solutions for mission-critical national security programs for the Intelligence Community, Departments of Defense, State, Homeland Security and Justice, and other United States federal government agencies. The Company?s expertise includes engineering, systems integration, software services, enterprise architecture, information assurance and security architecture, intelligence operations and analysis support, network and critical infrastructure protection, information operations and computer forensics, information technology (IT), communications integration and engineering support and global logistics and supply chain management. ManTech organizes its offerings into four basic categories: Information Technology Solutions, Intelligence Analysis & Mission Operations, Systems Engineering & Integration Solutions, and Global Logistics & Supply Chain Management. On December 18, 2007, it acquired McDonald Bradley Inc.

• BDX, BECTON DICKINSON Current Caprock Strength Rating: 380.990540

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), is a medical technology company engaged in the manufacture and sale of a range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products used by healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, industry and the general public. The segments in which the Company operates include BD Medical, BD Diagnostics and BD Biosciences. As of December 20, 2006, BD acquired the outstanding shares (approximately 93.8%) of TriPath Imaging, Inc (TriPath). As of May 4, 2007, BD acquired all of the outstanding shares of Plasso Technology, Ltd. (Plasso). BD?s operations outside the United States are conducted in Canada, Japan, Asia Pacific, South Latin America and North Latin America. In May 2008, the Company acquired Cytopeia.

• HK, PETROHAWK ENERGY Current Caprock Strength Rating: 35.155827

Petrohawk Energy Corporation (Petrohawk) is an independent oil and natural gas company engaged in the acquisition, development, production and exploration of oil and natural gas properties located onshore in North America. The Company?s properties are primarily located in the Mid-Continent region, including North Louisiana, the Fayetteville Shale in the Arkoma basin of Arkansas and in the Western region, including the Permian Basin of West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. At December 31, 2007, the Company?s estimated total proved oil and natural gas reserves were approximately 1,062 billion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent, consisting of 18 million barrels of oil, and 955 billion cubic feet of natural gas and natural gas liquids.

• MLHR, MILLER HERMAN INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.001966

Herman Miller, Inc. researches, designs, manufactures, and distributes interior furnishings, for use in various environments, including office, healthcare, educational, and residential settings, and provides related services that support organizations and individuals all over the world. The Company also offers an array of seating, storage, wooden casegoods and freestanding furniture products. The Company operates in three segments: the North American Furniture Solutions segment includes the business associated with the design, manufacture, and sale of furniture products for office and healthcare environments throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico; the Non-North American Furniture Solutions segment includes the business associated with the design, manufacture, and sale of furniture products primarily for work-related settings outside North America, and the Other segment includes North American residential furniture business, as well as other business activities.

• CHD, CHURCH DWIGHT CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 95.218185

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.

• TMO, THERMO FISHER SCI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 145.394485

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Thermo Fisher) is engaged in serving science. The Company serves its customers through two principal brands: Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific. Thermo Scientific is its technology brand, offering customers a range of analytical instruments, as well as laboratory equipment, software, services, consumables and reagents to enable integrated laboratory workflow solutions. Its portfolio of products includes technologies for mass spectrometry, elemental analysis, molecular spectroscopy, sample preparation, informatics, fine- and high-purity chemistry production, cell culture, Ribonucleic Acid (RNA)-interference analysis, immunodiagnostic testing, microbiology, as well as environmental monitoring and process control. It operates in two business segments: Analytical Technologies and Laboratory Products and Services. In June 2008, the Company acquired the Analytical Technologies and Environment Instrumentation divisions of Chemito Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

• SIGI, SELECTIVE INS GP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 53.364811

Selective Insurance Group, Inc. (Selective), through its subsidiaries, offers property and casualty insurance products, and diversified insurance services and products. The Company operates through three business segments: Insurance Operations, Investments and Diversified Insurance Services. The Insurance Operations segment sells property and casualty insurance products and services primarily in 21 states in the Eastern and Midwestern United States. Diversified Insurance Services provides human resource administration outsourcing products and services, and federal flood insurance administrative services. The Company?s Insurance Operations segment includes commercial lines, which markets primarily to businesses, and represents approximately 87% of Selective?s net premiums written (NPW), and personal lines, which markets primarily to individuals and represents approximately 13% of NPW.

• FMX, FOMENTO ECONOMICO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 106.265846

Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. (FEMSA) is a holding company engaged in the beverage business. Its operating subsidiaries include Coca-Cola FEMSA, S.A. de C.V. (Coca-Cola FEMSA), FEMSA Cerveza, S.A. de C.V. (FEMSA Cerveza) and FEMSA Comercio, S.A. de C.V. (FEMSA Comercio). Coca-Cola FEMSA is engaged in the production, distribution and marketing of certain Coca-Cola trademark beverages in Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina. FEMSA Cerveza produces, distributes and markets beer through its three operating subsidiaries. FEMSA Comercio is engaged in the operation of a chain of Oxxo convenience stores. As of December 31, 2007, FEMSA Comercio operated 5,563 Oxxo stores located in 31 states of the country, particularly in the northern part of Mexico.

• LIHR, LIHIR GOLD LTD AD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 94.448135

Lihir Gold Limited is a gold producer in the Australasian region. The Company?s principal activities consist of the exploration for, development of and mining, processing and sale of gold assets. The company operates gold mines and processing facilities on the island of Lihir, 900 kilometers northeast of Port Moresby in New Ireland province of Papua New Guinea. In March 2007, the Company completed a merger with Victorian gold mining company Ballarat Goldfields NL. Ballarat is building an underground mine and process plant at the historic gold mining centre of Ballarat, 110 kilometers north-west of Melbourne in Victoria. In March 2008, the Company and Equigold NL announced the merger of their businesses.

• WMB, WILLIAMS COS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 35.454456

The Williams Companies, Inc. (Williams) is a natural gas company. The Company primarily finds, produces, gathers, processes and transports natural gas. Its operations are concentrated in the Pacific Northwest, Rocky Mountains, Gulf Coast and the Eastern Seaboard. Its activities are primarily operated through business segments, which include Exploration & Production, Gas Pipeline, Midstream Gas & Liquids, and Gas Marketing Services. Exploration & Production produces, develops and manages natural gas reserves primarily located in the Rocky Mountain and Mid-Continent regions of the United States. Gas Pipeline includes interstate natural gas pipelines and pipeline joint venture investments. Midstream Gas & Liquids includes natural gas gathering, treating and processing business. Gas Marketing Services manage its natural gas commodity risk. Other primarily consists of corporate operations. Other also includes the Company?s interest in Longhorn Partners Pipeline, L.P.

• CMO, CAPSTEAD MTG CP N Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1118.925537

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.

• AGN, ALLERGAN INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 34.217606

Allergan, Inc. is a multi-specialty healthcare company focused on developing and commercializing pharmaceuticals, biologics and medical devices. The Company discovers, develops and commercializes specialty pharmaceutical, medical device and over-the-counter products for the ophthalmic, neurological, medical aesthetics, medical dermatological, breast aesthetics, obesity intervention, urological, and other specialty markets in more than 100 countries around the world. In January 2007, Allergan, Inc. acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Groupe Corneal Laboratoires (Corneal), a healthcare company that develops, manufactures and markets dermal fillers, viscoelastics, and a range of ophthalmic surgical device products. In October 2007, the Company acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Esprit Pharma Holding Company, Inc. (Esprit). Allergan, Inc. operates in two business segments: specialty pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

• HP, HELMERICH PAYNE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 111.265259

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. is primarily engaged in contract drilling of oil and gas wells for others. The contract drilling business accounts for almost all of the Company’s operating revenues. It is also engaged in the ownership, development and operation of commercial real estate. It is organized into two separate operating entities: contract drilling and real estate. The Company’s contract drilling business consists of three business segments: U.S. land drilling, offshore platform drilling and international drilling. The Company’s U.S. land drilling is conducted primarily in Oklahoma, California, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, New Mexico, and North Dakota, and offshore from platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, California, Trinidad and Equatorial Guinea. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, the Company’s international land segment operated in seven international locations: Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia, Tunisia and Chile.

• EGLE, EAGLE BULK SHIPPI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 49.591938

Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. is primarily engaged in the ocean transportation of a range of major and minor bulk cargoes, including iron ore, coal, grain, cement and fertilizer, along worldwide shipping routes. The Company operates in the Handymax sector of the dry bulk industry, with particular emphasis on the Supramax class of vessels. As of December 31, 2007, Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. owned and operated a fleet of 18 Handymax dry bulk vessels, 16 of which were of the Supramax class, with a combined carrying capacity of 915,502 deadweight tons and an average age of approximately six years. The Company carries out the commercial management of its fleet through its wholly owned subsidiary, Eagle Shipping International (USA) LLC. The Company, either directly or through Eagle Shipping International (USA) LLC, provides services, such as commercial operations and technical supervision, safety monitoring, vessel acquisition, and financial, accounting and information technology services.

• STT, STATE STREET CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 233.163345

State Street Corporation is a financial holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, including its banking subsidiary, State Street Bank and Trust Company, State Street Corporation, provides a range of products and services for institutional investors globally. The Company operates in three lines of business: Investment Management, Investment Research and Trading, and Investment Servicing. The business provide services to support institutional investors, including custody, daily pricing and administration, brokerage and other trading services, deposit and short-term investment facilities, loan and lease financing, investment manager and hedge fund manager operations outsourcing, performance, risk and compliance analytics, investment research and investment management, including passive and active United States and non-United States equity and fixed income strategies.

• HSIC, HENRY SCHEIN INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 151.201889

Henry Schein, Inc. is a distributor of healthcare products and services primarily to office-based healthcare practitioners in the combined North American and European markets. The Company serves more than 550,000 customers worldwide, including dental practitioners and laboratories, physician practices and animal health clinics, as well as government and other institutions. The Company has operations in the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The Company conducts its business through two segments: healthcare distribution and technology. Effective September 29, 2007, it acquired Software of Excellence International Ltd., a provider of clinical and practice management solutions. On August 29, 2007, it acquired W&J Dunlop, Ltd. In April 2008, the Company acquired Minerva Dental Limited.

• PG, PROCTER GAMBLE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 53.672508

The Procter & Gamble Company is focused on providing branded consumer goods. The Company?s products are sold in over 180 countries around the world primarily through mass merchandisers, grocery stores, membership club stores, drug stores and in high-frequency stores, the neighborhood stores, which serve consumers in developing markets. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2008 (fiscal 2008), one product category accounted for 10% or more of consolidated net sales. The laundry category constituted approximately 16% of net sales during fiscal 2008. In fiscal 2008, the Company was organized into three Global Business Units: Beauty; Health and Well-Being, and Household Care. The Company had six business segments under United States Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP): Beauty; Grooming; Health Care; Snacks, Coffee and Pet Care; Fabric Care and Home Care, and Baby Care and Family Care.

• NLY, ANNALY CAPITAL MA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 566.720886

Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (Annaly) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and manages a portfolio of mortgage-backed securities. It also owns, manages, and finances a portfolio of investment securities, including mortgage pass-through certificates, collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), agency callable debentures, and other securities representing interests in or obligations backed by pools of mortgage loans. Fixed Income Discount Advisory Company (FIDAC) is the wholly owned taxable REIT subsidiary of the Company. The Company is focused in generating net income for distribution to the stockholders from the spread between the interest income on the investment securities and the cost of borrowings to finance the acquisition of investment securities.

• ORA, ORMAT TECHNOLOGIE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 9.656561

Ormat Technologies, Inc. (Ormat) is engaged in the geothermal and recovered energy power business. The Company designs, develops, builds, owns and operates geothermal recovered energy-based power plants, usually using equipment that it designs and manufactures. Ormat conducts its business activities in two business segments: Electricity and Products. In the Electricity Segment, the Company develops, builds, owns and operates geothermal and recovered energy-based power plants in the United States and geothermal power plants in other countries around the world, and sells the electricity generated by these plants. In the Products Segment, Ormat designs, manufactures and sells equipment for geothermal and recovered energy-based electricity generation, remote power units and other power generating units, and provides services relating to the engineering, procurement, construction, operation and maintenance of geothermal and recovered energy power plants.

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• PEG, PUB ENTRPR GP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 32.920681

Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated (PSEG) is an energy company. The wholly owned subsidiaries of the Company are PSEG Power LLC (Power), Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G), PSEG Energy Holdings L.L.C. (Energy Holdings) and PSEG Services Corporation (Services). The operating subsidiaries of Power include PSEG Fossil LLC (Fossil), PSEG Nuclear LLC (Nuclear) and PSEG Energy Resources & Trade LLC (ER&T), and of Energy Holdings include PSEG Global L.L.C. (Global) and PSEG Resources L.LC. (Resources). In July 2008, the Company closed the sale of the SAESA Group of Companies (SAESA Group) in southern Chile to a consortium formed by Morgan Stanley Infrastructure and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.

• SIAL, SIGMA ALDRICH CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 588.294434

Sigma-Aldrich Corporation develops, manufactures, purchases and distributes a range of biochemicals and organic chemicals. These chemical products and kits are used in scientific and genomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of disease and as key components in pharmaceutical and other high-technology manufacturing. The Company operates in 36 countries, manufacturing 46,000 of the 100,000 chemical products it offers. The Company also offers 30,000 equipment products. It sells into over 160 countries. The Company has four business units: Research Essentials, Research Specialties, Research Biotech and a Fine Chemicals unit (SAFC).

• GFIG, GFI GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 104.983421

GFI Group Inc. is an inter-dealer broker specializing in over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives products and related securities. The Company provides brokerage services and data and analytics products to institutional clients in markets for a range of credit, financial, equity and commodity instruments. It functions as an intermediary on behalf of its brokerage clients by matching their trading needs with counterparties having reciprocal interests. The Company focuses primarily on the more complex, and often less commoditized, markets for sophisticated financial instruments, primarily OTC derivatives. The Company offers its clients a hybrid brokerage approach, combining a range of telephonic and electronic trade execution services, depending on the needs of the individual markets. It complements its hybrid brokerage capabilities with decision support products, such as value-added data and analytics products. On January 31, 2008, the Company acquired Trayport Limited.

• CRA, APPLERA CP-CELERA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 30.164644

Celera Corporation (Celera) is a healthcare business delivering personalized disease management through a combination of products and services. Berkeley HeartLab, a subsidiary of Celera, offers services to predict cardiovascular disease risk and optimize patient management. Celera also commercializes a range of molecular diagnostic products through alliance with Abbott, and has licensed other relevant diagnostic technologies developed to provide personalized disease management in cancer and liver diseases. On July 1, 2008, Celera announced that it has completed its separation from Applera Corporation, and as an independent company holds the businesses, assets and liabilities previously attributed to the Celera Group.

• DNP, DNP SELECT INCOME Current Caprock Strength Rating: 60.749287

DNP Select Income Fund Inc. (the Fund) is a closed-end diversified management investment company. The primary investment objectives of the Fund are current income and long-term growth of income. Capital appreciation is a secondary objective. The Fund has engaged Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. (the Adviser) to provide professional investment management services for the Fund and has engaged J. J. B. Hilliard, W. L. Lyons, Inc. (the Administrator) to provide administrative and management services for the Fund.

• HP, HELMERICH PAYNE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 111.265259

Helmerich & Payne, Inc. is primarily engaged in contract drilling of oil and gas wells for others. The contract drilling business accounts for almost all of the Company’s operating revenues. It is also engaged in the ownership, development and operation of commercial real estate. It is organized into two separate operating entities: contract drilling and real estate. The Company’s contract drilling business consists of three business segments: U.S. land drilling, offshore platform drilling and international drilling. The Company’s U.S. land drilling is conducted primarily in Oklahoma, California, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, New Mexico, and North Dakota, and offshore from platforms in the Gulf of Mexico, California, Trinidad and Equatorial Guinea. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2007, the Company’s international land segment operated in seven international locations: Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Argentina, Bolivia, Tunisia and Chile.

• FLO, FLOWERS FOODS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 72.814384

Flowers Foods, Inc. (Flowers Foods) is a producer and marketer of bakery products in the United States. Flowers Foods consists of two business segments: Flowers Foods Bakeries Group (Flowers Bakeries) and Flowers Foods Specialty Group (Flowers Specialty). The Company produces fresh packaged and frozen bakery products. Flowers Bakeries focuses on producing and marketing bakery products in the southeastern, southwestern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. Flowers Bakeries markets a variety of breads and rolls under the brands outlined in the table above. Flowers Specialty produces snack cakes for sale to retail, vending, and co-pack customers as well as frozen bread, rolls and buns for sale to retail and foodservice customers. In August 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of ButterKrust Bakery. In August 2008, the Company announced the completion of its merger with Holsum Bakery, Inc.

• SWN, SOUTHWESTERN ENER Current Caprock Strength Rating: 183.984299

Southwestern Energy Company is an independent energy company primarily engaged in the exploration for and production of natural gas within the United States. The Company also focuses on creating and capturing additional value through its natural gas gathering and marketing businesses, which it refers to as its Midstream Services. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company operated principally in three segments: Exploration and Production (E&P), Midstream Services and Natural Gas Distribution. In July 2008, the Company announced that it had closed the sale of its utility, Arkansas Western Gas Company, to SourceGas, LLC.

• PTNR, PARTNER COMM ADS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 209.521347

Partner Communications Company Ltd (Partner) is an Israeli mobile communications operator providing global system for mobile (GSM)/ general packet radio service (GPRS) network and the universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS)/ high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) services and wire free applications under the orange brand. As of December 3, 2007, the Company provided services and a range of features to 2.86 million subscribers in Israel. The Company uses its GSM to provide its customers roaming in 173 countries worldwide, using over 369 networks. It also provides roaming services to thousands of customers roaming on its network in Israel daily. As of December 31, 2007, the Company had more than 633,000 third generation (3G) subscribers. The Company offers 3G roaming services with dozens of networks throughout the world. Partner is a subsidiary of Hutchison Telecommunications International Limited, a global provider of telecommunications services.

• HRL, HORMEL FOODS CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 152.064865

Hormel Foods Corporation is engaged in the production of a variety of meat and food products, and the marketing of those products throughout the United States and internationally. In addition to pork and turkey, the Company also manufactures and distributes branded, value-added consumer items. The Company operates in five segments, including grocery products, refrigerated foods, Jennie-O Turkey Store (JOTS), specialty foods and all other. During the fiscal year ended October 28, 2007 (fiscal 2007), the Company acquired Saag?s Products, Inc. (Saag?s), a processor and marketer of branded, gourmet sausages and specialty smoked meats. In December 2006, the Company completed the acquisition of Provena Foods Inc. (Provena), which provides pepperoni and pasta to pizza makers and packaged food manufacturers. In August 2007, the Company acquired Burke Corporation (Burke), a manufacturer and marketer of pizza toppings and other fully cooked meat products.

• KEX, KIRBY CORPORATION Current Caprock Strength Rating: 156.771103

Kirby Corporation is a marine transportation and diesel engine services company. The Company through its subsidiaries, conducts operations in two business segments: marine transportation and diesel engine services. The marine transportation segment is engaged in the inland transportation of petrochemicals, black oil products, refined petroleum products and agricultural chemicals by tank barges, and, to a lesser extent, the offshore transportation of dry-bulk cargoes by barge. The diesel engine services segment is engaged in the overhaul and repair of diesel engines and reduction gears, and related parts sales in three markets: the marine market, the power generation market and the railroad market. On July 20, 2007, the Company purchased substantially all of the assets of Saunders, a Gulf Coast high-speed diesel engine services provider.

• NAVG, NAVIGATORS GP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 24.101583

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.

• JBHT, JB HUNT TRANS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 26.248028

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).

• CLB, CORE LABS NV Current Caprock Strength Rating: 114.552124

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.

• 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.

• SNN, SMITH&NEPHEW PLC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 48.221367

Smith & Nephew plc is a global medical devices company engaged in the development, manufacture and marketing of medical devices in the sectors of orthopedic reconstruction, orthopedic trauma and clinical therapies, endoscopy and advanced wound management. It has four business segments: reconstruction, trauma and clinical therapies, endoscopy and advanced wound management. Reconstruction implants offered include hip, knee and shoulder joints, as well as ancillary products, such as bone cement and mixing systems used in cemented reconstruction joint surgery. Its trauma and clinical therapies products comprise both trauma fixation products and associated clinical therapies. Its endoscopy business develops and commercializes endoscopic (minimally invasive surgery) techniques and value-added services for surgeons to treat and repair soft tissue and articulating joints. Its advanced wound management business offers products from initial wound bed preparation through to full wound closure.

• ME, MARINER ENERGY IN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 81.037033

Mariner Energy, Inc. (Mariner) is an independent oil and gas exploration, development, and production company. The Company?s principal operations are in three geographic areas: West Texas is an active driller in the prolific Spraberry field in the Permian Basin at depths between 6,000 and 10,000 feet; the deepwater operations of the Gulf of Mexico, where the Company is an active operator of exploration and development projects in water depths ranging from 1,300 feet up to 7,000 feet, and Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico, shelf wells and deep shelf wells extending to 1,300 foot water depths. In January 2008, the Company announced acquisition of an operating subsidiary of Hydro Gulf of Mexico, Inc., a subsidiary of StatoilHydro ASA, which owns substantially all of StatoilHydro’s Gulf of Mexico shelf operations.

• TEVA, TEVA PHARM INDS A Current Caprock Strength Rating: 40.720695

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.

• ATK, ALLIANT TECH SYS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 6.006081

Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) is a supplier of aerospace and defense products to the United States government, allied nations, and prime contractors. It is also a major supplier of ammunition and related accessories to law enforcement agencies and commercial customers. As of March 31, 2008, the Company had three segments: ATK Armament Systems (formerly ATK Ammunition Systems), ATK Launch Systems and ATK Mission Systems. Effective April 1, 2008, ATK realigned its business operations. As a result of this realignment, ATK Mission Systems was divided into ATK Mission Systems and ATK Space Systems. ATK also renamed ATK Ammunition Systems to ATK Armament Systems. Subsequent to this realignment, ATK has four segments: ATK Armament Systems, ATK Launch Systems, ATK Mission Systems, and ATK Space Systems. ATK acquired Swales Aerospace in June 2007.

• NYB, NEW YORK CMMTY BN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 50.975937

New York Community Bancorp, Inc. is the holding company for New York Community Bank and New York Commercial Bank. New York Community Bank has 179 banking offices serving customers in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester County in New York, and Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth, Ocean, and Union counties in New Jersey, and operates through six local divisions: Queens County Savings Bank, Roslyn Savings Bank, Richmond County Savings Bank, Roosevelt Savings Bank, Synergy Bank, and Garden State Community Bank. New York Commercial Bank has 38 branches serving Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Westchester County, and Long Island, including 19 branches of Atlantic Bank.

• AGN, ALLERGAN INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 34.217606

Allergan, Inc. is a multi-specialty healthcare company focused on developing and commercializing pharmaceuticals, biologics and medical devices. The Company discovers, develops and commercializes specialty pharmaceutical, medical device and over-the-counter products for the ophthalmic, neurological, medical aesthetics, medical dermatological, breast aesthetics, obesity intervention, urological, and other specialty markets in more than 100 countries around the world. In January 2007, Allergan, Inc. acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Groupe Corneal Laboratoires (Corneal), a healthcare company that develops, manufactures and markets dermal fillers, viscoelastics, and a range of ophthalmic surgical device products. In October 2007, the Company acquired all of the outstanding capital stock of Esprit Pharma Holding Company, Inc. (Esprit). Allergan, Inc. operates in two business segments: specialty pharmaceuticals and medical devices.

• OMG, OM GROUP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 83.674637

OM Group, Inc. is a diversified global developer, producer and marketer of specialty chemicals and advanced materials that are essential to complex chemical and industrial processes. The Company is the refiner of cobalt and producer of cobalt-based specialty products, and the producer of electroless nickel plating chemistry for memory disk applications. The Company is organized in to two segments: Specialty Chemicals and Advanced Materials. The Specialty Chemicals segment will consist of the electronic chemicals, ultra pure chemicals, photomasks and advanced organic product line groupings. The Electronic Chemicals product line grouping will include the Printed Circuit Board (PCB) business. The Advanced Materials segment will consist of the Inorganics product line grouping and the DRC smelter operations. On March 1, 2007, the Company completed the sale of its Nickel business. On October 1, 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of Borchers GmbH.

• TNS, TNS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 44.113876

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.