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- KND, KINDRED HEALTHCAR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 8.169164
- NIO, NUVEEN INS MUNI O Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.597859
- SCG, SCANA CP NEW Current Caprock Strength Rating: 4.660450
- NDAQ, NASDAQ STOCK MKT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 26.383184
- TJX, T J X COS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 47.664700
- SFY, SWIFT ERGY (HLDG Current Caprock Strength Rating: 19.959139
- ECL, ECOLAB INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.403633
- ROSE, ROSETTA RESOURCES Current Caprock Strength Rating: 13.033669
- UNT, UNIT CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 11.678202
- PDC, PIONEER DRILLING Current Caprock Strength Rating: 7.302444
- ZTR, ZWEIG TOTL RETURN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 21.609512
- SNN, SMITH&NEPHEW PLC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 48.221367
- PML, PIMCO MUNI INC FD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 8.180030
- SSL, SASOL LTD ADR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 74.745232
- DBC, DB COMMODITY IDX Current Caprock Strength Rating: 427.720947
- RSCR, RES-CARE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 22.059252
- SPW, S P X CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 514.885315
- INTU, INTUIT INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.931304
- PEP, PEPSICO INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 172.410660
- KEX, KIRBY CORPORATION Current Caprock Strength Rating: 156.771103
- FFIC, FLUSHING FIN CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 64.347054
- KMP, KINDER MORGAN ENE Current Caprock Strength Rating: 79.919151
- KMR, KINDER MORGAN MNG Current Caprock Strength Rating: 76.535538
Kindred Healthcare, Inc. is a healthcare services company that through its subsidiaries operates hospitals, nursing centers and a contract rehabilitation services business across the United States. As of December 31, 2007, the Company’s hospital division operated 84 long-term acute care (LTAC) hospitals (6,567 licensed beds) in 24 states. Kindred Healthcare’s health services division operated 228 nursing centers (29,106 licensed beds) in 27 states. The Company also operated a contract rehabilitation services business that provides rehabilitative services primarily in long-term care settings. Kindred Healthcare is organized into three operating divisions: the hospital division, the health services division and the rehabilitation division. The hospital division operates LTAC hospitals. The health services division operates nursing centers. The rehabilitation division provides rehabilitation services primarily in long-term care settings.
Nuveen Insured Municipal Opportunity Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund seeks to provide current income exempt from regular federal income tax, by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of municipal obligations issued by state and local government authorities or certain United States territories. The Fund invests only in municipal securities, which are either covered by insurance or are backed by an escrow or trust account containing sufficient United States Government or the United States Government agency securities, both of which ensure the timely payment of principal and interest. The Fund is authorized to invest in inverse floating-rate securities. It invests in sectors, such as transportation, utilities, healthcare and others. Nuveen Asset Management, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nuveen Investments, Inc., serves as the Fund?s investment advisor.
SCANA Corporation (SCANA), through its wholly owned regulated subsidiaries is primarily engaged in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in parts of South Carolina and the purchase, transmission and sale of natural gas in portions of North Carolina and South Carolina. Through a wholly owned non-regulated subsidiary, SCANA markets natural gas to retail customers in Georgia and to wholesale customers primarily in the southeast. Other wholly owned non-regulated subsidiaries provides fiber optic and other telecommunications services, and provides service contracts to homeowners on certain home appliances and heating and air conditioning units. A service company subsidiary of SCANA provides administrative, management and other services to the other subsidiaries.
NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc., formerly The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., is a holding company operating The NASDAQ Stock Market LLC as its wholly owned subsidiary. Nasdaq commenced operations as a registered national securities exchange for Nasdaq-listed securities. The Company, through its subsidiaries provides securities listing, trading, and information products and services. The Company?s segments include Market Services segment and Issuer Services segment. The Market Services segment includes the transaction-based business and market information services business. The Issuer Services segment includes securities listings business, insurance business, shareholder, directors and newswire services and financial products business. In July 2008, the Company completed its previously announced acquisition of Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Inc. (PHLX). In August 2008, NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. announced that it has completed its acquisition of the Boston Stock Exchange.
The TJX Companies, Inc. is an off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in the United States and worldwide. The Company?s T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and A.J. Wright chains in the United States, its Winners chain in Canada, and its T.K. Maxx chain in Europe sell off-price family apparel and home fashions. The Company?s HomeGoods chain in the United States and its HomeSense chain, operated by Winners in Canada, sell off-price home fashions. The target customer for all of its off-price chains, except A.J. Wright, is the middle-to upper-middle income shopper, with the same profile as a department or specialty store customer. A.J. Wright targets the moderate-income customer. The TJX Companies, Inc.?s seven off-price chains are synergistic in their philosophies and operating platforms. The Company has over 500 buyers, 10,000 vendors worldwide and over 2,500 stores.
Swift Energy Company is engaged in developing, exploring, acquiring, and operating oil and natural gas properties, with a focus on oil and natural gas reserves onshore and in the inland waters of Louisiana and Texas. As of December 31, 2007, the Company had estimated proved reserves from its domestic continuing operations of 133.8 million barrels of oil equivalent (MMBoe). Its total estimated proved reserves, both domestically and in New Zealand, were 150.1 MMBoe. Swift Energy Company?s total proved reserves during 2007, were comprised of approximately 43% crude oil, 44% natural gas, and 13% natural gas liquid (NGLs), and 45% of its total proved reserves were proved developed. Its proved reserves are concentrated with 59% of the total in Louisiana, 29% in Texas, 1% in other states, and 11% in New Zealand. In October 2007, Swift Energy Company completed the acquisition of property interests from Escondido Resources, LP, a privately held company.
Ecolab Inc. (Ecolab) develops and markets products and services for the hospitality, foodservice, healthcare and industrial markets. The Company provides cleaning and sanitizing products and programs, as well as pest elimination, maintenance and repair services primarily to hotels and restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, quick-service (fast food and other convenience store) units, grocery stores, commercial and institutional laundries, light industry, dairy plants and farms, food and beverage processors, and the vehicle wash industry. The Company operates in three business segments: United States Cleaning & Sanitizing segment, United States Other Services segment and International segment. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company acquired Apprise Technologies, Inc., Green Harbour, Fuma Pest, Eagle Environmental Systems and Microtek Medical Holdings, Inc. In September 2007, the Company completed the sale of Peter Cox Limited.
Rosetta Resources Inc. is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of oil and gas properties in North America. Its operations are primarily concentrated in the Sacramento Basin of California, the Rocky Mountains, the Lobo and Perdido trends in South Texas, the State Waters of Texas and the Gulf of Mexico. The Company operates approximately 88% of its estimated proved reserves. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company had one major customer, which accounted for approximately 55% of the Company?s consolidated annual revenue. For the year ended December 31, 2007, it drilled 195 gross and 169 net wells.
Unit Corporation (Unit) conducts its operations through three principal wholly owned subsidiaries: Unit Drilling Company, Unit Petroleum Company and Superior Pipeline Company, L.L.C. Unit Drilling Company drills onshore oil and natural gas wells for the Company?s own account and for others (land contract drilling). Unit Petroleum Company explores, develops, acquires and produces oil and natural gas properties for its own account (oil and natural gas exploration). Superior Pipeline Company, L.L.C. buys, sells, gathers, processes and treats natural gas for its own account and for third parties (mid-stream). The drilling segment added 12 drilling rigs during the year ended December 31, 2007, and averaged an 80% utilization rate. Its oil and natural gas segment replaced 171% of its 2007 oil, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and natural gas production.
Pioneer Drilling Company provides contract land drilling services to independent and major oil and gas exploration and production companies. It also provides drilling crews and ancillary equipment needed to operate the drilling rigs. The Company conducts its operations in the United States through its operating subsidiary, Pioneer Drilling Services, Ltd. and it conducts the operations in Colombia through Pioneer de Colombia SDAD, Ltda, Surcusal Colombia. On March 1, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of WEDGE Wireline Services, Inc.(WEDGE Wireline), WEDGE Well Services, L.L.C.(WEDGE Well), WEDGE Fishing & Rental Services, L.L.C.(WEDGDE Fishing), WEDGE Group Incorporated, WEDGE Energy, WEDGE Oil & Gas Services, L.L.C.(WEDGE Oil & Gas).
The Zweig Total Return Fund, Inc. (the Fund) is a closed-end, diversified management investment company. The Fund’s objective is to seek the highest total return, consisting of capital appreciation and current income, consistent with the preservation of capital. The Fund?s equity sectors included information technology (IT), energy, industrials, consumer staples, and financials. The Fund’s top individual equity positions, as on December 31, 2007, included Allstate, Altria Group, AT&T, ConocoPhillips, Freeport McMoRan, McDonalds, Merck, Occidental Petroleum, PepsiCo and Verizon. The Fund?s investment advisor is Phoenix/Zweig Advisers LLC (the Adviser).
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.
PIMCO Municipal Income Fund II (the Fund) is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund invests substantially all of its assets in a portfolio of municipal bonds, the interest from which is exempt from federal income tax. It also invests in residual interest municipal bonds/residual interest tax-exempt bonds. Allianz Global Investors Fund Management LLC serves as the Fund’s investment manager and is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Allianz Global Investors of America L.P (Allianz Global). Allianz Global is an indirect majority-owned subsidiary of Allianz SE. PIMCO Municipal Income Fund II’s sub-advisor is Pacific Investment Management Company LLC.
Sasol Limited is an integrated oil and gas company with substantial chemical interests. Sasol mines coal in South Africa. Through Sasol Synfuels, this coal, along with Mozambican natural gas, is converted into fuels and chemical feedstock using Fischer-Tropsch technology. The Company also has chemical manufacturing and marketing operations in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Its larger chemical portfolios include monomers, polymers, solvents, olefins, surfactants, surfactant intermediates, comonomers, waxes, phenolics and nitrogenous products. Sasol produces crude oil offshore Gabon. The Company operates through three segments clusters: South African energy cluster (Sasol Mining, Sasol Synfuels, Sasol Oil and Sasol Gas), international energy cluster (Sasol Synfuels International and Sasol Petroleum International) and chemical cluster (Sasol Polymers, Sasol Solvents, Sasol Olefins & Surfactants, Sasol Nitro, Sasol Wax and Infrachem).
Res-Care, Inc. is a human service company that provides residential, therapeutic, job training and educational supports to people with developmental or other disabilities, to youth with special needs, to adults who are experiencing barriers to employment and to older people who need home care assistance. The Company?s programs include an array of services provided in both residential and non-residential settings for adults and youths with intellectual, cognitive or other developmental disabilities, and youths who have special educational or support needs, are from disadvantaged backgrounds, or have severe emotional disorders, including some who have entered the juvenile justice system. As of December 31, 2007, it had three segments: Community Services, Job Corps Training Services and Employment Training Services. In July 2008, the Company announced the acquisition of Caregivers Home Health, Inc., a Wisconsin home care company with operations in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Florida.
SPX Corporation is a global multi-industry manufacturing company. Its infrastructure-related products and services include wet and dry cooling systems, thermal service and repair work, heat exchangers and power transformers into the global power market. Its infrastructure-related products also include packaged cooling towers, boilers, heating and ventilation equipment and filters. In the test and measurement products and services area, it provides, among other things, electronic diagnostic systems, specialty service tools, service equipment and technical information services. The Company has four operating segments: Flow Technology, Test and Measurement, Thermal Equipment and Services, and Industrial Products and Services. In August 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of the European diagnostics division of Johnson Controls. In October 2007, it completed the acquisition of Matra-Werke GmbH. On December 31, 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of APV operation.
Intuit Inc. (Intuit) is a provider of business, financial management solutions for small and medium sized businesses, financial institutions, consumers and accounting professionals. The Company?s flagship products and services, including QuickBooks, Quicken and TurboTax software, enable small business management and payroll processing, personal finance, and tax preparation and filing. It has six business segments: QuickBooks, Payroll and Payments, Consumer Tax, Accounting Professionals, Financial Institutions and Other Businesses. The Company?s Small Business division consists of two segments: QuickBooks segment, and Payroll and Payments segment. The QuickBooks segment includes QuickBooks financial and business management software and services, technical support, financial supplies, and Website design and hosting services for small businesses. In December 2007, Intuit Inc. acquired Homestead Technologies Inc. In February 2008, it acquired Electronic Clearing House Inc.
PepsiCo, Inc. (PepsiCo) is a global snack and beverage company. The Company manufactures, markets and sells a range of salty, convenient, sweet and grain-based snacks, carbonated and non-carbonated beverages and foods. The Company is organized into four divisions: Frito-Lay North America (FLNA), PepsiCo Beverages North America (PBNA), PepsiCo International (PI) and Quaker Foods North America (QFNA). Its North American divisions operate in the United States and Canada. Its international division sells products in approximately 200 countries, with operations in Mexico and the United Kingdom. In April 2008, PepsiCo acquired V Water, a vitamin water brand in the United Kingdom. In May 2008, PepsiCo and The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc., through their PR Beverages Limited joint venture in Russia, completed acquisition of Sobol-Aqua JSC. In August 2008, PepsiCo and The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. announced that they have completed a joint acquisition of a 75.53% stake in JSC Lebedyansky.
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.
Flushing Financial Corporation serves as the holding company for Flushing Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank owns four subsidiaries: Flushing Commercial Bank, Flushing Preferred Funding Corporation, Flushing Service Corporation and FSB Properties Inc. The Company also owns Flushing Financial Capital Trust II, Flushing Financial Capital Trust III and Flushing Financial Capital Trust IV (the Trusts), special purpose business trusts formed, during the year ended December 31, 2007, to issue capital securities. The Trusts used the proceeds from the issuance of these capital securities, and the proceeds from the issuance of their common stock, to purchase junior subordinated debentures from the Company. As of December 31, 2007, the Bank operated out of its main office and 13 branch offices, located in the New York City Boroughs of Queens, Brooklyn, and Manhattan, and in Nassau County, New York. The Bank also operates an Internet branch, iGObanking.com.
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. (KMP) is a pipeline transportation ad energy storage company in North America. The Company owns an interest in or operates more than 25,000 miles of pipelines and approximately 165 terminals. The Company’s pipelines transport natural gas, gasoline, crude oil, carbon dioxide and other products, and its terminals store petroleum products and chemicals and handle bulk materials like coal and petroleum coke. The Company operates through five segments: Products Pipelines, which consists of approximately 8,300 miles of refined petroleum products pipelines; CO2, which produces, markets and transports, through approximately 1,300 miles of pipelines, carbon dioxide (CO2) to oil fields; Terminals, which consists of approximately 108 owned or operated liquids and bulk terminal facilities and more than 45 rail transloading and materials handling facilities, and Trans Mountain, which consists of over 700 miles of common carrier pipelines.
Kinder Morgan Management, LLC is a limited partner in Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P., and manages and controls its business and affairs pursuant to a delegation of control agreement. As of December 31, 2007, the Company owned approximately 29.2% of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P.?s limited partner interests. Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. is the owner and operator of an independent refined petroleum products pipeline system in the United States. The Company’s voting shares are owned by Kinder Morgan, G.P., Inc., of which Knight Inc. owns all the outstanding common equity. Kinder Morgan G.P., Inc. is the general partner of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. Kinder Morgan, Inc., is an energy transportation and storage company in North America, operating, either for itself or on behalf of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. On April 30, 2007, the Company acquired the Trans Mountain pipeline system from Knight Inc.
