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• DTV, THE DIRECTV GROUP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 46.242550

The DIRECTV Group, Inc. is a provider of digital television entertainment in the United States and Latin America. The business segments, DIRECTV U.S. and DIRECTV Latin America are engaged in acquiring, promoting, selling and/or distributing digital entertainment programming through satellite to residential and commercial subscribers. On January 30, 2007, the Company acquired Darlene Investments LLC’s 14% minority interest in DLA LLC. On August 23, 2006, the Company completed the merger of its Brazil business, Galaxy Brasil Ltda. (GLB), with Sky Brazil Servicos LTDA (Sky Brazil) and completed the purchase of News Corporation’s and Liberty Media International’s interests in Sky Brazil. On February 16, 2006, it completed the acquisition of Sky Mexico. The Company has a fleet of ten geosynchronous satellites, including nine owned satellites and one leased satellite.

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

Alberto Culver Company (New Alberto Culver) develops, manufactures, distributes and markets beauty care products, as well as food and household products in the United States and more than 100 other countries. The Company operates in two business segments: United States and International. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2008 (fiscal 2008), beauty care products accounted for approximately 94% of the Company?s consolidated net sales. During fiscal 2008, food and household products accounted for approximately 6% of its consolidated net sales. On October 1, 2008, the Company acquired the Noxzema skin care business in the United States, Canada and portions of Latin America, as well as the worldwide rights and trademarks to the Noxzema brand. On July 31, 2008 Cederroth Intressenter AB, a company owned by two funds controlled by CapMan, acquired Cederroth International AB.

• 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.

• UNT, UNIT CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 11.678202

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.

• NWSB, NORTHWEST BANCORP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 93.044609

Northwest Bancorp, Inc. is a holding company of Northwest Savings Bank (the Bank). The Bank is a community-oriented institution offering traditional deposit and loan products, and through a wholly owned subsidiary, consumer finance services. As of December 31, 2007, the primary activity of the Company was the ownership of all of the issued and outstanding common stock of the Bank. As of December 31, 2007, through the Bank, Northwest Bancorp, Inc. operated 166 community-banking offices throughout its market area in northwest, southwest and central Pennsylvania, western New York, eastern Ohio, Maryland and Florida. The Company, through the Bank and its wholly owned subsidiaries, also operates 49 consumer finance offices throughout Pennsylvania and two consumer finance offices in New York. Northwest Bancorp, Inc. focuses its lending activities primarily on the origination of loans secured by first mortgages on owner-occupied, one- to four-family residences.

• HDB, HDFC BANK LTD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 160.067551

HDFC Bank Limited (the Bank) is an India-based banking company engaged in providing a range of banking and financial services, including commercial banking and treasury operations. The Bank operates in three segments: retail banking, wholesale banking and treasury services. The Bank offered services to over 11 million customers through 761 branches and 1977 automated teller machines (ATMs) in 327 cities as of March 31, 2008. It also had over 60,000 point-of-sale terminals. In October 2007, the Bank acquired equity shares of HDB Financial Services Ltd. Upon this acquisition of shares, HDB Financial has become a subsidiary of the Bank.

• WABC, WESTAMERICA BNCP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 62.256195

Westamerica Bancorporation is a bank holding company that provides a range of banking services to individual and corporate customers in Northern and Central California, through its subsidiary, Westamerica Bank (the Bank). The principal communities served are located in Northern and Central California, from Mendocino, Lake and Nevada Counties in the North to Kern County in the South. The Company focuses on the banking needs of small businesses. The Bank is engaged in the banking business through 86 offices in 21 counties in Northern and Central California including 13 offices in Fresno County, 11 each in Marin and Sonoma Counties, seven in Napa County, five each in Stanislaus, Lake, Contra Costa and Solano Counties, four in Kern, County, three each in Alameda and Sacramento Counties, two each in Mendocino, Nevada, Placer and Tulare Counties, and one each in Merced, San Francisco, Tuolumne, Kings, Madera, and Yolo Counties.

• EXC, EXELON CORPORATIO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1.499933

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

• HCN, HEALTH CARE REIT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 49.511654

Health Care REIT, Inc. is an equity real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests across the spectrum of senior housing and health care real estate, including continuing care retirement communities, independent living, assisted living, skilled nursing, hospitals, long-term acute care hospitals and medical office buildings. It also offers an array of property management and development services. As of March 31, 2008, the Company had 646 properties located in 38 states. In May 2007, it completed the acquisition of 17 medical office buildings and Paramount Real Estate Services, a property management company, from affiliates of Rendina Companies.

• NOC, NORTHROP GRUM HOL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 66.249763

Northrop Grumman Corporation is an integrated enterprise consisting of many formerly separate businesses that cover the entire defense spectrum, from undersea to outer space and into cyberspace. The Company is aligned into seven segments categorized into four primary businesses. The Mission Systems, Information Technology, and Technical Services segments are presented as Information and Services. The Integrated Systems and Space Technology segments are presented as Aerospace. The Electronics and Ships segments are each presented as separate businesses. Newport News and Ship Systems are aggregated and reported as the Ships business. In January 2007, the Company acquired Essex Corporation. In April 2008, the Company announced that it has completed the sale of its Electro-Optical Systems business to L-3 Communications. In October 2008, the Company acquired 3001 International, Inc.

• 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.

• SMA, SYMMETRY MEDICAL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 37.797249

Symmetry Medical Inc. (Symmetry) is an independent provider of implants and related instruments and cases to global orthopedic device manufacturers. The Company designs, develops and produces these products for companies in other segments of the medical device market, including the dental, osteobiologic and endoscopy segments, and it also provides limited specialized products to non-healthcare markets, such as the aerospace market. Its Total Solutions approach presents its customers with a range of products, as well as design, engineering and project management services and production capabilities to help them bring their implant systems to market efficiently. During the fiscal year ended December 29, 2007 (fiscal 2007), its revenue was derived primarily from the sale of products to the orthopedic device market and other medical markets. On January 25, 2008, the Company acquired DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.’s New Bedford, Massachusetts instrument manufacturing facility (New Bedford).

• SMA, SYMMETRY MEDICAL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 37.797249

Symmetry Medical Inc. (Symmetry) is an independent provider of implants and related instruments and cases to global orthopedic device manufacturers. The Company designs, develops and produces these products for companies in other segments of the medical device market, including the dental, osteobiologic and endoscopy segments, and it also provides limited specialized products to non-healthcare markets, such as the aerospace market. Its Total Solutions approach presents its customers with a range of products, as well as design, engineering and project management services and production capabilities to help them bring their implant systems to market efficiently. During the fiscal year ended December 29, 2007 (fiscal 2007), its revenue was derived primarily from the sale of products to the orthopedic device market and other medical markets. On January 25, 2008, the Company acquired DePuy Orthopaedics, Inc.’s New Bedford, Massachusetts instrument manufacturing facility (New Bedford).

• BCR, BARD C R INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 345.886597

C. R. Bard, Inc. (Bard) is engaged in the designing, manufacturing, packaging, distribution and sale of medical, surgical, diagnostic and patient care devices. The Company sells a range of products worldwide to hospitals, individual healthcare professionals, extended care facilities and alternate site facilities. In general, the Company?s products are intended to be used once and then discarded or implanted either temporarily or permanently. Bard has four major product group categories: vascular, urology, oncology and surgical specialties. The Company has a 50% ownership in Medicon, Inc. (Medicon), a Japanese joint venture with Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. In January 2008, Bard acquired the LifeStent family of stents from Edwards Lifesciences Corporation. These stents are available in the United States for biliary indications only. In June 2008, Specialized Health Products International Inc. completed its merger into a wholly owned subsidiary of Bard.

• 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.

• EAC, ENCORE ACQUISITIO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 57.562366

Encore Acquisition Company (Encore) is engaged in the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas reserves from onshore fields in the United States. The Company’s properties and oil and natural gas reserves are located in four core areas: the Cedar Creek Anticline (CCA) in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota; the Permian Basin of West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico; the Rockies, which includes non-CCA assets in the Williston, Big Horn and Powder River Basins of Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming, and the Paradox Basin of southeastern Utah, and the Mid-Continent area, which includes the Arkoma and Anadarko Basins of Oklahoma, the North Louisiana Salt Basin, and the East Texas Basin. In April 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of the oil and natural gas properties in the Williston Basin from subsidiaries of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.

• KNDL, KENDLE INTL INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 19.166256

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

• CMZ, COMPTON PETROLEUM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 50.024284

Compton Petroleum Corporation (Compton) is an Alberta-based independent public company actively engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas (ngls), and crude oil in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin (the WCSB) in Canada. Compton’s exploration, development and exploitation activities are concentrated principally in two core areas: shallow gas resources play, targeting the Plains Belly River and overlying Edmonton Horseshoe Canyon zones, and deep gas plays that include the Basal Quartz sands at Hooker, the Gething/Rock Creek sands at Niton and Caroline in central Alberta, and the Foothills stacked, thrusted Upper Cretaceous Belly River play at Callum in the south. As of December 31, 2007, approximately 84% of the Company?s proved reserves were from natural gas. In December 2007, Compton completed the acquisition of WIN Energy Corporation.

• GILD, GILEAD SCIENCES Current Caprock Strength Rating: 149.438553

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (Gilead) is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes therapeutics in areas of unmet medical need. The Company has United States and international commercial sales operations, with marketing subsidiaries in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. Its commercial teams promote Truvada, Viread, Emtriva, Hepsera, AmBisome, Letairis and Flolan through direct field contact with physicians, hospitals, clinics and other healthcare providers. Its corporate partner, Astellas Pharma, Inc. (Astellas), promotes, sells and distributes AmBisome in the United States.In September 2007, it acquired Nycomed Limited, a wholly owned Irish subsidiary of Germany-based pharmaceutical company, Nycomed GmbH.

• HES, HESS CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 340.055023

Hess Corporation (Hess) is a global integrated energy company that operates in two segments: Exploration and Production (E&P) and Marketing and Refining (M&R). The E&P segment explores for, develops, produces, purchases, transports and sells crude oil and natural gas. These exploration and production activities take place principally in Algeria, Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Denmark, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Indonesia, Libya, Malaysia, Norway, Russia, Thailand, the United Kingdom and the United States. The M&R segment manufactures, purchases, transports, trades and markets refined petroleum products, natural gas and electricity. As of December 31, 2007, the Company owned a 50% interest in a refinery joint venture in the United States Virgin Islands, and another refining facility, terminals and retail gasoline stations located on the East Coast of the United States.

• BKE, BUCKLE INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 75.173958

The Buckle, Inc. is a retailer of medium to better-priced casual apparel, footwear and accessories for fashion conscious young men and women. As of February 2, 2008, the Company operated 368 retail stores in 38 states throughout the continental United States, excluding the northeast, under the names Buckle and The Buckle. The Company markets a selection of mostly brand name casual apparel, including denims, other casual bottoms, tops, sportswear, outerwear, accessories and footwear. The Company provides customer services, such as free hemming, free gift-wrapping, easy layaways, the Buckle private label credit card and a frequent shopper program. Most stores are located in regional shopping malls and lifestyle centers. The Company had 368 stores at February 2, 2008.

• 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).

• RHB, REHABCARE GROUP I Current Caprock Strength Rating: 49.775112

RehabCare Group, Inc. is a provider of rehabilitation program management services in more than 1,200 hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, outpatient facilities and other long-term care facilities. The Company operates in three business segments: program management services, which consists of hospital rehabilitation services and contract therapy; hospitals, and other healthcare services. In partnership with healthcare providers, the Company provides post-acute program management, medical direction, physical therapy rehabilitation, quality assurance, compliance review, specialty programs and census development services. RehabCare also owns and operates three long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) and six rehabilitation hospitals, and it provides other healthcare services, including healthcare management consulting services and staffing services for therapists and nurses. The Company acquired a majority-owned joint venture rehabilitation hospital in Austin, Texas, in August 2007.

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