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• 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.

• GENZ, GENZYME CORPORATI Current Caprock Strength Rating: 46.892391

Genzyme Corporation is a biotechnology company. The Company operates in six units. Renal develops, manufactures and distributes products that treat patients suffering from renal diseases, including chronic renal failure. Therapeutics develops, manufactures and distributes therapeutic products, with a focus on products to treat patients suffering from genetic diseases and other chronic debilitating diseases. Transplant develops, manufactures and distributes therapeutic products that address pre-transplantation, prevention and treatment of graft rejection in organ transplantation and other hematologic and auto-immune disorders. Biosurgery develops, manufactures and distributes biotherapeutics and biomaterial products, with an emphasis on products that meet medical needs in orthopaedics and broader surgical areas. Genetics provides testing services for the oncology, prenatal and reproductive markets. Oncology develops, manufactures and distributes products for the treatment of cancer.

• GMR, GENERAL MARITIME Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1.461419

General Maritime Corporation is a provider of international seaborne crude oil transportation services. The Company’s fleet consists of 21 wholly owned vessels, consisting of 10 Aframax and 11 Suezmax vessels. The 21 vessels that the Company operates have a total of 2.7 million deadweight (dwt), all of which are double hulled. Many of the vessels in the Company’s fleet are sister ships. The majority of the Company’s vessels operate in the Atlantic, which includes ports in the Caribbean, South and Central America, the United States, Western Africa, the Mediterranean, Europe and the North Sea. Although the majority of its vessels operate in the Atlantic, The Company also operates vessels in the Black Sea and in other regions, which enables it both to take advantage of market opportunities and to position its vessels in anticipation of drydockings. The Company’s customers include most oil companies, as well as oil producers, oil traders, vessel owners and others.

• CDE, COEUR D ALENE CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 29.986561

Coeur d?Alene Mines Corporation (Coeur) is a silver producer located in North America and is engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the operation and/or ownership, development and exploration of silver and gold mining properties and companies located primarily within the United States (Nevada and Alaska), South America (Chile, Argentina and Bolivia), Australia (New South Wales), Mexico (Chihuahua) and Africa (Tanzania). The Company, either directly or through wholly owned subsidiaries, owns, leases and has interests in certain exploration-stage mining properties located in the United States, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico and Tanzania. On December 21, 2007, the Company acquired all of the outstanding stock of Bolnisi Gold NL (Bolnisi) and Palmarejo Silver and Gold Corporation (Palmarejo).

• CPRT, COPART INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 331.873871

Copart, Inc. is a provider of vehicle remarketing services in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. The Company provides vehicle sellers with a range of remarketing services to process and sell vehicles over the Internet through the Company?s Virtual Bidding Second Generation Internet auction-style sales technology, which it refers to as VB2. The Company sells principally to licensed vehicle dismantlers, rebuilders, repair licensees, used vehicle dealers and exporters and, at certain locations, it sells directly to the general public. In United States, it sells vehicles primarily as an agent and derive revenue primarily from sales transaction fees paid by vehicle suppliers and vehicle buyers, as well as related fees for services, such as towing and storage. In United Kingdom, it operates primarily on a principal basis, purchasing the salvage vehicle outright from the insurance companies and reselling the vehicle for its own account.

• 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.

• SU, SUNCOR ENERGY INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 15.074671

Suncor Energy Inc. (Suncor) is an integrated energy company. The Company focuses on developing Canada?s Athabasca oil sands. In addition, the Company explores for, acquires, develops, produces and markets crude oil and natural gas, transports and refines crude oil and market petroleum and petrochemical products. It also market third party petroleum products. It also carries on energy trading activities focused on buying and selling futures contracts and other derivative instruments based on the commodities it produces. The Company has four principal subsidiaries and partnerships. It has three principal operating businesses: Oil Sands business, Natural Gas business, and Refining and Marketing.

• ENH, ENDURANCE SPLTY H Current Caprock Strength Rating: 42.870548

Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. (Endurance Holdings) is a holding company. Through its operating subsidiaries based in Bermuda, the United Kingdom and the United States, the Company underwrites specialty lines of personal and commercial property, and casualty insurance and reinsurance on a global basis. Endurance Holdings’ portfolio of specialty lines of business is organized into two segments: Insurance and Reinsurance. Endurance Holdings? seven wholly owned operating subsidiaries are: Endurance Bermuda, Endurance Worldwide Insurance Limited (Endurance U.K.), Endurance Reinsurance Corporation of America (Endurance U.S. Reinsurance), American Agri-Business Insurance Company, Endurance American Insurance Company (Endurance American), Endurance American Specialty Insurance Company (Endurance American Specialty) and American Merchants Casualty Company (American Merchants). In December 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of ARMtech Insurance Services, Inc. and its affiliates.

• SO, SOUTHERN CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 59.364277

The Southern Company (Southern Company) owns all of the outstanding common stock of Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, and Mississippi Power, each of which is an operating public utility company. The traditional operating companies supply electric service in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi. In addition, Southern Company owns all of the common stock of Southern Power, which is also an operating public utility company. Southern Power constructs, acquires, owns, and manages generation assets and sells electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market. Southern Company also owns all the outstanding common stock or membership interests of SouthernLINC Wireless, Southern Nuclear, SCS, Southern Holdings and other direct and indirect subsidiaries.

• INTU, INTUIT INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.931304

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.

• 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.

• CLC, CLARCOR INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.751421

CLARCOR Inc. conducts business in three segments: Engine/Mobile Filtration, Industrial/Environmental Filtration and Packaging. The Company?s Engine/Mobile Filtration Segment sells filtration products used on engines and in mobile equipment applications, including trucks, automobiles, buses and locomotives, and marine, construction, industrial, mining and agricultural equipment.. The Company?s Industrial/Environmental Filtration Segment centers on the manufacturing and marketing of filtration products used in industrial and commercial processes and in buildings, and infrastructures of various types. The Company?s consumer and industrial packaging products business is conducted, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, J.L. Clark, Inc. (J.L. Clark). In May 2008, the Company acquired a 30% share in BioProcess H2O LLC (BPT), a Rhode Island-based manufacturer of industrial waste water and water reuse filtration systems. The Company acquired 100% of the Keddeg Company on December 29, 2008.

• CIR, CIRCOR INTL INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 9.260674

Circor International, Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes different valves and related fluid-control products and certain services to a variety of end-markets for use in different applications to ensure the safety of fluid-control systems. The Company operates 17 manufacturing facilities that are located in the United States, Canada, Western Europe and the People?s Republic of China. Circor has two product groups: Instrumentation and Thermal Fluid Controls Products and Energy Products. As of December 31, 2007, the Company?s products were sold through distributors and it serviced more than 10,000 customers in over 130 countries around the world. On September 28, 2007, Circor and its Instrumental and Thermal Fluid Controls Dutch subsidiary, Dovianus in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, sold its 50% equity interest in Keofitt Holdings, A/S, a Danish company to the other 50% joint venture partner. In May 2008, CIRCOR completed the acquisition of Motor Technology, Inc.

• PIM, PUTNAM MASTER INT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 70.561958

Putnam Master Intermediate Income Trust (the Fund) is a diversified closed-end management investment company. The Fund’s investment objective is to seek high current income by allocating its investments among the United States investment-grade sectors, high-yield sector and international sector. The Fund invests in higher yielding, lower-rated bonds that have a higher rate of default. Its portfolio consists of government, credit and securitized debt instruments. The Fund’s portfolio includes mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities. The Fund invests in various industry sectors, including foreign, government, other, consumer cyclical, communications, energy, basic materials and healthcare. The Fund’s investment manager is Putnam Investment Management, LLC.

• CENX, CENTURY ALUMINUM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 26.985502

Century Aluminum Company (Century Aluminum) is a holding company engaged in producing aluminium. The Company?s principal subsidiaries are Century Aluminum of West Virginia, Inc. (Century of West Virginia), Berkeley Aluminum, Inc. (Berkeley), Century Kentucky, Inc. (Century Kentucky) and Nordural ehf (Nordural). Century of West Virginia operates a primary aluminium reduction facility in Ravenswood, West Virginia (Ravenswood). Berkeley holds a 49.7% interest in a partnership, which operates a primary aluminium reduction facility in Mt. Holly, South Carolina (Mt. Holly) and a 49.7% undivided interest in the property, plant, and equipment comprising Mt. Holly. The remaining interest in the partnership and the remaining undivided interest in Mt. Holly are owned by Alumax of South Carolina, Inc., a subsidiary of Alcoa (ASC).

• RAI, REYNOLDS AMERICAN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.465913

Reynolds American Inc. (RAI) is a holding company. The Company has two business segments: RJR Tobacco and Conwood. RAI?s wholly owned subsidiaries include R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company; Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Company, Inc. (Santa Fe); Lane, Limited (Lane); R. J. Reynolds Global Products, Inc. (GPI), and Conwood Company, LLC, Conwood Sales Co., LLC, Scott Tobacco LLC and Rosswil LLC, collectively, referred to as the Conwood companies. The RJR Tobacco segment consists of the primary operations of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company. The Conwood segment consists of the Conwood companies and Lane. RAI?s wholly owned operating subsidiaries Santa Fe and GPI, among others, are included in All Other.

• VE, VEOLIA ENVIRONN A Current Caprock Strength Rating: 54.246994

Veolia Environnement is a global provider of environmental management services, which include water and wastewater services, waste management services, energy services (excluding the production, trading and sale of electricity, other than production through co-generation) and transportation services. The Company provides clients with a full-service package tailored to fit their individual needs, which may include, supplying water, recycling wastewater, collecting, treating and recycling waste, supplying heating and cooling services, and generally optimizing the industrial processes used in their facilities. The Company?s operations are conducted primarily through four divisions: Veolia Eau (Water), Veolia Energie (Dalkia) (Energy Services), Veolia Proprete (Environmental Services) and Veolia Transport (Transportation). In May 2008, Veolia ES Industrial Services, Inc. acquired Pacific Liners, a full-service pipe and sewer line restoration company.

• SPW, S P X CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 514.885315

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. On December 31, 2007, the Company completed the acquisition of APV operation. In December 2008, SPX Corporation announced that it has completed the sale of LDS Test and Measurement, its vibration testing and data acquisition equipment business unit, to Spectris plc.

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

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. is a 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. It has operations in more than 50 countries. In December 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc. In January 2009, Phibro Animal Health Corporation completed the acquisition of the Abic Animal Health business (Abic) from the Company.

• 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) acquired all the assets of Century Steel, Inc. In October 2008, the Company acquired Metro Recycling.

• 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. In November 2008, Annaly acquired Merganser Capital Management LP (Merganser). Merganser is an institutional fixed-income manager, which will continue to operate as a wholly owned taxable REIT subsidiary of Annaly.

• ZTR, ZWEIG TOTL RETURN Current Caprock Strength Rating: 21.609512

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).

• LSTR, LANDSTAR SYSTEM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 11.941391

Landstar System, Inc. (Landstar) is a non-asset based transportation and logistics services company, providing transportation capacity and related transportation services to shippers throughout the United States, and to a lesser extent, in Canada, and between the United States and Canada, Mexico and other countries. These business services emphasize safety, information coordination and customer service and are delivered through a network of independent commission sales agents and third party capacity providers linked together by a series of technological applications, which are provided and coordinated by the Company. The Company has three business segments: carrier, global logistics and insurance segments.

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