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• GTY, GETTY RLTY HLDG C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 35.647312

Getty Realty Corp. is a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States specializing in the ownership and leasing of retail motor fuel and convenience store properties and petroleum distribution terminals. As of December 31, 2007, the Company owned 808 properties and leased 203 additional properties. Getty Realty’s properties are located primarily in the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic regions in the United States. The Company also owns or leases properties in Texas, North Carolina, Hawaii, California, Florida, Arkansas, Illinois and North Dakota. A substantial portion of Getty Realty’s revenues (78% as of December 31, 2007) are derived from leases (the Marketing Leases) with its primary tenant, Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. (Marketing).

• SFG, STANCORP FINCL GR Current Caprock Strength Rating: 6.632567

StanCorp Financial Group, Inc., incorporated in 1988, is a holding company for its insurance and asset management subsidiaries. Its operations include two segments: Insurance Services and Asset Management. The Insurance Services segment offers group and individual disability insurance, group life and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) insurance, and group dental insurance. The Asset Management segment offers full-service 401(k) plans, 457 plans, defined benefit plans, money purchase pension plans, profit sharing plans, 403(b) plans and non-qualified deferred compensation products and services through an affiliated broker-dealer. This segment also offers investment management and financial planning services, commercial mortgage loan origination and servicing, and individual fixed annuities.

• 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.

• 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.

• ADM, ARCHER DANIELS MD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 105.415352

Archer Daniels Midland Company is engaged in procuring, transporting, storing, processing, and merchandising agricultural commodities and products. The Company is a processor of oilseeds, corn, wheat, cocoa, and other feedstuffs, and is a manufacturer of soybean oil and protein meal, corn sweeteners, flour, biodiesel, ethanol, and other food and feed ingredients. The Company?s operations are classified into three business segments: Oilseeds Processing, Corn Processing and Agricultural Services. The Company?s remaining operations are aggregated and classified as Other. In August 2008, the French malting group Malteurop bought the malting division of Archer Daniels Midland Company. Malteurop is controlled by the French farm cooperative group Champagne Cereales and ADM Malting.

• CEF, CENTRAL FD CDA CL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 303.932526

Central Fund of Canada Limited (Central Fund) is an investment holding company. Central Fund?s objective is to provide investment alternative for investors interested in holding marketable gold and silver related investments. The Company invests virtually all of its assets in long-term holdings of unencumbered, allocated and segregated gold and silver bullion. The Company holds at least 90% of its net assets in gold and silver bullion, primarily in bar form. As of October 31, 2008, the Company?s assets were made up of 58.9% gold bullion, 37.4% silver bullion and certificates, 3.7% cash and interest-bearing deposits and other working capital amounts.

• LMT, LOCKHEED MARTIN C Current Caprock Strength Rating: 126.940300

Lockheed Martin Corporation principally researches, designs, develops, manufactures, integrates, operates and sustains advanced technology systems, products, and provides a range of management, engineering, technical, scientific, logistic and information services. It serves both domestic and international customers with products and services that have defense, civil and commercial applications, with its principal customers being agencies of the United States Government. The Company operates in four segments: Aeronautics, Electronic Systems, Information Systems and Global Services (IS&GS) and Space Systems. In September 2008, Lockheed Martin Corporation announced that it has completed its acquisition of Aculight Corporation. In January 2009, the Company completed its acquisition of Universal Systems & Technology, Inc. (UNITECH).

• GHL, GREENHILL & CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 51.067162

Greenhill & Co., Inc. (Greenhill) is an independent investment banking firm that provides financial advice on significant mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and similar corporate finance matters, and manages merchant banking funds and commits capital to those funds. Greenhill acts for clients located throughout the world from offices in New York, London, Frankfurt, Toronto and Dallas. Its principal sources of revenue are financial advisory and merchant banking fund management.

• 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.

• MMSI, MERIT MEDICAL SYS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 154.594406

Merit Medical Systems, Inc. provides a line of disposable products designed to assist physicians in diagnosing disease and intervening in the areas of radiology and cardiology. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company?s United States domestic sales force made approximately 41% of its sales directly to United States hospitals and approximately 14% of sales through other channels such as United States customs packagers and distributors. Original equipment manufacturers (OEM), companies accounted for approximately 15% of its 2007, sales. Approximately 31% of its sales in 2007, were made in international markets (of which OEM international sales accounted for approximately 1%).

• MXGL, MAX CAPITAL GROUP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 12.763169

Max Capital Group Ltd. (Max Capital), formerly Max Re Capital Ltd., is a global provider of specialty insurance and reinsurance products for the property and casualty market, with underwriting operations based in Bermuda, Ireland and the United States. It underwrites a diversified portfolio of risks that encompass long-tail business, including but not limited to general liability, medical malpractice, professional liability and workers compensation risks, as well as short-tail business, including but not limited to property, property catastrophe, aviation, and marine and energy risks. The Company also provides reinsurance for the life and annuity market when opportunities arise. Max Capital operates in the reinsurance and insurance business serving four segments: the property and casualty reinsurance segment, the property and casualty insurance segment, the U.S. excess and surplus lines insurance segment, and the life and annuity reinsurance segment.

• EQT, EQUITABLE RES INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 178.694778

EQT Corporation, formerly Equitable Resources, Inc., is an integrated energy company engaged on Appalachian area natural gas activities, including production, gathering and processing, and distribution, transmission, storage and marketing. The Company and its subsidiaries offer energy (natural gas, and a limited amount of natural gas liquids and crude oil) products and services to wholesale and retail customers. The segments of the Company include Equitable Supply and Equitable Utilities. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Equitable Supply segment sold to Pine Mountain Oil and Gas, Inc. (PMOG), a subsidiary of Range Resources Corporation (Range), a portion of the Company?s interests in certain gas properties in the Nora area totaling approximately 74 billion cubic feet (Bcf) of proved reserves. In 2007, the Company purchased an additional working interest of approximately 13.5% in the Roaring Fork area in Virginia and certain gathering assets from a minority interest holder.

• SCHL, SCHOLASTIC CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 31.054762

Scholastic Corporation (Scholastic) is a global children?s publishing, education and media company. The Company is the publisher and distributor of children?s books and a developer of educational technology products. Scholastic also creates educational and entertainment materials and products for use in school and at home, including magazines, children?s reference and non-fiction materials, teacher materials, television programming, film, videos and toys. The Company is an operator of school-based book clubs and book fairs in the United States. It distributes its products and services through these channels, as well as directly to schools and libraries, through retail stores and the Internet. The Company?s Website, scholastic.com, is a site for teachers, classrooms and parents. The segments of the Company are Children?s Book Publishing and Distribution; Educational Publishing; Media, Licensing and Advertising, and International.

• 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.

• NDAQ, NASDAQ STOCK MKT Current Caprock Strength Rating: 26.383184

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, it announced that it has completed its acquisition of the Boston Stock Exchange. In November 2008, it acquired Bloom Partners.

• MLNM, MILLENNIUM PHARM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 133.557907
• 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.

• TJX, T J X COS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 47.664700

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.

• CHP, C&D TECHNOLOGIES Current Caprock Strength Rating: 30.501881

C&D Technologies, Inc. (C&D) is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of electrical power storage systems for the standby power market. The Company manufactures, markets and distributes lead acid batteries and standby power systems that integrate lead acid batteries with other electronic components. Specifically, C&D sells lead acid batteries in two categories: flooded lead acid batteries and valve-regulated lead acid. Flooded batteries require periodic watering and maintenance, are used in uninterruptible power supply, telecommunications and utility applications. The Company’s batteries and standby power systems are marketed and sold under the Dynasty, Maxrate, msENDUR, Liberty and Sageon brands. On August 31, 2007, C&D completed the sale of its Power Electronics Division. On October 24, 2007, the Company announced the sale of certain assets of its Motive Power Division.

• CBU, COMMUNITY BK SYS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 98.150024

Community Bank System, Inc. is a single bank holding company, which wholly owns five subsidiaries: Community Bank, N.A. (the Bank), Benefit Plans Administrative Services, Inc. (BPAS), CFSI Closeout Corp. (CFSICC), First of Jermyn Realty Co. (FJRC) and Town & Country Agency LLC (T&C). BPAS owns three subsidiaries, Benefit Plans Administrative Services LLC (BPA), Harbridge Consulting Group LLC and Hand Benefit & Trust Company. BPAS provides administration, consulting and actuarial services to sponsors of employee benefit plans. CFSICC, FJRC and T&C are inactive companies. The Company also wholly owns three unconsolidated subsidiary business trusts established for the purpose of issuing mandatorily redeemable preferred securities, which are considered Tier I capital under regulatory capital adequacy guidelines. On May 18, 2007, BPAS acquired Hand Benefits & Trust, Inc. On June 1, 2007, the Company acquired TLNB Financial Corporation, parent company of Tupper Lake National Bank.

• MMSI, MERIT MEDICAL SYS Current Caprock Strength Rating: 154.594406

Merit Medical Systems, Inc. provides a line of disposable products designed to assist physicians in diagnosing disease and intervening in the areas of radiology and cardiology. During the year ended December 31, 2007, the Company?s United States domestic sales force made approximately 41% of its sales directly to United States hospitals and approximately 14% of sales through other channels such as United States customs packagers and distributors. Original equipment manufacturers (OEM), companies accounted for approximately 15% of its 2007, sales. Approximately 31% of its sales in 2007, were made in international markets (of which OEM international sales accounted for approximately 1%).

• WEC, WISCONSIN ENERGY Current Caprock Strength Rating: 1.740028

Wisconsin Energy Corporation is a diversified holding company. The Company conducts its operations primarily in two operating segments: a utility energy segment and a non-utility energy segment. Its primary subsidiaries include Wisconsin Electric Power Company (Wisconsin Electric), Wisconsin Gas LLC (Wisconsin Gas), Edison Sault Electric Company (Edison Sault) and W.E. Power, LLC (We Power). The Company?s utility energy segment consists of Wisconsin Electric, Wisconsin Gas and Edison Sault. Its non-utility energy segment consists primarily of We Power. On September 28, 2007, Wisconsin Electric sold Point Beach, a nuclear generation facility, to an affiliate of FPL Group, Inc.

• AME, AMETEK INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 14.285336

AMETEK, Inc. (AMETEK) is a manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices with operations in North America, Europe, Asia and South America. The Company markets its products worldwide through two operating groups, the Electronic Instruments Group (EIG) and the Electromechanical Group (EMG). EIG builds monitoring, testing, calibration and display devices for the process, aerospace, industrial and power markets. EMG is a supplier of electromechanical devices. EMG produces engineered electromechanical connectors for hermetic (moisture-proof) applications, specialty metals for niche markets, and brushless air-moving motors, blowers, and heat exchangers. In April 2008, the Company acquired Reading Alloys. In June 2008, the Company announced the acquisition of Vision Research, Inc. In August 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of the programmable power business of Xantrex Technology, Inc. In November 2008, Ametek acquired Muirhead Aerospace Limited.

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