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• PEP, PEPSICO INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 172.410660

PepsiCo, Inc. (PepsiCo) is a global beverage, snack and food company. The Company manufactures, markets and sells a range of salty, convenient, sweet and grain-based snacks, carbonated and non-carbonated beverages and foods approximately 200 countries, with its operations in North America, Mexico and the United Kingdom. The Company is organized into three business units: PepsiCo Americas Foods, which includes Frito-Lay North America, Quaker Foods North America and all of its Latin American food and snack businesses, including its Sabritas and Gamesa businesses in Mexico; PepsiCo Americas Beverages, which includes PepsiCo Beverages North America and all of its Latin American beverage businesses, and PepsiCo International, which includes all PepsiCo businesses in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia, Middle East and Africa. The Company?s three business units were organized in six segments: FLNA, QFNA, LAF, PAB, United Kingdom & Europe, and Middle East, Africa & Asia.

• IGT, INTL GAME TECH Current Caprock Strength Rating: 129.132645

International Game Technology (IGT) is a global gaming company specializing in the design, manufacture, and marketing of electronic gaming equipment and network systems, as well as licensing and services. The Company maintains an array of entertainment-inspired gaming product lines. In addition to its United States production facilities in Nevada, it manufactures gaming products in the United Kingdom and through a third-party manufacturer in Japan. The Company derives its revenues from the distribution of electronic gaming equipment and network systems, as well as licensing and services. Gaming operations generate recurring revenues by providing customers with its proprietary gaming equipment and network systems, as well as licensing, services, and component parts. Its product sales include the sale of gaming equipment and network systems, as well as licensing, services, and component parts. In January 2009, it acquired certain operating assets of Progressive Gaming International Corp.

• WIA, WESTERN ASSET/CLA Current Caprock Strength Rating: 144.874588

Western Asset/Claymore Inflation-Linked Securities & Income Fund (the Fund) is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. The Fund?s primary investment objective is to provide current income. Capital appreciation is a secondary investment objective. The Fund invests at least 80% of its total managed assets in inflation-linked securities; at least 60% of its total managed assets in the United States Treasury inflation-protected securities, and not more than 40% of its total managed assets in non-United States dollar investments (not more than 20% of its non-United States dollar exposure may be unhedged). Up to 20% of the Fund?s portfolio securities may represent corporate debt securities of investment-grade quality at the time of their purchase that are not inflation-linked securities. Reverse repurchase agreements and other forms of leverage will not exceed 38% of the Fund?s total managed assets. The Fund?s investment advisor is Western Asset Management Company.

• STRA, STRAYER EDUCATION Current Caprock Strength Rating: 225.001740

Strayer Education, Inc. is a post-secondary education services corporation. The Company offers a variety of academic programs through its wholly owned subsidiary, Strayer University, Inc., both in classroom courses and online via the Internet. The Strayer University is an institution of higher learning that offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology, education and public administration at 65 campuses in Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. As part of its program offering, the University also offers classes online via the Internet. As of December 31, 2008, the Company had more than 44,000 students enrolled in its programs.

• 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. The Company operates in three business segments: the carrier segment, the global logistics segment and the insurance segment. The Company markets its services, through independent commission sales agents who enter into contractual arrangements with Landstar and are responsible for locating freight, making that freight available to Landstar?s capacity providers and coordinating the transportation of the freight with customers and capacity providers.

• AIZ, ASSURANT INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 147.249084

Assurant, Inc. (Assurant) is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, it is engaged in providing specialized insurance products and related services in North America and selected other international markets. Its four segments include Assurant Solutions, Assurant Specialty Property, Assurant Health and Assurant Employee Benefits. These segments provide debt protection administration, credit insurance, warranties and service contracts, pre-funded funeral insurance, creditor?placed homeowners insurance, manufactured housing homeowners insurance, individual health and small employer group health insurance, group dental insurance, group disability insurance and group life insurance. In October 2008, it announced that it has completed its acquisition of Signal Holdings LLC, a provider of wireless handset protection programs and repair services, from Trident II L.P. On September 26, 2008, it completed the acquisition of Warranty Management Group business from GE Consumer & Industrial.

• NHP, NATIONWIDE HLTH P Current Caprock Strength Rating: 134.354874

Nationwide Health Properties, Inc. (NHP) is a real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests primarily in healthcare-related senior housing, long-term care properties and medical office buildings. As of December 31, 2008, the Company had investments in 583 healthcare facilities located in 43 states. Its operations are organized into two segments: triple-net leases and multi-tenant leases. In the triple-net leases segment, NHP invests in healthcare related properties and lease the facilities to unaffiliated tenants. In the multi-tenant leases segment, it invests in healthcare related properties that have several tenants under separate leases. As of December 31, 2008, approximately 93% of NHP?s revenues are derived from its leases, with the remaining 7% from the Company?s mortgage loans and other financing activities.

• EAC, ENCORE ACQUISITIO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 57.562366

Encore Acquisition Company (EAC) 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 in Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota 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, the East Texas Basin and the Mississippi Salt Basin. In January 2009, the Company sold certain oil and natural gas producing properties and related assets in the Arkoma Basin and royalty interest properties in Oklahoma, as well as 10,300 unleased mineral acres to Encore Energy Partners LP (ENP).

• TZIX, TRIZETTO GP INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 63.253662
• STRA, STRAYER EDUCATION Current Caprock Strength Rating: 225.001740

Strayer Education, Inc. is a post-secondary education services corporation. The Company offers a variety of academic programs through its wholly owned subsidiary, Strayer University, Inc., both in classroom courses and online via the Internet. The Strayer University is an institution of higher learning that offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology, education and public administration at 65 campuses in Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. As part of its program offering, the University also offers classes online via the Internet. As of December 31, 2008, the Company had more than 44,000 students enrolled in its programs.

• TRE, TANZANIAN ROYALTY Current Caprock Strength Rating: 9.442011

Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation is a Canada-based exploration-stage company. The Company is engaged in the acquisition and exploration of mineral properties, including the optioning out of properties for pre-production option payments and royalties on future gold production. All of the Company?s concessions are located in Tanzania. The Itetemia property is located in the Mwanza region of the Lake Victoria Archean Greenstone Belt, some 90 kilometers southwest of Mwanza, Tanzania. The Company?s Luhala property consists of six licenses totaling 75.76 square kilometers. The Kigosi property consists of 20 prospecting licenses. The Lunguya property consists of nine prospecting licenses. The Company?s Kanagele property consists of 11 prospecting licenses. The Company?s Tulawaka property consists of 11 prospecting licenses.

• 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. The Consumer segment includes a range of products used in the baby care, skin care, oral care, wound care and women?s healthcare fields, as well as nutritional and over-the-counter pharmaceutical products. The Pharmaceutical segment includes products in the therapeutic areas, such as anti-infective, antipsychotic, cardiovascular, contraceptive, dermatology, gastrointestinal, hematology, immunology, neurology, oncology, pain management, urology and virology. The Medical Devices and Diagnostics segment includes a range of products distributed to wholesalers, hospitals and retailers. In October 2008, the Company acquired HealthMedia, Inc. In December 2008, it acquired Omrix Biopharmaceuticals, Inc.

• UIL, UIL HLDGS CP Current Caprock Strength Rating: 18.508133

UIL Holdings Corporation (UIL Holdings), is engaged in operating its regulated utility business. The utility business consists of the electric transmission and distribution operations of The United Illuminating Company (UI). UIL Holdings also has a non-utility business, United Capital Investments, Inc. (UCI), which primarily holds passive minority ownership interests in two investment funds. As of December 31, 2008, the non-utility businesses included a minority ownership interest in Bridgeport Energy, LLC (BE) held by United Bridgeport Energy, Inc. (UBE), until the completion of the sale of that interest to an affiliate of Duke Energy on March 28, 2006; UCI?s minority ownership interest in Cross-Sound Cable Company, LLC (Cross-Sound) until the completion of the sale of that interest to Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Ltd. on February 27, 2006, and the operations of Xcelecom, Inc. (Xcelecom), until the sale of that business effective December 31, 2006.

• GOLD, RANDGOLD RES LTD Current Caprock Strength Rating: 703.888306

Randgold Resources Limited (Randgold Resources) together with the subsidiaries are engaged in carrying out the gold mining activities and exploration. The operations of the Company include the Morila Gold Mine and Luolo Gold Mine. Randgold Resources has a portfolio of organic growth prospects replenished by exploration programmes in Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, C?te d?Ivoire, Ghana and Tanzania. The other project of the Company is the Tongo Project.

• BLKB, BLACKBAUD INC. Current Caprock Strength Rating: 22.222506

Blackbaud, Inc. is a global provider of software and related services designed specifically for non-profit organizations. It offers an operational platform through core software applications, plus an additional 40 extended applications to provide distinct, add-on functionality tailored to meet the specific needs of its diverse customer base. The Company also offers a suite of analytical tools and related services that enable non-profit organizations to extract, aggregate and analyze data to make operational decisions. The Company operates in six segments: license fees, maintenance fees, subscription fees, consulting and education services, analytic services, and others. Its customers operate in multiple verticals within the non-profit market, including religion, education, foundations, health and human services, arts and cultural, public and societal benefits, environment and animal welfare, and international and foreign affairs. On July 8, 2008, the Company acquired Kintera Inc.

• HBHC, HANCOCK HLDG CO Current Caprock Strength Rating: 7.951651

Hancock Holding Company is a bank holding company. As of December 31, 2008, the Company operated more than 157 banking and financial services offices, and more than 137 automated teller machines (ATMs) in the states of Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida and Alabama through four wholly owned bank subsidiaries: Hancock Bank, Gulfport, Mississippi, Hancock Bank of Louisiana, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Hancock Bank of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida and Hancock Bank of Alabama, Mobile, Alabama (collectively, the Banks). The Banks are community oriented and focus primarily on offering commercial, consumer and mortgage loans and deposit services to individuals and small to middle market businesses in their respective market areas.

• DUK, DUKE ENERGY CP HL Current Caprock Strength Rating: 38.342281

Duke Energy Corporation (Duke Energy) is an energy company that provides its services through three business segments. The Company?s business segments are U.S. Franchised Electric and Gas, Commercial Power and International Energy. During the year ended December 31, 2008, Crescent was a reportable business segment of Duke Energy. However, in 2008, the Company included the operations of Crescent Other business segment. In September 2008, the Company acquired Catamount Energy Corporation from Diamond Castle Partners.

• 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, 2008, 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.

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

Pengrowth Energy Trust (the Trust) is a Canada-based open-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. Pengrowth Management Limited is the Trust?s investment manager.

• ARG, AIRGAS INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 5.699491

Airgas, Inc. and subsidiaries (Airgas) is a distributor of industrial, medical and specialty gases (delivered in packaged or cylinder form), and welding, safety and related products (hardgoods), such as welding equipment and supplies. Airgas is a producer of nitrous oxide in the United States, a producer and supplier of dry ice and a supplier of liquid carbon dioxide in the Southeastern United States. The Company is also a distributor of process chemicals, refrigerants and ammonia products. The Company has two operating segments: Distribution and All Other Operations. The Distribution segment primarily engages in the distribution of packaged gases and hardgoods. All Other Operations segment consists of business units that produce and distribute carbon dioxide, dry ice, nitrous oxide, specialty gases and anhydrous ammonia. In December 2008, Airgas acquired Gordon Woods Industrial Welding Supply, Inc., Accu Air Gases & Equipment, LP, Summit Gas & Gear, LP and TexAir Welding Supply, Ltd.

• NOV, NATL OILWELL VARC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 29.458580

National Oilwell Varco, Inc. (NOV) is a provider of equipment and components used in oil and gas drilling and production operations, oilfield services, and supply chain integration services to the upstream oil and gas industry. The Company operates in three segments. The Rig Technology segment designs, manufactures, sells and services systems for the drilling, completion and servicing of oil and gas wells. The Petroleum Services & Supplies segment provides a variety of consumable goods and services used to drill, complete, remediate and workover oil and gas wells, service pipelines, flowlines and other oilfield tubular goods. The Distribution Services segment provides maintenance, repair and operating (MRO) supplies, and spare parts to drill site and production locations worldwide.On April 21, 2008, NOV acquired Grant Prideco, Inc. In December 2008, it acquired Sakhalin Outfitters LLC and Mid-South Machine, Inc. In April 2009, NOV acquired ASEP Group Holding B.V. and Anson Limited.

• LII, LENNOX INTL INC Current Caprock Strength Rating: 77.648972

Lennox International Inc. (LII) is a global provider of climate control solutions. The Company designs, manufactures and markets a range of products for the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) markets. The Company operates in four business segments: Residential Heating and Cooling, Commercial Heating and Cooling, Service Experts and Refrigeration. The Company’s products and services are sold through multiple distribution channels under brand names, such as Lennox, Armstrong Air, Ducane, Bohn, Larkin, Advanced Distributor Products and Service Experts. The Company?s products and services are sold through a combination of distributors, independent and Company-owned dealer service centers, other installing contractors, wholesalers, manufacturer?s representatives, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and national accounts.

• APD, AIR PRODUCTS CHEM Current Caprock Strength Rating: 83.468361

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. serves technology, energy, industrial and healthcare customers globally with a portfolio of products, services and solutions that include atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials, equipment and services. The Company is the supplier of hydrogen and helium and has built positions in growth markets, such as semiconductor materials, refinery hydrogen, natural gas liquefaction and advanced coatings and adhesives. The Company operates in four business segments: merchant gases, tonnage gases, electronic and performance materials, and equipment and energy. During the fiscal year ended September 30, 2008 (fiscal 2008), the Company completed the selling of high purity process chemicals business. In January 2008, the Company sold its interest in the vinyl acetate ethylene polymers joint ventures to Wacker Chemie AG. In June 2008, the Company completed the sale of the polymers emulsions business.

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