ADR, PAYX - Paychex, AAI - AirTran Holdings
- Industry: Diversified
- Sector: Industrial Materials
- Stock Style: Large Core
- Exchange: XNYS
"Based in St - Over its long history, 3M has invented some of the world's greatest products. We think that the firm's innovative culture, bottom-line..."
- Industry: Process & Packaged Goods
- Sector: Consumer Goods
- Stock Style: Mid Core
- Exchange: XNYS
"Smucker is a market leader in coffee, fruit spreads, peanut butter, shortening and oils, ice cream toppings, and health and natural foods and beverages in North America with such brands as Folgers, Smucker's, Jif, Pillsbury, Hungry Jack, and Crisco - J.M. Smucker's dominant share in many of its categories and strong brands such as Smucker's and Jif ..."
- Industry: Advertising Agencies
- Sector: Media
- Exchange: XOTC
- Industry: Confectioners
- Sector: Consumer Goods
- Stock Style: Mid Core
- Exchange: XNYS
"The Hershey Company is the largest confectionary manufacturer in North America - Hershey's leading position in the U.S. chocolate market (42% market share) generates economies of scale and robust profit margins, providing the..."
- Industry: Major Integrated Oil & Gas
- Sector: Energy
- Stock Style: Large Value
- Exchange: XNYS
"Chevron is an integrated energy company with exploration, production, and refining operations worldwide - Chevron can no longer count on the high crude-oil prices that helped it post record profits. Now its ability to increase..."
- Industry: Medical Instruments & Supplies
- Sector: Health Care
- Stock Style: Large Core
- Exchange: XNYS
"Covidien, formerly the health-care unit of Tyco International, develops, manufactures, and distributes medical and imaging devices, pharmaceuticals, and other health-care products to medical professionals worldwide - After a few years of investing in research and development, bolstering its salesforce, and pruning its product lineup, Covidien has ..."
- Industry: Staffing & Outsourcing Services
- Sector: Business Services
- Stock Style: Large Growth
- Exchange: XNAS
"Paychex competes in the payroll outsourcing industry - Paychex was formed through the consolidation of 17 payroll processing companies in 1979 and has been one of the most successful..."
- Industry: Business Services
- Sector: Business Services
- Exchange: PINX
- Industry: Synthetics
- Sector: Industrial Materials
- Stock Style: Mid Growth
- Exchange: XNYS
"SQM is the world leader in specialty plant nutrition, iodine, and lithium - Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile enjoys access to a unique natural-resource base that, in our opinion, gives the firm a..."
- Industry: Auto Parts
- Sector: Consumer Goods
- Exchange: PINX
- Industry: Regional Airlines
- Sector: Business Services
- Stock Style: Small Value
- Exchange: XNYS
"AirTran Holdings provides low-cost air transportation targeting both leisure and business passengers - In the highly commodified airline business, low unit-operating costs are synonymous with profitability. AirTran's entire business model is built on the..."
- Industry: Trucking
- Sector: Business Services
- Stock Style: Small Value
- Exchange: XNAS
"YRC Worldwide is the largest public less-than-truckload carrier in the United States -
..."
- Industry: Diversified Investments
- Sector: Financial Services
- Stock Style: Small Value
- Exchange: XNYS
"San Juan Basin Royalty Trust is the largest energy sector royalty trust in the United States - About 98% of San Juan's royalties are generated by natural gas. Natural gas prices have strengthened from last year's lows, and..."
- Industry: Property Management
- Sector: Financial Services
- Stock Style: Mid Value
- Exchange: XNYS
"Chimera Investments is a specialty finance company operating as a real estate investment trust (REIT)"
- Industry: Personal Services
- Sector: Business Services
- Stock Style: Small Value
- Exchange: XNYS
"Jackson Hewitt is the second-largest tax preparer in the United States - The tax preparation market is highly fragmented, with the two dominant players only controlling approximately 20% of market share. Numbers like..."
- Industry: Hospitals
- Sector: Health Care
- Stock Style: Large Growth
- Exchange: XPAR
"Essilor International is the largest manufacturer of traditional prescription eye lenses in the world, with a global volume share of 25% - France-based Essilor is the world's leading maker of prescription eye lenses, a slow-growing but highly defensive business. We'd be inclined to..."
- Industry: Telecom Services
- Sector: Telecommunications
- Stock Style: Large Core
- Exchange: XNYS
"Deutsche Telecom is Germany's incumbent telephone company and also operates in many other countries - Deutsche Telekom's plan to join its U.K. operation with France Telecom's FTE addresses its biggest problem country. The firm has been..."
- Industry: Medical Appliances & Equipment
- Sector: Health Care
- Stock Style: Large Growth
- Exchange: XNAS
"Intuitive Surgical develops, produces, and markets a robotic system for assisting minimally invasive surgery - Intuitive Surgical looks set to continue expanding in its niche of robotics-assisted minimally invasive surgery by targeting new procedures within several..."
- Industry: Confectioners
- Sector: Consumer Goods
- Stock Style: Large Growth
- Exchange: XNYS
"Cadbury operates as a leading competitor in the global confectionery market, with product lines spanning the chocolate, candy, and gum segments - Although we have been encouraged by Cadbury's efforts to trim more fat from its cost structure, the global confectionery firm's track..."
- Industry: Foreign Regional Banks
- Sector: Financial Services
- Exchange: XNYS
"Banco Santander Brasil is the fourth-largest bank in Brazil - Santander Brasil is the smallest member of Brazil's lucrative four-bank oligopoly, which controls about 60% of the system's assets. As with..."
- Industry: General Entertainment
- Sector: Consumer Services
- Stock Style: Mid Value
- Exchange: XNYS
"Royal Caribbean is the second-largest cruise operator in the world and generated over $6.5 billion in revenue in 2008 - Royal Caribbean is a large competitor in an industry that benefits from scale advantages. There are significant barriers to starting a..."
- Industry: Oil & Gas Drilling & Exploration
- Sector: Energy
- Stock Style: Large Core
- Exchange: XNYS
"Petrobras is a Brazil-based integrated energy company controlled by the Brazilian government - With recent discoveries that could double its resource base, Petrobras seems to have a bright future. But despite an expertise in..."
- Industry: Oil & Gas Drilling & Exploration
- Sector: Energy
- Exchange: XNYS
"WHX is an integrated steel manufacturer"
- Industry: Independent Oil & Gas
- Sector: Energy
- Stock Style: Large Value
- Exchange: XNYS
"Penn West Energy Trust is a Canadian oil and gas income trust with a diverse portfolio of assets across the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin - Several years of mediocre acquisitions have left Penn West with a broad portfolio of assets of varying potential and a large..."
- Industry: Oil & Gas Pipelines
- Sector: Energy
- Stock Style: Mid Value
- Exchange: XNYS
"Magellan Midstream Partners LP is a master limited partnership that operates pipelines and storage terminals for refined petroleum products and ammonia in the central United States - Magellan Midstream Partners' extensive refined products pipelines and terminals network has yielded steadily growing cash flows for years, a trend we..."
- Industry: Gold
- Sector: Industrial Materials
- Stock Style: Large Core
- Exchange: XNYS
"Compania de Minas Buenaventura is a Peruvian mining company involved in the exploration, mining, and processing of primarily gold and silver - Although Compania de Minas Buenaventura's focus on gold and silver mining in Peru has led to attractive returns in the past,..."
- Industry: Information Technology Services
- Sector: Software
- Stock Style: Mid Value
- Exchange: XNYS
"Hyderabad-based Satyam Computer Services is the fourth-largest Indian IT services firm, with strong competencies across a number of industries such as manufacturing, financial services, health care, and telecom - Satyam Computer Services, the smallest of the India's big four IT services companies, is finally living up to its potential. Its..."
- Industry: Beverages - Soft Drinks
- Sector: Consumer Goods
- Stock Style: Large Growth
- Exchange: XNYS
"Coca-Cola is the world's largest manufacturer, distributor, and marketer of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups - The extensive direct distribution network that enables Coca-Cola to deliver its products to almost all corners of the globe is the..."
- Industry: Money Center Banks
- Sector: Financial Services
- Stock Style: Large Core
- Exchange: XNYS
"Bank of Nova Scotia is Canada's most international bank - With more than CAD 500 billion in total assets, Scotiabank is the third-largest bank in Canada. Underpinning this strong market position..."
- Industry: Medical Appliances & Equipment
- Sector: Health Care
- Stock Style: Large Core
- Exchange: XNYS
"Zimmer Holdings is a leading provider of orthopedic medical devices - Zimmer shines in several orthopedic niches that typically possess high barriers to entry and sticky surgeon relationships. Although these positive attributes..."
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