PAYX - Paychex, BKPG - Bark Group, 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: Business Services
- Sector: Business Services
- Exchange: PINX
- 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: Auto Manufacturers - Major
- Sector: Consumer Goods
- Exchange: PINX
- 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: 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: Telecom Services
- Sector: Telecommunications
- Exchange: PINX
"FairPoint is the seventh-largest local telephone firm in the United States, following its acquisition of Verizon's northern New England assets"
- Industry: Sporting Activities
- Sector: Consumer Services
- Stock Style: Small Value
- Exchange: XNAS
"International Speedway is the leading promoter of motorsports entertainment in the United States - International Speedway benefits from barriers to entry that prevent other track operators from competing in its markets, as well as substantial..."
- 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: Education & Training Services
- Sector: Business Services
- Stock Style: Small Growth
- Exchange: XNYS
"Rosetta Stone develops, markets, and sells language learning solutions consisting of software, online services, and audio practice tools - Rosetta Stone is one of the largest and fastest-growing language learning software developers in the United States. While we like its..."
- 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: 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: 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: Gold
- Sector: Industrial Materials
- Exchange: XOTC
- Industry: Wireless Communications
- Sector: Telecommunications
- Stock Style: Large Value
- Exchange: XNYS
"With 303 million proportional customers (total customers multiplied by its ownership interest), Vodafone is the second-largest wireless phone company in the world behind China Mobile (in which it owns a 3.3% stake) - We believe the telecom industry is more stable than many other industries against swings in the broad economy, and diversified ..."
- Industry: Industrial Metals & Minerals
- Sector: Industrial Materials
- Exchange: XOTC
- Industry: Process & Packaged Goods
- Sector: Consumer Goods
- Stock Style: Large Core
- Exchange: PINX
"Nestle is the largest food and beverage company in the world - Nestle's large global distribution network and well-known brands have generated a narrow economic moat. Despite these competitive advantages, we think Nestle's..."
- 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: 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: 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: Biotechnology
- Sector: Health Care
- Stock Style: Small Growth
- Exchange: XNAS
- 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..."
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