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Stock Upgrades And Downgrades From 2011/12/07

Daily Upgrades And Downgrades. Upgrades and downgrades are positive (negative) changes in the rating of a security. An upgrade is usually triggered by a steady improvement in the fundamentals and financials of the entity that has issued the security. Downgrade ratings are vice versa. Changes in the analyst rating could hit the company’s stock price significantly. Watch out the current rating decisions. Here is a current list of recent company upgrades and downgrades by brokerage firms for investors.

Upgrades:

Atwood Oceanics (ATW) has a market capitalization of $2.68Billion. The company was upgraded by the brokerage firm “Morgan Keegan” from “Mkt Perform” to ”Outperform”. The stock price closed at $41.25 and has changed by -2.00% compared to the previous day.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 9.92, Price/Sales 4.15 and Price/Book 1.62. The earnings per share is expected to grow by 24.17% for next year and 15.00% for the upcoming 5 years.

1-Year Chart Of Atwood Oceanics (Click to enlarge)

Blackstone (BX) has a market capitalization of $16.69Billion. The company was upgraded by the brokerage firm “Argus” from “Hold” to ”Buy ($20)”. The stock price closed at $14.85 and has changed by 0.20% compared to the previous day.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is -, Price/Sales 4.88 and Price/Book 4.05. The earnings per share is expected to grow by 44.07% for next year and 14.67% for the upcoming 5 years.

1-Year Chart Of Blackstone (Click to enlarge)

Comstock (CRK) has a market capitalization of $954.43Million. The company was upgraded by the brokerage firm “Oppenheimer” from “Perform” to ”Outperform ($30)”. The stock price closed at $20.03 and has changed by 3.67% compared to the previous day.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is -, Price/Sales 2.43 and Price/Book 0.90. The earnings per share is expected to grow by 300.00% for next year and 10.00% for the upcoming 5 years.

1-Year Chart Of Comstock (Click to enlarge)


Downgrades:

Darden Restaurants (DRI) has a market capitalization of $5.72Billion. The company was downgraded by the brokerage firm “Argus” from “Buy” to ”Hold”. The stock price closed at $43.43 and has changed by 3.85% compared to the previous day.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 12.81, Price/Sales 0.75 and Price/Book 3.01. The earnings per share is expected to grow by 13.49% for next year and 12.73% for the upcoming 5 years.

1-Year Chart Of Darden Restaurants (Click to enlarge)

Fastenal (FAST) has a market capitalization of $12.28Billion. The company was downgraded by the brokerage firm “UBS” from “Buy” to ”Neutral ($43)”. The stock price closed at $41.60 and has changed by -2.19% compared to the previous day.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 36.49, Price/Sales 4.65 and Price/Book 8.72. The earnings per share is expected to grow by 16.67% for next year and 16.94% for the upcoming 5 years.

1-Year Chart Of Fastenal (Click to enlarge)

Summit Hotel (INN) has a market capitalization of $345.77Million. The company was downgraded by the brokerage firm “KeyBanc Capital Mkts” from “Buy” to ”Hold”. The stock price closed at $9.25 and has changed by -4.54% compared to the previous day.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is -, Price/Sales 2.38 and Price/Book 1.07. The earnings per share is expected to grow by 25.40% for next year and - for the upcoming 5 years.

1-Year Chart Of Summit Hotel (Click to enlarge)

Robert L. Rodriguez - FPA Capital Q4-2011 Fund Portfolio

Robert L. Rodriguez - FPA Capital Q4-2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of Robert L. Rodriguez - FPA Capital - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he has 25 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 863,604,000.

Strategy:
Since 1984, the Fund has been managed by Robert L. Rodriguez, Director, President, and Chief Investment Officer. Two additional portfolio managers, Dennis M. Bryan and Rikard B. Ekstrand, also assist in portfolio management. Analytical support is provided by Pavan Nagpal and Steven Romick.

This price-driven equity style attempts to exploit market inefficiencies among stocks of smaller companies. Intense research is required to build the high level of knowledge and confidence necessary to realistically evaluate unpopular situations. Great attention is paid to the minimization of potential risk. The disciplined selection process is designed to minimize business risk by applying specific fundamental criteria: strong balance sheets, free cashflow, an understandable and successful business strategy under capable management, and unique business characteristics, which may include proprietary technology or a dominant market position. Qualifying companies have a history of generating high return on equity or demonstrate the potential to do so. FPA's value bias focuses on companies with long-term records; over 70% of holdings have at least 10-year histories.

Research concentrates on economic and market sectors either heavily discounted or simply ignored and involves basic computer screens for balance sheet and return data, the study of industry periodicals and research reports from select Wall Street sources, and in-depth interviews with company principals. Valuation considerations are applied to this list of potential investments, seeking to minimize market risk during the process of accumulation. New purchases are concentrated in companies with relatively low Price/Normalized Earnings, low Price/Pretax Cashflow, low Price/Book Value, low Price/Replacement Value and low Market Cap/Total Revenues. A contrarian outlook allows ownership of companies at prices already reflecting a negative perception by the marketplace. FPA believes this to be a relatively low-risk approach to the smaller cap markets given a reasonable time horizon.

Positions are reduced or eliminated when the basis for investment has been revised, the stock is selling at a significant premium P/E to the market, profitability recovery has been attained, a management disappointment without expectation of recovery has occurred, or a superior alternative value has presented itself.

The fund is generally concentrated, with 25-45 equity holdings and a maximum of 25% in an industry. Convertible securities may occasionally be held as an equity alternative. Historically, the fund has remained substantially invested; however, reserves may increase when opportunities for investment and superior values are lacking. A long-term investment horizon of 3 to 5 years and the patience and perseverance required to hold out-of-favor issues produce low portfolio turnover, with the addition of a limited number of new positions during any given year.

Robert L. Rodriguez’s fund positions as of Q4/2011 with actual share movements:


Sym - Stock
Portfolio Weight
Recent activity
Reported Price*
ESV - ENSCO PLC
10.33
0
$46.92
ARW - Arrow Electronics
9.67
0
$37.41
RDC - Rowan Cos.
9.25
0
$30.33
AVT - Avnet Inc.
8.84
0
$31.09
TRN - Trinity Industries
7.84
0
$30.06
ROSE - Rosetta Resources Inc.
7.81
Reduce 9.40%
$43.50
WDC - Western Digital
7.23
Add 4.85%
$30.95
FL - Foot Locker Inc.
5.01
Reduce 14.50%
$23.84
SIG - Signet Jewelers Ltd.
4.35
0
$43.96
AGP - AMERIGROUP Corp.
3.4
Add 12.12%
$59.08
OSK - Oshkosh Corp.
3.14
Add 1.76%
$21.38
ATW - Atwood Oceanics Inc.
2.9
Reduce 10.01%
$39.79
SM - St. Mary Land & Explor
2.89
Reduce 5.00%
$73.10
NFX - Newfield Exploration
2.82
Add 1.90%
$37.73
BHI - Baker Hughes
2.41
0
$48.64
IDCC - InterDigital Inc.
1.85
Add 303.11%
$43.57
PTEN - Patterson UTI-Energy
1.7
Reduce 37.33%
$19.98
XEC - Cimarex Energy Co.
1.65
0
$61.90
RS - Reliance Steel & Aluminum
1.55
0
$48.69
HP - Helmerich & Payne
1.21
Buy
$58.36
FII - Federated Investors Inc.
1.19
0
$15.15
VECO - Veeco Instruments
1.12
Add 105.98%
$20.80
COG - Cabot Oil & Gas
0.83
0
$75.90
ARRS - Arris Group Inc.
0.76
0
$10.82
DV - DeVRY Inc.
0.24
Buy
$38.45






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ESV, ARW, RDC, AVT, TRN, ROSE, WDC, FL, SIG, AGP, OSK, ATW, SM, NFX, BHI, IDCC, PTEN, XEC, RS, HP, FII, VECO, COG, ARRS, DV

100 Best Small Cap Stocks To Place Your Money

Small cap stocks with a strong growth and best dividends to buy, originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Everybody loves growth. If you own an investment and it starts to grow by double-digit rates over a few years, when the stock price explode and you feel like a bird in heaven. I felt a few times like this. But it is also necessary that you sell partly your position over the time. I personally reduce my stocks positions when they have doubled or more. Certainly you can’t get very rich with this rule but you hedge your stock gains and believe me by selling stocks with gains, nobody become poor.

I recently viewed a nice list at Forbes. The list was a research result of the 100 best small cap growth stocks in America. Stocks from the table are public and tradeable in America. They all have a total sales volume below the USD 1 billion mark and fantastic years of recent growth. As you can see at the list, the GDP growth is America is still weak but out there are still investment opportunities to discover.

I discovered the ten best dividend stocks from the small cap growth picks. I needed to screen more than 50 companies in order to find ten stocks with positive dividend payments. Most of the small cap growth stocks don’t pay dividends. But the debt situation is very comfortable. Most of them are free of debt and have bigger cash amounts to their balance sheets in order to finance future growth. The average stock grew in sales by 19 percent yearly. Earnings followd by 31 percent growth yearly and the average return on equity amounted to 20 percent. See the full list of the 100 best small cap growth stocks at the end of this post.