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Why I like these companies is that almost all of the following are in
a favorable buying position as we want to purchase great stocks at
a good price rather than a poor stock at a great price:
Intangible assets such as intellectual property, brand name recognition, and customer base, are
not reflected in the price-to-book ratio, so a suggested P/B of less than 1.5,the P/B could be up
to 2.5 if the company has significant intangible assets.
2. Earnings per share [EPS] should have grown by 33% in the past 10 years.
Earnings thus should have grown around 3% per year. In this instance, we go back up to 5
years, looking for 3%+ growth in earnings.
Perhaps the most common valuation metric, the price-to-earnings ratio allows us to understand
the earnings power of the company compared to its price. A high P/E ratio is common among
"growth" stocks who are expecting phenomenal growth, although there is no way to be sure
growth will continue at a pace that justifies the high price.
The current ratio represents the current assets divided the current liabilities. This ensures that if
the company faces a crisis, they have 50% more assets than liabilities to work with. For this we
used the quick ratio instead, which is a more conservative number because it disregards any
current assets that might be difficult to unload in a tight situation, such as inventory.
Dividends are a very important indicator of a company's financial health. Not only that, but they
indicate a shareholder friendly management team, without which can spell disaster for
shareholders.
ARCC: Ares Capital Corporation: Ares Capital Corporation (ARCC) is a business development company. The firm
specializes in acquisition, recapitalization, and leveraged buyout transactions of middle market companies. It prefers to make
investments in companies engaged in the basic and growth manufacturing, business services, consumer products, health care
products and services, and information technology service sectors. The firm will also consider investments in industries such as
restaurants, retail, oil and gas, and technology. It invests in companies based in North America. The firm typically invests between
$10 million and $50 million in companies with an EBITDA between $5 million and $50 million. It invests in leveraged finance
products such as first lien senior debt, second lien senior debt, subordinated debt, and non-control preferred and common equity.
Ares Capital Corporation was founded in 2004 and is based in New York, New York with an additional office in Los Angeles,
California. The firm operates as a subsidiary of ARES Capital Management LLC.
Div/Shr: 1.67
Ex-Div: 2008-03-13
Yield: 13.51%
P/S: 5.96
PEG: 1.03
Ares Capital has a strong institutional ownership of 55.85%
You can buy a portfolio with asset value = $15 for only $12.29
Also within the past year there has been heavy insider buying from
the president and director with no sale of their stock as of yet.
Buy(P)
P/S Filed Share Unit Total Shares
/ Company Symbol Insider Relationship Return(1m) Details
date Date Amt. Price Proceeds Owned
Sell(S)
2008-05- ARES
2008- Rosen
P 16 CAPITAL ARCC director 1,000 $12.38 $12,380.00 3,000 view
05-14 Robert L
15:18:06 CORP
2008-05- ARES
2008- Rosen
P 16 CAPITAL ARCC director 2,500 $12.34 $30,850.00 5,500 view
05-14 Robert L
15:18:06 CORP
2008-05- ARES
2008- Rosen
P 16 CAPITAL ARCC director 2,000 $12.23 $24,460.00 7,500 view
05-15 Robert L
15:18:06 CORP
2008-05- ARES
2008- Rosen
P 14 CAPITAL ARCC director 500 $12.14 $6,070.00 500 view
05-12 Robert L
14:20:33 CORP
2008-05- ARES
2008- Rosen
P 14 CAPITAL ARCC director 1,500 $12.23 $18,343.50 2,000 view
05-13 Robert L
14:20:33 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- SIEGEL
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC director 2,200 $12.50 $27,500.00 5,102 -0.08% view
03-03 ERIC B
17:03:16 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- SIEGEL
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC director 1,194 $12.40 $14,805.60 6,296 0.73% view
03-03 ERIC B
17:03:16 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- SIEGEL
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC director 5,000 $12.45 $62,250.00 11,296 0.32% view
03-03 ERIC B
17:03:16 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- SIEGEL
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC director 800 $12.50 $10,000.00 12,096 -0.08% view
03-03 ERIC B
17:03:16 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- SIEGEL
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC director 800 $12.50 $10,000.00 12,896 -0.08% view
03-03 ERIC B
17:03:16 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- SIEGEL
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC director 1,944 $12.33 $23,969.50 14,840 -0.41% view
03-04 ERIC B
17:03:16 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 100 $12.45 $1,245.00 100 0.32% view
03-03 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 1,600 $12.52 $20,032.00 1,700 -0.24% view
03-03 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
P 2008- 2008-03- ARES ARCC Arougheti officer 300 $12.53 $3,759.00 2,000 -0.32% view
05 CAPITAL
03-03 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 2,000 $12.54 $25,080.00 4,000 -0.40% view
03-03 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 16,000 $12.55 $200,800.00 20,000 -0.48% view
03-03 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 200 $12.28 $2,456.00 20,200 0.00% view
03-04 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 100 $12.29 $1,229.00 20,300 -0.08% view
03-04 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 100 $12.30 $1,230.00 20,400 -0.16% view
03-04 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 2,500 $12.31 $30,775.00 22,900 -0.24% view
03-04 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 400 $12.33 $4,932.00 23,300 -0.41% view
03-04 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 100 $12.34 $1,234.00 23,400 -0.49% view
03-04 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 100 $12.35 $1,235.00 23,500 -0.57% view
03-04 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 300 $12.36 $3,708.00 23,800 -0.65% view
03-04 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 300 $12.37 $3,711.00 24,100 -0.73% view
03-04 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 100 $12.38 $1,238.00 24,200 -0.81% view
03-04 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 100 $12.39 $1,239.00 24,300 -0.89% view
03-04 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 400 $12.40 $4,960.00 24,700 -0.97% view
03-04 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
P 2008- 2008-03- ARES ARCC Arougheti officer 500 $12.41 $6,205.00 25,200 -1.05% view
05 CAPITAL
03-04 17:01:35 CORP Michael J (President)
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 500 $12.42 $6,210.00 25,700 -1.13% view
03-04 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 700 $12.43 $8,701.00 26,400 -1.21% view
03-04 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 1,000 $12.44 $12,440.00 27,400 -1.29% view
03-04 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
2008-03- ARES
2008- Arougheti officer
P 05 CAPITAL ARCC 600 $12.45 $7,470.00 28,000 -1.37% view
03-04 Michael J (President)
17:01:35 CORP
BNI: Burlington Northern Santa Fe: Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages primarily
in the freight rail transportation business. It transports various products and commodities, including consumer, industrial, coal, and
agricultural products. The shipments of consumer products include automotive, such as motor vehicles and vehicle parts. The
company also offers transportation services for industrial products, including construction products, such as clays, sands, cements,
aggregates, sodium compounds, and other industrial minerals; building products comprising lumber, plywood, oriented strand board,
particleboard, paper products, pulpmill feedstocks, wood pulp, and sawlogs; petroleum products, such as liquefied petroleum gas,
diesel fuels, asphalt, alcohol, solvents, petroleum coke, lubes, oils, waxes, and carbon black; chemicals and plastic products,
including caustic soda, chlorine, industrial gases, acids, polyethylene, polypropylene, and polyvinyl chloride; and food and
beverages, such as canned goods and perishable food items, as well as cotton, salt, rubber and tires, and miscellaneous boxcar
shipments. In addition, it transports coal products; and agricultural products, such as wheat, corn, bulk foods, soybeans, oil seeds
and meals, feeds, barley, oats and rye, flour and mill products, milo, oils, specialty grains, malt, ethanol, and fertilizers. As of
December 31, 2007, Burlington Northern Santa Fe operated a railroad system consisting of approximately 32,000 route miles in 28
states and 2 Canadian provinces. The company was founded in 1994 and is based in Fort Worth, Texas.
All of the railroads have had great growth prospects with peak oil on the verge they have
consistently beat there earnings expectations, pay out a steady dividend and have the backing of
the greatest investor of all time as the single largest shareholder who will not be selling his stake
in the company. I recommend BNI for long-term investors who want a conservative, dependable,
core holding. There are two railroads west of the Mississippi, Union Pacific (UNP) and BNI.
They have overlapping areas, but in my mind, it's BNI in the northern tier and UNP in the
southern tier.BNI has access to all ports on the west coast; to name a few: Seattle, Portland, San
Francisco, Los Angeles; BNI has access to all ports in the Gulf of Mexico: Texas and Louisiana.
BNI has access to Baja, Mexico. You can see all the ports at this site:
http://www.bnsf.com/markets/extensions/p...
BNI has a practical monopoly on coal coming out of Wyoming going to East Coast.
Railroads are three times more efficient than trucking, and there's no way trucking is going to
compete with coal going to the east, and grain going to China via the west coast ports.
BNI beat UNP with a double-track from Chicago to Los Angeles, but they both have a double-
track there now. BNI has split at levels much lower than where BNI is today. UNP has
announced a split; I assume it's just a matter of time before BNI announces a split.
BNI last raised its dividend last September (2007) so I assume it will raise its dividend this
September. If oil comes down a bit in price, and if the economy turns around, I can imagine BNI
announcing: a) a stock split; b) an increase in their divident; and c) a stock buyback starting in
September if the price of BNI does not reflect what the directors think it is worth.
This is the greatest stock of all time if you have a long term investment standpoint. The company
is run by Warren Buffett and does not pay a dividend as he is more efficient by reinvesting
the companies profits back into the company. His holdings are very diverse from insurance
businesses, The Washington Post Company, Ingersol Rand, U.S. Banc Corp, Wells Fargo,
Coca Cola along wit many other well run businesses.
Again railroads are a strong long-term holding that pays a nice dividend two analysts have a
strong buy, three have a buy, and six have a hold conviction while no analysts have a hold
conviction. http://www.cnbc.com/id/15837260?q=cni They have a strong balance sheet
and a growing business that is strong with a surge in demand for commodities and having
railroads being a viable alternative to trucking due to the high price of fuel.
FORTUNE BRANDS INC NYSE: FO: Fortune Brands, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in
the manufacture, production, and sale of spirits, home and hardware products, and golf products. The company
offers various distilled spirits, including bourbon, tequila, Canadian whisky, scotch whisky, and cognacs under
the trademarks of Jim Beam, Maker's Mark, Sauza, Canadian Club, Laphroaig, and Courvoisier. It also
provides sherries, port, gin, whisky, and bitters under the trademarks of Teacher's, Harveys, Cockburn's, Larios,
Whisky DYC, and Kuemmerling. In addition, the company offers custom, semi-custom, stock, and ready-to-
assemble cabinetry for the kitchen, bath, and home use under various brand names, including Aristokraft,
Omega, Kitchen Craft, Schrock, Diamond, HomeCrest, Decora, and Kemper; faucets, bath furnishings,
accessories, parts, and kitchen sinks; fiberglass and steel residential entry door, and patio door systems; and
key-controlled and combination padlocks, bicycle and cable locks, built-in locker locks, and other specialty
safety and security devices, as well as automotive, trailer, and towing locks. Further, Fortune Brands, Inc.
manufactures and markets golf balls, golf clubs, golf shoes, and golf gloves, as well as golf bags, golf
outerwear, and accessories. It offers its products primarily in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and
Mexico. The company was founded in 1904 and is based in Deerfield, Illinois.
52wk Range: 62
Market Cap: 10
P/E (ttm): 14
GOLDMAN SACHS NYSE: GS): The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides a range of investment banking, securities, and investment managem
individuals worldwide. It operates in three segments: Investment Banking, Trading and Principal Investments, and Asset Management and Securities Servi
advisory assignments with respect to mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense activities, restructurings, and spin-offs; and underwriting ser
stock, convertible and exchangeable securities, investment-grade debt, high-yield debt, sovereign and emerging market debt, municipal debt, bank loans, as
securities and the securities of real estate investment trusts. The Trading and Principal Investments segment engages in market making in, trading of, and in
derivatives on these products. It also involves in specialist and market-making activities on equities and options exchanges; clearing client transactions on s
through funds that the company raises and manages. The Asset Management and Securities Services segment provides investment advisory and financial p
prime brokerage services, financing services, and securities lending services. The company was founded in 1869 and is headquartered in New York, New Y
http://www.cnbc.com/id/15837280?q=gs
Goldman Sachs is the best investment bank on wall street and has been brought down as of recently
had to cut there dividend like other wall street banks such as Citigroup. They have the best managem
billions of dollars Goldman Sachs was the only bank that showed a profit.
GLAXOSMITHKLINE NYSE: GSK: GlaxoSmithKline plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the creation, discovery, developmen
products. Its Pharmaceuticals segment manufactures prescription drugs and vaccines that are used in various therapeutic areas, including central nerv
cardiovascular, and urogenital. This segment offers Seretide/Advair for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); Avandia for the t
an anti-depressant; Zofran to prevent nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy for cancer; Valtrex for herpes; Coreg for h
also include Augmentin for the treatment of bacterial infections; Seroxat/Paxil for the treatment of depressive disorder, panic, obsessive compulsive d
anxiety disorder; and Flixotide/Flovent, an inhaled steroid for the treatment of inflammation associated with asthma and COPD. The company's Cons
nutritional healthcare products. Its products comprise Lucozade energy and sports drinks; Aquafresh and Sensodyne toothpastes and mouthwashes; A
analgesic; Horlicks, a milk-based malted food and chocolate drinks; and Ribena, a blackcurrant juice-based drink. GlaxoSmithKline operates in the U
Africa, and Canada. It has agreements with Anacor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Oncomed Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Santaris Pharma A/S; and Targacept, Inc.
Kingdom.
I like GlaxoSmithKline because it is a great drug company based out of the U.K. with many well known brand name
dividend equal to 4.7 percent and is trading well below its intrinsic value which when calculated comes out to $
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