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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Keep on Trucking Stocks	With the price of oil dropping, investors are looking at the sectors and industries with high fuel exposure that may benefit from the reduction in oil prices. One of those industries is the trucking industry. Here are a selection of the trucking stocks with market caps over $500 million.Arkansas Best Corporation (ABFS) is a provider of less-than-truckload motor carrier transportation services. The stock has a PE of 14 and a PEG of 1.53 . The stock also pay a yield of 1.9% .Con-way Inc. (CNW) is ...	September 12, 2008
Friday's Upgrades and Downgrades	UpgradesTrans World (TWMC)- B. Riley & Co Neutral » Buy Viacom (VIA)- BMO Capital Markets Market Perform » Outperform Old Second Bancorp Inc. (OSBC)- Sandler O'Neill Sell » Hold Capital Bank Corporation (CBKN)- FTN Midwest Neutral » Buy ON Semiconductor (ONNN)- Canaccord Adams Hold » Buy Wachovia (WB)- Credit Suisse Underperform » Neutral F5 Networks (FFIV)- RBC Capital Mkts Sector Perform » Outperform Allied Capital (ALD)- BB&T Capital Mkts Hold » Buy B...	May 09, 2008
Thursday's Upgrades and Downgrades	UpgradesSturm Ruger (RGR)- CL King Neutral » Accumulate Arkansas Best (ABFS)- Morgan Keegan Mkt Perform » Outperform KVH Industries (KVHI)- Needham Hold » Buy Green Bankshares (GRNB)- Stifel Nicolaus Hold » Buy Coach (COH)- Citigroup Hold » Buy Fifth Third (FITB)- BMO Capital Markets Market Perform » Outperform Labranche (LAB)- BMO Capital Markets Underperform » Market Perform IDT Corp (IDT)- Stanford Research Sell » Hold Brinker (EAT)- KeyBanc Capital ...	April 24, 2008
Analyst upgrades: VCLK, MDCO and BSY	Filed under: Analyst upgrades and downgrades, ValueClick Inc (VCLK)MOST NOTEWORTHY: Valueclick, The Medicines Co and British Sky Broadcasting were today's noteworthy upgrades: Oppenheimer upgraded shares of Valueclick (NASDAQ:VCLK) to Outperform from Perform following the company's Q4 upside, as they believe the FTC investigation completed with no material penalties and that lead generation is stabilizing. Citigroup upgraded shares of The Medicines Co (NASDAQ:MDCO) to Buy from Hold ...	February 14, 2008
Could Have Been a Lot Worse…	One month down, eleven to go? Can we stick our heads out of the foxhole yet? Personally, I was off just a little in January. Comparing myself against a bunch of value indexes, which did better than growth indexes in January, I did better than all of them. We’ll see what the future brings, though, these things can turn on a dime. So what worked for me? Arkansas Best, National Atlantic (not out of the woods yet), Charlotte Russe, Gehl, YRC Worldwide, Alliance Data Systems, Reinsuranc...	February 01, 2008
Tuesday's Upgrades and Downgrades	UPGRADESAmerican Commercial Lines (ACLI)= Morgan Keegan Mkt Perform » Outperform Delek US Holdings (DK)= Morgan Keegan Mkt Perform » Outperform Shaw Comms (SJR)= UBS Neutral » Buy Oplink Comms (OPLK)= Needham & Co Buy » Strong Buy Puget Energy (PSD)= Soleil Sell » Hold ADC Telecom (ADCT)= Credit Suisse Neutral » Outperform FTD Group (FTD)= Roth Capital Sell » Hold ValueClick (VCLK)= RBC Capital Mkts Sector Perform » Outperform Werner Enterprises (WERN...	January 15, 2008
Portfolio Reshaping Mid-Year 2007, Part 3	Time for my most recent portfolio changes. The reshaping is complete, here is the data file and here are the qualitative details: Buys Arkansas Best [ABFS] — Inexpensive, and trucking is out of favor. Trucking should pick up with the economy in the second half of 2007, and as the dollar cheapens, trucking is needed to get the exports to the ports. Deutsche Bank [DB] — Cheap major European bank. I’m light on financials (though if I lost my restrictions you would see a l...	July 06, 2007
Portfolio Reshaping Mid-Year 2007, Part 2	Here are my current industry ratings. Using my Bloomberg Terminal, I ran a screen looking for cheap companies in those industries. The result yielded eight tickers: ACO CONN GMRK HES NSIT PDE SMRT SSI I also added in the top 12 tickers from the last time that didn’t make it into my portfolio, and aren’t on the current list. Here are the tickers: ABFS [DBK GR] FINL FL GGC HERO [NGX CN] PTSI RADN SNSA URI WIRE If you have other stock ideas for me, let me know (post a commen...	June 24, 2007
Summer Blues: Another Reason the DOW is Down	Filed under: Major movement, Yahoo! (YHOO), Apple Inc (AAPL), Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), MasterCard Inc'A' (MA), QUALCOMM Inc (QCOM), Options, Arkansas Best (ABFS), Pan Amer Silver (PAAS), DJIAThe markets saw a third day of selling today. While some may attribute it to the lower retail sales numbers, foreign interest rate worries or North Korean missile tests, I think it just may be the summer trading session. The market has been shooting up like crazy recently and it is time it takes a breather. Sum...	June 07, 2007
Trucking sector round-up: It ain't pretty	Filed under: Earnings reports, Bad news, Press releases, Industry, Competitive strategy, Arkansas Best (ABFS), Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL)Most of the major long-haul trucking companies have reported quarterly earnings by now, and the news has been about as welcome as a state trooper with a ticket quota to meet. All trucking companies were affected by the same negative factors for the winter quarter: 1. Slowing economy, with particular weakness in the housing and auto sales sectors, resultin...	May 25, 2007

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