2006 ZI SELECT STOCKS
Bullish Small-Cap Stocks:
Vaalco Energy, Inc (EGY): Date issued: 1-10-06.
Issued price: $4.63. Vaalco Energy,
Inc. engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production
of crude oil and natural gas. The company's properties and exploration
activities are located in the Texas Gulf Coast region and offshore
Gabon, West Africa. Closing price for the
year 2006: $6.75.
Sterling Construction Co, Inc (STRL): Date issued:
3-30-06: Issued price: $21.85. Sterling
Construction Company, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in
the construction and reconstruction of transportation and water
infrastructure in the United States. Its transportation infrastructure
projects include highways, roads, bridges, and light rail. Closing
price for the year 2006: $21.76.
American Oriental Bioengineering,
Inc (AOB): Issued Date: 1-10-06: Issued
price: $5.75. American Oriental Bioengineering,
Inc. engages in the development and production of plant-based pharmaceutical
(PBP) products and plant-based nutraceutical (PBN) products in China.
Closing price for the year 2006: $11.75.
Building Materials Holding, Corp (BLG): Date issued:
8-31-06: Issued price: $26.12. Building
Materials Holding Corporation provides construction services and
building products to professional homebuilders and contractors throughout
the United States. It operates through two segments, BMC Construction
and BMC West. The BMC Construction segment provides framing, concrete,
plumbing, other construction trades, managing labor, and construction
schedules, as well as sourcing materials to production homebuilders.
Closing price for the year 2006: $24.69.
U.S. Global Investors, Inc (GROW): Date issued:
8-17-06: Issued price: $22.60. U.S.
Global Investors, Inc. through its wholly owned subsidiaries, provides
mutual fund management services. It provides investment advisory
services to institutions and individuals; transfer agency and record
keeping services; mailing services; and distribution services to
mutual funds advised by the company. Closing
price for the year 2006: $68.13.
Nve, Corp (NVEC): Date issued: 8-31-06: Issued
price: $28.88. NVE Corporation engages in the development
and sale of devices using spintronics, a nanotechnology, which utilizes
electron spin rather than electron charge to acquire, store, and
transmit information. Its products include magnetic sensors to acquire
precise data, such as the position of a robot arm, and couplers
to transmit data between electronic systems at a high speed. Closing
price for the year 2006: $30.70.
First Cash Financial Services,
Inc (FCFS): Iddues Date: 8-28-06: Issued price:
$19.23. First Cash Financial Services, Inc. provides specialty
consumer finance products through pawn stores in the United States.
Its pawn stores engage in consumer finance and retail sales activities,
as well as in the small consumer loans, advancing money against
pledged tangible personal property, such as jewelry, electronic
equipment, tools, sporting goods, and musical equipment. The company’s
pawn stores also retail previously owned merchandise acquired through
collateral forfeitures and over-the-counter purchases from customers;
and offer short-term payday advances or a credit services product.
Closing price for the year 2006: $25.90.
Bullish Mid-Cap Stocks:
Grupo Simec S.A.B. de C.V. (SIM): Date issued:
7-26-06. Issued price: $9.42.Grupo
Simec, S.A. de C.V. a mini-mill steel producer, engages in the manufacture
and sale of a range of nonflat structural steel products and special
bar quality steel in North America. The company’s basic steel
products include I beams; channels; angles, including structural
angels and commercial angels; steel bars, including round square
and hexagonal rods; hot rolled bars; cold drawn rods; rebar; flat
bars; semifinished seamless tube rounds, and other semifinished
trade products. Closing price for the year
2006: $14.29.
Bullish Big-Cap Stocks:
Apple Computer, Inc (AAPL): Date issued: 4-28-06.
Issued price: 70.39. Apple Computer,
Inc. engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of personal
computers and related software, services, peripherals, and networking
solutions worldwide. It also offers a line of portable digital music
players, accessories, and services. Closing
price for the year 2006: $84.70.
Cisco Systems, Inc (CSCO): Date
issued: 08-23-06 (second time). Issued
price: 21.05. Closing price for the
year 2006: $27.34.
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