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  • Don't Miss out on This FAST Growing Stock

    By Marshall Hargrave - April 20, 2013 | Tickers: ARG, FAST, GWW

    Fastenal Company's (NASDAQ: FAST)name no longer does the company justice, as the company has grown from a fastener distributor to a full-line industrial supplier. This stock should be one of the faster growing stocks over the interim. In the first quarter of 2013, Fastenal saw its gross margin expand by 70 basis points year over year to 52.6%.
     
    One of Fastenal's most innovative initiatives is its more »

  • Don't Miss Out On This FAST Growing Stock

    By Marshall Hargrave - April 17, 2013 | Tickers: ARG, FAST, GWW

    Fastenal Company (NASDAQ: FAST)name is no longer does the company justice, as the company has grown from a fastener distributor to a full-line industrial supplier. This stock should be one of the fast-growing stocks over the interim. In the first quarter of 2013, Fastenal saw its gross margin expand by 70 basis points year over year to 52.6%.
     
    One of Fastenal's most innovative initiatives is its more »

  • Hedge Fund Merchants’ Gate Capital’s Stock Picks for 2013

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - February 14, 2013 | Tickers: ARG, CHRW, ECL, EXPD, SLB

    Merchants’ Gate Capital, a hedge fund managed by Jason Capello, recently filed its 13F for the fourth quarter of 2012. This wave of 13f filings from hedge funds and other major investors discloses many of the long equity positions that each owned at the end of December--in other words, what they liked going into 2013. We use 13F filings in a number of ways. One way is to collect them more »

  • J.C. Penney: The Hot Old Find Gone Cold...Again

    By W.V. Bards - December 14, 2012 | Tickers: ARG, AAPL, JCP, MIDD

    JCP (NYSE: JCP), as new CEO Ron Johnson recently nicknamed J.C. Penney, has been around for about hundred years (almost exactly 100 years, in fact, in but a month).   And it hasn't exactly been the leader in style for this past century.  

    Some bloggers relate it to Walmart (not in a financial sense, mind you), others simply call it that low-end department store, and most of us know more »

  • A Board Member Bought Air Products & Chemicals

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - October 27, 2012 | Tickers: APD, ARG, EMN, FMC, PX

    Lawrence Smith, who serves on the Board of Directors at Air Products & Chemicals ), bought 5,000 shares of the company on October 23 at an average price of $77.36. This roughly doubled Smith’s direct holdings of the stock. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Air Products & Chemicals’ product offerings include gases such as oxygen, helium, and specialty gases, as well as a variety of performance chemicals. Its market capitalization is about $16 more »

  • Air Products & Chemicals Dividend – Slowing Or Growing?

    By Chad Henage - June 22, 2012 | Tickers: APD, ARG, DOW

    Companies that use chemicals and naturally occurring gasses for their products are not exactly a dime a dozen. There are several large players that dominate the field. One of the big players in this segment is Air Products & Chemicals (NYSE: APD). Besides the company's obvious competitive advantage of operating in a relatively obscure industry, Air Products also has the distinction of increasing its dividend for over 25 years in a row. Competition in the chemicals industry is tough and just because a company has increased its dividend for years doesn't mean that streak can't come to an end. Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW) is a painful reminder of just how fast things can change. Dow paid a dividend, without a cut for 97 years, until it broke that streak. Let's see if Air Products is destined to be another Dow, or if the company can continue its streak.

  • Helium Shortage Inflating Profits of Industrial Gases Companies

    By Steve Van Tiem - June 8, 2012 | Tickers: APD, ARG, PX

    There has recently been a surge of coverage in local media outlets about a nationwide shortage of helium. The coverage has focused on the impact that higher prices have on consumers of helium, such as florists, welding companies, and university science departments.

    On the other side of the story are the providers of helium that seek to balance the rising cost and delays in supplies of helium with the potential more »