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  • Stocks Set To Benefit From LNG Exports

    By Jacob Wolinsky - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: CBI, FLR, TGP

    The Energy Department has issued a second permit to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States. The license, awarded to Freeport LNG Expansion LP and FLNG Liquefaction LLC, will result in overseas shipping of 1.4 billion cubic feet of gas every day from a terminal on the Texas Gulf Coast. This is only the second such permit to export US LNG. While exports by Freeport are not more »

  • Big, Low-Risk Profits From Natural Gas In An Unexpected Place

    By Ken McGaha - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: DD, FLR, KBR, DOW

    Massive new supplies of natural gas discovered in the U.S. have caused the domestic price to fall as much as 70% below the price paid in other countries. While these low prices have not been favorable for the operating results of the businesses selling natural gas, it is creating a windfall for businesses that are big consumers of it: But the big profits for investors will come from the more »

  • Where's the Floor for Fluor?

    By Marshall Hargrave - April 24, 2013 | Tickers: CBI, FLR, URS

    Fluor (NYSE: FLR) has tumbled nearly 12% over the past week. Even over the past year, Flour is down 9.14% while the S&P 500 is up 10.85%.

    With Flour grossly underperforming the broader market, what's the near-term catalyst to push the stock higher? One of the big tailwinds should be bolstering global growth. The IMF expects global GDP to grow 3.3% for 2013 against 3 more »

  • 3 Stocks to Buy on Shale Gas Boom

    By Zain Abbas - April 10, 2013 | Tickers: CBI, FLR, KBR

    Engineering & Construction (E&C) companies have been a bright spot in the industrial space, especially after the shale gas boom opened up multi-billion dollar investment opportunities in the infrastructure arena. In fact, Goldman Sachs believes that energy infrastructure stocks are expected to attract $57-65 billion in five projects, namely gas processing, fractionation, petrochemicals, LNG exports and gas power. Apart from that, there are some stock-specific characteristics as well that have more »

  • 3 Stocks to Buy on Shale Gas Boom

    By Zain Abbas - April 8, 2013 | Tickers: CBI, FLR, KBR

    The Engineering & Construction (E&C) companies have been a bright spot in the industrial space, especially after the shale gas boom has opened up multi-billion dollar investment opportunities in the infrastructure arena. In fact, Goldman Sachs believes that energy infrastructure stocks are expected to attract $57-65 billion in five projects namely: gas processing, fractionation, petrochemicals, LNG exports and gas power. Apart from that, there are some stock specific characteristics as more »

  • On Track To Go Private

    By Mike Thiessen - April 4, 2013 | Tickers: ES, FLR, JEC

    After making additional regulatory filings in late February, EnergySolutions (NYSE: ES) appears on track to take itself private in a deal valued at around $1.1 billion in the aggregate. At the same time, the company has provided updated guidance that hints at a potential turnaround in its sliding revenues. Although this may come too late for regular investors who wish to get in on the current deal, it does more »

  • Glenview Nears 6% of This Technical Services Company

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - March 18, 2013 | Tickers: ACM, FLR, JEC, KBR, URS

    Glenview Capital, a hedge fund managed by Larry Robbins, owned 4.6 million shares of URS Corp (NYSE: URS), a $3.5 billion market cap company providing engineering and technical services, according to a recent filing with the SEC. We, at InsiderMonkey, track quarterly 13F filings from hedge funds such as Glenview and other notable investors; while we primarily work on developing investment strategies based on the included information (for more »

  • 3 Beneficiaries of the Shale Gas Boom

    By Masam Abbas - February 13, 2013 | Tickers: CBI, FLR, KBR

    The shale gas revolution has brought a new life in many sectors that were otherwise neglected by investors. Energy infrastructure companies were one such group. Given the abundant supply of natural gas, economists have suggested the government export some of it, which will not only bring foreign remittances but also help to maintain a balance between supply and demand of natural gas. When it comes to energy infrastructure companies and more »

  • These Companies Could Benefit from Infrastructure Priorities

    By Nate Wooley - January 23, 2013 | Tickers: FLR, JEC, KBR, PWR

    The world has a lot of construction needs at the moment. Beyond housing construction, governments, and large corporations around the world are backed up on infrastructure development. According to the McKinsey Global Institute nations around the world are going to need $57 trillion worth of infrastructure construction by 2030 to keep pace with global GDP growth.

    That is a lot of construction.

    It's spending we could use, too. I more »

  • Heavy Construction: 1 Stock to Miss, 2 to Buy

    By Piyush Arora - January 14, 2013 | Tickers: FLR, FWLT, MDR

     

     
     
     
     

  • 5 Stocks Hated by Hedge Funds Last Week

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - November 7, 2012 | Tickers: FLR, HMSY, PBI, RVBD, VRSN

    We have identified five stocks that had absolutely horrible days last week. Assuming the funds we track have not changed their holdings since the end of June, there were key funds that lost big money on these price drops. The first company on our list is HMS Holdings (NASDAQ: HMSY).

    The company was down over 23% on Friday, October 26th—around $6.30—after missing quarterly estimates and offering lower more »

  • Sandy's False Profit

    By Declan Fallon - November 2, 2012 | Tickers: FLR, GVA

    There are no shortage of articles listing "x Stocks to Gain on Hurricane Sandy", but is there anything amongst the list of stocks which might offer something beyond the quick fix?  Jim Cramer made a good point in that it's too late to be buying hurricane stocks, unless they make sense as a long term investment.  Rebuilding infrastructure following natural disasters takes time and large amounts of taxpayer money more »

  • The Right Stocks For Hurricane Sandy

    By Edgar Ambart - October 30, 2012 | Tickers: FLR, HD, LOW, PG, XYL | Editor's Choice

    With Hurricane Sandy bearing down on east coast, numerous blogs have resurfaced telling you which stocks to benefit from and which stocks to dump at the market open.  Particularly a recent article on Forbes by Christopher Versace, titled "10 Stocks To Benefit From Hurricane Sandy" highlights companies that might not really benefit from the deadly storm.  For instance, despite more people snapping pictures on Instagram, Facebook will not benefit from more »

  • Chinese Growth Supports the Nuclear Industry

    By Joshua Bondy - October 25, 2012 | Tickers: CCJ, FLR, GE, URA, BWC

    China has recently announced the approval of a number of nuclear power plants. As the Fukushima disaster fades into history the economics of today's energy world returns. With their growing energy needs and desire to decrease the negative effects of a coal dependent electricity grid, nuclear energy will play an important role in China. Investing in nuclear energy requires a very long term outlook. With cheap natural gas throughout more »

  • Why Are Jim Chanos and Jim Simons Betting on This Infrastructure Giant?

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - October 4, 2012 | Tickers: CBI, FLR, JEC, KBR, SHAW

    In July, Chicago Bridge and Iron Company N.V. (NYSE: CBI) announced plans to acquire Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SHAW) at $46 per share. Chicago saw an over 15% drop in its shares on the Shaw acquisition news. On the other hand, shares of Shaw were up over 50%. The acquisition price for Shaw is $46, while the company is currently trading at less than $44 a share.

    At the more »

  • Profit from Electric Power Outage in India with AES and Caterpillar

    By Jonathan Yates - August 7, 2012 | Tickers: MT, CAT, FLR, SI, AES

    One man's blackout across a country is another man's investing profit from across the world.  The recent electric power outage in India that left 600 million without electricity has flipped a switch on the desperate need for the improvement and expansion of the power grid and other components of the infrastructure in that country and in many others around the world.  Profiting from this will be companies such more »

  • Heavy EPCs Take Advantage of Global LNG Boom (Part 1)

    By Bobbie Johnson - March 13, 2012 | Tickers: CBI, FLR, JEC, KBR, TOT

    In January 2012 Japan’s Inpex and French energy giant Total (NYSE: TOT) launched a multibillion dollar project called Icthys in order to take advantage of the liquefied natural gas (LNG) boom in northwest Australia. The project requires a 500 mile sub-sea pipeline routing between offshore natural gas fields and Darwin, Australia. Once in Darwin the gas is then liquefied in refrigeration trains for export.

    Total is not the only more »

  • Heavy EPCs Take Advantage of Global LNG Boom (Part 2)

    By Bobbie Johnson - March 13, 2012 | Tickers: CBI, FLR, KBR, BWC

    In 2000 the price of natural gas spiked leading to an influx of U.S. LNG import facilities. Added to the shale gas boom, the U.S. gained a definitive price advantage in global markets. Even though the global market demand is strong the U.S. has only one working LNG export facility in Kenai, Alaska. This limits the country’s ability to benefit fully from the demand. The good more »

  • Letting the CAT Out of the Bag

    By Paula Pant - February 21, 2012 | Tickers: CAT, FLR, URS

    I live in Georgia (the state, not the former Soviet nation), so I’m thrilled to hear that Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) is opening a new plant on a 900-acre industrial site near Athens, Ga.

    But as soon as I heard this news, two questions popped into my head:

    #1: Why Athens?

    Athens has unsuccessfully spent decades trying to lure a company to this industrial site. It's tried to woo more »

  • 5 Attractive Acquisition Targets In 2012

    By Christopher French - February 12, 2012 | Tickers: BAC, CSCO, DSX, EXK, EXPO, AG, FLR, HL, HPQ, IBM, IPGP, NEWP, PZZA, RDWR

    During February our interests turn to the matter of love. Here are five stocks that could set the pulses racing of companies looking to expand.

    Money out to buy a reputation

    It was hired by NASA in 1986 to determine the causes of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and through the years Exponent, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPO) has featured in other prominent cases, and continues to be one of the brightest more »

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