MET, ACAS, SEE, CMA, CNK, SFD. Top Gainers With Lowest Price Friction In Morning Trade Today
June 18, 2009 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for June 18, 2009. Since late October market makers are now required to be on the bid as much as they are on the offer and for like amounts of stock. This fair market making requirement is designed to prevent market makers from manipulating stock prices. Here is a list of the top companies with the largest gains this morning and lowest price friction (bullish). This means that there was more buying than selling in the stocks and their stock prices rose faster with less Friction. MetLife (NYSE: MET), American Capital (NASDAQ: ACAS), Sealed Air Corp (NYSE: SEE), Comerica (NYSE: CMA), Cinemark Holdings (NYSE: CNK) and Smithfield Foods (NYSE: SFD). To access Friction Factor, Naked Short Data and SqueezeTrigger Prices on all stocks please visit http://www.buyins.net .
Market Maker Friction Factor is shown in the chart below:
Symbol Change % BuyVol Buy% SellVol Sell% NetVol Friction
MET $1.05 3.62% 412,302 42.19% 387,915 39.69% 24,387 232
ACAS $0.92 37.25% 1,958,273 52.14% 1,789,054 47.63% 169,219 1,839
SEE $0.89 5.18% 163,314 50.64% 97,307 30.18% 66,007 742
CMA $0.78 3.83% 184,598 49.34% 131,924 35.26% 52,674 675
CNK $0.71 6.73% 56,601 56.04% 31,401 31.09% 25,200 355
SFD $0.69 6.39% 182,385 38.21% 149,415 31.30% 32,970 478
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Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above have high net dollar gains (Change) and very low price friction in their stocks. The Friction Factor displays how many more shares of buying than selling are required to move a stock higher by one cent or how many more shares of selling than buying moves a stock lower by 1 cent.
For example, the chart above shows MET with a dollar gain today of +$1.05 and a Friction Factor of 232 shares. That means that it only takes 232 more shares of buying than selling to move FSYS higher by one penny. The Market Makers are currently allowing the stock to rise quickly (low friction). The combination of low friction and positive market direction can drive prices higher much faster than normal.
MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), through its subsidiaries, provides individual insurance, employee benefits, and financial services in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific. The company operates in four segments: Institutional, Individual, International, and Auto and Home. The Institutional segment offers various group insurance products, including group life insurance, non-medical health insurance products, and related administrative services, as well as other benefits and services, such as employer-sponsored auto and homeowners insurances. It also provides retirement and savings products and services consisting of guaranteed interest products and other stable value products, accumulation and income annuities, and separate account contracts. This segment offers its products and services to corporations, institutions, and their respective employees through sales forces. The Individual segment provides various insurance products, such as traditional, variable, and universal life insurance; and variable and fixed annuities. This segment sells its products and services to middle-income market, affluent individuals, owners of small businesses, and executives of small-to medium-sized companies through distribution and third party organizations. The International segment provides life insurance, accident and health insurance, credit insurance, annuities, endowment, and retirement and savings products to individuals and groups primarily in Latin America, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions. The Auto and Home segment offers various products and services consisting of auto, homeowners, renters, condominium and dwelling, and other personal line products. This segment provides its products directly to employees, as well as to individuals through independent agents, property and casualty specialists, direct response marketing, and the agency distribution group. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
American Capital, Ltd. (NASDAQ: ACAS), formerly known as American Capital Strategies, Ltd., is a principal investment firm specializing in management and employee private equity buyouts, acquisitions, recapitalizations, mergers and acquisition, add-on acquisitions, securitizations, special situations, growth capital investments in middle market companies, early stage in mature private and public companies, corporate divestitures, acquisitions of portfolio companies of private equity firms, acquisitions of family-owned or closely held businesses, change of control, or the exit of minority shareholders, going private transactions, and ownership transitions. The Special Situations Group invests in troubled and distressed situations including operational turnarounds, auctions, corporate and orphan carve-outs, portfolio add-ons, complex management buyouts and provides financings for DIP, exit, mezzanine for sponsored buyouts, second lien refinance, and direct lending to distressed companies. It prefers to invest in manufacturing, services, and distribution companies. The firm also makes investments in companies that provide services or products to federal, state, or local governments, focusing on information technology for custom information technology solutions, technology and software enabling headcount reduction, technology and software enabling cost reductions in conducting transactions with or within government. American Capital, Ltd. was founded in 1986 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.
Sealed Air Corporation (NYSE: SEE), through its subsidiaries, manufactures and sells packaging and performance-based materials and equipment systems worldwide. The company�s Food Packaging segment offers industrial food packaging products, such as shrink bags to package beef, lamb, pork, poultry, seafood, and other food products, as well as cheese and meats; and packaging materials for cook-in applications. It also offers laminated and coextruded rollstock packaging materials; trays; associated packaging systems, such as bag loaders, dispensers, and vacuum chamber systems; and deli packages. Its Food Solutions segment provides case-ready packaging, which are utilized in the centralized packaging of various proteins; a package for ready meals; packaging solutions for produce, bakery goods, and pizza; vertical pouch packaging for packaging flowable food products, including soups and sauces, salads, meats, toppings, and syrups; and intermediate bulk container products. This segment also offers absorbent pads; foam and solid plastic trays and containers; and related packaging systems. The company�s Protective Packaging segment offers air cellular packaging materials that protect products from damage through shock or vibration during shipment; performance shrink films for product display and merchandising applications; polyurethane foam packaging systems; protective mailers and other durable mailers and bags; paper cushioning systems; and inflatable packaging systems. In addition, it offers specialty materials for non-packaging applications, such as films and coring foams; products for medical applications; and products from renewable materials. The company sells its products to distributors, fabricators and converters, food processors, food service businesses, supermarket retailers, and manufacturers. Sealed Air Corporation was founded in 1996 and is based in Elmwood Park, New Jersey.
Comerica Incorporated (NYSE: CMA), through its subsidiaries, provides financial products and services in the United States. The company�s Business Bank segment comprises middle market, commercial real estate, national dealer services, international finance, global corporate, leasing, financial services, and technology and life sciences businesses. This segment offers commercial loans and lines of credit, deposits, cash management, capital market products, international trade finance, letters of credit, foreign exchange management services, and loan syndication services to medium-size businesses, multinational corporations, and governmental entities. Its Retail Bank segment offers small business banking and personal financial services, including consumer lending, consumer deposit gathering, and mortgage loan origination. This segment also provides consumer products, including deposit accounts, installment loans, credit cards, student loans, home equity loans and lines of credit, and residential mortgage loans to small business customers. The company�s Wealth and Institutional Management segment offers products and services, consisting of fiduciary services, private banking, retirement services, investment management and advisory services, investment banking, and discount securities brokerage services. This segment also sells annuity products, as well as life, disability, and long-term care insurance products. As of December 31, 2008, Comerica Incorporated, through its banking affiliates, operated approximately 507 banking centers, trust services locations, and loan production or other financial services offices primarily in the states of Texas, Michigan, California, and Florida. The company was founded in 1849 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CNK) and its subsidiaries operate in the motion picture exhibition industry in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia. As of December 31, 2008, it operated 420 theatres and 4,783 screens in the United States and Latin America. Cinemark Holdings is headquartered in Plano, Texas.
Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE: SFD), together with its subsidiaries, engages in the processing of pork and production of hog in the United States and internationally. It offers fresh pork to retail customers as unprocessed, trimmed cuts, such as butts, loins, picnics, and ribs; and packaged meat products, including smoked and boiled hams, bacon, sausage, hot dogs, deli and luncheon meats, pepperoni, and dry meat products, as well as ready-to-eat, prepared foods, such as pre-cooked entrees, and pre-cooked bacon and sausage. The company also engages in the production of hogs; and turkey production and hatchery operations. Smithfield Foods sells its products to supermarket chains; wholesale distributors; the foodservice industry comprising fast food, restaurant, and hotel chains, as well as hospitals and other institutional customers; export markets; and other further processors. The company distributes its products through its sales force and independent commission brokers. Smithfield Foods was founded in 1961 and is based in Smithfield, Virginia.
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