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UFPI, STEC, PPG, WHR, JRCC, AGU. Top Gainers With Lowest Price Friction In Morning Trade Today
July 16, 2009 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET, www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for July 16, 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 afair market makinga 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. Universal Forest Products (NASDAQ: UFPI), STEC Inc. (NASDAQ: STEC), PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG), Whirlpool (NYSE: WHR), James River Coal (NASDAQ: JRCC) and Agrium (NYSE: AGU). 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
UFPI $4.25 12.26% 133,722 57.79% 95,477 41.26% 38,245 90
STEC $3.55 12.87% 1,228,241 51.15% 1,108,774 46.17% 119,467 337
PPG $3.22 6.98% 419,696 36.94% 408,941 35.99% 10,755 33
WHR $1.78 3.57% 305,830 36.79% 273,235 32.87% 32,595 183
JRCC $1.38 8.52% 434,460 55.15% 347,249 44.08% 87,211 632
AGU $1.28 3.33% 357,921 38.82% 321,981 34.92% 35,940 281
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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 UFPI with a dollar gain this morning of +$4.25 and a Friction Factor of 90 shares. That means that it only takes 90 more shares of buying than selling to move UFPI 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.
Universal Forest Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: UFPI) engages in the engineering, manufacture, treatment, distribution, and installation of lumber, composite wood, plastic, and other building products to the do-it-yourself/retail, site-built construction, manufactured housing, and industrial markets in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The companya�s products include preserved and unpreserved conventional and dimensional lumber; plywood; particle boards; and engineered wood products, such as roof and floor trusses, wall panels, and engineered floor systems to frame residential or commercial projects. Its products also include lumber cut and shaped to the customera�s specification; i-joists and lumber packages; and pallets, specialty crates, and wooden boxes for packaging, shipping, and material handling purposes. In addition, the company offers framing services, including the erection of wood structure, as well as framing package services comprising installation. Its customers include home center retailers, retail-oriented regional lumberyards, and contractor-oriented lumberyards; and producers of mobile, modular, and prefabricated homes, as well as recreational vehicles. The companya�s customers also include industrial manufacturers and agricultural customers; and residential housing customers, such as multi-tract builders and smaller volume custom builders, as well as builders engaged in multi-family and commercial construction. Universal Forest Products, Inc. was founded in 1955 and is headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
STEC, Inc. (NASDAQ: STEC) designs, develops, manufactures, and markets custom memory solutions based on flash memory and dynamic random access memory (DRAM) technologies. Its solid-state drive products include ZeusIOPS solid state drives that provide enterprise-class data storage solutions; MACH8IOPS solid state drives, which are small form factor storage solution for mission-critical systems in various industries; ATA PC cards for equipment requiring standard form factors and moderate capacities, such as data recorders, avionics systems, and telecommunication applications; CompactFlash products that provide interoperability with systems based on the PC Card ATA standard by using passive adapter; flash modules; secure digital memory cards; USB flash drive; and single chip drives. The company also offers DRAM products, which include dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs), small-outline DIMMs, mini-registered DIMMs (mini-RDIMMs), very low profile RDIMMs, and fully-buffered DIMMs or FB-DIMMs for computing, communications, and industrial applications. In addition, it provides integrated circuit tower stacked components for thin small outline package and ball grid array (BGA) semiconductor packages for use on memory modules and within high capacity flash products; postage stamp BGA stacked components; DRAM modules with stacked components for use primarily in high-performance servers, workstations, switches and routers, and other custom system; and flash products with stacked components for embedded systems. STEC sells its products through direct sales force, manufacturersa� representatives, and original equipment manufacturer distributors in the United States and internationally. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Santa Ana, California.
PPG Industries, Inc. (NYSE: PPG) manufactures and supplies protective and decorative coatings. The company offers coating products for automotive and commercial transport/fleet repair and refurbishing, specialty coatings for signs, and light industrial coatings; and sealants, coatings, and technical cleaners/transparencies for commercial, military, regional jet, and general aviation aircraft and transparent armor for military land vehicles. It also provides coatings and finishes for the protection of metals and structures to metal fabricators, heavy duty maintenance contractors, and manufacturers of ships, bridges, rail cars, and shipping containers; and coatings to painting and maintenance contractors. In addition, PPG sells industrial and automotive coatings to manufacturing companies; adhesives and sealants for the automotive industry; metal pretreatments and related chemicals for industrial/automotive applications; and coatings and inks for aerosol, food, and beverage containers. Further, it supplies lenses, sun lenses, optical materials, and polarized film; amorphous precipitated silicas for tire and battery separator markets; and synthetic printing sheet used in waterproof labels, e-passports, driversa� licenses, and identification cards. Additionally, PPG offers chlor-alkali and derivative products, such as chlorine, caustic soda, vinyl chloride monomer, chlorinated solvents, calcium hypochlorite, ethylene dichloride, and phosgene derivatives to chemical processing, rubber and plastics, paper, minerals, metals, and water treatment industries. It also produces flat glass and continuous-strand fiber glass for commercial and residential construction, wind energy, energy infrastructure, transportation, and electronics manufacturing companies. PPG sells its products through company-owned stores, home centers, paint dealers, and independent distributors, and directly to customers worldwide. The company was founded in 1883 and is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) engages in the manufacture and marketing of home appliances worldwide. Its principal products include laundry appliances, refrigerators, cooking appliances, dishwashers, mixers, and other small household appliances. The company also produces hermetic compressors for refrigeration systems. It markets and distributes its products under various brand names, which include Whirlpool, Maytag, KitchenAid, Jenn-Air, Roper, Estate, Admiral, Magic Chef, Amana, Inglis, Acros, KIC, Ignis, Bauknecht, Brastemp, Consul, Eslabon de Lujo, Laden, Polar, and Supermatic. Whirlpool sells its products to retailers, dealers, distributors, builders, and other manufacturers. The company was founded in 1906 and is based in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
James River Coal Company (NASDAQ: JRCC), through its subsidiaries, engages in mining, processing, and selling bituminous, steam, and industrial-grade coal in eastern Kentucky and southern Indiana. It conducts mining operations in Bell County, Bledsoe, Blue Diamond, Leeco, McCoy Elkhorn, and Triad mining complexes. As of December 31, 2008, the company had 6 mining complexes, including 17 underground mines, 14 surface mines, and 10 preparation plants, as well as controlled approximately 277.1 million tons of proven and probable coal reserves in Central Appalachia and the Midwest. It sells coal to electric utilities and industrial customers. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.
Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU) produces and markets agricultural nutrients, industrial products, and specialty products worldwide, as well as involves in the retail supply of agricultural products and services in North and South America. It operates through three segments: Retail, Wholesale, and Advanced Technologies. The Retail segment markets crop nutrient products, including nitrogen, phosphate, potash, sulphur, and micronutrients; crop protection products, such as herbicides, fungicides, adjuvants, and insecticides; seeds; and a range of custom application and agronomic consulting services, as well as other services, including crop input product application, soil and leaf tissue testing and analysis, and crop scouting. As of December 31, 2008, this segment operated approximately 800 retail farm centers in the U.S., Argentina, and Chile. The Wholesale segment manufactures, purchases, and markets a range of nutrients, including nitrogen-based, potash, and phosphate-based crop nutrient products. It also owns and operates facilities that upgrade ammonia and urea to other products, such as nitrogen solutions and nitric acid. In addition, this segment operates fertilizer granulation and blending plants in the United States. The Advanced Technologies segment produces and sells controlled-release crop nutrient and professional products to the agriculture, specialty agriculture, professional turf, horticulture, and consumer lawn and garden markets. This segment also offers pest control products to the structural pest control industry, including pest control in residential and commercial structures. It was formerly known as Cominco Fertilizers Ltd. and changed its name to Agrium Inc. in 1995. The company was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.
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