MGEE, OPNT, USPH, GPK, KNOT, MAIN Expected To Be Higher After Earnings Releases on Thursday
August 4, 2010 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring the performance of all stocks with earnings being released Thursday, August 5th and determining how the stocks have performed after their last 12 quarterly, 6 quarterly and August earnings reports. MGE Energy (NASDAQ: MGEE), Opnet Technologies (NASDAQ: OPNT), US Physical Therapy (NASDAQ: USPH), Graphic Packaging Holding (NYSE: GPK), The Knot (NASDAQ: KNOT) and Main Street Capital (NASDAQ: MAIN) are all expected to be higher after their earnings are released Thursday. The movement of stock prices in the days and weeks leading to and following these earnings announcements may follow a predictable pattern. Most companies stock price histories show random or unpredictable movements around earnings dates. But some seem to repeat the same pattern quarter after quarter, year after year. The # of Reports in the table below shows how many previous quarterly reports comprise the indicator that predicts how a stock will act after its earnings are released. The specific technology used to make these predictions is available for a low monthly fee at http://www.squeezetrigger.com/services/strat/mh.php . The following stocks are expected to go higher after earnings are released Thursday:
Symbol Company # of Reports Quarter Release Time
MGEE MGE Energy Inc. August earnings Q2 During
OPNT Opnet Technologies Inc August earnings Q1 After
USPH US Physical Therapy Inc 12 quarters Q2 Before
GPK Graphic Packaging Hold 12 quarters Q2 Before
KNOT The Knot, Inc. August earnings Q2 After
MAIN Main Street Capital 12 quarters Q2 After
Earnings, or profits, drive stock prices. The market values a company based on its current and anticipated future ability to make money. The market takes the earnings pulse of a company four times per year when quarterly reports are issued. When this information is released it can often be a trend-changing or a trend confirming event because the information is so vital to the market's perception of the vitality of that company.
This technology is designed to help the stock trader identify those companies that seem to have a consistent pattern of movement before or after the earnings release date, based on the history of earnings releases for that company. It combines a calendar of expected earnings releases with a history of past earnings releases in a way that lets you see if a pattern exists.
MGE Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: MGEE), through its subsidiaries, operates as a public utility holding company. It engages in generating, purchasing, transmitting, and distributing electricity. The company generates electricity from coal, natural gas, fuel oil, and renewable sources, as well as purchased power. It also engages in purchasing and distributing natural gas. In addition, the company invests in companies engaged in the business of providing electric transmission services. It serves residential, commercial, and industrial customers, as well as public authorities and other utilities. As of December 31, 2009, the company supplied electricity to approximately 138,000 customers in Dane county, Wisconsin; and purchased and distributed natural gas to approximately 142,000 customers in the cities of Elroy, Fitchburg, Lodi, Madison, Middleton, Monona, Prairie du Chien, Verona, and Viroqua; 24 villages; and all or parts of 45 townships. MGE Energy was founded in 1855 and is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.
OPNET Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPNT) provides software products and related services for managing networks and applications in the United States and internationally. Its software products include ACE Analyst, which troubleshoots performance problems in production applications; ACE Live that determines the root source of application performance problems; IT Guru Network Planner for predictive network capacity planning, design optimization, and validation of network configuration changes; and IT Guru Systems Planner that offers capacity planning for servers. The companya�s software products also comprise nCompass for enterprises that provides centralized, real-time visibility of network topology, traffic, and status in a single, integrated view; IT Sentinel and SP Sentinel for automatic and continuous network configuration integrity and security auditing, and proactive change validation; OPNET Panorama that offers system analytics for application performance management; and VNE Server that maintains a detailed, near real-time data model of the production IT network. In addition, its software products consist of SP Guru Network Planner that is built on the IT Guru Network Planner product; SP Guru Transport Planner, an optical network-planning product; nCompass for service providers; OPNET Modeler, a network modeling and simulation product; Modeler Wireless suite that incorporates additional functionality to wireless network research and development organizations; and Modeler Wireless suite for defense. The company also develops and sells various OPNET software modules to simulate and analyze networking technologies and communication protocols; and offers consulting services, software license updates, technical support and services, and training services. OPNET Technologies Inc. has a strategic alliance with Keynote Systems, Inc. that focuses on enhancing the performance and availability of Web applications. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.
U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. (NASDAQ: USPH), through its subsidiaries, operates outpatient physical and occupational therapy clinics in the United States. Its clinics provide pre-and post-operative care and treatment for orthopedic-related disorders, sports-related injuries, preventative care, rehabilitation of injured workers, and neurological-related injuries. The company also operates clinics, which specialize in the outpatient, non-surgical treatment of osteo arthritis degeneration joint disease, and other musculoskeletal conditions. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 368 outpatient physical and occupational therapy clinics comprising 266 clinics operated under clinic partnerships and 102 as wholly-owned facilities in 43 states. The company also managed 13 physical therapy practices for third parties, including physicians. U.S. Physical Therapy, Inc. focuses its marketing efforts primarily on physicians, including orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, physiatrists, internal medicine, podiatrists, occupational medicine physicians, and general practitioners. The company was founded in 1990 and is based in Houston, Texas.
Graphic Packaging Holding Company (NYSE: GPK), together with its subsidiaries, provides packaging solutions in the United States, Canada, Central/South America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific. The company operates in three segments: Paperboard Packaging, Multi-Wall Bag, and Specialty Packaging. The Paperboard Packaging segment produces and sells folding cartons, which are used primarily to protect products, such as food, detergents, paper products, beverages, and health and beauty aids; and corrugating medium and kraft paper. It also designs, manufactures, and installs packaging machines that package bottles, cans, and non-beverage consumer products. The Multi-Wall Bag segment converts kraft and specialty paper into multi-wall bags, consumer bags, and specialty retail bags to ship and protect various industrial and consumer products, including fertilizers, chemicals, concrete, and pet and food products. The Specialty Packaging segment provides flexible packaging products comprising retort pouches; medical test kits; multi-layer laminations for hard-to-hold products; batch inclusion bags and films; and shingle wrap and plastic bags and films for building materials. This segment also produces heat transfer labels and lithographic labels for food, beverage, pharmaceutical, automotive, household and industrial products, detergents, and the health and beauty markets. The company, formerly known as Graphic Packaging Corporation, was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Marietta, Georgia.
The Knot, Inc. (NASDAQ: KNOT) provides multiplatform media services to the wedding, newlywed, and pregnancy markets in the United States. The company provides online and offline services through various media, such as magazines, books, syndication, television, Web sites, and social media under the brand names of The Knot, The Nest, and The Bump. Its online services include the operation of Web sites that offer various services, including relevant lifestage content, interactive tools, personal wedding Web sites, directed search, local resource listings, active membership and community participation, user-generated content, one-stop registry shopping service, online stores, social media applications, broadband video content, informative email, and Web site network and sister sites. The company also offers various offline services that comprise national and local wedding magazines sold through newsstands, bookstores, and on its Web sites; pregnancy guides; and book series. In addition, it provides various integrated media marketing programs, such as local advertising programs, national online advertising programs, television, market intelligence and analytics, cross platform advertising programs, and targeted direct marketing opportunities. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in New York, New York.
Main Street Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: MAIN) is a business development company specializing in equity, equity related, and debt investments in small and lower middle market companies. The firm focuses on investments in warrants, PIK (Payment in Kind) interest, convertible securities, junior secured or unsecured, subordinated loans, mezzanine investments, management buyouts, ownership transitions, recapitalizations, strategic acquisitions, business expansion, growth financings, and other growth initiatives primarily for later stage businesses. It does not seek to invest in start-up companies or companies with speculative business plans. It seeks to invest in traditional or basic businesses. The firm primarily invests in companies based in the Southern, South Central, and Southwestern regions of the United States but also considers other domestic investment opportunities. It invests between $2 million and $15 million in companies with revenues between $10 million and $100 million, enterprise values between $3 million and $50 million, and EBITDA between $1 million and $10 million. The firm seeks to charge a fixed interest rate between 12 percent and 14 percent, payable in cash, in case of its mezzanine loan investments. The firm typically invests in the form of term debt with equity participation and/or direct equity investments. It prefers to maintain fully diluted equity positions in its portfolio companies of 5 percent to 50 percent, and may have controlling interests in some instances. The firm also co-invests with other investment firms. It seeks to exit its debt investments through the repayment of the investment from internally generated cash flow and/or refinancing within a period of three to seven years. Main Street Capital Corporation was founded in 1997 and is based at Houston, Texas.
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