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WMCO, MAA, ATK, WASH, AWK, TECH Expected To Be Up Before Next Earnings Releases


Published on 2011-04-14 04:52:55 - WOPRAI
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April 14, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring the performance of all stocks with earnings being released in the coming weeks and determining how the stocks have performed Before their last 12 quarterly, 6 quarterly and 12 Consecutive Days earnings reports. WILLIAMS CONTROLS INC (NASDAQ:WMCO), MID-AMERICA APARTMENT COMM (NYSE:MAA), ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS INC (NYSE:ATK), WASHINGTON TRUST BANCORP (NASDAQ:WASH), AMERICAN WATER WORKS CO INC (NYSE:AWK), TECHNE CORP (NASDAQ:TECH) are all expected to be Up Before 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 Up Before earnings are released Thursday:

     Symbol     Company                             # of Reports            Quarter     Release Date
     WMCO       WILLIAMS CONTROLS INC               12 Quarter              Q2          05/05/2011
     MAA        MID-AMERICA APARTMENT COMM          6 Quarter               Q1          05/05/2011
     ATK        ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS INC             May Earnings            Q4          05/05/2011
     WASH       WASHINGTON TRUST BANCORP            April Earnings          Q1          04/25/2011
     AWK        AMERICAN WATER WORKS CO INC         12 Quarter              Q1          05/04/2011
     TECH       TECHNE CORP                         May Earnings            Q3          05/03/2011
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.

WILLIAMS CONTROLS INC (NASDAQ:WMCO) - Williams Controls, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of electronic throttle controls and pneumatic controls for heavy trucks, transit buses, off-road equipment, and military applications worldwide. The companys electronic throttle control systems send a signal proportional to throttle position to adjust the speed of electronically controlled engines; and pneumatic control systems are used for vehicle control system applications, such as power take-offs and air-control applications. It also offers electronic sensors. The company sells its products directly to heavy truck, transit bus, and off-road original equipment manufacturers, as well as through a network of independent distributors and representatives, which sell to smaller original equipment manufacturers and to truck and bus owners as replacement parts. Williams Controls, Inc. was founded in 1937 and is based in Portland, Oregon.

MID-AMERICA APARTMENT COMM (NYSE:MAA) - Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in acquiring, owning, and operating apartment communities primarily in the Sunbelt region of the United States. As of December 31, 2007, Mid-America owned 100% of 137 properties representing 40,248 apartment units. The company qualifies as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code. As a REIT, it would not be subject to federal income tax to the extent it distributes 90% of taxable income to its shareholders. The company was founded in 1977 and is based in Memphis, Tennessee.

ALLIANT TECHSYSTEMS INC (NYSE:ATK) - Alliant Techsystems Inc. supplies aerospace and defense products to the United States government agencies, and its prime contractors and subcontractors. The company also supplies ammunition and related accessories to law enforcement agencies and commercial customers. Its Armament Systems segment offers military ammunition and gun systems; commercial products, such as ammunition for the sport hunting/sport enthusiast market, reloading equipment, gun care products, targets and traps, rifle scopes and mounts, and binoculars; energetic products, including warheads and bomb fills, propellants for tank ammunition and tactical rocket motors, and guided advanced tactical rocket systems; integrated weapon systems comprising medium-caliber chain guns and ammunition suites; small caliber ammunitions; and tactical systems. The companys Mission Systems segment provides aerospace structures consisting of composite aircraft components, wing skins and nacelles, stringers and frames, and containment cases; advanced weapons, including precision fire weapons and missiles, large-caliber ammunition, and advanced anti-radiation guided missiles; integrated systems comprising missile warning systems and special-mission aircrafts; and tactical propulsion and controls, such as tactical rocket motors, fuzes, warheads and precision fire weapons, large-caliber ammunition, and missile components. Alliant Techsystems Space Systems segment manufactures rocket motor systems for human and cargo launch vehicles, conventional and strategic missiles, missile defense interceptors, small and micro-satellites, satellite components, structures and subsystems, lightweight space deployables, and solar arrays, as well as provides engineering and technical services. It operates in the United States, Puerto Rico, and internationally. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

WASHINGTON TRUST BANCORP (NASDAQ:WASH) - Washington Trust Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for The Washington Trust Company that offers a range of banking and related financial services to individuals and businesses in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Commercial Banking and Wealth Management Services. The Commercial Banking segment offers deposit products, including commercial and consumer demand, savings, negotiable order of withdrawal, money market, and time deposits; certificates of deposit; and retirement accounts. Its portfolio of loans include residential mortgages, reverse mortgages, commercial loans, construction loans, home equity lines of credit, home equity loans, consumer installment loans, commercial real estate loans, and residential loans. This segment also offers automated teller machine, merchant credit card processing, telephone banking, Internet banking, cash management, remote deposit capture, safe deposit boxes, and customer support and sales services. The Wealth Management Services segment provides asset management services; personal trust services, including services as executor, trustee, administrator, custodian, and guardian; corporate trust services, such as services as trustee for pension and profit sharing plans; and other financial planning and advisory services. As of December 31, 2009, Washington Trust Bancorp operated 18 branch offices in Rhode Island, eastern Massachusetts, and southeastern Connecticut. The company was founded in 1800 and is headquartered in Westerly, Rhode Island.

AMERICAN WATER WORKS CO INC (NYSE:AWK) - American Water Works Company, Inc. provides water and wastewater services to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in the United States and Canada. As of December 31, 2009, the company served approximately 16 million people with drinking water, wastewater, and other water-related services in 35 states and two Canadian provinces. It owned approximately 80 surface water treatment plants, 600 groundwater treatment plants, 1,200 groundwater wells, 50 wastewater treatment facilities, 1,200 treated water storage facilities, 1,200 pumping stations and 100 dams, and 49,000 miles of mains and collection pipes. American Water Works Company also enters into public/private partnerships, including operation and maintenance contracts; and design, build, and operate contracts for the provision of services to water and wastewater facilities for municipalities and the United States military. In addition, the company designs, builds, and operates smaller-scale water and wastewater treatment plants for real estate developers, industrial companies, and new or expanding communities; and provides services to domestic homeowners to protect against the cost of repairing broken or leaking pipes inside and outside their homes. Further, it provides granular activated carbon for water purification, and involves in the management and disposal of biosolids and wastewater by-products for municipal and industrial customers. The company was founded in 1886 and is based in Voorhees, New Jersey.

TECHNE CORP (NASDAQ:TECH) - TECHNE Corporation and its subsidiaries engage in the development, manufacture, and sale of biotechnology products, and hematology calibrators and controls primarily in the United States and Europe. The companys biotechnology product line includes Cytokines, extracted from natural sources or produced using recombinant DNA technology; Enzymes and related factors, including enzyme substrates and inhibitors; antibodies, proteins produced by the immune system of an animal; assay kits, such as human and animal Quantikine kits, which allow research scientists to quantify the amount of a specific analyte; clinical diagnostic kits, including erythropoietin, transferrin receptor, and Beta2-microglobulin immunoassays; flow cytometry products consisting of fluorochrome labeled antibodies and Fluorokine kits, which measure the presence or absence of cell surface receptors for specific cytokines by flow cytometry; and intracellular cell signaling products, including antibodies, phospho-specific antibodies, antibody protein arrays, active caspases, kinases, phosphatases, and ELISA assays. Its hematology product line comprises whole blood CBC controls/calibrators; linearity and reportable range controls that provide a means of assessing the linearity of hematology analyzers for white blood cells, red blood cells, platelets, and reticulocytes; whole blood reticulocyte controls for manual and automated counting of reticulocytes; whole blood flow cytometry controls for flow cytometry instruments; whole blood glucose/hemoglobin control to monitor instruments which measure glucose and hemoglobin in whole blood; erythrocyte sedimentation rate control to monitor erythrocyte sedimentation rate tests; and multi-purpose platelet reference controls for use by automated and semi-automated analyzers. TECHNE Corporation sells its products to research and clinical diagnostics markets. The company was founded in 1976 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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