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MMSI, PMCS, PNR, POOL, ELX, Expected to Trade Lower After Bearish Insider Trading

^{Published on 2011-06-02 08:20:40 - WOPRAI}
 

June 2, 2011 / M2 PRESSWIRE / BUYINS.NET / http://www.squeezetrigger.com is monitoring top insider trading patterns and these stocks are the most likely to trade Lower in the next 6 months. MERIT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ:MMSI), PMC - SIERRA INC (NASDAQ:PMCS), PENTAIR, INC. (NYSE:PNR), POOL CORPORATION (NASDAQ:POOL), EMULEX CORPORATION (NYSE:ELX) are all expected to go Lower as Sell signals have been generated by top insider trading patterns. The most important data elements considered when performing insider analysis are: Insiders Track Record - An insiders track record is best summarized by the Insider Score which ranges from 1 (least predictive) to 100 (most predictive) based on prior trading performance. In addition, the actual returns following the insiders prior trades are included to determine the potential magnitude of future returns. Insiders Role - Trades by higher-level insiders are generally more predictive than trades by lower level insiders. Higher-level insiders to include Chairman (CB), Chief Executive Officer (CEO), President (P), Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and Vice Chairman (VC).

The chart below displays the stocks expected to go Lower along with the insider name, position, predictive insider score, 6 month expected return and number of trading decisions included in the score.

     Symbol     Company Name                        Insider Name                        Role        Shares         Insider Score     Avg 6 Month Return     # of Dec. 
     MMSI       MERIT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.         Perry, Rashelle                     O           12,335         80                -23.1%                 5         
     PMCS       PMC - SIERRA INC                    Harris, Colin C                     CO          13,840         89                -22.4%                 5         
     PNR        PENTAIR, INC.                       Meyer, Michael G                    O           22,620         77                -11.2%                 4         
     POOL       POOL CORPORATION                    Gaffney, James J                    D           4,856          76                -5.0%                  8         
     ELX        EMULEX CORPORATION                  Cox, Fred B                         D           80,000         75                -25.4%                 12        

MERIT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ:MMSI) - Merit Medical Systems, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets single-use medical products for interventional and diagnostic procedures worldwide. The companys cardiology and radiology products include percutaneous coronary interventions and percutaneous peripheral interventions. Its inflation devices, such as IntelliSystem, Monarch, and Basix COMPAK are used for measuring pressures during balloon and stent deployment. Merit Medical offers hemostasis valves; vascular retrieval devices; vascular access products; and diagnostic catheters, guide wires, and torque devices. The company also offers angiography and angioplasty accessories used during minimally invasive diagnosis and for the treatment of coronary artery and peripheral disease; safety and waste management systems to help avoid accidental exposure to contaminated fluids; and drainage catheters and accessories for nephrostomy, abscess, and other drainage procedures. In addition, it offers paracentesis and pericardiocentesis catheters to provide clinicians with a safe and convenient alternative for paracentesis procedures; therapeutic infusion catheters for the treatment of thrombus formation in the peripheral vessels of the body; multipurpose microcatheters for the delivery of interventional devices or therapeutic pharmaceuticals into selected blood vessels; and products for dialysis and interventional nephrology. Further, the company offers obesity-related products; gastroenterology and pulmonary products, such as non-vascular stents and bi-polar probes; and specialty procedure products, such as discography products and pressure sensors. It offers its products primarily to radiologists, anesthesiologists, physiatrists, neurologists, nephrologists, vascular surgeons, thoracic surgeons, technicians, and nurses. Merit Medical sells its products through direct sales forces, distributors, OEM partners, custom packagers, and packers. The company was founded in 1987 and is based in South Jordan, Utah.

PMC - SIERRA INC (NASDAQ:PMCS) - PMC-Sierra, Inc. engages in the design, development, marketing, and support of semiconductor solutions for the enterprise infrastructure and communications infrastructure markets. Its products include controllers based on Fibre Channel, Serial Attached SCSI, and Serial ATA that enable the development of external and server-attached storage systems; framers and mappers, which convert the data into a format for transmission in the network before the data is sent to the next destination; line interface units that transmit and receive signals over a physical medium, such as wire, cable, or fiber; and microprocessor-based system-on-chips, which perform the high-speed computations that help in identifying and controlling the flow of signals and data in various network equipment used in the communications, storage, and enterprise markets. The company also offers packet and cell processors that examine the contents of cells or packets, and perform various management and reporting functions; radio frequency transceivers, which transmit and receive broadband signals over the air; and serializers/deserializers that convert and multiplex traffic between slower speed parallel streams and higher speed serial streams. PMC-Sierra sells its products to end customers directly, as well as through distributors and independent manufacturers representatives primarily in China, Asia, Japan, Taiwan, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. The company was founded in 1983 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

PENTAIR, INC. (NYSE:PNR) - Pentair, Inc. operates as a diversified industrial manufacturing company worldwide. The companys Water segment offers products and systems that are used in the movement, storage, treatment, and enjoyment of water. This segments products include light duty diaphragm pumps; submersible, sump, and sewage pumps; turbine pumps; solid handling pumps; and pressure tanks for various residential and engineered flow market applications. It also offers pumps for agricultural irrigation and crop spraying; control valves, membranes, carbon products, point of entry and point of use systems, and other filter cartridges for residential filtration market; and commercial and residential pool equipment and accessories, such as pumps, filters, heaters, lights, automatic controls, automatic pool cleaners, commercial deck equipment, maintenance equipment, and pool accessories. In addition, this segment provides filter systems, filter cartridges, pressure vessels, and dispensing pumps that provide flow solutions for commercial, foodservice, industrial, marine, and aviation markets. This segment distributes its products through wholesale distributors, retail distributors, original equipment manufacturers, home centers, and home and pool builders. The companys Technical Products segment manufactures and markets custom enclosures that house and protect sensitive electronics and electrical components, as well as protect people that use them. Its products comprise metallic and composite enclosures, cabinets, cases, subracks, backplanes, and associated thermal management systems used in industrial machinery, data communications, networking, telecommunications, test and measurement, automotive, medical, security, defense, and general electronics applications. This segment distributes its products through electrical and data contractors, electrical and electronic components distributors, and original equipment manufacturers. Pentair was founded in 1966 and is based in Golden Valley, Minnesota.

POOL CORPORATION (NASDAQ:POOL) - Pool Corporation operates as a wholesale distributor of swimming pool supplies, equipment, and related leisure products in North America and Europe. The company offers approximately 100,000 national brand and Pool Corporation branded products. It sells maintenance products, such as chemicals, supplies, and pool accessories; repair and replacement parts for cleaners, filters, heaters, pumps, and lights; packaged pool kits, including walls, liners, braces, and coping for in-ground and above-ground pools; pool equipment and components for new pool construction and the remodeling of existing pools; and irrigation and landscape products, such as professional lawn care equipment. The company also offers complementary products, including building materials used for pool installations and remodeling, such as concrete, plumbing and electrical components, and pool surface and decking materials; and other discretionary recreational and related outdoor lifestyle products. Pool Corporation serves swimming pool remodelers and builders, retail swimming pool stores, swimming pool repair and service businesses, landscape construction and maintenance contractors, and golf courses. The company was founded in 1993 and is based in Covington, Louisiana.

EMULEX CORPORATION (NYSE:ELX) - Emulex Corporation provides network convergence solutions that connect servers, storage, and networks within the data center. The company designs, develops, and supplies host server products, including host bus adapters, universal converged network adapters, and application specific integrated circuits that enable servers to connect to local area networks, storage area networks, and network attached storage; and embedded storage products comprising switch-on-a-chip products, embedded storage switches, bridges, routers, and input/output controllers, as well as provides custom form factor solutions for original equipment manufacturer (OEM) blade servers. In addition, it offers contract engineering services. Emulex Corporation sells its products to OEMs and end users worldwide, as well as through value added resellers, systems integrators, industrial distributors, and resellers. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Costa Mesa, California.

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