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SO, RFMD, ZION, HPQ, PKG, STX, Expected to Trade Lower After Bearish Insider Trading

February 2, 2012 / 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. SOUTHERN COMPANY (THE) (NYSE:SO), RF MICRO DEVICES, INC. (NASDAQ:RFMD), ZIONS BANCORPORATION (NASDAQ:ZION), HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY (NYSE:HPQ), PACKAGING CORPORATION OF AMERICA (NYSE:PKG), SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY (NASDAQ:STX) 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. 
     SO         SOUTHERN COMPANY (THE)              Fanning, Thomas A                   CEO         275,617        77                -2.4%                  7         
     RFMD       RF MICRO DEVICES, INC.              Neal, Jerry D                       O           25,000         94                -10.2%                 87        
     ZION       ZIONS BANCORPORATION                Arnold, Doyle L                     CFO         11,484         78                -15.4%                 4         
     HPQ        HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY             Murrin, James T                     O           30,000         90                -16.1%                 11        
     PKG        PACKAGING CORPORATION OF AMERICA     Calhoun, Stephen T                  O           15,300         88                -11.2%                 8         
     STX        SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY                  Luczo, Stephen James                CEO         529,905        100               -9.6%                  35        
The insider buying report presents recent insider purchases, reported on Forms 3, 4, and 5 filed with the SEC. The transactions are aggregated to a 'decision' level which simplifies the data analysis. A decision is a grouping of buying or selling by an individual at the specified company.

SOUTHERN COMPANY (THE) (NYSE:SO) - Southern Company, through its subsidiaries, operates as a utility company that provides electric service in the southeastern United States. The company generates, transmits, and distributes electricity through coal, nuclear, oil and gas, and hydro resources. It offers electric service primarily in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi; and serves approximately 4.4 million retail customers with approximately 42,000 megawatts of generating capacity. Southern Company also constructs, acquires, owns, and manages generation assets and sells electricity in the wholesale market. Its transmission assets include 27,000 miles of transmission lines and 3,400 substations. The company also provides digital wireless communications, such as push to talk, cellular service, text messaging, wireless Internet access, and wireless data to approximately 300,000 subscribers in the southeast; and wholesale fiber optic solutions to telecommunication providers under the name Southern Telecom. The company was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

RF MICRO DEVICES, INC. (NASDAQ:RFMD) - RF Micro Devices, Inc. designs and manufactures radio frequency components and compound semiconductors in the United States and internationally. The company provides integrated circuits, including gain blocks, LNAs, PAs, receivers, transmitters, transceivers, modulators, demodulators, attenuators, switches, frequency synthesizers, and voltage-controlled oscillators. It also offers multi-chip modules comprising PA modules, switch-filter modules, active antenna products, VCOs, phase-locked loops, coaxial resonator oscillators, active mixers, variable gain amplifiers, hybrid amplifiers, power doublers, and optical receivers. In addition, the company provides passive components, such as splitters, couplers, mixers, transformers, isolators, and circulators; and foundry services for gallium nitride wafer production. Its products enable worldwide mobility and provide connectivity and support advanced functionality in the cellular handset, wireless infrastructure, wireless local area network, cable television/broadband, and aerospace and defense markets. The company serves commercial, industrial, military, aerospace, and other markets in wireless and wired communications applications. RF Micro Devices, Inc. sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers through a network of sales representative firms and distributors. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina.

ZIONS BANCORPORATION (NASDAQ:ZION) - Zions Bancorporation, a multi bank holding company, provides various banking and related products and services in the United States. The company offers community banking services, including small and medium-sized business and corporate banking services; commercial and residential development, construction, and term lending services; retail banking services; treasury cash management and related products and services; residential mortgages; and trust management services. It also provides personal banking services to individuals, including home mortgages, bankcard, installment loans, home equity lines of credit, checking accounts, savings accounts, time certificates, safe deposit facilities, direct deposits, and automated teller machine access. In addition, the company offers small business administration lending services; secondary market agricultural real estate mortgage loans; municipal finance advisory and underwriting services; early-stage capital primarily for start-up companies; and check imaging and clearing software. Further, Zions Bancorporation, through its nonbank subsidiaries, offers hardware, software, and services related to remote imaging, electronic capture, and clearing of paper checks; and medical claims imaging, lockbox, and Web-based reconciliation and tracking services. Additionally, the company provides wealth management services, including financial and tax planning; trust and inheritance services; over-the-counter, exchange-traded, and synthetic derivative and hedging strategies; quantitative asset allocation and risk management; and an array of investment strategies. As of December 31, 2009, Zions Bancorporation offered its banking services through 491 branches and 602 ATMs in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington. The company was founded in 1873 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY (NYSE:HPQ) - Hewlett-Packard Company offers various products, technologies, software, solutions, and services to individual consumers and small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), as well as to the government, health, and education sectors worldwide. The companys Services segment provides consulting, outsourcing, and technology services to infrastructure, applications, and business process domains. Its Enterprise Storage and Servers segment offers storage and server products. This segment provides industry standard servers, business critical systems, and storage works offerings. The companys HP Software segment provides enterprise IT management solutions, information management and business intelligence solutions, and communications and media solutions. Its Personal Systems Group segment offers commercial personal computers (PCs), consumer PCs, workstations, handheld computing devices, calculators and other related accessories, and software and services for the commercial and consumer markets. The companys Imaging and Printing Group segment provides consumer and commercial printer hardware, printing supplies, printing media, and scanning devices, such as inkjet and Web solutions, laserjet and enterprise solutions, managed enterprise solutions, graphics solutions, and printer supplies. Its HP Financial Services segment offers leasing, financing, utility programs, and asset recovery services; and financial asset management services for enterprise customers, as well as specialized financial services to SMBs, and educational and governmental entities. The company also provides network infrastructure products under the ProCurve, 3Com, and TippingPoint brand names; video collaboration products under the Halo brand name; and Palm smartphones, as well as licenses its specific technology to third parties. Hewlett-Packard Company was founded in 1939 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

PACKAGING CORPORATION OF AMERICA (NYSE:PKG) - Packaging Corporation of America produces containerboard and corrugated products in the United States. Its corrugated packaging products include conventional shipping containers used to protect and transport manufactured goods; and multi-color boxes and displays to merchandise the packaged products in retail locations, as well as meat boxes and wax-coated boxes for the agricultural industry. Packaging Corporation offers its products through a direct sales and marketing organization. The company was founded in 1867 and is headquartered in Lake Forest, Illinois.

SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY (NASDAQ:STX) - Seagate Technology Public Limited Company designs, manufactures, markets, and sells hard disk drives for the enterprise, client compute, and client non-compute market applications in the United States and internationally. The companys products are used in enterprise servers; mainframes and workstations; desktop and notebook computers; digital video recorders; personal data backup systems; portable external storage systems; and digital media systems. It also offers data storage services for small- to medium-sized businesses, including online backup, data protection, and recovery solutions; and ships external backup storage solutions under the Free Agent Go and Free Agent Go Flex product lines. Seagate Technology sells its products primarily to original equipment manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

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