20 Stocks

Flat earnings for Aegean Marine Petroleum Network

Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (ANW: 17.75 +0.38 +2.19%) is an international company of the growth persuasion that I have been positive about and is a component of this site’s 20 Stock Portfolio. The company has just released 4th quarter results and the stock is down over 10%. The primary reason is that earnings per share [...]


Russia infrastructure play: KHD Humboldt

KHD Humbolt Wedag, International, Ltd. (KHD: 12.75 +0.47 +3.83%) has announced two new concrete plant contracts signed with Russian concrete companies worth $119 million. This is a pretty nice addition to the company’s reported order backlog of $925 million.
KHD provides industrial equipment like concrete plants primarily in developing nations, with a significant amount of their [...]


Nordic American Tanker: disappointing quarter

Nordic American Tanker (NAT: 36.85 +2.46 +7.15%) has released their 4th quarter results, and they are not at the level of income and dividend I expected. You can read the press release here:
http://www.nat.bm/IR/press_releases/1190674.html
With per day spot rates averaging $27,000 for the quarter, the company was able to raise the dividend to 50¢ from the [...]


Thornburg Mortgage: back on track

Thornburg Mortgage (TMA: 0.00 N/A N/A) has released their 4th quarter earnings results, and those results are pretty positive. The company earned 33¢ per share, easily covering the 25¢ dividend declared at the end of December. I listened to the conference call and the news was very positive.
I wrote often about Thornburg Mortgage in the [...]


Terra Nitrogen Company declares cash distribution of $4.45

Terra Nitrogen Company, L.P. Reports Fourth Quarter and Full-Year Results; Declares Cash Distribution: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
Terra Nitrogen’s (TNH: 104.27 +6.15 +6.27%) $4.45 fourth quarter dividend is over double the 3rd quarter distribution and 4.5 times the 4th quarter 2006 distribution. Thing appear to be good in the fertilizer space. Taking a look at [...]