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BUY: ASTEC INDUSTRIES INC. (ASTE) Rating: 1
Start Price: $27.04
Points: -12.22
Created: 08/23/2009
After its acquisition of HBOS PLC earlier this year, this London-based banking giant became the largest retail bank in the U.K., serving one in three people in the country. It is also involved in commercial banking and insurance. The firm has a market cap of about $44.7 billion, and has taken in more than $43 billion in sales in the past year.





Astec Industries, Inc. (ASTE): This Chattanooga, Tenn.-based firm makes equipment used in asphalt road building, pipeline and utility trenching, concrete plants, gas and oil drilling rigs, and wood processing, making it the type of company that could benefit from the government's infrastructure-focused stimulus package. It has a market cap of about $644 million, and has taken in about $827 million in sales in the past 12 months.

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Author sjohnstein     Date 2010-02-19 16:55:55
take my lost @ -12.22 %
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