StockIceMan's Weekly Stock Pick
Week of
August 6, 2007
| Stock: |
The Mosaic Company |
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| Ticker Symbol: |
MOS - NYSE - Agricultural
Chemicals |
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| Buy: |
39.00 to 39.50 |
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| Sell: |
45.00 |
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Info: |
The Mosaic Company,
through its subsidiaries, engages in the
production, blending, and distribution of crop
nutrient and animal feed products. It operates
in four segments: Phosphates, Potash, Offshore,
and Nitrogen. The Phosphates segment owns and
operates mines and concentrates plants in
Florida that produce phosphate fertilizer and
feed phosphate, and concentrates plants in
Louisiana that produce phosphate fertilizer. The
Potash segment mines, processes, and distributes
potash in Canada and the United States. The
Offshore segment consists of sales offices,
fertilizer blending and bagging facilities, port
terminals, and warehouses in various countries,
as well as production facilities in Brazil,
China, and Argentina. It produces and
distributes blended fertilizers, as well as
operates phosphate and nitrogen processing
plants in Brazil, diammonium phosphate
granulation plant near Kunming in the Yunnan
Province in China, and granulated single
superphosphate plant located in Quebracho,
Argentina. The Nitrogen segment produces and
distributes anhydrous ammonia, granular urea,
feed grade urea, and urea ammonium nitrate
solution. The company markets its products
primarily to wholesalers, cooperatives,
independent retailers, and national accounts.
The Mosaic Company operates in the United
States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, India,
Thailand, and the People's Republic of China.
The company was incorporated in 2004 and is
based in Plymouth, Minnesota |
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| Financial Info: |
For the fiscal year ended
5/31/2007, revenues increased 9% to $5.77
billion. Net income applicable to Common totaled
$419.7 million versus a loss of $121.4 million |
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| Key Ratios: |
Current
Ratio: N/A, Total
Debt/Equity Ratio: 0.707, Trailing P/E: 41.43x,
Forward P/E: 13.80x, Price/Sales: 3.05,
Price/Book:4.85 |
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| Share Info: |
There are 440.39
million shares outstanding with 152.60
million shares in the trading
float. Institutions own
approximately 28.50% of the shares outstanding.
There has been 1 insider purchase totaling
10,000 shares and 1 insider sale totaling 12,500
shares
in the last six months.
Real-Time SEC
Filings
As of 7/10/2007, there were 5.99 million shares short.
Net Institutional Selling: 10.97 million shares prior to latest
quarter. |
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| Articles: |
Fertilizer maker Mosaic
posts quarterly profit |
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