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Cabot Corp (CBT)

CAPS Rating:
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A global specialty chemicals and performance materials company. Its principal products are rubber blacks, performance products, inkjet colorants, fumed metal oxides, aerogels, tantalum and related products, and cesium formate drilling fluids.

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Materials (342), Chemicals (111), Small Cap (1645), Defensive (1457)
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Cabot Corp At A Glance

Current Price: $28.79
Last Trade Time: 2/9/2010 4:00 PM
Open: $28.07
Previous Close: $27.60
Daily Range: $27.94 - $28.89
52-Week Range: $7.97 - $29.47
Volume: 617,945
Market Cap: $1.88B
P/E Ratio: 145.19
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Cabot Corp (CBT)

Avatar ALPHADividend (93.21) Submitted: 4/16/09 1:11 AM

This company appears to offer a solid opportunity as of today (April 2009).
The company is trading below reported book value and is paying high dividends. Additionally the company operates outside of the FIRE (financial insurance real estate) sector of the economy, so chances are, what you see is ...More

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Avatar AadHeijden (< 20) Submitted: 12/02/09 1:42 PM : Outperform Start Price: $24.69 CBT Score: 20.24

Market for Cabot's product is picking up strongly.


Restructuring measures in place should significantly reduce costs.


Strong position in China.


Strong debt/equaty rating.

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Avatar TheWayToTheTop (86.74) Submitted: 5/23/09 2:40 PM : Outperform Start Price: $16.00 CBT Score: 57.36

Healthy working capital and good cash/market cap.

Should return to profitability.

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 (CBT)

Avatar ALPHADividend (93.21) Submitted: 4/16/09 1:11 AM : Outperform Start Price: $12.71 CBT Score: 100.51

This company appears to offer a solid opportunity as of today (April 2009).
The company is trading below reported book value and is paying high dividends. Additionally the company operates outside of the FIRE (financial insurance real estate) sector of the economy, so chances are, what you see is what you get. I've personally screened this company to ensure it did not expand excessively during the hot years (2004-2008).
This company was found today via google screener with the following criteria:
atleast 100m market cap or more
has fallen more than 45% past 1yr
dividend payers @3% or more
atleast 25% institutionally held
price to book less than 1
have total debt/assets less than 100%
have total debt/equity less than 100%
personally screened to make sure the companies were not FIRE industries (financial/insurance/real estate), oil commodity related, industrial metal commodities related, sea shipping related
personally verified limitation on expansion during boom years (not excessive BS growth from '04-'08)

the resulting dividend companies to buy are:
AM, BRC, CBS, CBT, CDI, CSS, GLT, HRC, KELYA, LYTS, MEI, MWV, SXI, TKR, UVV

conversely I will be looking to short opportunities with opposite criteria.

This will be the primary focus of this profile, to seek & obtain alpha from long/short dividend opportunities across various industries.
- ALPHADividend

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Avatar Crux01 (< 20) Submitted: 10/09/08 2:18 PM : Outperform Start Price: $24.18 CBT Score: 4.96

Biggest problem for CBT has been its contracts with the tire companies. Whilst the prices of oil was increasing, CBT was always dephased with its pricing; on top of that it needed ever larger quantities of working capital. It is in my understanding that the clients will have bought at he most appropriate moment before contracts forced a price increase. Now that oil price are going down, it should be easier to recuperate some of the price dephasing problem, allowing for increased margins on the sale of carbon black to the clients. Although the recession will reduce the sale of cars, it will not reduce the sale of tires in the same proportion.

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Avatar jellybelly66 (< 20) Submitted: 7/31/08 12:17 AM : Outperform Start Price: $24.42 CBT Score: 31.05

Oil and Gas are in right now

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