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Otter Tail Corp (NASDAQ:OTTR)

CAPS Rating: 5 out of 5

The Company has interests in diversified operations that include an electric utility, plastics, manufacturing, health services, food ingredient processing and other businesses.

Current Price $22.36 Mkt Cap $806.34M
Open $0.00 P/E Ratio 21.70
Prev. Close $22.45 Div. (Yield) 1.19 (5.60%)
Daily Range $22.10 - $22.45 Volume 137,665
52-Wk Range $17.53 - $23.48 Avg. Daily Vol. 0

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352 Outperform
5 Underperform
 

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1 Outperform
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Top OTTR Bull/Bear Pitches

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NDSuperman (24.84)
Submitted January 21, 2009

Well diversified. Coal or wind. Industrialists or enviornmentalists. This energy company has it all. It does not stop with energy either. They've branched into a wide variety of other applications such as transportation, health, manufacturing,… More

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RLUnderhill (< 20)
Submitted July 29, 2007

Otter Tail is investing all the time. Their buying up companies to make them more diversified. I like the stock because in all the years we've held on to Otter Tail, it's given us a lot of money. It's a solid company.We started with $300.00 dollars.… More

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Recs

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Member Avatar TMFCheesehead (93.46) Submitted: 1/18/2012 5:17:28 PM : Outperform Start Price: $21.69 OTTR Score: -1.09

http://www.fool.com/investing/small-cap/2012/01/18/among-5-small-cap-dividend-dynamos-1-stands-out.aspx

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Member Avatar eksummers620 (70.83) Submitted: 12/29/2011 11:47:53 AM : Underperform Start Price: $22.17 OTTR Score: +6.70

I really want to love this company but am I the only one seeing their dividend payout ratio? They are earning $.54 cents a share. They are paying out $1.19 per share in dividends. A payout ratio of 135% is not something I like to see.

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Member Avatar 2win (< 20) Submitted: 10/15/2011 11:11:19 PM : Outperform Start Price: $19.12 OTTR Score: +5.15

Close to bottom of Alpha Weighted Utility - Electric Power Sector here:
http://www.barchart.com/stocks/sectors/-UTEP?sym=OTTR
Rated 8 at Moneycentral
Buy the dip.

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Leaderboard

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Score Leader

cafulu

cafulu (81.35) Score: +62.54

The Score Leader is the player with the highest score across all their picks in OTTR.

Top
Pick 		Member Name Member
Rating 		Start
Date 		Call Time
Frame 		Start
Price 		Stock
Gain 		Index
Gain 		Score Commentary
cwcj63 69.21 4/15/2009 Underperform 5Y $19.31 +15.77% +61.61% +45.84 0 Comment
Financebikes74 20.39 8/14/2008 Underperform 1Y $33.70 -33.65% +9.22% +42.87 0 Comment
zaprowsdower < 20 12/16/2008 Underperform 3M $18.12 +23.37% +57.27% +33.89 0 Comment
Samurbri 76.34 8/5/2008 Underperform NS $29.43 -24.02% +9.69% +33.71 0 Comment
Brett109 35.63 1/14/2009 4/19/2011 Underperform 1Y $17.36 +28.78% +61.94% +33.16 1 Comment
iluvmy8gkids 22.15 8/30/2006 Underperform 1Y $23.81 -6.08% +10.20% +16.28 2 Comments
NetscribeCnglmrt < 20 3/1/2007 Underperform 1Y $25.57 -12.56% +3.11% +15.67 2 Comments
tatsumaki4ryu < 20 8/21/2006 Underperform 3Y $23.18 -3.53% +10.95% +14.48 3 Comments
Manustocker < 20 1/25/2010 10/7/2010 Underperform 1Y $20.45 +9.32% +22.82% +13.50 0 Comment
Nobber22 68.16 1/29/2007 Underperform 1Y $25.21 -11.29% +1.04% +12.34 1 Comment
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Wall Street

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Player Name Player
Rating		 Start
Date		 Call Time
Frame		 Start
Price		 Stock
Gain		 S&P
Gain		 Score End Date Commentary
TrackDADavidson 91.49 2/10/2011 Underperform NS $23.08 -1.50% +0.17% +1.68 4/15/2011 @ $22.73 0 Comment
TrackJimCramer 78.02 6/8/2009 Outperform 3W $17.55 +27.42% +45.25% -17.83 0 Comment
TrackDADavidson 91.49 10/23/2008 Outperform NS $22.21 -4.77% +8.16% -12.93 11/4/2008 @ $21.15 0 Comment
TrackRWBaird 90.46 9/22/2008 Outperform NS $29.72 -30.95% -27.23% -3.72 5/5/2009 @ $20.52 0 Comment
TrackJimCramer 78.02 7/21/2008 Underperform 3W $43.10 -53.22% -25.30% +27.92 6/9/2009 @ $20.16 0 Comment
TrackDADavidson 91.49 5/2/2008 Underperform NS $37.26 -19.40% -11.98% +7.42 9/19/2008 @ $30.03 0 Comment
TrackJimCramer 78.02 4/24/2008 Outperform 3W $35.72 +27.03% -8.87% +35.90 7/21/2008 @ $45.37 0 Comment
TrackDADavidson 91.49 8/8/2007 Underperform NS $36.46 -3.26% -6.60% -3.33 8/16/2007 @ $35.27 0 Comment
TrackDADavidson 91.49 11/1/2006 Underperform NS $29.48 +1.53% +4.49% +2.95 8/1/2007 @ $29.93 0 Comment

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