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ValuEngine Upgrades Force Protection, Primewest Energy, Tomkins To A 5 Rating
[November 15, 2007]

ValuEngine Upgrades Force Protection, Primewest Energy, Tomkins To A 5 Rating


(InvesTrend Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)
November 16, 2007 (FinancialWire) (Investrend Research Syndicate)
ValuEngine, Inc. (http://www.valuengine.com) upgraded five companies,
including Force Protection Inc (NASDAQ: FRPT), Primewest Energy Trust
(NYSE: PWI), Tomkins Plc (NYSE: TKS), and Hornbeck Offshore Svcs Inc
(NYSE: HOS), to a 5 rating, the service s highest.
The ValuEngine Rating is an overall assessment of a stock's
attractiveness. It combines the following five factors: ValuEngine s
proprietary valuation, risk-return tradeoff, momentum, market
capitalization and ValuEngine s proprietary forecasted one-month return.
Also upgraded to a 5 rating was Canadian National Railway (NYSE: CNI).
Approximately 80 to 85 companies achieve this highest ValuEngine rating
out of VE s total coverage of over 5,000 publicly traded companies.
These ratings are computed daily and are often discussed on financial
broadcasts on General Electric (NYSE: GE) unit CNBC, Fox s (NYSE: FOX)
Fox News Channel, Bloomberg TV, and AOL Time Warner (NYSE: AOL) unit
CNNfn by leading market forecasters such as Richard Suttmeier, whose
site is at http://stores.yahoo.com/suttmeier .
The full ValuEngine analysis is available by subscription at
www.ValuEngine.com or in company specific research reports at
http://www.VEReports.com. ValuEngine is an affiliate of Investrend
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20,000 public companies, may be accessed at
http://www.investrendresearch.com , the Web s center for independent
research.
ValuEngine.com is a stock valuation, investment forecasting service.
The company was co-founded by Dr. Zhiwu Chen, a professor of finance at
Yale University's School of Management. Dr. Chen, with the ValuEngine
research team, developed and tested the VE Stock Valuation Model,
econometric models for forecasting, and the VE portfolio construction,
tracking and advisory products.
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