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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Brian D. Pacampara :: Townhall.com Columnist
5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Atwood Oceanics
by Brian D. Pacampara
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Sources: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's, and Motley Fool CAPS. TTM = trailing 12 months.

Over on CAPS, fully 1,830 of the 1,846 members who have rated Atwood -- some 99% -- believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include All-Star wbinv2100, who is ranked in the top 20% of our community, and dvena.

Last week, wbinv2100 highlighted several of the stock's marvelous metrics:

[W]ith the new Obama nation, and its trillion dollar budget deficits, inflation is on the horizon. I don't see electric cars becoming viable any time soon. Because of [Atwood's] numbers (ROE = 32%, 5YrEPS = 89%, 5YrFutureEPS = 27%, P/E = 5), I am bullish on this company.

In a pitch from two weeks earlier, dvena drills down even further:

[Atwood] is not a pure energy play. They make money by leasing the rigs that drill for oil, sometimes at astronomical rates. It has fallen, however, with the price of oil. With the emerging middle class in both China and India, and the falling rates of return in all the world's known oilfields, the price of oil will be back up to $4 a gallon far sooner than any of us would like. When that happens [Atwood] goes with it.

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Brian D. Pacampara is an investment expert and analyst for the Motley Fool.

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