Weekly 52-Week Highs Highlight: Tim Hortons, Hospira, Kinder Morgan, Sigma-Aldrich

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Aug 25, 2015

According to GuruFocus list of 52-week highs, Tim Hortons Inc. (THI, Financial), Hospira Inc. (HSP, Financial), Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (KMP, Financial) and Sigma-Aldrich Corp. (SIAL, Financial) have all reached their 52-week highs.

Tim Hortons Inc. reached the 52-week high of $86.69

Tim Hortons, Inc. is a Canadian corporation formed in May 1964. It has a market cap of $11.39 billion; its shares were traded at around $85.92 with a P/E ratio of 31.00 and P/S ratio of 3.94. The dividend yield of Tim Hortons stocks is 1.30%. Tim Hortons had an annual average earnings growth of 11.50% over the past 10 years.

For its second quarter ended June 30, Tim Hortons reported comparable store sales growth of 5.5% and system wide sales growth of 8.4%. Adjusted EBITDA was $234.3 million.

Hospira Inc. reached the 52-week high of $90.63

Hospira has a market cap of $15.54 billion; its shares were traded at around $89.85 with a P/E ratio of 37.85 and P/S ratio of 3.37.

For its second quarter of 2015, Hospira reported net sales of $1.2 billion and diluted EPS of $0.82. This compares to diluted EPS of $0.42 in the same quarter last year. Income from operations were $218.6 million, 119.7% higher than the $99.5 million reported a year ago.

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP reached the 52-week high of $103.17

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP has a market cap of $47.5 billion; its shares were traded at around $102.03 with a P/E ratio of 25.60 and P/S ratio of 3.15. The dividend yield of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP stocks is 5.42%. The company had an annual average earnings growth of 13.50% over the past 10 years.

Kinder Morgan raised its second quarter 2015 dividend to $0.49, which compares to $0.43 a year ago. EPS were $0.15 on revenues of $3.46 billion which compares to EPS of $0.27 on revenues of $3.94 billion for the same period last year. Distributable cash flow per share increased to $0.50 from $0.32 in the year-ago quarter.

Sigma-Aldrich Corp. reached the 52-week high of $140.03

Sigma-Aldrich has a market cap of $16.66 billion; its shares were traded at around $139.10 with a P/E ratio of 34.56 and P/S ratio of 6.07. Its dividend yield is 0.66%, and the company had an annual average earnings growth of 9.30% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated Sigma-Aldrich Corp the business predictability rank of 4-star.

The company reported second quarter sales of $697 million compared to $701 million in the same quarter last year. Diluted EPS were $0.98 compared to $1.11 in the year-ago period.

President & CEO Rakesh Sachdev sold 3,022 shares of SIAL stock on Aug. 3 at the average price of $139.91. Vice President of Human Resources Douglas Rau and multiple other insiders have all also recently sold shares of SIAL stock.

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