August 26, 2010 52-Week Low Wrap-Up: CNTY, DVR, HCBK, KCG, SPLS, VLO

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Aug 27, 2010
Yesterday, 79 companies' share price reached a new 52-week low. Of these companies, these are the ones that look interesting based on my initial research:


Century Casinos (CNTY, Financial)


Century Casinos is an international casino entertainment company, which develops and operates gaming establishments and related lodging and restaurant facilities globally.


Cal Dive (DVR, Financial)


Cal Dive provides underwater services to offshore natural gas and oil firms. These services include manned diving, pipe lay and pipe burial services. It also constructs, inspects, maintains, repairs and decommissions offshore pipeline infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico, Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Australia.


Hudson City Bancorp (HCBK, Financial)


Hudson City Bancorp serves as the holding company of its only subsidiary, Hudson City Savings Bank. The principal asset of Hudson City Bancorp is its investment in Hudson City Savings Bank. Hudson City Savings is a federally chartered stock savings bank. It conducts its operations out of its corporate offices in Paramus in Bergen County, New Jersey and through 131 branches in the New York metropolitan area.





Knight Capital (KCG, Financial)



Knight Capital Group provides electronic and voice financial security trade execution services to buy-side, sell-side, and corporate clients as a market maker, agent, and electronic execution provider.


Staples (SPLS, Financial)


Staples is the world's leading office products company with $24 billion in sales and over 2,000 stores in 25 countries. The company serves individual consumers, Fortune 1,000 companies, and every customer category in between, worldwide. Staples' growing e-commerce business has garnered it the number-two spot in online retailers, behind Amazon.


Valero Energy (VLO, Financial)


Valero Energy is engaged in the refining and retail marketing of refined petroleum products. As the largest independent refinery in the United States, Valero operates 15 refineries with a total throughput capacity of 2.78 million barrels a day in the U.S., Canada, and Aruba. Valero also produces ethanol, distributes refined products through 5,800 retail fuel outlets, and sells products wholesale in bulk throughout the U.S. and Canada.


Disclosure: The author has a position in Cal Dive (DVR)