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Strategies & Market Trends : Can you beat 50% per month? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Smiling Bob who wrote (13868)	5/5/2008 5:21:42 PM
From: Peter V	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19257

I hope you win on this one. I'm sitting out.

To: Smiling Bob who wrote (13868)	5/5/2008 6:26:10 PM
From: Smiling Bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19257

CLF - i haven't come across breakdown of ore to coal biz, but based on all descriptions, it seems they're being grouped with coal miners. despite being predominantly iron ore miner. And coal miners are being grouped with oil -- Financial Trends TTM = Trailing Twelve Months, * = Most Recent Quarter. Historic Growth Rates Fiscal Year Ending 12/31/03 12/31/04 12/31/05 12/31/06 12/31/07 TTM 3 Year 5 Year 10 Year Sales (mil) $825.1 $1,203.1 $1,739.5 $1,921.7 $2,275.2 $2,275.2 23.66 31.15 17.43 EPS (GAAP) ($0.85) $5.84 $4.91 $5.20 $5.14 $5.15 (4.17) NA 15.72 Dividends/Share $0.00 $0.05 $0.30 $0.48 $0.50 $0.50 115.44 NA 4.40 Book Value/Share $5.43 $9.81 $14.87 $16.91 $26.70 * $29.79 39.64 68.83 11.48 Tangible Book Value/Sh. $5.09 $8.31 $14.55 $16.91 $26.70 * $29.79 47.57 86.97 11.48 Cash Flow/Share ($0.14) $6.28 $5.76 $6.79 $7.59 $7.62 6.54 NA 16.81 Free Cash Flow/Share $0.60 ($3.68) $7.06 $5.27 $1.20 $1.20 NA 19.41 21.46 Key Ratios Historic Averages Fiscal Year Ending 12/31/03 12/31/04 12/31/05 12/31/06 12/31/07 TTM 3 Year 5 Year 10 Year % Sales Growth 40.7 45.8 44.6 10.5 18.4 18.4 24.5 32.0 20.8 % EPS Growth (48.2) (786.3) (15.9) 6.0 (1.2) (1.3) (3.7) (169.1) (37.6) % Gross Margin (1.2) 12.4 22.4 21.5 20.3 20.3 21.4 15.1 11.4 % Operating Margin (5.9) 9.8 20.5 19.0 16.8 16.8 18.8 12.0 6.4 % Tax Rate 0.9 (12.3) 23.0 23.4 22.1 22.1 22.9 11.4 10.2 % Return on Assets (4.3) 30.3 19.0 16.1 11.8 11.8 15.7 14.6 7.4 % Return on Investment (5.8) 38.9 24.0 20.1 14.0 14.7 19.4 18.2 9.1 % Return on Equity (22.7) 96.6 49.8 39.2 27.7 27.7 38.9 38.1 17.8 Asset Turnover 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.0 0.9 0.9 1.0 1.1 0.8 Receivables Turnover 48.5 35.1 35.5 52.8 38.8 38.8 42.4 42.1 25.9 Inventory Turnover 4.3 5.5 6.3 5.7 6.1 6.1 6.0 5.6 5.2