Thomas888

RIM, Mosaic Earnings Should Provide Upside Surprise

Here is some soild info on MOSIAC from Zack Research:, I heard an analyst form some where ,warned Mosiac was going to miss there earning estimates to be reported on friday,but thats not what Zacks Expects.Zacks #1 Rank Top Performers: First Solar, Walter Industries, Trina Solar, Pioneer Drilling and Mosaic
3:06 PM EDT April 1, 2008
CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Zacks.com announces the latest list of top performing Zacks #1 Rank ("strong buy") stocks. The stocks on the prestigious list with the

highest returns last week were First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR), Walter Industries, Inc. (NYSE: WLT), Trina Solar Ltd. (NYSE: TSL),

Pioneer Drilling Company, Inc. (AMEX: PDC) and The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS). Each of these stocks easily outperformed the S&P 500.

Stocks ranked #1 (Strong Buy) by Zacks have produced an average annual return of +32% since inception in 1988. During the 2000-2002 bear

market, Zacks #1 Rank stocks gained 43.8% while the S&P 500 tumbled 37.6%. To learn more about the Zacks Rank, go to

at.zacks.com/?id=3172.... Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) is scheduled to report its fiscal third-quarter results on Friday. The fertilizer company has reported

three straight quarters of better-than-expected earnings per share with an average surprise of a little over 9%. MOS has benefitted from

a solid agricultural market that has enjoyed rising prices for its goods. The company moved into its reporting week with a gain of almost

14.6% for the five-day period ended Mar 28, which was enough to place it on the Zacks #1 Rank top performers list. MOS is no stranger to

this group, having made the top performers list for the month of February.

Earnings estimates for the year ending May 2008 have been trending higher for a while now, rising 6.9% in the past two months and 4.3% in

the past 30 days. In January, MOS announced fiscal second-quarter earnings per share that topped the consensus by almost 11%, while

improved year-over-year by more than 400%. Net sales moved higher by 44% to $2.2 billion. Its Phosphates segment grew 61% year over year

while its Potash segment advanced 23%.

Thomas

RIM, Mosaic Earnings Should Provide Upside Surprise

Let US remember the Agriculutre and Fertilizer business is businesses that are about food for Humans and for animals and Fuel and Chemical etc, not just in the U.S. but Globally. They are a international play on the Demand for there products that are needed and that the supply isnt that much. Concrening MON and MOS,I hear good things about them, I own both and also POT.and expect there businesses to keep on doing good for the short and long term.Visit there web sites and read all about there company instaed of just looking at there stock. They are good quality companies highly rated. So why sell them why not just hold them and dollar cost average over the long term and buy even more on any dips. It seems that the day traders are playing these stocks do to there recent voilatility. Buying on dips and rideing them up and when rallys stall out they sell them and wait to buy back at low of dip.Its plian to see they are tradeable if thats what one want to do.But I look at them as a long term holding in companies with a bright future and future good earnings reports to continue. There is always someone who will be bearish on them for some reason. Look also at the DBA sure its had a big run up but corn,soybeans,sugar,wh... still has a big demand and should continue to trend up its just had a pull back do to some pulling there money out and putting it somewhere else not because they think the DBA wont continue in a long term uptrend.We all got to eat here in the U.S. and Globally. So food is in great demand. Thomas