Opening Segment #2:
'Fundamental Differences'
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
 

Jim's
rating on
this stock

STOCK
SYMBOL

Closing
price that
day

Full Company Name

PWR*

14.38

Quanta Services Inc. (PWR*)

 

Jim:      When it comes to making renewable energy a reality... to actually using wind and solar power... which, by the way, is the biggest bottleneck... It isn't windmills or solar panels... It's building transmission lines out to the wind farms and solar facilities... That's the problem all over the country. You can't get these transmission lines through.

That's one of the reasons why infrastructure stocks, that have been able to do stuff... well, they've been some of our favorite green plays. And one of them, the greenest one of all, is
Quanta Services Inc. (PWR*)...

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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
(Cont'd from above)...

 

 

 

Jim (cont'd):   

That's a stock I own for
my charitable trust, ActionAlertsPlus.com, up today, but... well, let's just say that all the infrastructure stocks have been bent, spindled, mutilated, totally wrecked... leaving everyone to stand around asking, what's wrong with infrastructure...

I'll tell you what's wrong...

The shareholders... the people who rented the stocks.

Let me explain...


I could be talking about another company,
Shaw Group Inc. (SGR)... when I talk to you soon... but this one I regard as being the most obvious, because nothing's gone wrong here. I'm going to use PWR as an example for much of the industry... because its single-biggest crime was that it was owned by hedge funds gone wild.

PWR is in an amazing business. It builds transmission lines for energy, cable, natural gas and telco companies... in addition to doing hurricane cleanup work. It's in Texas. This is the time to be a PWR... It's a great play on wind, which is why so many hedge funds own it, and it's a total Obama stock... which is why so many hedge funds own it...

You would think that alternative energy plays... and PWR is definitely that... I mean, so many state-level projects to build out transmission lines to areas where solar and wind power can be produced... And, hopefully, with an Obama administration, federal projects to come...

Sweet spot... this one's in the sweet spot as a company... but long shareholders...

Now, there haven't been a lot of cancellations, outside of refineries and coal, but those areas have nothing to do with PWR. There hasn't been any bad news here! Nevertheless, PWR, along with the other infrastructure names, has been totally annihilated...

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The Bottom Line!:     I like Quanta Services Inc. (PWR*) a lot... I've recommended it repeatedly on the show... I own it myself for my charitable trust... But I didn't think about the fellow shareholders... I didn't think about the hedge funds gone wild... and, until they're done selling, it's difficult for me to tell you to plunge head first into Quanta.

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