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Worth Watching Stocks: Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE:KMI), Canadian Natural Resources Limited (NYSE:CNQ), Albany International Corp. (NYSE:AIN), SEI Investments Co. (NASDAQ:SEIC)

Worth Watching Stocks: Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE:KMI), Canadian Natural Resources Limited (NYSE:CNQ), Albany International Corp. (NYSE:AIN), SEI Investments Co. (NASDAQ:SEIC)
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Charles Donlon
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October 17, 2014
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When Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE:KMI) recently announced the consolidation of its dormant oil and gas pipeline business in a $44 billion deal, that corporation telegraphed the desperate need for the growth of nationwide pipelines to put this badly languishing infrastructure in sync with the shale fracking revolution both geographically as well as the need for upgraded piping-system component material. In consolidating Kinder Morgan’s sister operations into a centralized approach, founder and current corporate CEO Edward Kinder likely will move to bring some competitive piping systems, comprising 80,000 miles of pipelines, into the Kinder Morgan fold, thereby using the private enterprise approach. Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE:KMI) in last trading activity moved up 4.34% to close at $36.82. Company weekly performance is 0.33% while its quarterly performance stands at -1.94%. Kinder Morgan, Inc. (NYSE:KMI) is -13.34% away from its 52 week high.Canadian Natural Resource (NYSE:CNQ) last released its earnings data on Thursday, August 7th. The company reported $0.93 EPS for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.91 by $0.02. The company had revenue of $6.11 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $5.24 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.42 earnings per share. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 44.5% on a year-over-year basis. Analysts expect that Canadian Natural Resource will post $3.84 EPS for the current fiscal year. On last trading day Canadian Natural Resources Limited (NYSE:CNQ) moved up 4.34% to close at $33.41. Its volatility for the week is 5.07% while volatility for the month is 3.35%. CNQ's sales growth for past 5 years was 2.70% and its EPS growth for past 5 years was 33.20%. Canadian Natural Resources Limited (NYSE:CNQ) monthly performance is -18.97%.Albany International Corp. (NYSE:AIN) last released its earnings data on Monday, August 4th. The company reported $0.39 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the analysts’ consensus estimate of $0.44 by $0.05. The company had revenue of $193.50 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $194.03 million. On average, analysts predict that Albany International Corp. will post $1.46 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. On last trading day Albany International Corp. (NYSE:AIN) moved up 1.01% to close at $33.89. Its volatility for the week is 3.54% while volatility for the month is 2.65%. AIN's sales growth for past 5 years was -7.00% and its EPS growth for past 5 years was 17.00%. Albany International Corp. (NYSE:AIN) monthly performance is -7.86%.SEI Investments (NASDAQ:SEIC) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, July 23rd. The company reported $0.48 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $0.42 by $0.06. The company had revenue of $318.80 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $312.39 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $0.47 earnings per share. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 16.1% on a year-over-year basis. On average, analysts predict that SEI Investments will post $1.86 earnings per share for the current fiscal year. SEI Investments Co. (NASDAQ:SEIC) has 8.10% insider ownership while its institutional ownership stands at 67.40%. In last trading activity company's stock closed at $34.04.Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) on Oct. 7 announced the availability of the evaluation version of the Automata Processor (AP) software development kit (SDK). With the new SDK, developers can design and test advanced applications in areas such as bioinformatics, video/image analytics, and network security, which require high performance, computational efficiency and highly parallel processing capabilities. Micron announced the AP, a dramatically new parallel processing architecture, to the industry at the 2013 Supercomputing Conference. On Thursday shares of Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU) closed at $28.30. Company's sales growth for last 5 years was 9.20% and EPS growth for next 5 years is recorded as 15.00%.

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