International Coal Group, Inc. (ICO)

This is a company that has secure growth and will be a winner!

Another of those "personalized" suggestions.
Energy prices don't seem to heading downwards any time soon and the stock is fairly valued. The economy should improve, even withouth alstry's blessing.

Yeah, okay, long term coal is probably not the place to be. Short term it will be what builds China and maybe India. China will probably import coal from us for the next ten years, and ICO will prove a good buy.

One billion tons of coal,three hundred higher grade metallurgical. Valued at sixty cents per ton.Debt under control,bound for a run when energy picks up in spite of all the green talk. Easy double, fill yer boots, great asset backing for this one. Another gift like Atpg which had it's run recently. This market is nuts, long may it remain so completely off balance and valued by Mr.Market in one of his true funks.

Coal going up.

Going for my last third. Coal for all it's bad publicity will still be around and widely used. Once the global economy picks up ICO should be well positioned with its increased focus on metallurgical coal to out perform the market from these prices.

Picking up another third on a distressed commodity that is in much better shape than it looks. Back when I first purchased this company their price for coal was about $42/ton I think. Profitability was around $45/ton. Their last call they mentioned that they we getting around $55/ton for the coming year. Yep, lots of profit. The even better news in my opinion is that they continue to ramp up in the highly profitable metallurgical coal area. So after about a year and a half of ownership we have the same company getting a much better price for coal with a greater percentage of the more profitable metallurgical coal selling about a $1.50/share cheaper than when I first bought it. Yeah, that's what I thought too so I bought more. Still outperform!

Here's what I wrote a year and a half ago:
America's dependence on coal is not going anywhere for the foreseeable futue. ICO has weathered a large drop in coal prices and a mining disaster (12 people died). This is mostly a commodity play on coal prices but the company is well-run and should do better than most in converting coal to cash. Distressed investor Wilbur Ross has seen the value in this little lump of coal and so have I. I'll take this coal mining company as solid value investment to get me into the black.

Coal is still needed to fuel this world and this company does it well. The price is cheap right now.

Solar isn't gaining ground.. So the ground will be mined... don't forget exports.

JRCC and PCX get "buy" upgrade. So does every other coal stock get one too.

Coal still be need independent of government energy policies and if we do not use it we can export

A good play on coal. For a GREAT play on coal, check out WTN.to (TSX: WTN, trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange)

Coal is still huge all over the world. With clean coal tech coming, this will be a big way to get everyone away from oil. This company is a leader in its industry, it just increased the margin it makes on every pound of coal. I bought real shares at 2.00 and 1.15.

Indicies from MEE and ANR

We gotta have it until something better comes along.

As inflation picks up and the economy stabilizes, energy production and prices will pick up as well. About 50% of our electricity comes from coal and it isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

If you pass by any industrial area or power plants while driving around you may notice, not just the smell, but the mountains of coal, which are constantly being moved. And now our technology has found a way to burn it "clean". And that's a good thing. ICO will be around for many years.

Coal isn't going away...

Same feeling per ACI - coal ain't goin' nowhere any time soon

when the economy starts to rebound, coal demand will rise again, despite the green revolution, we still need coal...