Oil States International, Inc. (NYSE:OIS)

David Einhorn is activist on this compamy and is #5 in position on this company

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Companies in the Energy Eqpt & Services industry have been hitting my contrarian screen for quite awhile and I have shares in seven. I was too early on a number of them, but things are starting to look up for this group and I'm adding an eighth company (OIS) to my portfolio through a mixture of share purchases and the selling of Jan 70 puts.

My screen uses a binary flag on 13 separate fundamental and sentiment factors for selection. I then calculate a score for Buy, Hold or Sell ratings based on these factors. Oil States Int'l rates a Buy and the company has 11 of 13 flags that are positive. Notable negatives are higher than desirable ratios on receivables+inventory, debt to equity and put to call options.

Increasing global political turmoil and government meddling show that Oil and Gas are going to continue to be the hottest play on the table. Time to place your bets.

I am betting on oil/energy right now.

Oil may be deep in to it right now, but long term as the world economy pulls itself up by it's bootstrapes, oil will make a comeback. Alt energy is wonderful, but it will take many years for it to make a significant dent in the use of oil. The days of easy extraction of oil are gone and some of the petroleum resources ie oil shale will require prices above $80 long term to exploit them economically. Oil fields around the world are showing decreases, some major, in their output. I am also convinced that OPEC is actually seriious this time about toeing the line on production reductions to try to drive the price of oil to the $70 mark or better. long oil 10 to 20 years!!

Guessing as usaul!

This is one to watch!

As with all my picks: A very attractive P/E, excellent EPS growth rate and high five year growth prospects.

Oil prices are going up we all know that. I think this stock will be going up as the year goes on.

This company will continue to see big earnings in light of the current energy crisis. They are posting bigger than expected earnings and I presume that they will continue to do so in the future. The bottom line is that the world needs oil and someone's got to dig it up. Go OIS!

Despite being in all of the right market segments, Oil States is still dirt cheap. In fact, its forward price-to-earnings ratio is 9.8 and the company has a P/E-to-growth ratio of 0.4.

The CEO is a woman:Cindy B. Taylor

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This company will become in very high demand, as the oil market remain unstable. Drilling will start occuring more in places that will require unique equipment in order to access.

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With the way the desperation has consumed us the consumers for the need of oil I believe this will definitely outperform

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