$14.54 0.50 (+3.56%)
2/9/2010 4:02 PM

Worthington Industries, Inc. (WOR)

CAPS Rating: 2 out of 5

A metal processing company, focused on steel processing and manufactured metal products, such as metal framing, pressure cylinders, automotive past-model service stampings, through joint ventures, metal ceiling grid systems and laser-welded blanks.

Current Price $14.54 Mkt Cap $1.15B
Open $14.23 P/E Ratio 61.04
Prev. Close $14.04 Div. (Yield) 0.40 (2.60%)
Daily Range $14.16 - $14.71 Volume 1,041,812
52-Wk Range $6.99 - $17.97 Avg. Daily Vol. 0

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All-Star Members

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Wall Street

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Top WOR Bull/Bear Pitches

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Voyt608 (< 20)
Submitted June 04, 2007

Exceptional leadership.

Tastylunch (99.46)
Submitted January 22, 2008

great company but commodity market is in a freefall in world wide panic.

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Member Avatar dex10picks (28.41) Submitted: 7/21/2009 11:21:00 AM : Underperform Start Price: $12.93 WOR Score: +0.81

WOR has a pension fund that is underfunded by about $1 Billion dollars and they only avg about 100M and 165M in cash flow in during boom years. So the $1B underfunded pension (using WOR aggressive accounting -the real underfunding could be much higher).

Even if the stock market does 8% a year for the next 10 years the pension underfunding will remain at $1B.

the pension issue could take away most of their profits for the next decade unless the market recovers.

Further the steel industry will remain under severe pressure for the next 18 months or longer so at 14x forward earnings WOR looks expensive.

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Member Avatar jeffro323 (98.63) Submitted: 5/27/2009 11:39:41 PM : Outperform Start Price: $13.43 WOR Score: -11.06

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Member Avatar SwordAgain (45.76) Submitted: 3/12/2009 8:50:30 PM : Underperform Start Price: $7.85 WOR Score: -42.51

3/12/09 Pitch: Downthumb. Earnings 4/1/09, 1:30 PM. Cash flow less than industry peers. Nominal debt/equity. Large write-downs looming. Taking aggressive cost cutting measures, but not certain if these are deep enough given the precipitous fall in demand. Would like to upthumb. But not yet.
Past trades:
12/10/08 Pitch: Downthumb. Earnings 12/18/08, 1:30 PM Going to be large restructuring costs going forward. Operating at a loss for the next year. Closed12/18/08 @ $12.18 for +8.53 points.
9/15/08 Pitch: Downthumb. Earnings 9/24/08, 8:30 AM Adequately valued at the current level. Declining margins and earnings. Why buy it? Closed 9/30/08 @ $14.98 for +4.98 points.

Leaderboard

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Score Leader

4stree

4stree (71.66) Score: +111.55

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Member Name Member
Rating
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Date
Call Time
Frame
Start
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Stock
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ontimeferry < 20 3/9/2009 Outperform NS $6.84 +113.65% +60.83% +52.82
higdon11 32.98 1/22/2008 Outperform NS $12.85 +13.76% -12.02% +25.78
dsgordon1963 71.22 10/30/2008 Outperform 5Y $10.68 +36.90% +16.77% +20.13
mdmason911 93.96 3/27/2009 Outperform 1Y $9.72 +50.45% +32.24% +18.21
jeajor2 82.72 10/7/2008 Outperform 3M $11.41 +28.15% +10.00% +18.15
pickM4life 79.86 1/12/2009 Outperform NS $10.27 +42.30% +24.22% +18.08
TrackTheOne 59.74 10/13/2008 Outperform 3M $10.92 +33.93% +16.62% +17.31
thecovert 92.90 11/12/2008 Outperform NS $10.22 +43.11% +26.44% +16.68
thefoxbox < 20 1/2/2009 8/5/2009 Outperform 1Y $10.66 +37.18% +20.83% +16.34
IAmTheZMan < 20 1/3/2007 Outperform 1Y $15.19 -3.73% -19.79% +16.06 1 Comment

Wall Street

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Member Name Member
Rating
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Date
Call Time
Frame
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Stock
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Score End Date Commentary
TrackSoleil 93.96 12/19/2008 Underperform NS $11.51 +27.01% +22.66% -4.36
TrackLongbow 84.01 6/17/2008 Outperform NS $21.49 +9.35% -6.11% +15.46 6/27/2008 @ $23.50
TrackSoros 85.49 3/31/2008 Outperform NS $15.67 -6.69% -15.61% +8.92 1 Comment
TrackMHawkins 87.00 9/30/2007 Outperform NS $21.49 -31.98% -26.26% -5.72 4 Comments
TrackDreman 93.70 9/30/2007 Outperform NS $21.49 -31.98% -26.26% -5.72 1 Comment
TrackSnow 97.69 9/30/2007 Outperform NS $21.49 -31.98% -26.26% -5.72 3 Comments
TrackMatrix 90.44 1/17/2007 Underperform NS $15.89 -7.98% -20.21% -12.23

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