$41.79

-0.51 (-1.21%)

8/20/2008 3:24 PM

The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (MHP)

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The Company is a global information services provider serving the financial services, education and business information markets with a wide range of information products and services.

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S&P 500 (480), Large Cap (467), Construction Services (7), Publishing - Books (7), Dividend (202)
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The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. At A Glance

Current Price:	$41.79
Last Trade Time:	8/20/2008 3:24 PM
Open:	$42.20
Previous Close:	$42.30
Daily Range:	$41.70 - $42.65
52-Week Range:	$33.91 - $55.14
Volume:	1,315,117
Market Cap:	$13.43B
P/E Ratio:	15.61
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Other News Headlines for MHP

Crude oil stockpiles jumped last week
8/20/2008 10:46:00 AM - AP
McGraw-Hill names Peter Davis education president
8/18/2008 10:35:00 AM - AP
Crude-oil inventories, gas stockpiles slide
8/13/2008 10:53:00 AM - AP
Crude oil stockpiles rise, but gas inventories dip
8/6/2008 10:45:00 AM - AP

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Avatar Fabuloso (< 20) Submitted: 4/22/08 11:47 AM

This is a company to hold for life, MHP is the parent company of Standard and Poor’s, the rating agency, it holds some publications among then BusinessWeek and NewsWeek, and also produces education books for all grades.

The rating agency is a must for a globalized world, providing analys...More

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1 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (MHP)

Avatar grecipient (55.66) Submitted: 1/30/08 2:03 AM

Textbook publisher. Will be hurt by students scanning, uploading, and downloading their textbooks online (such as from Textbook Torrents) as well as an increasing move to open courseware (such as MIT's OpenCourseWare). Will be hurt in the long run.

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Recs 0 (MHP) AngryLapdog (65.56) Submitted: 7/22/08 5:47 PM : Start Price: $39.00 MHP Score: 7.98 The adoption of semantic web technology will give information owners an increased opportunity to profit from their information assets. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (MHP) Buffetism (58.53) Submitted: 7/22/08 2:43 PM : Start Price: $38.45 MHP Score: 8.31 This one may see a few bumps over the next year or so, but going long on this due to their product, and short-term waning from the credit 'crisis/crunch/insert c word here'. Price is good, and financials are great. Here's a few: * Consistently rising EPS over last 10 years except 2001 (obvious reasons) Returns (10 year average) - these are excellent: Average ROE 29.66% Result: Good Buy Average ROC 18.82% Result: Good Buy Share Buyback (last 10 years) Amount: 71800000 Result: Good Buy There's more but I won't bore you with them ... going long here, but expect to not have timed it quite perfectly right now. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (MHP) SmallPimpin (95.86) Submitted: 6/14/08 3:05 PM : Start Price: $42.87 MHP Score: 4.34 Mmm...information... Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (MHP) evillate (< 20) Submitted: 5/23/08 9:21 PM : Start Price: $40.00 MHP Score: -12.35 Still has more room to go down. I see low 30's. No one wants what they are offering anymore. Revenue, growth and any interest from anybody is gone. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out. Recs 0 (MHP) hondo928 (99.85) Submitted: 5/21/08 10:11 PM : Start Price: $40.75 MHP Score: 11.45 Got beat down, because of Moody's today is my guess. And they have been killed, by this whole sell off of financials. I'm really only making this play because of Standard and Poors, which may be naive do to MHP being more than just credit rating, but that's why they've been sold off. Report this Post Replies: 0 \| Reply \| Permalink Oops! There appears to be a problem with your comment. Check to see if there's something you left out.
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