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                                                                                                          Contents
                                                                                                              About Us 1
                                                                                                Performance and Rank 2
Balancing quantitative research with fundamental                                            Our Services and Products 3
                                                                                       Equity and Portfolio Diagnostics 4
and subjective overlays                                                                          Recent Developments 5

Standpoint Research provides independent equity research that is free
from the conflicts of asset management, investment banking, proprietary       Beyond a Quantitative
trading and fee-for-research arrangements. The firm offers                    Model
recommendations, analysis, diagnostics and forecasts on domestic and          Proprietary valuation and
international equities and markets backed by alpha-generating variables       diagnostic model
back-tested on many years of data. Ronnie Moas founded Standpoint             Our model looks for specific
Research in 2003 after spending more than five years developing a             combinations in more than 150
                                                                              fundamental, valuation, technical,
proprietary 155-variable valuation and diagnostic model to assist him in      accounting, and proprietary variables
                                                                              that have been back-tested and proven
generating equity investment recommendations. In addition to his
                                                                              to identify undervalued stocks.
quantitative model, Mr. Moas and his team execute proven fundamental          Fundamental and valuation variables
                                                                              receive the heaviest weighting in the
and subjective overlays in their research before issuing a recommendation.    model while extreme technical readings
                                                                              are looked at from a contrarian
Using this approach, the firm has been able to consistently outperform its    perspective.
competitors, ranking near the top of the charts at major tracking firms
                                                                              Fundamental and subjective
since it began operations eight years ago. Standpoint Research is currently   overlays
ranked # 4 versus 191 firms according to Yahoo! Finance, Briefing.com and     Pure quantitative models are widely used
the Motley Fool (October 2008 through November 2010).                         and have lost their edge. We saw this
                                                                              problem coming years ago, which is why
                                                                              we use a hybrid approach. Our subjective
Standpoint is now widely recognized as one of the top equity research
                                                                              and fundamental overlays have allowed
firms in the U.S. and internationally, advising and selling its research to   us to avoid the widely-publicized troubles
                                                                              that plagued other quant models and
pension funds, hedge funds and asset management firms. Founder Ronnie         hedge funds in recent years. This added
Moas has made multiple appearances on Bloomberg, and has been quoted          human element has been proven to
                                                                              enhance our performance. See page 2 for
in Fortune Magazine, The Wall St. Journal, The New York Times, Barron s       more information.
and BusinessWeek, among others.
Performance
Standpoint Research is currently ranked risk-adjusted at # 4 versus 191
funds and research firms according to Motley Fool, briefing.com & Yahoo!
Finance through November 14, 2010.

Motley Fool, briefing.com and Yahoo!        For the four years ending December 31,
Finance have a formula that factors in      2009,      Investars    had Standpoint
performance (two-thirds weight) and         Research ranked # 1 versus 75 financial
                                            institutions. Standpoint was ranked # 3
accuracy    (one-third   weight),   where
                                            versus 119 financial institutions in 2009
accuracy is defined as the percentage of    according to gainerstoday.com. Motley
recommendations beating the S&P-500 by      Fool, briefing.com, Yahoo! Finance and        Our rank vs. other firms
at least 500 basis points. They have been   gainerstoday.com have all been tracking
                                            us since Q4, 2008. Investars has all of our   Top 20 out of 191
tracking us since October 2008 and have
                                            recommendations since July 2003 on file.
all 123 recommendations on file time-                                                     001 - Einhorn 99.23
                                            They have time-stamped all of our
stamped that we have made since then.                                                     002 - Edward Owens 98.30
                                            recommendations since September 2006.
Fifty-one are open, and seventy-two have    Investars keeps only the most recent four
                                                                                          003 - Rich Aster 98.15
                                                                                          004 - Standpoint Research 97.60
been closed. We are ranked in the 94th      years posted on their web site. For
                                                                                          005 - B. Rogers 97.59
percentile on performance (defined as the   recommendations made pre-2006, visit
                                                                                          006 - Benchmark 97.50
average gain per recommendation versus      our web site. Our eight-year track record     007 - First Analysis 97.15
                                            document will be updated in Q1.               008 - Ed Lampert 96.32
the S&P-500), and 97th percentile on
                                                                                          009 - AG Edwards 96.20
accuracy. See table on the right side.    We have beaten the S&P consistently             010 - KeyBanc 95.96
We have issued 123 recommendations since 2003 via our turnover strategy,                  011 - Dreman 95.67
                                          stock-picking and industry bets. We do          012 - Barclays 95.15
since October 2008. The average gain per
                                          not take big sector bets. We are                013 - Bank of America 95.10
recommendation versus the S&P was diversified, and currently have 68 stocks               014 - B. Riley & Co. 94.87
1084 basis points. More than two-thirds on our list of open recommendations               015 - Cross Research 94.70
of our recommendations have beaten the spread out across all ten sectors, down            016 - Hillman 94.60
S&P. Fifty-one outperformed by at least from our eight-year high of 105 open              017 - Bill Nygren 94.35
                                          positions at the market low in Q1, 2009         018 - Credit Suisse 94.26
1500 bps, while 19 underperformed by at
                                          (and up slightly from 58 at the market top      019 - Stifel Nicolaus 94.25
least 1500 bps. If we use a +/- 3000 bps                                                  020 - Soleil Securities 94.04
                                          in 2007). We have beaten the S&P-500 in
cut-off point, the figures were 24 and 6, seven of the last eight years by ~ 300 bps
respectively. Note: 67% accuracy on Wall annually (on average). The 300 bps figure        Notables
Street is considered extraordinary is even more impressive on a risk-adjusted
                                          basis.                                          036   Citigroup 91.44
performance. See below.                                                                   038   George Soros 91.14
                                                                                          046   HSBC 90.66
                                                                                          058   Sterne Agee 88.23
       Two-Year Performance (October 2008 November 2010)                                  077   Wedbush 85.20
                                                                                          098   Needham 77.86
                   Average Gain vs. S&P        1084 bps                123                117   Susquehanna 70.12
                                                                                          124   Edward Jones 65.00
      Recommendations that Beat S&P             67.4%                83/123               166   Goldman Sachs < 40.00
                                                                                          185   CL King < 40.00
  Out/Underperformed by +/- 1500 bps              51                    19

  Out/Underperformed by +/- 3000 bps              24                    6
z
                                                                                                                    Reporting Schedule
                                                                                                                    December 2010
                                                                                                                    Dec 03: S&P-500 (#713)
                                                                                                                    Dec 07: Financials-200 (#714)
                                                                                                                    Dec 10: Individual write-up TBD (#715)
                                                                                                                    Dec 13: Short Interest-1000 (#716)
                                                                                                                    Dec 17: Energy-150 (#717)
                                                                                                                    Dec 23: Industrials-300 (#718)
                                                                                                                    Dec 27: Individual write-up TBD (#719)
    Services and Products                                                                                           Dec 30: ADR/International-200 (#720)
                                                                                                                    January 2011
    Standpoint Sector and Index Reports are             Standpoint provides custom reporting for                    Jan 03: Utilities-100 (#721)
    published weekly.                                   a select number of clients.                                 Jan 06: Russell-2000 (#722)
                                                                                                                    Jan 09: Technology-300 (#723)
    S&P-500, S&P-1500, Healthcare-300, Utilities-       We perform thorough, absolute and relative                  Jan 12: Individual write-up TBD (#724)
    100, Industrials-300, ADR/International-200,        analysis on client holdings and focus lists. A              Jan 16: Telecom-100 (#725)
    Russell-2000,     Energy-150,    Financials-200,                                                                Jan 20: Individual write-up TBD (#726)
                                                        client s list is merged with all stocks from                Jan 24: Consumer Disc.-300 (#727)
    Consumer        Discretionary-300,      Consumer    their respective benchmark, giving the client               Jan 28: Healthcare-300 (#728)
    Staples-100, Telecom-100, Materials-100 and         an idea of how their holdings scored relative               February 2011
    Technology-300 are each published quarterly.        to their universe.                                          Feb 02: Materials-100 (#729)
    We also have quarterly special reports on                                                                       Feb 05: S&P-1500 (#730)
    high-paying dividend stocks (200 companies          Customized packages are available to suit your              Feb 08: Individual write-up TBD (#731)
    covered) and Short Interest (1000 companies         personal needs. Please contact us for package               Feb 11: Financials-200 (#732)
                                                        and subscription pricing information. We sell our           Feb 15: Dividend Stocks-200 (#733)
    covered). Mid-quarter updates are available
                                                        research mainly to institutional clients, though            Feb 19: Individual write-up TBD (#734)
    for each of the reports on request.         Each                                                                Feb 23: Energy-150 (#735)
                                                        high net worth individuals are welcome to                   Feb 27: Industrials-300 (#736)
    sector report includes two files, one in Excel
                                                        contact us.
    (five sheets) and one PDF (three pages of
    notes, updates and recommendations). Clients
    also    receive     individual   stock     write-
                                                         Ronnie Moas                                      Founder & Director of Research
    ups/recommendations generated from these              Ronnie Moas is the Founder and Director of Research at Standpoint. Mr. Moas began his career on
    sector reports (and special reports).                 Wall Street as an analyst and market strategist at Herzog Heine Geduld. He was responsible for
                                                          making sector, industry and stock recommendations, identifying arbitrage opportunities, options
                                                          and hedging strategies. During his years at HHG, he demonstrated remarkable accuracy with his
    Standpoint Individual Write-Ups are
                                                          market forecasts and stock recommendations. Mr. Moas left HHG in late 2000 in order to start his
    published twice per month.                            own firm (a few months after correctly forecasting the Nasdaq collapse in a timely manner).

    Our recommendations are issued after                  Ronnie spent the next few years developing and back-testing a 155-variable equity valuation and
    applying a heavy fundamental and subjective           diagnostic model. The model has been run more than 400 times since development was completed
    overlay to the ideas generated by our                 in June 2003. The model has since then built an exceptional track record. Mr. Moas has authored,
    computer model. Individual write-ups are 8-12         published and distributed more than 700 research reports to-date. In 2002, he wrote a 284-page
                                                          research report back-testing more than one-dozen different trading strategies on 20 years of data.
    pages in length and usually come out a few
                                                          In 2003, Mr. Moas was one of the first analysts on Wall Street to forecast bull markets in
    weeks after the actual recommendation was
                                                          commodities, Brazil, Russia, India and China. He also exited (mid-2007) and re-entered (late-2008)
    made. The reports cover the recommended
                                                          in a timely manner. Ronnie has issued more than 400 stock recommendations since 2003.
    stock, its industry and competitors. If you
    missed any reports, they can be re-sent on            Mr. Moas received a Bachelor s degree in Economics and Business with Honors from the State
    request. A short write-up will usually go out         University of New York at Stony Brook, and a Masters degree in Finance and Investments from
    with the actual recommendation; the long              Baruch College, City University of New York. Mr. Moas was born in New York and lived in Israel from
    report follows at a later date. We put out 40-60      1983-1994. He returned to New York after completing a three-year Israeli military service in artillery
                                                          and intelligence with rank of Sergeant. Before returning to the United States in 1994, Ronnie
    new ideas annually, but long reports only go out
                                                          worked at Shuki Weiss International Concert Productions where a few of his production credits
    on approximately half of those names. On-
                                                          included the Haifa Seaport Blues Festival, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Buddy Guy and Suede. Ronnie has
    demand service for these reports is available         traveled to more than 30 countries since 2003, he designed this web site, is the owner of an
    upon request.                                         articulate African Grey Parrot and a very large music collection of 1,500 cds.
Equity and Portfolio Diagnostics                                                                                                                              Coverage
The 155-variable model scoring is summarized in the 32 categories below, from roe                                                                             We currently cover more than
through peg . The number in each of the cells is the rank in the respective category,                                                                         2,000 stocks, including ~ 200
while the color indicates to which decile the rank belongs. As a general rule, green                                                                          ADRs. We generally monitor
indicates areas of strength, and red indicates areas of weakness. Below is a sample                                                                           stocks with a $5.00 minimum
from our Q3 S&P-500 Index report. The profile displayed here is for Western Digital,                                                                          share price, three-year
                                                                                                                                                              history, and at least a $200M
which ranked # 6 (out of 500 stocks). The six cells to the right of the peg cell are
                                                                                                                                                              market capitalization and
coded and for internal use. Before recommending a stock we investigate all orange                                                                             average daily traded volume
and red areas regardless of how high the computer ranking is.                                                                                                 of > 100,000 shares.

     rank             ticker    roe      roa     roc         ebitda       npm          acct         eps m        rev gr    eps gr     beta    debt
                                                                                                                                                              We also analyze more than 100
                                                                                                                                                              Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).
    6/500             WDC       36       32        24         282          141         167           23           59        132       340        62
                                                                                                                                                              Contact us or visit our website
                                                                                                                                                              for our current coverage list.

  stab gr      div I      pbk     base        rel-ma      inside          safe    pcf I       pcf II       fcf    div II   rel str   pr mo        ps


   181            1        54     404          11            244          126      46           52         49      371      484       343         82




 rel ps     off hi      pred    pertix    perhis        blend       peg     deducts           val         fund      prop    misc     tech        total


  126        21         461      68        11            5          22          9627         2284      1971        2430     2104     838     73.98%



Note: Clients receive a legend detailing all 155-variables in our model along with
the color code. Our model is not a black box; it is transparent and we try to be as
open as possible. Only the weight given to each variable is not disclosed. The
variables are not equally weighted and a few are negatively weighted.




We do not believe in taking big sector bets, so we
are equal-weight in a couple of high-beta sectors.                                                                                           Net         Standpoint    S&P        Over /
If you do not equal-weight any of the four high-                                                                  Sector                    Open           Weight     Weight      Under
beta sectors, you will under-perform if the                                                                        Health Care               13           19.12%      11.19%       7.93%
market grinds higher from here as was the case
                                                                                                                    Technology               15           22.06%      19.43%       2.63%
during two long stretches in 2010. We have
gradually shifted from offense to defense in                                                                             Telecom             2             2.94%       3.11%      -0.17%
recent months and are now left with over-                                                                              Industrials           7            10.29%      10.66%      -0.37%
weights in healthcare and technology with slight                                                                          Utilities          2             2.94%       3.46%      -0.52%
under-weights in financials and energy. It is                                                                           Materials            2             2.94%       3.65%      -0.71%
more important to focus on which industries
                                                                                                                   Cons. Disc.               6             8.82%      10.57%      -1.75%
within the sector we are in, what the average
                                                                                                                 Cons. Staples               6             8.82%      10.95%      -2.13%
beta is and what stocks we choose, than it is to
focus on what sectors we are betting on.                                                                            Financials               9            13.24%      15.57%      -2.33%
                                                                                                                           Energy             6            8.82%      11.41%      -2.59%
For more on our methodology, visit our web site.                                                                            Totals           68           100.00%     100.00%     0.00%
Recent Developments
                                                                                            Conflict-Free Research
November 2010                                                                               Standpoint Research, Inc. is a
Ronnie Moas was quoted in Forbes and Computer Weekly, and was featured in Fortune           member of the Investorside
Magazine (Volume 162, Number 8).                                                            Research Association; a
                                                                                            Washington D.C. based non-
Q2 & Q3, 2010                                                                               profit organization.

Ronnie appeared multiple times on Bloomberg s Taking Stock with Pimm Fox and was
                                                                                            Investorside certifies that its
                                                                                            members have no investment
quoted in Barron s.
                                                                                            banking or other conflicts.
Q1, 2010

Ronnie Moas was featured in full-length interviews at streetinsider.com and
benzinga.com.

In the Media, 2009
                                                                                               For Institutional Clients
Ronnie Moas was quoted in a number of publications including The New York Times, The           UBS, Barclays, Instinet &
Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek. In addition, Mr. Moas made multiple appearances          Credit Suisse are our
on Bloomberg and BNN Canada.
                                                                                               preferred brokers.
Q4, 2008

Ronnie received an award on behalf of Standpoint Research for the company s 2003-2007
performance at The Cornell Club in New York from the Investorside Research Association.




                                            Ronnie Moas receiving an award
                                            from Patrick Shea (Executive
                                            Director, Investorside Research
                                            Association).
                                                                                           Standpoint Research
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                                                                                                    1504 Bay Road # 2210
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                                                                                       Web: www.standpointresearch.com
                                                                                   E-mail: admin@standpointresearch.com
                                                                                      Tel: 786.768.2317 Alt: 212.752.0330

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  • 1. December 2010 Contents About Us 1 Performance and Rank 2 Balancing quantitative research with fundamental Our Services and Products 3 Equity and Portfolio Diagnostics 4 and subjective overlays Recent Developments 5 Standpoint Research provides independent equity research that is free from the conflicts of asset management, investment banking, proprietary Beyond a Quantitative trading and fee-for-research arrangements. The firm offers Model recommendations, analysis, diagnostics and forecasts on domestic and Proprietary valuation and international equities and markets backed by alpha-generating variables diagnostic model back-tested on many years of data. Ronnie Moas founded Standpoint Our model looks for specific Research in 2003 after spending more than five years developing a combinations in more than 150 fundamental, valuation, technical, proprietary 155-variable valuation and diagnostic model to assist him in accounting, and proprietary variables that have been back-tested and proven generating equity investment recommendations. In addition to his to identify undervalued stocks. quantitative model, Mr. Moas and his team execute proven fundamental Fundamental and valuation variables receive the heaviest weighting in the and subjective overlays in their research before issuing a recommendation. model while extreme technical readings are looked at from a contrarian Using this approach, the firm has been able to consistently outperform its perspective. competitors, ranking near the top of the charts at major tracking firms Fundamental and subjective since it began operations eight years ago. Standpoint Research is currently overlays ranked # 4 versus 191 firms according to Yahoo! Finance, Briefing.com and Pure quantitative models are widely used the Motley Fool (October 2008 through November 2010). and have lost their edge. We saw this problem coming years ago, which is why we use a hybrid approach. Our subjective Standpoint is now widely recognized as one of the top equity research and fundamental overlays have allowed firms in the U.S. and internationally, advising and selling its research to us to avoid the widely-publicized troubles that plagued other quant models and pension funds, hedge funds and asset management firms. Founder Ronnie hedge funds in recent years. This added Moas has made multiple appearances on Bloomberg, and has been quoted human element has been proven to enhance our performance. See page 2 for in Fortune Magazine, The Wall St. Journal, The New York Times, Barron s more information. and BusinessWeek, among others.
  • 2. Performance Standpoint Research is currently ranked risk-adjusted at # 4 versus 191 funds and research firms according to Motley Fool, briefing.com & Yahoo! Finance through November 14, 2010. Motley Fool, briefing.com and Yahoo! For the four years ending December 31, Finance have a formula that factors in 2009, Investars had Standpoint performance (two-thirds weight) and Research ranked # 1 versus 75 financial institutions. Standpoint was ranked # 3 accuracy (one-third weight), where versus 119 financial institutions in 2009 accuracy is defined as the percentage of according to gainerstoday.com. Motley recommendations beating the S&P-500 by Fool, briefing.com, Yahoo! Finance and Our rank vs. other firms at least 500 basis points. They have been gainerstoday.com have all been tracking us since Q4, 2008. Investars has all of our Top 20 out of 191 tracking us since October 2008 and have recommendations since July 2003 on file. all 123 recommendations on file time- 001 - Einhorn 99.23 They have time-stamped all of our stamped that we have made since then. 002 - Edward Owens 98.30 recommendations since September 2006. Fifty-one are open, and seventy-two have Investars keeps only the most recent four 003 - Rich Aster 98.15 004 - Standpoint Research 97.60 been closed. We are ranked in the 94th years posted on their web site. For 005 - B. Rogers 97.59 percentile on performance (defined as the recommendations made pre-2006, visit 006 - Benchmark 97.50 average gain per recommendation versus our web site. Our eight-year track record 007 - First Analysis 97.15 document will be updated in Q1. 008 - Ed Lampert 96.32 the S&P-500), and 97th percentile on 009 - AG Edwards 96.20 accuracy. See table on the right side. We have beaten the S&P consistently 010 - KeyBanc 95.96 We have issued 123 recommendations since 2003 via our turnover strategy, 011 - Dreman 95.67 stock-picking and industry bets. We do 012 - Barclays 95.15 since October 2008. The average gain per not take big sector bets. We are 013 - Bank of America 95.10 recommendation versus the S&P was diversified, and currently have 68 stocks 014 - B. Riley & Co. 94.87 1084 basis points. More than two-thirds on our list of open recommendations 015 - Cross Research 94.70 of our recommendations have beaten the spread out across all ten sectors, down 016 - Hillman 94.60 S&P. Fifty-one outperformed by at least from our eight-year high of 105 open 017 - Bill Nygren 94.35 positions at the market low in Q1, 2009 018 - Credit Suisse 94.26 1500 bps, while 19 underperformed by at (and up slightly from 58 at the market top 019 - Stifel Nicolaus 94.25 least 1500 bps. If we use a +/- 3000 bps 020 - Soleil Securities 94.04 in 2007). We have beaten the S&P-500 in cut-off point, the figures were 24 and 6, seven of the last eight years by ~ 300 bps respectively. Note: 67% accuracy on Wall annually (on average). The 300 bps figure Notables Street is considered extraordinary is even more impressive on a risk-adjusted basis. 036 Citigroup 91.44 performance. See below. 038 George Soros 91.14 046 HSBC 90.66 058 Sterne Agee 88.23 Two-Year Performance (October 2008 November 2010) 077 Wedbush 85.20 098 Needham 77.86 Average Gain vs. S&P 1084 bps 123 117 Susquehanna 70.12 124 Edward Jones 65.00 Recommendations that Beat S&P 67.4% 83/123 166 Goldman Sachs < 40.00 185 CL King < 40.00 Out/Underperformed by +/- 1500 bps 51 19 Out/Underperformed by +/- 3000 bps 24 6
  • 3. z Reporting Schedule December 2010 Dec 03: S&P-500 (#713) Dec 07: Financials-200 (#714) Dec 10: Individual write-up TBD (#715) Dec 13: Short Interest-1000 (#716) Dec 17: Energy-150 (#717) Dec 23: Industrials-300 (#718) Dec 27: Individual write-up TBD (#719) Services and Products Dec 30: ADR/International-200 (#720) January 2011 Standpoint Sector and Index Reports are Standpoint provides custom reporting for Jan 03: Utilities-100 (#721) published weekly. a select number of clients. Jan 06: Russell-2000 (#722) Jan 09: Technology-300 (#723) S&P-500, S&P-1500, Healthcare-300, Utilities- We perform thorough, absolute and relative Jan 12: Individual write-up TBD (#724) 100, Industrials-300, ADR/International-200, analysis on client holdings and focus lists. A Jan 16: Telecom-100 (#725) Russell-2000, Energy-150, Financials-200, Jan 20: Individual write-up TBD (#726) client s list is merged with all stocks from Jan 24: Consumer Disc.-300 (#727) Consumer Discretionary-300, Consumer their respective benchmark, giving the client Jan 28: Healthcare-300 (#728) Staples-100, Telecom-100, Materials-100 and an idea of how their holdings scored relative February 2011 Technology-300 are each published quarterly. to their universe. Feb 02: Materials-100 (#729) We also have quarterly special reports on Feb 05: S&P-1500 (#730) high-paying dividend stocks (200 companies Customized packages are available to suit your Feb 08: Individual write-up TBD (#731) covered) and Short Interest (1000 companies personal needs. Please contact us for package Feb 11: Financials-200 (#732) and subscription pricing information. We sell our Feb 15: Dividend Stocks-200 (#733) covered). Mid-quarter updates are available research mainly to institutional clients, though Feb 19: Individual write-up TBD (#734) for each of the reports on request. Each Feb 23: Energy-150 (#735) high net worth individuals are welcome to Feb 27: Industrials-300 (#736) sector report includes two files, one in Excel contact us. (five sheets) and one PDF (three pages of notes, updates and recommendations). Clients also receive individual stock write- Ronnie Moas Founder & Director of Research ups/recommendations generated from these Ronnie Moas is the Founder and Director of Research at Standpoint. Mr. Moas began his career on sector reports (and special reports). Wall Street as an analyst and market strategist at Herzog Heine Geduld. He was responsible for making sector, industry and stock recommendations, identifying arbitrage opportunities, options and hedging strategies. During his years at HHG, he demonstrated remarkable accuracy with his Standpoint Individual Write-Ups are market forecasts and stock recommendations. Mr. Moas left HHG in late 2000 in order to start his published twice per month. own firm (a few months after correctly forecasting the Nasdaq collapse in a timely manner). Our recommendations are issued after Ronnie spent the next few years developing and back-testing a 155-variable equity valuation and applying a heavy fundamental and subjective diagnostic model. The model has been run more than 400 times since development was completed overlay to the ideas generated by our in June 2003. The model has since then built an exceptional track record. Mr. Moas has authored, computer model. Individual write-ups are 8-12 published and distributed more than 700 research reports to-date. In 2002, he wrote a 284-page research report back-testing more than one-dozen different trading strategies on 20 years of data. pages in length and usually come out a few In 2003, Mr. Moas was one of the first analysts on Wall Street to forecast bull markets in weeks after the actual recommendation was commodities, Brazil, Russia, India and China. He also exited (mid-2007) and re-entered (late-2008) made. The reports cover the recommended in a timely manner. Ronnie has issued more than 400 stock recommendations since 2003. stock, its industry and competitors. If you missed any reports, they can be re-sent on Mr. Moas received a Bachelor s degree in Economics and Business with Honors from the State request. A short write-up will usually go out University of New York at Stony Brook, and a Masters degree in Finance and Investments from with the actual recommendation; the long Baruch College, City University of New York. Mr. Moas was born in New York and lived in Israel from report follows at a later date. We put out 40-60 1983-1994. He returned to New York after completing a three-year Israeli military service in artillery and intelligence with rank of Sergeant. Before returning to the United States in 1994, Ronnie new ideas annually, but long reports only go out worked at Shuki Weiss International Concert Productions where a few of his production credits on approximately half of those names. On- included the Haifa Seaport Blues Festival, Bob Dylan, Radiohead, Buddy Guy and Suede. Ronnie has demand service for these reports is available traveled to more than 30 countries since 2003, he designed this web site, is the owner of an upon request. articulate African Grey Parrot and a very large music collection of 1,500 cds.
  • 4. Equity and Portfolio Diagnostics Coverage The 155-variable model scoring is summarized in the 32 categories below, from roe We currently cover more than through peg . The number in each of the cells is the rank in the respective category, 2,000 stocks, including ~ 200 while the color indicates to which decile the rank belongs. As a general rule, green ADRs. We generally monitor indicates areas of strength, and red indicates areas of weakness. Below is a sample stocks with a $5.00 minimum from our Q3 S&P-500 Index report. The profile displayed here is for Western Digital, share price, three-year history, and at least a $200M which ranked # 6 (out of 500 stocks). The six cells to the right of the peg cell are market capitalization and coded and for internal use. Before recommending a stock we investigate all orange average daily traded volume and red areas regardless of how high the computer ranking is. of > 100,000 shares. rank ticker roe roa roc ebitda npm acct eps m rev gr eps gr beta debt We also analyze more than 100 Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). 6/500 WDC 36 32 24 282 141 167 23 59 132 340 62 Contact us or visit our website for our current coverage list. stab gr div I pbk base rel-ma inside safe pcf I pcf II fcf div II rel str pr mo ps 181 1 54 404 11 244 126 46 52 49 371 484 343 82 rel ps off hi pred pertix perhis blend peg deducts val fund prop misc tech total 126 21 461 68 11 5 22 9627 2284 1971 2430 2104 838 73.98% Note: Clients receive a legend detailing all 155-variables in our model along with the color code. Our model is not a black box; it is transparent and we try to be as open as possible. Only the weight given to each variable is not disclosed. The variables are not equally weighted and a few are negatively weighted. We do not believe in taking big sector bets, so we are equal-weight in a couple of high-beta sectors. Net Standpoint S&P Over / If you do not equal-weight any of the four high- Sector Open Weight Weight Under beta sectors, you will under-perform if the Health Care 13 19.12% 11.19% 7.93% market grinds higher from here as was the case Technology 15 22.06% 19.43% 2.63% during two long stretches in 2010. We have gradually shifted from offense to defense in Telecom 2 2.94% 3.11% -0.17% recent months and are now left with over- Industrials 7 10.29% 10.66% -0.37% weights in healthcare and technology with slight Utilities 2 2.94% 3.46% -0.52% under-weights in financials and energy. It is Materials 2 2.94% 3.65% -0.71% more important to focus on which industries Cons. Disc. 6 8.82% 10.57% -1.75% within the sector we are in, what the average Cons. Staples 6 8.82% 10.95% -2.13% beta is and what stocks we choose, than it is to focus on what sectors we are betting on. Financials 9 13.24% 15.57% -2.33% Energy 6 8.82% 11.41% -2.59% For more on our methodology, visit our web site. Totals 68 100.00% 100.00% 0.00%
  • 5. Recent Developments Conflict-Free Research November 2010 Standpoint Research, Inc. is a Ronnie Moas was quoted in Forbes and Computer Weekly, and was featured in Fortune member of the Investorside Magazine (Volume 162, Number 8). Research Association; a Washington D.C. based non- Q2 & Q3, 2010 profit organization. Ronnie appeared multiple times on Bloomberg s Taking Stock with Pimm Fox and was Investorside certifies that its members have no investment quoted in Barron s. banking or other conflicts. Q1, 2010 Ronnie Moas was featured in full-length interviews at streetinsider.com and benzinga.com. In the Media, 2009 For Institutional Clients Ronnie Moas was quoted in a number of publications including The New York Times, The UBS, Barclays, Instinet & Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek. In addition, Mr. Moas made multiple appearances Credit Suisse are our on Bloomberg and BNN Canada. preferred brokers. Q4, 2008 Ronnie received an award on behalf of Standpoint Research for the company s 2003-2007 performance at The Cornell Club in New York from the Investorside Research Association. Ronnie Moas receiving an award from Patrick Shea (Executive Director, Investorside Research Association). Standpoint Research Flamingo South Beach, Center Tower 1504 Bay Road # 2210 Miami Beach, FL 33139 Web: www.standpointresearch.com E-mail: admin@standpointresearch.com Tel: 786.768.2317 Alt: 212.752.0330