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Dollar General Corp., $82.27, symbol DG on New York (Shares outstanding: 286.4 million; Market cap: $23.6 billion; www.dollargeneral.com), operates 12,575 discount stores in 43 states. About 70% of the company’s outlets serve communities with populations of 20,000 or less. The sales mix of Dollar General’s stores is as follows: consumables (including beverages and snacks, paper and cleaning products, pet supplies, and health and beauty items), 75.9%; seasonal (decorations, toys and gardening), 12.4%; home products (kitchen supplies, light bulbs and bed and bath goods), 6.3%; and basic apparel, 5.4%. The company’s motto is “Save time. Save money. Every day!” Most of the items it sells are priced under $10, with about 75% at $5 or less....
DirectCash Payments Inc., $11.70, symbol DCI on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 17.6 million; Market cap: $205.4 million; www.directcash.net), is the largest non-bank owner and operator of automated teller machines in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and the third-largest in the U.K. It also operates ATMs in Mexico. In addition, the company serves credit unions and other small financial institutions that outsource their ATM transactions. As of December 31, 2015, DirectCash had 21,454 active ATMs, up 1.7% from 21,103 a year earlier. Its machines processed 132.5 million transactions in 2015, up 7.2% from 123.6 million....
Open Range Energy, $6.82, symbol ONR on Toronto (Shares outstanding: 60.9 million; Market cap: $468.2 million; www.openrangeenergy.com), is an oil and natural gas producer that operates in Alberta. In June 2010, Open Range began a new business: renting its Poseidon Concepts fracturing fluid tanks to producers of shale oil and shale gas. Shale gas and shale oil are trapped in rock formations. To extract them, companies must pump water and chemicals (fracturing fluids) into the rock. This fractures the rock and releases the natural gas or oil. Open Range now rents 100 tank systems across North America. The company believes that its large tanks are more efficient than other tanks, because they can hold much more fracturing fluid, are easier to transport, and have a more efficient fluid-heating process. Open Range designed the tanks, but other companies make them....
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