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Brazil Stock Recommendations================== Recommendation 1 ================== ============================ Aracruz Celulose S.A. (ARA) ============================ Aracruz Celulose S.A. engages in the production and sale of bleached hardwood kraft market pulp primarily in Brazil. It produces eucalyptus pulp, a hardwood pulp used by paper manufacturers to produce various products, including premium tissue, printing and writing papers, liquid packaging board, and specialty papers. The company offers market pulp for producers of paper products; and kraft pulp, a pulp produced in a chemical process, using sulphate. It sells its products in North America, Europe, Asia, and Brazil. Aracruz Celulose was founded in 1967 and is based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. ================================== Current Dividend Yield: 2.60% 52 Week Range: $49 - $80 Current Price: $63.33 Analyst Target Price 2008: $87 ** Please do your own Research ================================= UpdateWhen I first recommended Aracruz Celulose, S.S., the share price was sitting at $63.33. As of today, February 27, 2008, the share price sits at $76.54. A nice 20% return in about a 4-month period.I would personally sell my shares in this fine company and take the profit. Add this stock to your watch list and after it retraces, you will have a better idea of when to possibly buy. This is only my opinion. Please do your own research.
================== Recommendation 2 ================== =========================================================== Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo (SBS) =========================================================== Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo provides water and sewage services in Sao Paulo. It provides water and sewage services to residential, commercial, industrial, and governmental customers in 367 municipalities in the state of Sao Paulo. It also supplies water on a wholesale basis to 6 municipalities in the Sao Paulo Metropolitan Region. As of December 31, 2006, the company distributed water to approximately 22.7 million people through approximately 61,469 kilometers of water pipes and mains to approximately 6.6 million water connections. It also provided sewage services to approximately 18.5 million people through 39,126 kilometers of sewer lines to approximately 5.0 million sewage connections. The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. =========================================== Current Dividend Yield: N/A 52 Week Range: $31 - $54 Current Price: $38.90 Analyst Estmated Target Price 2008: $$60 *** Please do your own research =========================================== UpdateWhen I first recommended, Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo (SBS), the share price was sitting at $38.90. As of today, February 27, 2008, the price sits at $47.70. A nice 20% return, in a 5 month period.I personally would sell my shares now and take the profit. Add this fine Brazilian company to your stock watch list, and wait for it to retrace. This is only my opinion. Please do your own research.
================== Recommendation 3 ================== =================================================== Uniao de Bancos Brasileiros S.A. (Unibanco) (UBB) =================================================== Unibanco-Uniao de Bancos Brasileiros S.A. and its subsidiaries provide financial products and services to individual and corporate customers in Brazil. It operates in four segments: Retail, Wholesale, Insurance and Pension Plans, and Wealth Management. The Retail segment provides various deposits products, including checking accounts, time deposits, and savings account-type products. It also offers secured and unsecured personal loans, short term lines of credit, loans for consumer purchases, auto finance, leasing, and individual lines of credit; and credit lines, account receivable financing, working capital loans, BNDES-funded loans, and leasing for small and medium-sized companies. In addition, this segment offers credit cards, insurance, asset management, payroll, cash management, and Internet and telephone banking services, as well as ATMs and payroll-linked loans. The Wholesale segment provides various products and services, including general and specialized corporate lending, trade finance, derivatives, capital markets, investment banking services, and investment and brokerage services. It also offers project finance, and mergers and acquisitions advisory services to institutional investors and economic groups. The Insurance and Pension Plans segment provides life, auto, health, property and casualty, and extended warranty insurance coverage for individuals and businesses, as well as offers pensions and retirement plans, and certain related products and services. The Wealth Management segment provides fixed income and equity mutual funds to individual customers, as well as manages portfolios on behalf of corporations, pension funds, and private banking clients. As of December 31, 2006, the company operated approximately 7,600 ATMs; and 940 full-service branches. The company was founded in 1924 and is headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil. ======================================= Current Dividend Yield: 2.40% 52 Week Range: $80 - $160 Current Price: $117 Analyst Target Price for 2008: $176 *** Please do your own research =======================================
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