Prosperity Bancshares, Inc. operates as the financial holding company for Prosperity Bank, which provides retail and commercial banking services to small and medium-sized businesses and consumers. The company accepts various deposit products, including interest-bearing demand deposits, savings accounts, money market accounts, time accounts, certificates of deposit, non interest-bearing demand deposits, and interest checking accounts. It also provides commercial mortgage; one to four family residential loans; commercial loans; loans for automobiles and other consumer durables; home equity loans; term loans; interim construction loans for builders; owner-occupied commercial real estate loans; lines of credit; and loans for working capital, business expansion, and the purchase of equipment and machinery. In addition, the company offers junior subordinated debentures and overdraft protection; check cashing, official check, safe deposit box rental, and currency handling services; and debit cards, Internet banking, cash management services, and automated telephone banking. As of December 31, 2008, it operated 168 full-service banking locations, including 53 in the Greater Houston consolidated metropolitan statistical area; 27 in the South Texas area, including Corpus Christi and Victoria; 43 in the Central Texas area comprising Austin and Bryan/College Station; 21 in East Texas; and 24 in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
SonicWALL, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and sells network security, content security, and business continuity solutions worldwide. The company's products and services provide secure Internet access to both wired and wireless broadband customers, enable Internet-based connectivity for distributed organizations, inspect the content entering and leaving customer networks, protect organizations against inbound and outbound email threats, and provide business continuity in the case of data or connectivity loss. It also offers value-added services for security appliances, including content filtering, anti-spam protection, client anti-virus protection, integrated gateway anti-virus, anti-spyware, email protection, offsite data backup, and intrusion prevention. In addition, the company licenses software packages, including Global Management System (GMS), Global VPN Client, and email security licenses. The GMS solutions provide network administrators with configuration and management tools to globally define, distribute, enforce, and deploy various security application services and upgrades Internet security appliances. The Global VPN Client provides mobile users with a solution for securely accessing the network. Further, SonicWALL Backup and Recovery Offsite Services enable customers to recover data lost in the event of natural disasters, such as floods, fires, and electrical power surges, or from a theft in the business. The company offers its solutions for small to medium size networks used in enterprises, e-commerce, education, healthcare, and retail/point-of-sale markets. It was formerly known as Sonic Systems and changed its name to SonicWALL, Inc. in August 1999. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Wolverine World Wide, Inc. engages in manufacturing, sourcing, marketing, licensing, and distributing footwear, apparel, and accessories to the retail sector primarily in the United States, Europe, and Canada. It provides casual shoes, dress shoes, performance outdoor footwear, boots, uniform shoes, work shoes, slippers, moccasins, and apparel and accessories. The company also licenses its brands for use on non-footwear products, including apparel, eyewear, watches, socks, gloves, handbags, and plush toys. Wolverine World Wide markets its products under the Bates, Cat, Harley-Davidson, Hush Puppies, HyTest, Merrell, Patagonia, Sebago, Stanley, and Wolverine brand names. In addition, it operates a tannery that produces pigskin leather for the shoe and leather goods industries, as well as purchases, cures, and sells raw pigskins for processing into pigskin leather products. Further, the company operates retail stores to market its brands, and branded footwear and apparel from other manufacturers under the Hush Puppies, Hush Puppies and FamilySM, Track'N Trail, Rockford Footwear Depot, and Merrell brand names, as well as operates direct-to-customer retail Web sites. As of January 3, 2009, it operated 90 retail shoe stores in North America and 2 stores in the United Kingdom; and 21 consumer-direct Internet sites. Wolverine World Wide markets its products to governments, municipalities, department stores, footwear chains, catalogs, specialty retailers, mass merchants, and Internet retailers. The company was founded in 1883 and is based in Rockford, Michigan.
Helmerich & Payne, Inc. engages in the contract drilling of oil and gas wells in the United States and internationally. The company provides drilling rigs, equipment, personnel, and camps on a contract basis to explore for and develop oil and gas from onshore areas and from fixed platforms, tension-leg platforms, and spars in offshore areas. It conducts domestic land drilling primarily in Oklahoma, California, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Utah, Arkansas, New Mexico, and North Dakota; and offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, offshore of California, Trinidad, and Equatorial Guinea. As of September 30, 2009, the company had 201 land drilling rigs in the United States; 9 offshore platform rigs; and international land rigs, including 1 in Venezuela, 6 in Colombia, 4 in Ecuador, 9 in Argentina, 1 in Tunisia, and 6 rigs in Mexico. In addition, Helmerich & Payne engages in the ownership, development, and operation of commercial real estate properties, as well as the research and development of rotary steerable technology. Its property portfolio includes a shopping center and multi-tenant industrial warehouse properties, as well as approximately 210 acres of undeveloped real estate land. The company was founded in 1920 and is based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Walter Energy, Inc. produces and exports metallurgical coal for the global steel industry in the United States. The company also produces steam coal and industrial coal, metallurgical coke, and coal bed methane gas. The company was formerly known as Walter Industries, Inc. and changed its name to Walter Energy, Inc. in April 2009. Walter Energy, Inc. was founded in 1946 and is headquartered in Tampa, Florida.
MAXIMUS, Inc. provides operations program management and consulting services primarily to government and government agencies in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Operations and Consulting. The Operations segment provides various program management and operations support services for state, federal, national, and county funded public programs, as well as focuses on the delivery of administrative services for government health and human services programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, TANF, related workforce services programs, and child support enforcement programs. The Consulting segment provides specialized financial consulting services, such as assisting states, local agencies, and schools in obtaining federal funding reimbursements for their programs, and implementing cost reductions strategies. This segment also offers educational services, including TIENET, which helps schools manage special education instruction, assessment, and intervention; and AutismPro, a Web-based solution that helps schools drive positive outcomes for special education students, as well as provides higher education consulting services that help institutions plan, manage, and secure federal funding and grants for research and other sponsored programs. MAXIMUS, Inc. was founded in 1975 and is based in Reston, Virginia.
Aetna Inc. operates as a diversified health care benefits company primarily in the United States. The company provides health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral health, group life, and disability plans, as well as medical management capabilities and health care management services for Medicaid plans. It operates in three segments: Health Care, Group Insurance, and Large Case Pensions. The Health Care segment provides medical, pharmacy benefits management, dental, and vision plans offered on both an insured basis and an employer-funded basis. Its medical products include point of service, preferred provider organization, health maintenance organization, and indemnity benefit plans, as well as health savings accounts and Aetna HealthFund. This segment also provides specialty products, such as medical management and data analytics services and stop loss insurance, as well as products that provide access to its provider networks. The Group Insurance segment offers life, disability, and long-term care insurance products principally to employers that sponsor its products for the benefit of their employees and their employees' dependents. The Large Case Pension segment manages various retirement products, including pension and annuity products primarily for tax qualified pension plans. The company primarily serves employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time and hourly workers, health plans, governmental units, government-sponsored plans, labor groups, and expatriates. Aetna Inc. was founded in 1982 and is based in Hartford, Connecticut.
Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc., a self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT), invests primarily in long-term healthcare facilities in the United States. The company provides lease or mortgage financing to qualified operators of skilled nursing facilities (SNFs), as well as to assisted living facilities (ALFs), independent living facilities (ILFs), and rehabilitation and acute care facilities. As of December 31, 2008, its portfolio of investments consisted of 256 healthcare facilities, including 227 SNFs, 7 ALFs, 2 rehabilitation hospitals owned and leased to third parties, and 2 ILFs; fixed rate mortgages on 15 long-term healthcare facilities; 2 SNFs owned and operated by us; and 1 SNF as held-for-sale. For federal income tax purposes, the company is structured as a real estate investment trust (REIT). As a REIT, it would not be subject to federal corporate income taxes if it distributes at least 90% of its taxable income to its shareholders. Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is based in Hunt Valley, Maryland.
CenturyTel, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an integrated communications company. The company provides a range of communications services, including local and long distance voice, Internet access, and broadband services in the continental United States. Its services include local exchange and long distance voice telephone services, as well as enhanced voice services, such as call forwarding, conference calling, caller identification, selective call ringing, and call waiting; network access services; data services, including high-speed and dial-up Internet services, and data transmission services over special circuits and private lines; and fiber transport, competitive local exchange carrier, security monitoring services, and other communications and business information services. The company also offers other related services, such as leasing, selling, installing, and maintaining customer premise telecommunications equipment and wiring; provides billing and collection services to third parties; participates in the publication of local telephone directories; and provides printing, database management, direct mail services, and cable television services. As of December 31, 2008, it operated approximately 2.0 million telephone access lines. The company was founded in 1968 and is based in Monroe, Louisiana.
National Health Investors, Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT), invests in health care properties, primarily in the long-term care industry in the United States. As of December 31, 2008, it had investments in real estate assets and mortgage notes receivable investments in 123 health care facilities consisting of 83 long-term care facilities, 1 acute care hospital, 4 medical office buildings, 14 assisted living facilities, 4 retirement centers, and 17 residential projects for the developmentally disabled in 17 states. The company has elected to be treated as a REIT for federal income tax purposes and would not be subject to federal income tax, if it distributes at least 90% of its REIT taxable income to its shareholders. National Health Investors, Inc. was founded in 1991 and is based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
