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Thursday September 24, 2009

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For the second consecutive year, Praxair, Inc. (NYSE: PX) has been included in the global Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Carbon Disclosure Leadership Index. Praxair is the only industrial gases company to be selected for the global Leadership Index. This index, comprised of only 50 companies among 500 of the world’s largest corporations, recognizes leaders in climate change disclosure practices, based on their responses to an annual questionnaire. High scores indicate good internal data management and understanding of climate-change issues

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TransDigm Group, Inc.'s (TDG) Q2-09 Net Sales rose by 10.1% to $193.0 million (we had been looking for $191 million); however, the organic change in Net Sales was a negative 1.5%, as the increase was caused by the inclusion of three recent acquisitions.Drilling down into the data, TDG's Gross Profit rose by 15.9% to $108.8 million and the Gross Margin expanded from 53.6% to 56.4%. S,G&A as a percent of Sales was relatively stable at 10.6% versus 10.5%. The Amortization of Intangibles climbed by 30.3% to $3.6 million (those acquisitions). Operating Income climbed by 16.5% to $84.8 million and the Operating Margin went from 41.5% to 43.9%. The Tax Rate nudged up from 34.0% to 36.2%. The bottom line of all this is that Fully-Diluted EPS rose by 25.0% to 80¢ (our estimate was 76¢). It was an impressive quarter!A few other bits of ...