If you like the car, will you love the company?

When it comes to Ford Motor Co. (F), a Canadian car dealer bet a month’s sales on that premise.

Rose City Ford dealership owner John Chisholm offered 100 shares of Ford stock to anyone who bought a new or used vehicle from the dealership during the month of November, the Windsor Star newspaper reported. Chisholm, the president and general manager of Rose City, said he got the idea from a General Motors Co. (GM) dealership in Texas that offered GM shares for each vehicle sold. So Chisholm opted to try it in Windsor, the Ontario, Canada city where Ford has both a long history and deep community roots.

“What a great way to show our confidence in the company,” Chisholm, who employs 80 at a

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[“Hot Stocks” is a new Money Morning feature that analyzes the investment outlook of global companies that are in the news. This is the eighth installment of this ongoing investment series.] Money Morning Staff Reports If you like the car, will you love the company? When it comes to Ford Motor Co. (F), a Canadian car dealer bet a month’s sales on that premise. Rose City Ford dealership owner John Chisholm offered 100 shares of Ford stock to anyone who bought a new or used vehicle from the dealership during the month of November, the Windsor Star newspaper reported. Chisholm, the president and general manager of Rose City, said he got the idea from a General Motors Co. (GM) dealership in Texas that offered GM shares for ...

Today’s post comes from a guest blog, New Rules of Investing:

Institutional investors have powerful tools at their disposal to screen through reams of data.  Part of the institutional investment process entails screening through thousands of securities looking for a needle in a haystack — stocks that fit certain investment criteria.  From thousands of stocks, analysts can filter through a couple of hundred that fit these so called screens.  With a couple of hundred stocks in hand, analysts set out to do the hard work analyzing these companies, comparing them to one another, speaking to management and whatever else hedge fund and mutual fund analysts do when looking at prospective investments.

If I’m a value investor, I’m probably going to use some metrics that focus on Return on Capital (RoC) or Return on Equity (RoE) and Earnings Yield (E/P).  Growth investors might

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Along with records revenues, WorldWater & Solar Technologies Corp (WWAT) also reported a gross loss in the third quarter, ending Sept. 30. WorldWater reported a $2.3 million gross loss for the quarter. Offsetting that news was a significant increase in revenues to $6.5 million compared with $4.4 million over the same time last year. Installations for the Valley Center Municipal Water District of Valley Center, California and a Denver International Airport project were the two biggest contributions of that revenue.

The gross loss in 2008 was primarily the result of a solar project for the town of Windsor, Calif. that was terminated in September. “After many months of effort, securing financing for the Windsor project with terms acceptable to the company, was not achieved and the financing contingency of the agreement was invoked,” a company news release said.

“We are in the process of building the engineering, design, manufacturing, project management,

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ZOLL Medical Corporation (ZOLL) develops technologies that help advance the practice of resuscitation. The company provides products for pacing, defibrillation, circulation, ventilation, and fluid resuscitation, such as its Real CPR Help and See-Thru CPR®, which helps clinicians, EMS professionals, and lay rescuers resuscitate cardiac arrest or trauma victims. ZOLL, based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, markets and sells its products in more than 140 countries, and has direct operations, distributor networks and business partners throughout the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Asia, and Australia.

ZOLL’s AutoPulse® Non-Invasive Cardiac Support Pump has been installed for the first time at the Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital (HDGH) in Windsor, Ontario in Canada. Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hospital, located in Canada’s southernmost city and just across the river from Detroit, Michigan, is the region’s premier tertiary acute care hospital. HDGH operates 278 patient beds and cares for over 11,000 inpatients annually.

The

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