FCStone Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: FCSX) provides risk management consulting and transaction execution services to commercial commodity intermediaries, end-users and producers. An FCSX unit also offers grain merchandising services for grain buyers/sellers in the U.S. and overseas; the company also ships about 100 million bushels of grain per year.
The risks? Analysts are keeping an eye on technological developments in futures / options risk management technology, as well as the entrance of competitors to the evolving sector.
The First Call mean rating for FCSX is: Buy [22 firms]. Mean 2008 target: $41.00 [high: $46, lo
Disclosure: Lazzaro has no positions in stocks. In addition to private real estate holdings, he owns corporate and municipal bonds, and cash certificates of deposit.
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