2009-10-10 01:04:57 - SADIF-Investment Analytics has applied its StockMarks™ stock-rating system to ICAP plc and produced a research report, rating the company's attractiveness to long-term investors.

Mira, Portugal – October 9th, 2009 – SADIF Investment Analytics today announced the release of a new equity research report covering ICAP plc (IAP). The report utilizes SADIF's powerful StockMarks™ stock rating system and is required reading for any current or potential ICAP investor.

Report Summary: UK-based ICAP plc is the world's largest interdealer broker. During 2008 the company saw a significant shift in its trading mix as banks shifted towards higher liquidity financial instruments such as treasuries, while shying away from less liquid investments such as structured products. This trend climaxed in September 2008, when single-side trade volume in US Treasuries peaked at an average daily volume of USD 172.8B, contributing to a total average daily volume of USD 903.2B

on the company's electronic broking platforms, a figure since unmatched. ICAP's most recent trading update, for September 2009, revealed that total daily trade volume on the company's electronic platforms averaged USD 633.7B, with 115.9B attributable to US Treasuries. ICAP benefited from the volatile markets, reporting a record profits for the year ended March 2009. However, the company has since indicated that it expects lower profits for the half ended September as the result of higher investment costs and lower trading in its lucrative electronic trading business lines. Nevertheless, the company expects half-year revenues to rise 6% due to solid overall volumes. In order to assess the company objectively, we should focus on ICAP's long-term underlying fundamentals. We can do this through the use of the StockMarks framework. ICAP currently has an overall long-term investment-attractiveness rating (Total StockMark or SMT) of 66, placing the company above the UK market average. This rating ranks ICAP fourth among ten of the company's closest UK-listed peers, selected on the basis of similarity of business, market positioning factors such as size, and share comparisons.

The complete report breaks down the Total StockMark into its three components – business, management and price, performing a thorough analysis of ICAP for long-term investors.

A summary of the StockMarks™ ratings for Amazon is available here:
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The report has been distributed to Reuters, and forwarded to Yahoo Finance and FT.com. It is available under 'Analyst Reports' from these websites, from multiple professional platforms including Reuters Knowledge, TheMarkets.com, Thomson Research and Capital IQ or directly from SADIF-Investment Analytics at:
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