All Star Analysts Portfolio Highlights: Anteon Int'l, Burlington Resources, Capital One Financial, and Remington Oil and Gas.CHICAGO -- Zacks.com just released its latest additions and deletions to its proprietary All Star Analyst portfolio. Members on this exclusive list include Anteon International Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ANT), Burlington Resources Burlington Resources, is an American oil and gas company. Their headquarters are in Houston, Texas. Based in Houston, Texas, BR has major offices located in Calgary, London, Farmington, Midland and Fort Worth. , Inc. (NYSE:BR), Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE:COF) and Remington Oil and Gas Corporation (NYSE:REM (REMarks) A programming language statement used for documentation. Rem statements are not executed by the compiler. They are created for people to read. Rem is also used in DOS batch files for comments as well as for disabling instructions. ). View the entire list of stocks on the All Star Analyst portfolio at http://at.zacks.com/?id=510 This exclusive portfolio represents all stocks with a Strong Buy rating from at least five analysts with a 5 Star All Star ranking. These are the brokerage analysts whose stock recommendations proved to be the most profitable for investors. In 2003 this portfolio gained +46.6% nearly doubling the rise of the S&P 500. Here is a synopsis A summary; a brief statement, less than the whole. A synopsis is a condensation of something—for example, a synopsis of a trial record. of why these stocks are on the All Star Analysts Portfolio: Anteon International Corporation (NYSE:ANT) was recently awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to provide support to the Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) is a combat health support information management system of the U.S. Army. MC4 integrates, fields and supports medical (patient) information for tactical medical forces, enabling a comprehensive, lifelong electronic (MC4) Program Office. If all options are exercised, the contract would be valued at $117 million. Calling the contract a 'significant win,' Anteon will provide program management and fielding to the MC4 Program Management Office for worldwide contingency operations A military operation that is either designated by the Secretary of Defense as a contingency operation or becomes a contingency operation as a matter of law (10 United States code (USC) 101[a][13]). It is a military operation that: a. and services for any and all phases of the pre-deployment, deployment, on-site, and re-deployment process to support MC4 system activities. The U.S. Army obviously appreciates the services that Anteon provides, as do the All Stars. Burlington Resources, Inc. (NYSE:BR) remains one of the All Stars' favorite oil and gas companies, and it's easy to see why. Its fourth quarter report, announced in late January, showed a solid performance, including earnings per share of $1.17, excluding items, which beat the consensus by more than +4%. Total production for the quarter reached 2,846 million cubic feet of natural gas equivalent per day, marking a +5% increase from the previous year. For 2004, annual net income of $1.527 billion, or $3.86 per diluted di·lute tr.v. di·lut·ed, di·lut·ing, di·lutes 1. To make thinner or less concentrated by adding a liquid such as water. 2. To lessen the force, strength, purity, or brilliance of, especially by admixture. share, compared favorably fa·vor·a·ble adj. 1. Advantageous; helpful: favorable winds. 2. Encouraging; propitious: a favorable diagnosis. 3. with last year's $1.201 billion, or $3 per diluted share, on a post-stock-split basis. Burlington Resources said it reached a number of significant milestones in 2004, and expects another year of production growth in 2005 along with new opportunities to leverage its financial strength in the evolving natural gas market. Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE:COF) announced in early March that it will acquire Hibernia Corporation, making it one of the top 10 largest consumer lenders in the U.S. and one of the top 20 in terms of total deposits. The stock and cash transaction is valued at about $5.3 billion. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Capital One, Hibernia's leading market share in Louisiana and its Texas branch expansion create a solid growth platform and an additional source of lower cost funding. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2005. The All Stars like the long-term advantages of this deal for Capital One, and continue to recommend the company. Remington Oil and Gas Corporation (NYSE:REM) is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company with a lot of interest from the All Stars. In early March, the company announced that revenue for its fourth quarter jumped to $69.5 million from approximately $47.7 million in the prior year, while oil and gas production advanced +7.2%. Revenues for the full year advanced to $234.1 million from about $183 million, as oil and gas production improved +9.5%. Remington stated that production for both the quarter and year mark the highest volumes ever achieved for those periods in its history. 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