Zacks.com announces that Jack Adamo highlights the following stocks: Smithfield Foods, Anadarko Petroleum and Teppco Partners, L.P.CHICAGO -- Jack Adamo, editor of the Insiders PLUS newsletter, highlights a long-term growth stock that he has followed for many years. Then this expert profiles two more companies. Read about Smithfield Foods  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SFD SFD Single Family Dwelling SFD Sacramento Fire Department (California, USA) SFD Start of Frame Delimiter (networking) SFD Saudi Fund for Development SFD Seattle Fire Department ), Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE:APC (1) (American Power Conversion Corporation, West Kingston, RI, www.apcc.com) The leading manufacturer of UPS systems and surge suppressors, founded in 1981 by Rodger Dowdell, Neil Rasmussen and Emanual Landsman, three electronic power engineers who had worked at MIT. ) and Teppco Partners TEPPCO Partners LP (NYSE: TPP) is a Fortune 300 company based in Houston, Texas. This company operates petroleum pipelines. History During the second quarter of 2007, it was acquired by another Fortune 500 company, Houston-based Enterprise GP Holdings , L.P. (NYSE:TPP TPP thiamine pyrophosphate. Thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP) The coenzyme containing thiamine that is essential in converting glucose to energy. Mentioned in: Beriberi TPP 1. total plasma protein. 2. ). Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://at.zacks.com/?id=84 Highlights from the February 11 Featured Expert column by Jack Adamo include: BEST DEFENSE, GOOD OFFENSE Smithfield Foods (NYSE:SFD) is the largest hog producer and pork processor in the world, and the fifth largest beef processor in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Under many brand names, it packages and distributes a wide variety of processed meats, including hams, bacon, sausage, hot dogs and delicatessen. In recent years, as consumers have become more health conscious, the company has broadened its product line to include lower-fat and lower-sodium offerings, as well as turkey. Through its subsidiary, Smithfield BioEnergy, it is beginning to convert hog waste into biomethanol and biodiesel fuel -- a business that could produce substantial supplementary revenues in the future. What is happening now with Smithfield is typical of cyclical growth stocks. They experience short-term drops in synch with an economic cycle, but work their way relentlessly higher over the long term. A sampling of Adamo's portfolio updates: Anadarko Petroleum (NYSE:APC) reported Q4 earnings of $3.73 per diluted share - up 127% from last year's comparable quarter. Full year earnings were up 63%. The company lightened up on its hedging toward the end of the year. That's why the fourth quarter rise was so much higher than the full year's. The average price received for natural gas in Q4 was $9.94 - much closer to the spot price than prior quarters. Similarly, the company averaged $52.16 per barrel of oil compared to only $39.16 in Q4 last year. Teppco Partners, L.P. (NYSE:TPP) reported yearly net income per unit of $1.71 versus $1.56 last year - a rise of 9.6%. The company restated results to account for a reduction in carrying value Carrying Value Also know as "book value," it is a company's total assets minus intangible assets and liabilities, such as debt. Notes: This is different than market value, as it can be higher or lower depending on the circumstances. in some investments. The effect was 5 cents per unit in both years. Management estimated that Hurricane Rita Hurricane Rita was the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded and the most intense tropical cyclone ever observed in the Gulf of Mexico. Rita caused $11.3 billion in damage on the U.S. Gulf Coast in September 2005. reduced EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) A metric used to show a company's profitability, but not its cash flow. EBITDA became popular in the 1980s to show the potential profitability of leveraged buyouts, but has become for the fourth quarter of 2005 by approximately $3 million, due to an increase in insurance premiums and costs to repair facilities. Read more of Jack Adamo's commentary on the stocks above and discover other stocks by clicking: http://at.zacks.com/?id=85 About Zacks Featured Experts Successful investing requires professional advice from knowledgeable experts who can help investors achieve their financial goals in good markets and improve their portfolios, especially in bad ones. 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