US-based Owens Corning (NYSE:OC) is the only pure-play exception, but trades at a premium.
But Implant Sciences is a pure-play whose unique, patented technologies have started to stir investor interest.
We like LQDT because it is the largest pure-play online surplus and salvage asset liquidator.
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The iShares MSCI Italy Capped Exchange-Traded Fund is the only pure-play Italian fund available to retail investors.
Retailers like Wal-Mart and Amazon are taking business away from pure-play consumer electronics stores by offering huge discounts.
The other would be a pure-play domain services company, offering end-to-end registry services.
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For proof, look no further than WisdomTree, the only publicly-traded pure-play ETF manager.
European equity funds and pure-play bond funds posted outflows this past week for the first time since late August.
That left Aventis as a pure-play drugmaker whose products include Allegra, a blockbuster antihistamine, and Lantus, a long-acting form of insulin.
US-based Van Eck Global in New York likes Russia so much it launched its second pure-play exchange traded fund for that market.
Not a bad idea, considering both the bidders were pure-play storage vendors.
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Few U.S.-style office parks exist where a pure-play office landlord can thrive.
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Would Gulfstream serve investors better if it were a pure-play builder of high-end business jets rather than being wrapped in a defense contractor?
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Yammer is also a pure-play social platform built from ground up to leverage the converging trends of social, mobile, cloud, and real-time communication.
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First Trust owns the ISI ChIndia (FNI) ETF, a low volume fund, but the only pure-play blend of the two Asian EM powerhouses.
Four years later, GM sold the Hughes space business, concentrated in communications satellites, to Boeing thereby reducing GM to a pure-play vehicle business.
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Few people, thankfully, launched pure-play Internet landscaping services or podiatry practices.
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Mr Omidyar also takes pleasure in pointing out that eBay is almost the only pure-play e-commerce firm that has been consistently profitable from the beginning.
However, no pure-play clothing e-commerce site has every taken off in the US because people like to go to a physical store to try things on.
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On the ITO side, however, it will be some time before pure-play cloud providers such as Amazon or RackSpace will displace traditional outsourcing providers, Jones adds.
In the past, Lenovo has purchased systems companies IBM PC Division in 2005, German computer maker Medion in 2011 but never a pure-play software firm.
As a group, the pure-play investment banks have relied heavily on short-term funding, particularly repo transactions in which counterparties take collateral as security against the cash they lend.
Also, many analysts favor pure-play stocks that focus on a single sector or product area, arguing that conglomerates impede the ability of investors to target their market bets precisely.
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By using this correlation criterion, the Fund provides exposure to pure-play oil companies with significant oil reserves that are not as involved in other industries such as natural gas or downstream operations.
Global X Oil Equities ETF ( XOIL) provides exposure to pure-play oil companies with significant oil reserves that are typically not involved in other industries such as natural gas or downstream operations.
But observers have been expecting the company to go public this year, and there will likely be strong demand for its stock, as Vonage is the most prominent of the pure-play Internet telephony startups.
Giants like General Electric and Honeywell are involved, too, but Peters argues that the best chance for investors to cash in on the security trend is with the pure-play small fry (albeit ones with commercial applications, too).
Diversity has served Textron well in recent years, enabling the company to shepherd each of its major business units through rough patches to a point where they could resume steady profitability the kind of feat that a pure-play military contractor might not be able to pull off in a prolonged defense downturn.
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With Congress poised to debate a major new telecommunications act this year, VoIP investors and providers--ranging from cable companies like Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA - news - people ) to pure-play vendors such as Vonage or Packet8 (nasdaq: EGHT - news - people )-- were hopeful that the new rules would be helpful to their cause.
If Philips shed its low-margin consumer electronics business, it could become the undisputed globally dominant near-pure play for 21st century illumination.
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