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Published: 6/27/2013 8:22 PM | Last update: 6/27/2013 8:22 PM New law takes effect Monday; designed to protect consumers and companies in the industry. By John Green - The Hutchinson News - jgreen@hutchnews.com A new law sought by some Kansas roofing companies to regulate the industry in the state will take effect Monday.

The law requires that any roofing contractor working for a fee in Kansas register with the Kansas Attorney General's office, and renew that registration annually.

If there's a lot of roofing damage following a major storm, for example, communities often see roofing companies arrive from out of town or out-of-state who are not reputable, Yates said.

"People just want to get the job done," Yates said. "This protects the homeowner in the sense that people doing a roofing job are qualified, and that they're people living here and paying taxes. It precludes the guy who all the sudden wants to be a roofer."

While the law doesn't require that roofers provide proof of any specific knowledge of the trade, or prove residency, it does require the company carry a minimum $500,000 in liability insurance and provide a certificate of workers' compensation coverage or an affidavit of exemption or self-insurance.

It also requires proof in the form of a certificate from the Kansas Department of Revenue that the business is current on its taxes.

The application requires the applicant list any felony convictions, in Kansas or elsewhere, though having convictions in itself doesn't prevent approval. The AG can deny a registration, however, if the office determines the application contains "false, misleading or incomplete information," such as leaving off a felony conviction.

The law requires, once a contractor is registered, they display their registration certificate number on every vehicle used for roofing services and on every "business sign, card, correspondence and contract used to solicit and conduct roofing services in this state."

"It doesn't preclude anyone from starting a company," Yates said of the rules. "They just have to do it the right way."

The legislation, HB 2024, allowed the AG to set fees up to $500. In his proposed regulations, which the State Rules and Regulations Board will take up this week, AG Derek Schmidt set the initial registration and annual renewal at $250. To renew a suspended or revoked registration will cost more.

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Margins matter. The more Beacon Roofing Supply (Nasdaq: BECN) keeps of each buck it earns in revenue, the more money it has to invest in growth, fund new strategic plans, or (gasp!) distribute to shareholders. Healthy margins often separate pretenders from the best stocks in the market. That's why we check up on margins at least once a quarter in this series. I'm looking for the absolute numbers, so I can compare them to current and potential competitors, and any trend that may tell me how strong Beacon Roofing Supply's competitive position could be.

Here's the current margin snapshot for Beacon Roofing Supply over the trailing 12 months: Gross margin is 24.7%, while operating margin is 6.5% and net margin is 3.4%.

Unfortunately, a look at the most recent numbers doesn't tell us much about where Beacon Roofing Supply has been, or where it's going. A company with rising gross and operating margins often fuels its growth by increasing demand for its products. If it sells more units while keeping costs in check, its profitability increases. Conversely, a company with gross margins that inch downward over time is often losing out to competition, and possibly engaging in a race to the bottom on prices. If it can't make up for this problem by cutting costs -- and most companies can't -- then both the business and its shares face a decidedly bleak outlook.

Of course, over the short term, the kind of economic shocks we recently experienced can drastically affect a company's profitability. That's why I like to look at five fiscal years' worth of margins, along with the results for the trailing 12 months, the last fiscal year, and last fiscal quarter (LFQ). You can't always reach a hard conclusion about your company's health, but you can better understand what to expect, and what to watch.

Here's the margin picture for Beacon Roofing Supply over the past few years.

Source: S&P Capital IQ. Dollar amounts in millions. FY = fiscal year. TTM = trailing 12 months.

Because of seasonality in some businesses, the numbers for the last period on the right -- the TTM figures -- aren't always comparable to the FY results preceding them. To compare quarterly margins to their prior-year levels, consult this chart.

Source: S&P Capital IQ. Dollar amounts in millions. FQ = fiscal quarter.

Here's how the stats break down:

With recent TTM operating margins exceeding historical averages, Beacon Roofing Supply looks like it is doing fine.

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2:35 pm Clearwire announced earlier that ISS recommends Clearwire (CLWR) stockholders vote 'for' proposed transaction with Sprint (S). (CLWR) : Co announced that ISS in light of Sprint's revised offer to acquire the ~50% stake in Clearwire it does not currently own for $5.00 per share, has recommended that Clearwire stockholders vote FOR the proposed merger with Sprint.

2:32 pm NYMEX Energy Closing Prices (:COMDX) :

2:30 pm S&P -9 reaches intraday resistance (SPY) : Noted S&P support at 1560/1558 (The Technical Take, 11:35 update) with it hitting 1560.33 at 12:20. A steady climb off the low has reached an intraday resistance at 1583/1584 with the next level at 1588 (open/high). Support if anyafternoon backing and filling develops is at 1575 and 1572.

2:25 pm Dollar Gives Up Gains: 10-yr: +04/32..2.532%..USD/JPY: 97.60..EUR/USD: 1.3138 (:SUMRX) : The Dollar Index climbed to 82.80 in early trade, but has given up its gains as trade holds little changed near 82.30. The recent weakness is putting the current three-day winning streak for the greenback at risk.

2:25 pm CBOT Agriculture and Ethanol/ICE Sugar Closing Prices (:COMDX) :

2:23 pm Dow -55 rebounds as much as 200 points off low -- S&P -10, Nasdaq Comp -22 (:TECHX) :

2:15 pm Crude oil rally continues, Crude hits a new HoD (:COMDX) : Aug crude oil is now +1.9% at $95.45/barrel.

2:11 pm Rosetta Stone announces distribution partnership with Brookstone (RST) : Brookstone announced that it has become a premier retail partner of Rosetta Stone (RST). All 30 Rosetta Stone languages are now available online at Brookstone.com, while top select languages are offered at key Brookstone airport retail locations nationwide.

2:09 pm Further backtracking off highs for 10-yr yields -TNX- (:TECHX) : It has slipped as low as 2.539 (session high 2.657) with today's gap bottom/Friday's high at 2.514.

1:45 pm AK Steel: Middletown (:OH) Works blast furnace experiences incident; no injuries (AKS) : Co said that the blast furnace at its Middletown (:OH) Works facility experienced a mechanical failure in the charging apparatus internal to the furnace on June 22, 2013. The company said that there were no injuries and it is continuing to assess the situation and investigate the root cause of the incident. At this time, the company does not have a specific estimate of the cost or an exact date for completion of the repairs, though it currently expects to complete the repairs as early as sometime in July, though the repairs may be completed later in the third quarter. The company noted that it maintains property damage and business interruption insurance, and it currently expects that its uninsured losses will be between $10 million and $27.5 million. The company currently expects this outage will impact both the second and third quarter shipments and financial results. The company will provide an update to this incident in its scheduled earnings conference call to be held on July 23, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time.

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Farmington, CT (PRWEB) June 27, 2013

Pro Source, LLC is proud to announce its accreditation by the Better Business Bureau (BBB). As a BBB Accredited Business, Pro Source is dedicated to promoting trust in the marketplace and meets the BBBs strict standards.

BBB Accredited Businesses must follow the BBBs Standards of Trust, a set of best practices that represent marketplace trust. The standards include building trust, honest advertising, being truthful, being transparent, honoring promises, being responsive, safeguarding privacy and embodying integrity.

In order to be eligible, accredited businesses must have a proven track record of delivering results while adhering to the BBBs standards and addressing customer concerns in a timely and satisfactory manner.

Serving Connecticut residents for over 20 years, Pro Source is a general contractor specializing in energy-saving construction; and offering lifetime guarantees, on-site inspections and written estimates.

"We are proud to be recognized by the BBB as a business that meets their high standards," says Russ Houle, co-owner of Pro Source in Farmington, Conn. "Not every company is eligible, so our acceptance means we must be doing something right."

He adds, "We greatly value building trust with our community, and our accreditation along with being a member of Contractor Nation gives our customers the confidence of knowing they are dealing with a company that's committed to integrity and high ethical standards."

Contractor Nation is a network comprised of Americas best contractors. As a member, Pro Source is awarded a seal of approval that ensures customers that they are working with a fully-licensed and insured contractor.

Pro Sources accreditation was accepted by the local Board of Directors of Connecticut Better Business Bureau. The Connecticut BBB was founded in 1928 as an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization to promote and build ethical relationships between businesses and the public.

Pro Source, LLC is a general contractor serving the Central Connecticut area, which includes Woodbridge, Canton, Glastonbury, Avon, Madison and surrounding areas. They specialize in home improvements products and services like roof repair and replacement, gutters and downspouts, siding, decks and patios, replacement windows, remodeling, restoration and ground-up construction.

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If it seems like thunderstorms occur more frequently and intensely than they used to, that may be due to the understandable hype concerning SuperStorm Sandy and other recent destructive storms, like the tornadoes in Moore, Okla. "Despite the heightened level of thunderstorm activity since mid-May in the United States, it has actually been a rather quiet year in terms of overall events," says Steve Bowen, a senior scientist and meteorologist for Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe modeling arm of reinsurance intermediary Aon Benfield.

Thunderstorms do seem to be evolving, however, if not actually coming at us faster and more furiously, according to Stu Ostro, a senior meteorologist at The Weather Channel. Ostro says he isn't aware of an increase in the number of thunderstorms throughout the year, but "there is some evidence, which merits further study, of a change in the nature of tornado and severe thunderstorm outbreaks during the late autumn and winter, with many of them in the past decade or so seeming to have occurred relatively far north compared to where they typically have been in the past."

We may not be in the midst of a thunderstorm-tornado-hurricane apocalypse, but you don't want to be the homeowner unlucky enough to have a maple tree crash into your dining room or wade into a flooded basement because your sump pump went out after a major storm. So if you think your house could be better prepared to withstand the onslaught of a summer storm, here are some things to consider - before and after the rain.

[Read: When Homeowners Insurance Won't Protect You.]

Check your insurance. Do this long before a storm. What should you look for? Josh Noel, owner of Quality Roofing in Colorado Springs, Colo., says homeowners should check to see if they have an ACV or RCV policy. "The first one is actual cash value, which means your insurance company only pays for what your property was worth before the storm, which is not a good policy," Noel says. "RCV is replacement cost value, which means your insurance pays current market value of the property loss."

Even if a roofer like Noel has incentive for potential customers to have the best insurance out there, he still has a good point. If you bought your house in 1986, you don't want to be paying for a roof in 1986 dollars.

And, of course, you never think you'll need insurance until one day you do. John Scroggin's experience illustrates why it's important to be insured. On June 13, when storms rolled into Roswell, Ga., the 61-year-old lawyer was on his way home from a meeting with a client and decided to stop at his office, which employs five people and is in a historic house that was built in 1883.

"An oak tree, 300 years or older, decided to take up residence in my office's conference room," Scroggin says.

After quickly surveying the damage, Scroggin drove to his residence, where he fortunately found his family in good shape, but the tops of about 20 trees had rained onto his house and two-car garage. Fortunately, he was well-insured and had a disaster crew at his office 90 minutes after the tree fell, working until 4 a.m., cleaning everything and securing the law firm.

For obvious reasons, if you know exactly where your policy is, you may save some time in the event that your house is damaged.

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