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President Elect Barack Obama promises to rebuild America “calloused hand by calloused hand.” David Fessler says Airgas Inc. (NYSE: ARG ) is an great way to play an infrastructure boom. The company is the largest manufacturer and distributor of industrial, medical and speciality gases in the country. It’s business is well insulated from the economic slowdown, and it just hiked its dividend payment by 33%.

This from Investment U :

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Airgas Inc. (NYSE: ARG) is the largest U.S. distributor of industrial gases, medical gases, specialty gases and welding equipment. The firm is also one of the largest U.S. distributors of safety products, the largest U.S. producer of nitrous oxide and dry ice, the largest liquid carbon dioxide producer in the Southeast, and a leading distributor of process chemicals, refrigerants, and ammonia products. More than 14,000 employees work at over 1,100 locations, including branches, retail stores, gas fill plants, specialty gas labs

ArmorGroup International (ARG/LN or AMGPF/OTC) saw its shares plunge 11% in London yesterday. The reason is because the company announced it annual results to be released in March will be "marginally" below expectations...

...I remain cautiously optimistic and am maintaining the entire position.

According to my broker, shares in ArmorGroup International (ARG/LN or AMGPF/OTC) closed yesterday at about USD $1.46. That's back to where it was before plunging 11% last week after announcing its year-end results would be marginally lower than expected.

Anything could happen -- as you've read me write repeatedly, there are risks with this pick. The pipeline of projects could dry up, for one thing. So even though I'm cautiously optimistic about ArmorGroup, there are no guarantees.