December 21, 2011

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Patented Profits
ValuEngine Diversified Growth Pick Acacia Research (ACTG,$ACTG) Pops Up by 13%
Acacia Research Corporation, through its operating subsidiaries, acquires, develops, licenses and enforces patented technologies. Its operating subsidiaries assist patent owners with the prosecution and development of their patent portfolios, the protection of their patented inventions from unauthorized use, the generation of licensing revenue from users of their patented technologies. Acacia Research develops, licenses and provides products for the life science and media technology sectors. Acacia licenses its V-chip technology to television manufacturers and owns pioneering technology for digital streaming and video-on-demand. Acacia's CombiMatrix subsidiary is developing a bio-chip technology for the life science market. Acacia Research was a long side pick from our Diversified Growth Portfolio Strategy on Thursday. It was included as an alternate selection in the most recent edition of our ValuEngine Forecast 16 Market Neutral Strategy Newsletter. It is up almost 13% since then and as of this writing it leads our long side. ValuEngine has issued a STRONG BUY recommendation for ACACIA RESTECH on Dec. 21, 2011. Based on the information we have gathered and our resulting research, we feel that ACACIA RES-TECH has the probability to OUTPERFORM average market performance for the next year. The company exhibits ATTRACTIVE 5-year annualized return, momentum and risk.

ValuEngine Forecast Target Price*

1-Month 3-Month 6-Month 1-Year 2-Year 3-Year 35.05 36.09 37.29 39.28 35.83 30.8

Expected Return
2.23% 5.25% 8.76% 14.55% 4.49% -10.18%

Valuation & Rankings

Valuation 1-M Forecast Return 12-M Return Sharpe Ratio 5-Y Avg Annual Return Volatility Expected EPS Growth Market Cap (billions) Trailing P/E Ratio Forward P/E Ratio PEG Ratio Price/Sales Market/Book Beta Alpha 11.14% undervalued 2.23% 30.28% 0.33 18.82% 56.66% 42.63% 1.47 31.6 22.16 0.74 8.93 4.77 1.22 0.31 Valuation Rank 1-M Forecast Return Rank Momentum Rank Sharpe Ratio Rank 5-Y Avg Annual Rtn Rank Volatility Rank EPS Growth Rank Size Rank Trailing P/E Rank Forward P/E Ratio Rank PEG Ratio Rank Price/Sales Rank Market/Book Rank Beta Rank Alpha Rank 45 82 91 91 95 42 72 77 35 15 56 9 18 44 91

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MARKET OVERVIEW
Summary of VE Stock Universe
Stocks Undervalued Stocks Overvalued Stocks Undervalued by 20% Stocks Overvalued by 20% 74.53% 25.47% 40.59% 11.71%

SECTOR OVERVIEW
Sector
Aerospace Auto-Tires-Trucks Basic Materials Business Services Computer and Technology Construction Consumer Discretionary Consumer Staples Finance Industrial Products Medical Multi-Sector Conglomerates Oils-Energy Retail-Wholesale Transportation Utilities

Change
3.04% 3.14% 3.80% 3.06% 2.62% 4.09% 2.31% 1.55% 2.35% 2.95% 2.49% 3.21% 3.51% 2.54% 2.46% 2.32%

MTD
-0.17% -3.93% -5.63% 0.22% -0.07% -0.06% -1.32% 1.16% 0.70% -0.93% -0.40% -1.07% -4.18% 0.24% -0.87% -1.30%

YTD
-2.65% -32.28% -24.06% -1.72% -8.96% -21.15% -12.42% -13.23% -7.54% -11.33% -4.74% -14.08% -18.97% -1.64% -15.34% 2.40%

Valuation
0.07% undervalued 16.73% undervalued 9.39% undervalued 4.54% undervalued 2.43% overvalued 11.29% undervalued 10.54% undervalued 4.58% overvalued 9.54% overvalued 8.91% overvalued 10.34% overvalued 2.87% undervalued 0.93% undervalued 3.41% overvalued 5.43% undervalued 7.90% overvalued

Last 12MReturn
-6.92% 3.59% -24.23% 1.60% -4.88% -20.53% -5.88% -2.46% -5.58% -9.02% 25.57% -9.84% -14.46% 1.90% -18.50% 2.05%

P/E Ratio
15.5 21.94 27.69 28.69 35.16 38.64 22.39 18.63 20.04 23.55 28.43 14.37 33.92 21.73 29.65 24.07