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After being relegated back to a three-star rank over the past several months, enough top-performing CAPS members have turned bullish on Johnson Controls (NYSE:JCI) recently to upgrade it to a more formidable four stars. A total of 877 members have given their opinion on the company, with many offering analysis and commentary to explain their recent optimism.

Many CAPS members like Johnson Controls' foothold in green technologies, and they expect it to benefit from a continued push toward more efficient technologies. The company operates in power solutions and the growing building efficiency market, along with rivals such as Honeywell (NYSE:HON) and United Technologies (NYSE:UTX). Johnson Controls also brings in a significant portion of sales from the auto industry, with customers such as Ford (NYSE:F), GM, and Toyota (NYSE:TM). 

The company recently scored the largest of several federal grants aimed at boosting electric vehicle technology, along with other recipients such as Navistar (NYSE:NAV), Ford, and Dow Chemical (NYSE:DOW). The company will build battery packs and cells for hybrids, which many see as a big future revenue driver. Johnson Controls also estimates that it could capture a chunk of the roughly $12 billion in stimulus money earmarked for making government buildings more energy-efficient, and it anticipates a big jump in its backlog in the next year.

Although Johnson Controls has suffered under slower automotive and construction spending in recent quarters, it expects increasing profits in the current quarter and into 2010, and it's managed to pull in nearly $500 million in free cash flow over the past 12 months. And CAPS members like the company's unbelievably solid dividend, which it's paid to shareholders since 1887.

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