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Forty stocks that have defied the downturn

As earnings season begins to unfold, it is a good time to look at some stocks that have managed to show growth despite the economic downturn.

The following list was generated by screening for the following characteristics:
  • The stock must have shown sequential quarterly growth as well as year-over-year growth in both EPS and Revenue
  • The stock must have appeared on the TradeRadar Trend Leaders list this past weekend. This means that, besides being above their 50-DMA, they have also been determined to be in strong up-trends according to Aroon analysis, DMI and MACD.

SymbolNameLast PriceMarket CapPEPEGPrice To Sales
AROAEROPOSTALE, INC$25.51170900000012.240.840.96
BECBECKMAN COULTER, INC.$51.57325800000017.271.111.06
BJBJ WHOLESALE CLUB, INC.$32.57178200000014.51.560.18
BKETHE BUCKLE, INC.$31.14143700000014.721.381.92
BMCBMC SOFTWARE, INC.$32.20594600000025.321.233.29
FTIFMC TECHNOLOGIES, INC.$32.40407300000011.970.930.92
HGGHHGREGG, INC.$15.1349060000014.350.870.34
HOSHORNBECK OFFSHORE SERVICES, INC.$16.164220000003.770.20.99
NPKNATIONAL PRESTO INDUST.$65.1744630000010.16-11
RAXRACKSPACE HOSTING, INC.$8.3898520000039.472.061.64
RYNRAYONIER INC.$31.48248600000017.634.232.16
SFSTIFEL FINANCIAL CORP.$43.05116400000023.11.451.43
UNFUNIFIRST CORP$36.0669680000010.430.880.67
WMKWEIS MARKETS, INC.$30.0580980000017.94-10.35
WMSWMS INDS, INC.$23.63116600000019.970.821.96
ADVSAdvent Software, Inc.$32.5081750000049.192.333.16
ALGTAllegiant Travel Company$48.4898110000027.30.571.89
AMZNAmazon.com, Inc.$75.513236200000052.242.361.74
APEIAmerican Public Education, Inc.$43.7578930000053.950.997.81
AAPLApple Inc.$115.00102400000000221.333.19
ARSTArc Sight, Inc.$12.07383000000112.571.132.97
ARDNAArden Group, Inc.$104.2732960000013.46-10.7
CWCOConsolidated Water Co. Ltd.$11.8017150000024.462.052.68
CREECree, Inc.$25.58226400000077.132.354.29
CSGSCSG Systems International, Inc.$14.475084000008.11.161.11
CTCMCTC Media, Inc.$5.6485820000038.730.281.31
ESLTElbit Systems Ltd.$48.64204800000010.071.270.77
FORRForrester Research, Inc.$19.7245440000016.370.971.94
FUQIFuqi International, Inc.$4.811058000003.930.180.31
NRGPInergy Holdings, L.P.$32.0064780000016.664.390.34
KNSYKensey Nash Corporation$20.2523310000019.27-12.8
LUFKLufkin Industries, Inc.$37.395556000006.460.830.77
MFLXMulti-Fineline Electronix, Inc.$17.6644210000011.750.50.62
TNDMNeutral Tandem, Inc.$24.6180280000034.020.96.64
QSIIQuality Systems, Inc.$44.71126800000028.311.475.68
QSFTQuest Software, Inc.$12.59119200000020.441.011.68
ROSTRoss Stores, Inc.$36.51462800000016.181.170.74
UEICUniversal Electronics Inc.$18.7125460000017.371.470.9
VPRTVistaPrint Limited$28.24119000000027.590.812.64
VNUSVNUS Medical Technologies, Inc.$20.9433840000026.880.633.5

As can be seen, there are a good number of tech stocks on the list and only one lonely financial stock, Stifel Financial. It is also interesting to note that, with the exception of Apple and Amazon, these are mostly small to mid-sized firms according to market cap, ranging in size from roughly one hundred million dollars to a few billion dollars at the top end. No micro-caps and only a few mega-caps.

Many analysts expect this first quarter of 2009 to result in totally awful earnings so it will be interesting to see if these stocks will be able to maintain their extraordinary performance.

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