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As I was poking through the Alert HQ results of the last few days, one company’s name seemed to keep popping up: Standex International Corporation (SXI). Standex showed up on the following screens/reports at TradingStockAlerts.com : Reversal Alerts based on Daily Data   Value and Growth Report   Trend Buster Report    Reasonable Value Trend Buster Report   Furthermore, if you enter the symbol into the Stock Search function on TradingStockAlerts.com , you will see that Standex comes up as a BUY there, too Background -- Standex International Corporation is a small-cap diversified manufacturing company with the following five divisions: Food Service Equipment Group - manufactures commercial food service equipment for restaurants, convenience stores, quick-service restaurants, supermarkets, drug stores, hotels, casinos, and corporate and school cafeterias, as well as serves health science and medical markets.  Air Distribution Products Group - ...

It's not often that we see a tech stock showing up in one of our reasonable value screens. But here's one for you: Anaren, Inc. (ANEN) The reasonable value screen looks for the following: PE between 0 and 20 PEG between 0 and 1.3 Price-to-Sales less than 2 Debt-to-Equity less than 1 Anaren fits the bill in all these criteria plus it has an Enterprise Value/EBITDA ratio that is less than 7, further confirming the company's status as a reasonable value stock. Indeed, the PEG is less than 1 and Price-to-Sales is only 1.26. So with the company's value characteristics established, we can look at the technical analysis situation. The chart below is a screen shot from the Trade-Radar software. The top chart shows the stock breaking out above its downward sloping trendline. It also shows the how the stock has turned up based on regression analysis and has moved up sufficiently to to register a Signal Strength of of 98%. Furthermore, we see the stock above its 20-DM...

Poking through Tuesday's Alert HQ stock signals I came across an interesting Trend Buster . The company is DynCorp (DCP) and the chart is below. Several things about this company grabbed my attention. Starting with the chart, we have the following positive developments: Price has broken above the trend line (downward sloping blue line) Price has broken above the 50-day moving average Chart pattern looks suspiciously like an inverted head-and-shoulders. This is generally considered a very bullish setup MACD is bullish Aroon is bullish, suggesting a strong positive trend Background -- DynCorp provides law enforcement training and support, security services, base operations, aviation services, contingency operations, interpreters and logistics support to civilian and military government agencies worldwide. The company is currently training police in Afghanistan and has been active in Iraq and Africa. As a contractor willing to work in the hotspots of the world, DynCorp ...

One of the things I do at Alert HQ is scan the Trend Leaders list for stocks that not over-valued. I use a simple screen to identify those stocks that, while trending strongly upward, are showing what I call "reasonable value." Here are the criteria used for my reasonable value determination: PE between 0 and 20 PEG between 0 and 1.3 Price-to-Sales less than 2 Debt-to-Equity less than 1 The following table shows the results of this screen after it was run against those stocks that were added to the Trend Leaders list after the close on Tuesday, March 16. The Last Price column is also as of the close on Tuesday. Symbol Name Last Price Market Cap PE PEG Price To Sales Price To Book Debt To Equity COP CONOCO PHILLIPS $52.17 $76.84B 15.81 0.59 0.56 1.22 0.431 GGAL Grupo Financiero Galicia S.A. $5.50 $661.7M 10.88 1.2 1.14 1.22 N/A AIRM Air Methods Corporation $32.24 $38...

Today's screen looks at cool cash or, more precisely, cash plus cash equivalents plus short term investments. These are classic balance sheet entries. The screen actually identifies those stocks whose Cash on Hand, as defined above, is greater than 50% of it's market value. The screen then does a cross-reference with those stocks that just recently joined the TradeRadar Trend Leaders list. The result is in the table below: Symbol Name Market Cap PE Price To Sales Price To Book Debt To Equity Cash On Hand Dividend AFP UNITED CAPITAL CORP. $211,300,000 31.91 3.85 1.12 0.1428 $147,530,000 $0.00 GFIG GFI Group Inc. $652,600,000 39.63 0.79 1.25 0.1182 $327,280,000 $0.20 AAWW Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings $951,100,000 8.3 0.87 1.26 0.8096 $637,070,000 $0.00 ISH INTL SHIPHOLDING CORP. $208,200,000 4.88 0.55 0.9 0.4375 $120,090,000 $2.0...

Here's another post where I ran my simple value screen against the Alert HQ database. Once again I included stocks that are on the Trend Busters list as well as those that are on the Trend Leaders list. The screen looks for stocks with a reasonable valuation but also charts that are looking particularly attractive. Here are the criteria used for my loose value determination: PE between 0 and 20 PEG between 0 and 1.3 Price-to-Sales less than 2 Debt-to-Equity less than 1 The following table is run against those stocks that were added to the Trend Leaders list this weekend after the close on Friday, Feb 26. The Trend Leaders list identifies those stocks where Aroon, MACD and Wilder's DMI are all bullish. Symbol Name PE PEG Price To Sales Price To Book Debt To Equity GPS GAP, INC. 14.42 1.23 1.00 2.84 0 TJX TJX COMPANIES, INC. (THE) 16.77 1.07 0.89 5.96 0.268 WST WEST PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICE...

I ran my simple value screen against the Alert HQ database again yesterday. This time I included stocks that are on the Trend Busters list as well as those that are on the Trend Leaders list. The screen looks for stocks with a reasonable valuation but also charts that are looking particularly attractive. Here are the criteria used for my loose value determination: PE between 0 and 20 PEG between 0 and 1.3 Price-to-Sales less than 2 Debt-to-Equity less than 1 This first table is based on those stocks that meet the value criteria and are on the Trend Busters list. This list identifies stocks via automated chart analysis that are breaking out above a trend line. The following five stocks popped out when looking at the breakouts registered on Tuesday, Feb 16: Symbol Name PE PEG Price To Sales Price To Book CORE Core-Mark Holding Company, Inc. 7.19 0.47 0.07 1.02 FDEF First Defiance Financial Corp. 12.81 1.31 1.1 0.4 ...

I ran a simple screen against my database today and came up with ten companies. The screen looks for stocks with a reasonable valuation but also charts that are strongly trending up. Here are the criteria: PE between 0 and 20 PEG between 0 and 1.3 Price-to-Sales less than 2 Debt-to-Equity less than 1 New addition to the most recent Trend Leaders list - this requires that Aroon, MACD and Wilder's DMI are all bullish Here is the list of ten stocks that made the grade: Symbol Name CHOP China Gerui Advanced Materials Group Limited HSIC Henry Schein, Inc. ALGT Allegiant Travel Company WBD WIMM-BILL-DANN FOODS OJSC ADS'S (EACH REP ONE SHARE OF C/S) HQS HQ SUSTAINABLE MARITIME INDUSTRIES, INC. CAB CABELA'S INCORPORATED ACN ACCENTURE LTD. AFG AMERICAN FINANCIAL GROUP JOSB Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc. RRGB Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. With so much attention focused on healthcare stocks l...

One of the features of this web site is what I refer to as the "super list" where I combine the results of two or more of the screens that the Alert HQ software performs and publish the resulting set of stocks. Today I'd like to feature a stock that seems to keep popping up on individual screens and was brought to my attention when I checked a few combinations of screens. This stock is one of the Cash Flow Kings from this past weekend and it's on Tuesday's Trend Leaders list. It's in my recent Q3 Growth Report because it showed gains in both its year-over-year and sequential earnings per share. Finally, it again exceeded it's upper Bollinger Band which earned it a place on Tuesday's Bollinger Band Breakout list. The name of this stock is Amedisys, Inc and its symbol is AMED. Normally, I focus on tech stocks but here we have a different animal. Amedisys is a healthcare company. It specializes in home healthcare and hospice services. Here are som...

Time for another custom "SuperList" stock screen from the TradeRadar database. Today's stock screen starts by looking at stocks that have shown EPS growth. They have sequential quarter-over-quarter growth as well as year-over-year growth. There are currently 617 stocks that meet that criterion. The list below, however, took that sample of 617 and whittled it down by looking only for those stocks that are currently on both the Trend Leaders list and Bollinger Band Breakout list for this weekend. These stocks are exploding upward. Symbol Name Last Price Market Cap MFW M & F WORLDWIDE CORP. $25.74 $497,600,000 ATNI Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. $38.46 $585,700,000 BID SOTHEBY'S $14.55 $974,600,000 What's driving the gains in these stocks? For ATNI, it is acquisition news. The company, a cellular system operator, is buying certain wireless properties from Verizon, including wireless spectrum licenses and network assets, serving over 800,000 subscribers primarily ...

If you're wondering how broad based the current rally is, this post will highlight some of the sectors that are showing the most price momentum and strength in their up-trends. We evaluate a selection of what I call "Benchmark ETFs" as proxies for various market sectors. The following list is based on daily data. All these ETFs are showing strong bullish readings for Aroon and DMI which we use to determine how strong a stock or ETF's trend is. In addition, these ETFs are all above their 20-day moving average. Benchmark ETF Benchmark Index EEM MSCI Emerging Markets Index FXI FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index IGW Dow Jones U.S. Semiconductors Index IJH S&P MidCap 400 Index IWF Russell 1000® Growth Index IWO Russell 2000® Growth Index IWP Russell Mid-Cap® Growth Index IYC Dow Jones U.S. Consumer Services Index IYM Dow Jones U.S. Basic Materials Index IYW Dow Jones U.S. Technology Index IYZ Dow Jones U.S. Select Telecommunications Index QQQQ NASDAQ-100® Index Many of these a...

This is a brief post to present one of our custom stock screens. We look to our Trend Leaders and Bollinger Band Breakouts as sources of stocks and ETFs with superior momentum . We look to our Cash Flow Kings to find stocks exhibiting an element of value . Combine the two and our Big Mo screen now shows those stocks with both solid fundamentals and rising prices. The table below lists seven stocks with strong momentum based on daily data. Note that our Trend Leaders consist of stocks in strong up-trends based on Aroon, MACD and DMI. Combined with the kind of surging prices that generate Bollinger Band Breakouts, these stocks are definitely exhibiting leadership. Given the high cash flow yield each has, these stocks would appear to be solid candidates for your watchlist. Symbol Name Last Price Market Cap ACF AMERICREDIT CORP. $12.71 $1,688,000,000 ANF ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO. $30.11 $2,641,000,000 GNK GENCO SHIPPING & TRADING LIMITED $26.15 $829,200,000 NBG NATIONAL BANK OF GR...

We are now more or less two thirds of the way through earnings season. This seems like a good time to revisit a screen we first ran about a month ago. Using the data we generate as we scan over 7200 stocks and ETFs at Alert HQ, we assembled a screen that is composed of stocks with 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. Consider this the Mo-Mo Screen: a combination of price momentum and earnings/revenue momentum. Below is this month's list (note that prices are as of last Friday, 05-01-09). Symbol Name Last Price Market Cap PE AGL AGL RESOURCES INC. $31.41 $2,415,000,000 11 ARB ARBITRON INC. $20.88 $551,900,000 16.79 ATK ALLIANT...

Today there were a couple of posts about how tech stocks are currently especially attractive because they hold plenty of cash and tend to have little debt. Paul Kedrosky initially caught my eye with his post " Tech Cash is King " which in turn pointed me to a story on Bloomberg by Eric Martin. I ran a screen tonight that looked at both cash and debt. Specifically, I screened for a Price-to-Cash ratio under three, a Debt-to-Equity ratio under three and a Market Cap greater than $2.5 million. Based on these criteria, I obtained a list of 136 stocks. Judging from our list, it is absolutely true that many tech stocks do seem to have lots of cash and little debt. What also became apparent as I went through the list is that there are also a lot of pharmaceutical companies that meet these criteria. Below is a shortened list that should give you a general flavor of this screen's result: Symbol Name Price PE Price To Sales Price To Book Debt To Equity Cash ADPT Adaptec, Inc. $2.9...

There have been a number of portfolio managers who have been quoted as saying that the safest companies to invest in these days are the ones that don't need to continually go to the credit markets to fund their businesses. These are companies with substantial piles of cash that should allow them to ride out this recession without having to pay exaggerated borrowing costs in today's credit markets. Though corporate bond issuance is currently robust, spreads are still quite high with the yield on double-A bonds more than 3.5% higher than comparable Treasuries. This is better than last year but significantly worse than the historical average. For bonds that are rated less than double-A, terms get even tougher and demand is correspondingly weaker. I ran a screen this weekend (all numbers are as of Saturday morning) to identify those companies with big cash stockpiles. Rather than look at the absolute value of cash, I looked for those companies whose price to cash ratios appear to b...