Schaeffer's S&P 500 Index Hot Stocks Features Mattel, Exxon Mobil, Sysco, Tyson Foods, and Schering-Plough.

CINCINNATI -- Among the stocks featured in the January 30 edition of Schaeffer's S&P 500 Index Hot Stocks are Mattel (NYSE:MAT), Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM), Sysco (NYSE:SYY), Tyson Foods (NYSE:TSN), and Schering-Plough (NYSE:SGP). Schaeffer's S&P 500 Index Hot Stocks is just one of the many free market commentaries written everyday at www.SchaeffersResearch.com - the home of Bernie Schaeffer and Schaeffer's Investment Research. For additional information about this report or to have it delivered to you free via email every day click on the following link. http://www.schaeffersresearch.com/redirect.aspx?CODE=PRSHS12M&PAGE=1 .

Schaeffer's S&P 500 Index Hot Stocks for Monday, January 30, 2006:

A daily feature available on SchaeffersResearch.com is the "SPX Hot Stocks" column. Each afternoon, we will provide a list of the day's top-20 performing stocks in the S&P 500 Index (SPX - 1,284.76) as well as the bottom-20 names. Featured along with this table will be news that is moving some of the securities.

NOTE: Stocks trading under $5 per share have been eliminated from this listing of the top-20 and bottom-20 performing stocks.

As we head into the final hour of trading this afternoon, all signs point to a positive finish for the day, not stellar, but positive. Trepidation seems to rule the day ahead of tomorrow's interest-rate decision from the Federal Open Market Committee as well as the President's State of the Union Address. A majority of the SPX's components are in negative territory, 54 percent to be exact. While this is the slimmest of margins, it shows that the gains have been greater than the losses on the SPX this afternoon.

Resting atop the hot stocks list today is the home of Barbie herself, Mattel (NYSE:MAT). The company posted a slight drop in fourth-quarter profit earlier today, bringing a challenging year to an end. Excluding items, the company earned 58 cents per share, with net sales of $1.84 billion. The consensus was looking for revenue of $1.89 billion, which it missed, but it did beat the estimate of 49 cents per share. Investors have applauded this news to a tune of a seven-percent gain. The company noted that it doesn't expect to see much improvement in the retail environment in 2006, and that it plans to raise some prices following Easter to help offset rising costs for raw materials and energy.

Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) is on our hot stocks list this afternoon, albeit low on the totem pole. However, the ripple effect from XOM has worked its way throughout the list. No less than nine of the other upwardly mobile stocks are oil related. XOM posted a fourth-quarter profit of $1.65 per share in the quarter, far outpacing the Street's expectations for a profit of $1.44 per share. One analyst noted that these results have even surprised the bulls.

Sysco (NYSE:SYY) rounds out our gainers this afternoon, thanks to its second-quarter earnings report. The food distribution company posted earnings of 33 cents per share, including a net expense of four cents per share. Sales logged an increase of 8.7 percent to $7.97 billion. The Street believed that SYY would log a profit of 35 cents per share. Today's news sent the shares rocketing more than six percent higher in trading.

Tyson Foods (NYSE:TSN) has dropped to the bottom of our hot stocks list this afternoon. In the first quarter, TSN earned 11 cents per share with sales of $6.45 billion. Analysts were looking for a profit of 16 cents per share on revenue of $6.43 billion. For the second quarter, TSN expects to post a loss. For fiscal 2006, TSN forecast earnings of 50 to 80 cents per share. Finally, the company restated its 2005 results to correct the tax treatment associated with a non-recurring actuarial gain that it recorded in the fourth quarter of 2005.

Finally, Schering-Plough (NYSE:SGP) announced that it returned to profitability in the fourth quarter, thanks to sales of Remicade, Peg-Intron, Nasonex, and Temodar. Unfortunately, SGP posted earnings of seven cents per share when expectations were for eight cents per share. Revenue for the quarter came in at $2.3 billion when $2.39 billion was expected.

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