Zacks Growth and Income Strategy Highlights: American Home Mortgage Investment Corp., Diana Shipping, Nam Tai Electronics and Trustreet Properties.CHICAGO -- The Zacks Growth and Income Profit Track strategy looks for stocks with unusually high dividend yields. Although this screen is based on a long-term and lower risk approach to investing, it has a history of outperforming the S&P 500. Four stocks meeting this screen's exclusive criteria are: American Home For the American mortgage lender, see . The American Home is a center of intercultural exchange located in Vladimir, Russia. The home is designed to model a typical American suburban home and its main focus is the ESL school that provides lessons for Russian students. Mortgage Investment Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AHM AHM Automated Hacking Machines AHM All Hands Meeting AHM Academy for Healthcare Management AHM Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd album) AHM Airport Handling Manual AHM Acutely Hazardous Material AHM Anti-Helicopter Mine ), Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE: DSX DSX Digital Cross Connect DSX Digital Signal Cross-Connect DSX Data Service Cross-connect DSX Digital Signal Level X ), Nam Tai Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: NTE (NT Embedded) See Windows XP Embedded. ) and Trustreet Properties, Inc. (NYSE: TSY TSY Technology Systems (Bellcore) TSY Telephony Subsystem TSY The Sophomore Year (band) ). View the entire list of stocks for the Growth and Income Profit Track at http://at.zacks.com/?id=1850 Here are details about four companies currently identified by the Growth and Income Profit Track: American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. (NYSE: AHM) offers a current dividend yield of 11.62%. The company recently declared a quarterly dividend of $1.06 per share. In late October, AHM reported third-quarter earnings per share of $1.36, versus the previous year's $1.09. Third-quarter earnings also topped the consensus estimate of $1.35 per share. Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE: DSX) recently released its report for the third quarter, stating that its successful strategies to grow its fleet, while maintaining a flexible chartering policy that permits it to benefit from the dynamic of its marketplace, also have resulted in Diana Shipping being able to increase its dividend for the third quarter of 2006 to 40 cents per share Cents per share The amount of a mutual fund's dividend or capital gains distributions that a shareholder will receive for each share owned. . DSX has a current dividend yield of 10.47%. Nam Tai Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: NTE), a Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) company, posted non-GAAP third-quarter earnings of 28 cents per share in late October. The result was nearly 22% ahead of the consensus estimate. Nam Tai Electronics has topped analyst estimates four times out of the past five consecutive quarters. The company satisfies the criteria for this Profit Track with a current dividend yield of 8.81%. Trustreet Properties, Inc. (NYSE: TSY) offers a current dividend yield of 23.53%. The company recently announced its financial results for the third quarter, which included revenues of $54.9 million. The result was a year-over-year increase of 6.6% from last year's revenues of $51.5 million. TSY also recently declared a dividend of 33 cents per share. Discover all the current stocks currently on the Growth and Income Profit Track at: http://at.zacks.com/?id=1896 About Profit Tracks What is a "Profit Track"? Each Profit Track is a successful stock picking strategy with proven results through the Bear Market of 2001-2002 and the Bull run started in 2003. 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