Zacks PEG Ratio Strategy Highlights: Bronco Drilling Co. Inc., InterDigital Communications Corp., Nabors Industries Ltd. and OMI Corp.CHICAGO -- If you like to use a company's P/E ratio P/E ratio Current stock price divided by trailing annual earnings per share or expected annual earnings per share. Assume XYZ Co. sells for $25.50 per share and has earned $2.55 per share this year; $25.50 = 10 times $2.55. XYZ stock sells for ten times earnings. to determine its value, then you'll love using the PEG Ratio Profit Track. The PEG Ratio can calculate if a stock is undervalued Undervalued A stock or other security that is trading below its true value. Notes: The difficulty is knowing what the "true" value actually is. Analysts will usually recommend an undervalued stock with a strong buy rating. relative to its expected future growth. Using this indicator in a Profit Track can produce stellar profits, such as a +16.3% return in 2005 and continued strong returns in 2006. Four stocks meeting this screen's exclusive criteria are: Bronco bronco: see mustang. Drilling Co. Inc. (Nasdaq:BRNC BRNC Britannia Royal Naval College (Dartmouth, England) ), InterDigital interdigital between two digits. interdigital cysts see interdigital pyoderma, pododermatitis. interdigital dermatitis 1. the early lesion in the development of infectious footrot in sheep; called also sheep scald. Communications Corp. (Nasdaq:IDCC IDCC Integrated Dual-use Commercial Companies ), Nabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :NBR NBR Number NBR Nightly Business Report (PBS show) NBR National Business Review (New Zealand weekly business newspaper) NBR National Bureau of Asian Research NBR National Board of Review ) and OMI (1) See Open Market. (2) (Open Microprocessor Initiative, Brussels, Belgium) An organization that functions under the umbrella of the European Commission. It funds projects that research and develop advanced microcontroller technologies. Corp. (NYSE:OMM OMM Organisation Météorologique Mondiale (French: World Meteorological Organization) OMM Organización Meteorológica Mundial (Spanish: World Meteorological Organization) OMM Organizzazione Meteorologica Mondiale ). View the entire list of stocks for the PEG Ratio Profit Track at http://at.zacks.com/?id=1837 Here are details about four companies currently identified by the PEG Ratio Profit Track: Bronco Drilling Co. Inc. (Nasdaq:BRNC) will announce financial results for the second quarter on August 8, 2006. BRNC, which can be an attractive value investment as its PEG ratio currently stands at 0.15, reported first-quarter results in early May. Earnings per share were 48 cents versus analysts' expectations of 43 cents. Revenues were a record $56.4 million compared to $39.0 million for the previous quarter and $8.6 million for the year-ago quarter. InterDigital Communications Corp. (Nasdaq:IDCC), a Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) company, has a PEG ratio of 0.25. The company recently posted second-quarter earnings of $2.98 per share, soaring past last year's seven cents and eclipsing the consensus estimate by almost 4%. InterDigital Communications mentioned that it is optimistic about its prospects in third quarter. Nabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE:NBR), another Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) name, recently reported second-quarter earnings of 82 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. before a one-time tax charge. The result beat the consensus estimate by approximately 15% and topped the year-prior total. The company noted that all of its major operating businesses achieved a more than 50% increase in year-over-year results. NBR's PEG ratio is 0.26. OMI Corp. (NYSE:OMM) is also a Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) company. OMM satisfies the criteria for this Profit Track as evidenced by its PEG ratio of 0.48. 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