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Zacks Sell List Highlights: Casey's General Stores, Nam Tai Electronics, Bausch & Lomb and Huntsman.


CHICAGO -- Zacks.com releases details on a group of stocks that are currently members of the exclusive Zacks #5 Rank List - Stocks to Sell Now. These stocks are currently rated as a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell): Casey's General Stores Casey's General Stores, Inc. NASDAQ: CASY is a chain of convenience stores in the Midwestern United States, primarily within the states of Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri. The company is headquartered in Ankeny, Iowa.  Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ
 in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on
: CASY CASY Chemical Agent Storage Yard ) and Nam Tai Electronics Inc. (NYSE NYSE

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: NTE (NT Embedded) See Windows XP Embedded. ). Further, Zacks announced #4 Rankings (Sell) on two other widely held stocks: Bausch & Lomb Inc. (NYSE: BOL BOL Bolivia (ISO Country code)
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) and Huntsman Corp. (NYSE: HUN). To see the full Zacks #5 Rank List - Stocks to Sell Now visit: http://at.zacks.com/?id=92

Since inception in 1988, the S&P 500 has outperformed the Zacks #5 Rank List -- Stocks to Sell Now by 129.7% annually (11.9% vs. 5.2% respectively). While the rest of Wall Street continued to tout Tout

To promote a security in order to attract buyers.


tout

To foster interest in a particular company or security. For example, a broker might tout a security to a client in the hope that the client will purchase the security.
 stocks during the market declines of the last few years, Zacks told investors which stocks to sell or avoid.

Here is a synopsis of why CASY and NTE have a Zacks Rank of #5 (Strong Sell) and should most likely be sold or avoided for the next one to three months. Note that a #5 Strong Sell rating is applied to 5% of all the stocks in the Zacks Rank universe:

Casey's General Stores Inc. (NASDAQ: CASY) has seen this year's earnings estimates drop 15 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.
 over the past two months. Next year's estimates have dropped seven cents per share. Earlier this month, the company said fiscal first-quarter profit slipped 19 percent and missed Wall Street's expectations, as customers bought less gasoline due to high prices. CASY missed views by 23%.

Nam Tai Electronics Inc. (NYSE: NTE) has experienced a drop in analyst estimates. Earnings estimates for this year stand at $1.05 per share, down 14 cents from 30 days ago. The company said it expects third-quarter and full-year results will be lower than previously anticipated, hurt by lower sales. NTE now sees third-quarter earnings about 20 percent to 25 percent below previous guidance of between 30 cents to 32 cents a share, on revenue 8 percent to 13 percent below previous guidance of $230 million to $240 million.

Here is a synopsis of why BOL and HUN have a Zacks Rank of 4 (Sell) and should also most likely be sold or avoided for the next one to three months. Note that a #4 Sell rating is applied to 15% of all the stocks ranked by Zacks:

Bausch & Lomb Inc. (NYSE: BOL) has been the target of increasing bearishness bear·ish  
adj.
1. Clumsy, boorish, and surly.

2.
a. Causing, expecting, or characterized by falling stock-market prices.

b.
 by analysts. Over the past month, full year estimates have declined 31%. The new consensus estimate calls for $1.20 per share this year. The company said it would delay filing its second-quarter financial report and warned that 2006 pretax earnings could be nearly 80 percent lower than it had once projected because of the recall of a lens solution.

Huntsman Corp. (NYSE: HUN) has seen its earnings estimates drop for this year. The current 2006 consensus estimate of $1.80 per share is seven cents below the forecast of two months ago. President and Chief Executive Peter R. Huntsman said high and volatile costs raw material and energy remain a concern for the company.

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Since 1988, the Zacks Rank has proven that "Earnings estimate revisions are the most powerful force impacting stock prices." A $10,000 investment in the Zacks Rank list made in 1988 would now be worth $1.8 million - equivalent to a 32.4% annualized annualized

Of or relating to a variable that has been mathematically converted to a yearly rate. Inflation and interest rates are generally annualized since it is on this basis that these two variables are ordinarily stated and compared.
 return! During the 2000-2002 bear market, Zacks #1 Rank stocks gained 43.8%, while the S&P 500 tumbled 37.6%. Also note that the Zacks Rank system has just as many Strong Sell recommendations (Rank #5) as Strong Buy recommendations (Rank #1). Since 1988, Zacks Rank #5 stocks have underperformed the S&P 500 by 145.8% annually (+4.7% vs. +11.6%). Thus, the Zacks Rank system allows investors to truly manage portfolio trading effectively.

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*The S&P 500 Index ("S&P 500") is a well-known, unmanaged index of the prices of 500 large-company common stocks selected by Standard & Poor's. The S&P 500 includes the reinvestment Reinvestment

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1. In terms of stocks, it is the reinvestment of dividends to purchase additional shares.
 of all dividends, no transaction costs Transaction Costs

Costs incurred when buying or selling securities. These include brokers' commissions and spreads (the difference between the price the dealer paid for a security and the price they can sell it).
, and represents the gross returns before management fees.

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