Zacks.com Announces That Gregory Spear Highlights the Following Stocks: Carbo Ceramics, Centex Corp., and Mesa AIR Group.

CHICAGO -- Gregory Spear explains that understanding three simple moving averages can keep you on the right side of the strongest trends. Read about Carbo Ceramics (NYSE:CRR), Centex Corp. (NYSE:CTX), and Mesa AIR Group (NASDAQ:MESA). Gregory Spear is the editor of The Spear Report newsletter. Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://at.zacks.com/?id=84

Highlights from the July 1st Featured Expert column by Gregory Spear include:

Technical analysis can get very complicated and unnecessarily so. If you can master 3 simple moving averages and apply them to industries and Consensus leaders, you will have a KISS system that will keep you on the right side of the strongest trends.

Carbo Ceramics (NYSE:CRR) makes a variety of ceramic materials called 'proppants' that have superior conductivity to sand and are used to fill these fractures. The company has a history of remarkable successes, frequently increasing well production hundreds of percent. Their products, being more expensive than sand, are typically used after one or two refractures using sand have been tried. A typical well will require between 100,000 lbs and 500,000 lbs of ceramic proppant to treat it. There are 500,000 oil and gas wells in the US alone suffering from declining production and worldwide, this problem is growing exponentially. It is much cheaper to refracture an existing well than to drill a new one, so products like that of Carbo Ceramics are in high demand.

CARBO Ceramics is the industry leader, with an estimated 52% share of the ceramic proppant market. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Carbo manufactures its products in Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia; and in China. The company has storage and distribution facilities in the U.S., Canada, Europe and China. In the most recent quarter, reported in late April, Carbo earned $11.6 million, or $0.72 per diluted share, on record revenues of $61.2 million. Revenues and net income for the quarter increased 22% and 21%, respectively year over year. While U.S. sales volume increased just 5%, Canadian sales volume increased 51% and Mexican sales volume increased 150%.

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Centex Corp. (NYSE:CTX) is the nation's premier company in building and related services: Home Building, Home Services, Financial Services, Contracting and Construction Services, Construction Products and Investment Real Estate.

Mesa AIR Group (NASDAQ:MESA) operates as America West Express in the Southwest, as US Airways Express throughout the East and Midwest, and independently as Mesa Airlines in New Mexico, Texas and Colorado.

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