Zacks.com Announces That Richard Moroney Highlights the Following Stocks: Flagstar Bancorp, BioReliance, First Cash Financial, and Investors Financial Services.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 2003 Having trouble finding dividend payers among small company stocks? Richard Moroney can end your search through his extensive analysis and stock recommendations. Read about Flagstar Bancorp (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :FBC See fully buzzword compliant. ), BioReliance (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 :BREL BREL British Rail Engineering Limited BREL Bureau Regional pour Ethnologie et la Linguistique (Italy) ), First Cash Financial (NASDAQ:FCFS First come, first served. ), and Investors Financial Services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. (NASDAQ:IFIN IFIN Integrated Farming Information Network ). Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://featuredexpert2bw.zacks.com/ Here are the highlights from the Featured Expert column: If you are investing in small-company stocks, limiting your search to dividend-paying companies can be problematic. For one thing, the average stock in the Russell 2000 Index Russell 2000 Index An index measuring the performance of the 2,000 smallest companies in the Russell 3000 Index, which is made up of 3,000 of the biggest U.S. stocks. The Russell 2000 serves as a benchmark for small-cap stocks in the United States. yields less than 1%, compared to 1.5% for the average stock in the S&P 500 Index. Still, if you can find them, dividend-paying stocks can provide a winning combination of growth and income. At 2.8%, Flagstar Bancorp (NYSE:FBC) is the highest yielder. Moreover, the company has aggressively grown its dividend. September-quarter earnings per share were $1.42, up from 73 cents a year earlier. Sales and earnings standouts Earnings season has begun well for small-company stocks, with reported earnings beating expectations handily hand·i·ly adv. 1. In an easy manner. 2. In a convenient manner. Adv. 1. handily - in a convenient manner; "the switch was conveniently located" conveniently 2. . In the following paragraphs, Upside reviews three high-quality companies with strong earnings momentum and bright year-ahead profit prospects. BioReliance (NASDAQ:BREL), a leading supplier of testing, development, and manufacturing services to pharmaceutical companies, posted record September-quarter results. Per-share earnings reached 39 cents, up from 36 cents in 2002 and topping the consensus estimate by a penny. Revenue rose 13% to $24 million, with sales up 11% in the U.S. and 20% in Europe. Sales should benefit from the growing trend toward outsourcing biotech testing and product development. First Cash Financial (NASDAQ:FCFS) exceeded consensus estimates by more than 15% in he September quarter. Per-share profits for this fast-growing operator of pawn and check-cashing stores soared 37% to 37 cents. Sales jumped 25%, spurred by 15% same-store sales Same-store sales is a business term which refers to the revenue generated by one of a retail chain's specific outlets during a certain period of time (often a fiscal quarter or a particular shopping season), compared to an identical period in the past, usually in the previous year. growth. Management now expects full year earnings per share of $1.43 to $1.45, up from $1.14 in 2002. During the quarter, the company added 12 new locations, bringing the total store count to 224. First Cash remains on track to open a total of 45 stores by year-end. Investors Financial Services (NASDAQ:IFIN) delivered outstanding September-quarter earnings of 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. , up 54% from a year earlier and 18% above the consensus estimate. Investors Financial provides asset servicing, including securities custody and accounting. Value-added services include mutual fund administration and foreign exchange. Looking ahead, Investors Financial stands to benefit from an improving operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. and continued cost cutting. Read all of Richard Moroney's commentaries and take a look at several more sales and earnings standouts by clicking: http://featuredexpert3bw.zacks.com/ About Zacks Featured Experts To be a successful investor you need professional advice. Experts who know what they're talking about and can help you achieve your financial goals in good markets...and especially in bad ones will help you improve your portfolio. 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