Zacks.com Announces that Richard Moroney Highlights the Following Stocks: Lamson & Sessions, Nara Bancorp, PW Eagle, Regal-Beloit and Riverview Bancorp.CHICAGO -- Richard Moroney highlights companies with strong earnings momentum. Read his commentary and check out Lamson & Sessions (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : LMS), Nara Bancorp (Nasdaq: NARA), PW Eagle (Nasdaq: PWEI PWEI Pop Will Eat Itself (band) ), Regal-Beloit (NYSE: RBC RBC red blood cell. RBC or rbc abbr. red blood cell RBC, n See red blood cell count. RBC red blood cells; red blood (cell) count (see blood count). ) and Riverview Bancorp (Nasdaq: RVSB RVSB Raritan Valley Symphonic Band (Hillsborough, NJ) RVSB Rogue Valley Symphonic Band (Medford, OR) ). Richard Moroney is the editor of the Upside newsletter. Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://at.zacks.com/?id=84 Highlights from the November 6 Featured Expert column by Richard Moroney include: Below are two of the names that Moroney has listed as companies with strong earnings momentum. All three of Lamson & Sessions' (NYSE: LMS) business segments delivered double-digit sales growth in the September quarter. The company, a maker of electrical enclosures and fittings, said strong orders for commercial and utility construction offset moderation in the residential and telecom markets. Profitability of the company's PVC PVC: see polyvinyl chloride. PVC in full polyvinyl chloride Synthetic resin, an organic polymer made by treating vinyl chloride monomers with a peroxide. pipe plants is benefiting from high capacity utilization Capacity Utilization measures the rate at which a firm makes use of their capital productive capacities, such as factories and machinery. Capacity Utilization generally rises when the economy is healthy and falls when demand softens. . Sales rose 16% to $148 million. Per-share earnings reached $0.74, up from $0.35. Strong loan growth, tight expense controls, and effective balance-sheet management are driving solid results at Nara Bancorp (Nasdaq: NARA). September-quarter earnings per share increased 3% to $0.33. Net interest income increased 15% to $23.8 million, driven by 16% growth in average interest-earnings assets. While margins at most banks have been squeezed by higher short-term interest rates Short-term interest rates Interest rates on loan contracts-or debt instruments such as Treasury bills, bank certificates of deposit or commerical paper-having maturities of less than one year. Often called money market rates. , Nara reported an 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. net interest margin of 5.11% in the September quarter, up from 4.95% in the year-earlier period. Other stocks on Moroney's Upside Buy List include: PW Eagle (Nasdaq: PWEI) is a leading extruder of PVC pipe and polyethylene tubing products. The Company operates eight manufacturing facilities in the midwestern and western United States Noun 1. western United States - the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River West Santa Fe Trail - a trail that extends from Missouri to New Mexico; an important route for settlers moving west in the 19th century . Regal-Beloit (NYSE: RBC) manufactures a diverse line of power transmission products and expendable, high-speed steel high-speed steel Alloy of steel introduced in 1900. It doubled or trebled the capacities of machine shops by permitting the operation of machine tools at twice or three times the speeds possible with carbon steel (which loses its cutting edge when the temperature produced by , rotary cutting tools. Co.'s power transmission products, manufactured by its Power Transmission Group, include standard and custom gearboxes, specialized off-highway transmissions, rigid forklift axles, custom gearing, hi-performance transmissions and ring-and-pinion gear sets, manual valve actuators and fractional horsepower gearmotors. Co.'s rotary cutting tool products are manufactured by its Cutting Tool Group. Riverview Bancorp (Nasdaq: RVSB) is a holding company for Riverview Savings Bank savings bank, financial institution that, until recently, performed only the following functions: receiving savings deposits of individuals, investing them, and providing a modest return to its depositors in the form of interest. . The bank is a community oriented financial institution offering traditional financial services to the residents of its primary market area. The bank is engaged in the business of attracting deposits from the public and using such funds to originate fixed-rate mortgage loans and adjustable rate mortgage This article is about the US mortgage type. For an international perspective, see Variable rate mortgage. An adjustable rate mortgage (ARM) is a mortgage loan where the interest rate on the note is periodically adjusted based on an index. loans secured by one- to- four family residential real estate located in its primary market area. 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