Zacks.com Featured Expert Kevin Matras Highlights: Anixter Int'l, General Cable Corporation and TETRA Technologies.

CHICAGO -- Kevin Matras combines some of his winningest strategies to create a Custom Consensus screen. Stocks in this week's article are Anixter International, Inc. (NYSE:AXE), General Cable Corporation (NYSE:BGC) and TETRA Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:TTI). Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://at.zacks.com/?id=109

Screen of the Week written by Kevin Matras of Zacks Investment Research:

Every week in this article, I either go over a unique way to screen for stocks or publish a proven profitable screening strategy. If you're a regular reader of this feature, you know that most of our strategies have done fantastic. The only real decision is choosing which one(s) you want to use.

Well instead of choosing just one, why not look at them all and create a Custom Consensus of some of our winningest strategies? This too is a great strategy for picking winning stocks from many diversified approaches. Aside from using the Zacks Rank for many of the screens, there are many other filters layered on top of it to find the best stocks from different styles.

The screens I'm currently using in my Custom Consensus strategy come loaded with the Research Wizard program.

--Big Money

--Breakouts

--EPS Growth Past & Present

--Filtered Zacks Rank

--ROE

--Upgrades and Revisions2

--PEG

--Increasing Cash Flows

--Sales and Margins

--Winning Ways

Simply run each screen, generate a list of qualified tickers for each one and then count how many times a stock appears in all of those screens. If they appear in two or more screens, they qualify for the Consensus portfolio.

Here are three stocks from this week's (9/5/06) Consensus list:

AXE     Anixter International, Inc.
        (from the EPS Growth Past and Present screen, the Increasing
        Cash Flows screen, ROE screen, Sales and Margins screen, and
        the Upgrades and Revisions2 screen)

BGC     General Cable Corp.
        (EPS Growth Past and Present and the Upgrades and Revisions2
        screen)

TTI     TETRA Technologies, Inc.
        (EPS Growth Past and Present screen and the Upgrades and
        Revisions2 screen)

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