Zacks.com Featured Expert Kevin Matras Highlights: Brocade, Corning and NETEASE.COM.CHICAGO -- Kevin Matras shows how to create your own price targets and how to estimate a stock's future earnings multiple. Stocks in this week's article are Brocade Communications Systems Brocade, Inc. NASDAQ: BRCD, based in Silicon Valley, designs, manufactures, and sells storage networking solutions and management applications for storage area networks (SANs) and file area networks (FANs). (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 : BRCD), Corning, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : GLW GLW Glasgow Airport (UK) GLW Gross Laden Weight GLW Good Lady Wife (Australia) ) and NETEASE.COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. , Inc. (NASDAQ: NTES NTES Netease.com Inc (stock symbol) NTES National Technical Employment Services, Inc. ). 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 Zacks Investment Research A firm that compiles earnings estimates and brokerage firm investment recommendations for thousands of publicly traded firms. : The screen I'm running today, finds stocks with P/Es under the average for their Industry and are under their average P/E P/E See: Price/earnings ratio over the last five years. But it also must show an increase in its P/E over the last quarter to demonstrate its responsiveness to higher earnings, which is also a part of the screen. The Parameters are: * P/E less than Industry's Average P/E (Stocks with P/Es that are less than the average P/E for their Industry, implying it should have room for P/E growth.) * P/E less than Average P/E over the Last 5 Years (I want the stock's P/E to be less that the Average P/E over the last five years.) * Current P/E greater than P/E from 12 Weeks ago (I want to see that the P/E has begun to move.) * % Change in Actual EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) A PostScript file format used to transfer a graphic image between applications and platforms. EPS files contain PostScript code as well as an optional preview image in TIFF, WMF, PICT or EPSI, the latter being an ASCII-only format. Growth Q(0)/Q(-1) greater than or equal to 0 and * % Change in Estimated EPS Growth Q(1)/Q(0) greater than or equal to 0 (I included both the actual Quarterly EPS Growth and the projected Quarterly EPS Growth to make sure the stock's earnings were moving up.) And for good measure: * % Change in Actual EPS Growth F(0)/F(-1) greater than or equal to 0 and * Change in Estimated EPS Growth F(1)/F(0) greater than or equal to 0 And lastly: * Price greater than or equal to $5 and * Volume (20 day average) greater than or equal to 50,000 This screen produces plenty of great stocks to consider with the potential for continued multiple expansion. Here's a few of them: BRCD Brocade Communications Systems GLW Corning, Inc. NTES NETEASE.COM, Inc. This type of screening requires access to historical P/E ratios P/E ratio Current stock price divided by trailing annual earnings per share or expected annual earnings per share. Assume XYZ Co. sells for $25.50 per share and has earned $2.55 per share this year; $25.50 = 10 times $2.55. XYZ stock sells for ten times earnings. and forward P/E forward P/E The price-earnings ratio of a firm's common stock calculated as the current stock price divided by estimated earnings per share for the coming year. 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