Zacks.com Featured Expert Kevin Matras Highlights: Nautilus Group, Seagate Tech, Too, Providian Financial, and Telesystem Int'l Wireless.

CHICAGO -- Kevin Matras goes over two of the daily screens that he uses regularly. One is an EPS Momentum screen that looks for both price and earnings trends. The other looks at Increasing Prices and Volume for spotting stocks on the move. Stocks in this week's screens are: Nautilus Group, Inc. (NYSE:NLS), Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX), Too, Inc. (NYSE:TOO), Providian Financial Corporation (NYSE:PVN), and Telesystem International Wireless, Inc. (NASDAQ:TIWI). 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:

2 New Screening Ideas to Find Winning Stocks, NOW!!!

Kevin focuses on 2 screening ideas this week that he uses regularly to help find winning stock picks. They're great screens to help him see what's hot and what's not.

1.) The first one focuses on EPS momentum with stocks in uptrends.

What Kevin is looking for is; stocks with 50% or greater EPS growth for the last 2 quarter over quarter periods (Q0 over Q-1 and Q-1 over Q-2), positive EPS surprises for the last 2 quarters, positive EPS Estimate Revisions over the last 4 weeks and that are trading within 20% of their 52 week highs.

This is a great screen to find stocks on the move with earnings momentum backing it up.

The parameters are:

% Change Actual EPS Q(0)/Q(-1) greater than or equal to 50%
% Change Actual EPS Q(-1)/Q(-2) greater than or equal to 50%
Last EPS Surprise greater than or equal to 0 (no negative surprises)
Previous EPS Surprise greater than or equal to 0 (no negative
surprises)
% Change Q(1) Est. - 4 Weeks greater than or equal to 0 (no negative
revisions)
Current Price/52 Week High greater than or equal to .80 (no more than
20% off the high)

Kevin also applying it to stocks trading at greater than or equal to $5 with a minimum of at least 50,000 shares traded daily.

Here's a few on that list now (as of Mon. 3/7/05);

NLS  Nautilus Group, Inc.
STX  Seagate Technology
TOO  Too, Inc.

2.) The second one looks for stocks that have shown three days worth of increasing prices accompanied by increasing volume.

Kevin has found that stocks that meet this criteria have a tendency to keep on moving in that same direction.

The parameters are:

Current Price greater than Price 1 Day Ago
Price 1 Day Ago greater than Price 2 Days Ago
Price 2 Days Ago greater than Price 3 Days Ago
Current Volume greater than Volume 1 Day Ago
Volume 1 Day Ago greater than Volume 2 Days Ago
Volume 2 Days Ago greater than Volume 3 Days Ago

And it's applied to stocks that are trading within 20% of their 52 week high. Additionally, they're greater than or equal to $5 and have a minimum of at least 50,000 shares traded daily.

Instead of focusing on just the biggest gainers (which often are one day events -- that have been missed), this spots price momentum AND accumulation. Very bullish signs.

Here's a couple of the stocks it picked for Mon., 3/7/05;

PVN  Providian Financial Corporation
TIWI Telesystem International Wireless, Inc.

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