Zacks.com Featured Expert Kevin Matras Highlights the Following Stocks: Capital One Financial, Hovnanian Enterprises and LandAmerica Financial Group.

CHICAGO -- Zacks.com releases it's exclusive Screen of the Week report that highlights another successful stock picking strategy developed with their Research Wizard software. Kevin Matras shows you how to find great growth stocks at an excellent value. This strategy has shown an average annualized gross return of over 20% in 2002, 90% in 2003, and more than 38% so far in 2004. Some stocks in this week's screen are: Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE:COF), Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE:HOV) and LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE:LFG). 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:

"Finding Growth Stocks at Excellent Values"

This week's screen has something for both Growth Investors and Value Investors alike. Growth Investors focus on companies with great earnings growth, but that alone isn't good enough for many stock pickers any more. They want good growth at reasonable prices (low P/E's). And while Value Investors focus on low P/E stocks, too many are low because they lack earnings power. So instead, try combining the best of both worlds and focus on the companies with the highest growth rates with the lowest P/E ratios.

The screen Kevin is running this week is as follows:

Companies with 5 Year Historical Growth Rates to be in the top 20 percentile of all companies.

Companies that also happened to have the lowest P/E's too - lower than 80% of all other companies.

Those qualified stocks to be trading at or above $5, with average daily trading volumes of 100,000 shares or more, and a Zacks Rank of 2 or less (only 'buys' and 'strong buys' allowed).

This week, there are 23 companies that passed this screen.

Here's 3 new ones that look poised to break out;

COF Capital One Financial Corp.
HOV Hovnanian Enterprises, Inc.
LFG LandAmerica Financial Group, Inc.

In 2002, this screen showed and average annualized gross return of 20.8% with an average win ratio (winning periods) of 71%. In 2003, it showed an average annualized gross return of 90.3% with a 79% win ratio. And so far this year (YTD, 2004 -- thru 11/19/04), it's showing an average annualized return of 38.7%, with a 73% win ratio. (The S&P 500's avg. annualized return thus far is approx. 7.9%.)

This is an excellent Growth and Value screening strategy to find new stocks with a high probability of success.

Check it out for yourself and get the rest of the stocks on this list. See where your stocks Rank out of all of the other stocks out there, and test your own strategies and see how they've done. Find out what works and what doesn't and plan for a great 2005. It can all be done with the Research Wizard stock picking and backtesting program. Sign up now for your two week free trial. http://at.zacks.com/?id=111

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