Zacks.com Featured Expert Kevin Matras Highlights the Following Stocks: IntegraMed America, ENGlobal Corporation, and Hub 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. This week, Kevin Matras goes over his Big Money screening strategy that picked up over 100% in 2001 and over 200% in 2002 and 2003. Stocks in this week's screen are: IntegraMed America, Inc. (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 :INMD INMD Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism, and Diabetes (Canada) INMD In-service Non-intrusive Measurement Device (ITU-T, P.562) INMD Internet Metadata (IETF; formerly Net News Metadata Protocol) ), ENGlobal Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ENG ENG electronystagmography. ENG abbr. electronystagmography ENG enzootic nasal granuloma. ) and Hub Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:HUBG). 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. : "Big Money" Kevin Matras has published this screen a couple of times over the past year and its one of his favorite screens to trade. Its a price momentum screen that finds stocks on the move. But with a Price to Sales ratio added to it, these movers are still considered bargains. The parameters are; Price/Sales ratio Price-to-sales ratio, P/S ratio, or PSR, is a valuation metric for stocks. It is calculated by dividing the company's market cap by the company's revenue in the most recent fiscal year (or the most recent four fiscal quarters); or, equivalently, divide the per-share less than .5 (A low price to sales ratio (below 1.0 for example) is usually thought to be a better value, since the investor is paying less for each unit of sales.) Average Broker Rating less than 2. (Strong Buys and varying degrees of average Strong Buys. Kevin wants the analysts on board.) Avg. 20 Day Volume greater than or equal to 50,000 (It has to be tradable.) Percent Change in Price over 24 weeks Top# 20. (Looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the top 20 price performers out of the list above.) Percent Change in Price over 12 weeks Top# 10. (Looking for the top 10 price performers out of the list above.) Percent Change in Price over 4 weeks Top# 3. (Looking for the 3 best price gainers out of that list above.) The results; In 2001, the average 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. gross return was over 135% with an average win ratio (winning periods) of 66%. (Portfolio is rebalanced every 4 weeks.) In 2002, the average annualized gross return was over 250% with an avg. win ratio of 70%. In 2003, the avg. annualized gross return was over 280% with an avg. win ratio of 79%. Aside from the big returns, one of the main benefits of this screen is that it generates the same number of qualified stocks each period (3).
This weeks 3 picks are:
INMD IntegraMed America, Inc.
ENG ENGlobal Corporation
HUBG Hub Group, Inc.
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