Zacks.com Featured Expert Kevin Matras Highlights the Following Stocks: Commercial Metals, Humana, and Ventiv Health.CHICAGO -- Zacks.com releases it's exclusive Screen of the Week report that highlights another successful stock picking strategy developed with their Research Wizard Instructional help in an application or system development environment that guides the user through a series of multiple choice questions to accomplish a task. For the most part, wizards are more effective than the help menus found in most applications, which often border on the atrocious. software. This week, Kevin Matras combines some of his winningest strategies to create a Custom Consensus screen. Stocks in this week's screen are: Commercial Metals (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CMC (Common Messaging Calls) A programming interface specified by the XAPIA as the standard messaging API for X.400 and other messaging systems. CMC is intended to provide a common API for applications that want to become mail enabled. 1. ), Humana (NYSE:HUM), and Ventiv Health (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 :VTIV). 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. : "Creating a Custom Consensus of your Winningest Screens." Every week in this article, Kevin Matras either goes over a unique way to screen for stocks or publishes a proven profitable screening strategy. If you're a regular reader of this feature, you know that most of his strategies are doing fantastic. The only real decision is in choosing which one(s) you want to start using. Well instead of choosing just one, why not look at them all and create a Custom Consensus of some of Kevin's winningest strategies. This too is a great strategy for picking winning stocks from many diversified diversified (di·verˑ·s approaches. Because 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 Kevin is currently using in his Custom Consensus strategy come loaded with the Research Wizard program. --Big Money (a price momentum screen and one of Kevin's favorites Another term for bookmarks, which was popularized by Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser. See favicon and Internet Explorer. ) --Breakouts2 (cheap stocks near their 52 week highs) --EPS Growth --Filtered Zacks Rank --ROE --PEG --Upgrades and Revisions2 (another one of his favorite strategies) --Increasing Cash Flows --Sales and Margins 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. This week (1/10/05), there are 10 top Consensus picks. And they look great. Here's 3 of them: CMC Commercial Metals (2x -- Increasing Cash Flows & ROE) HUM Humana (2x -- EPS Growth & Upgrades and Revisions2) VTIV Ventiv Health (2x -- Increasing Cash Flows & Sales and Margins) Sign up now for your 2 week free trial to the Research Wizard and get this Custom Consensus list week after week. 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