Zacks.com announces that Gregory Spear highlights the following stocks: Humana, Nucor, CNF Inc., Expressjet Holding Airline, and Mesa AIR Group.CHICAGO -- Gregory Spear explains that moods do matter on the Street. Learn about Humana (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :HUM), Nucor Corp. (NYSE:NUE NUE Nitrogen Use Efficiency NUE Nuremberg, Germany - Nuremberg (Airport Code) NUE Non-Upset Ends (piping) ), CNF CNF Configuration (File Name Extension) CNF Conference CNF Conjunctive Normal Form CNF Could Not Find CNF Chin National Front (Burma) CNF Canadian Nature Federation CNF Cornell NanoScale Facility Inc. (NYSE:CNF), Expressjet Holding Airline (NYSE:XJT XJT Express Jet XJT Expansion Joint ), and Mesa AIR Group Mesa Air Group (NASDAQ: MESA) is a Nevada Corporation[1] commercial aviation holding company with headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. The company operates three regional airline subsidiaries: Mesa Airlines, Freedom Airlines, and Air Midwest, and five supporting (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 :MESA). Gregory Spear is the editor of The Spear Report newsletter. Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://at.zacks.com/?id=84 Highlights from the August 12 Featured Expert column by Gregory Spear include: Humana (NYSE:HUM), headquartered in Louisville, Ky., is one of the nation's largest publicly traded health benefits companies, with approximately seven million medical members. The company offers a diversified portfolio of health insurance products and related services to employer groups, government-sponsored plans, and individuals. In its Medicare Advantage business, revenue increased 41% to more than $1 billion, which amounts to about one-third of the company's gross revenue. While total government medical membership was up only 10%, Medicare Advantage membership grew almost 30%, to roughly 475,000 members. This is making its way to the bottomline, as Humana reported pre-tax earnings from its government section of $104 million, a 22% increase year-over-year. Pre-tax earnings from Humana's commercial segment, however, decreased 32%, to $25 million in the second quarter of 2004. Nevertheless, the company is confident and reaffirmed its 2005 earnings guidance of $2.23 to $2.25 per share, and anticipates 2006 profit growth of at least 25%. That said, Humana must make this transition to the Medicare market work or they will miss estimates and be punished by the Street. Stocks from the Consensus Buy List include: Nucor Corp. (NYSE:NUE) manufactures and sells steel products. Principal steel products are hot-rolled steel (angles, rounds, flats, channels, sheet, wide-flange beams, pilings, billets, blooms and beam blanks), cold-rolled steel, cold finished steel, steel joists and joist girders, steel deck, steel fasteners and steel grinding balls. CNF Inc. (NYSE:CNF) is a management company of global supply-chain services with businesses in regional less-than-truckload trucking, multi-modal full truckload, multi-client warehousing and expedited ground transport; domestic and international airfreight air·freight n. 1. A system of transporting freight by air. 2. The amount charged for transporting freight by air. air , ocean freight, customs brokerage and logistics services; full-service logistics management Logistics Management is that part of Supply Chain Management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective, forward, and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption in order to meet ; postal sortation Identifying objects that are stamped with a bar code and routing them to the appropriate destination. Sortation is typically a high-speed process used in the transportation industry by companies such as Federal Express, UPS and others. See sort and bar code. and transportation services, and trailer manufacturing. Expressjet Holding Airline (NYSE:XJT) operating as Continental Express, is an operator of regional jets. Mesa AIR Group (NASDAQ:MESA) operates as America West Express America West Express was the name for America West Airlines commuter and regional flights operated by Mesa Air Group's Mesa Airlines under a code share agreement. Today Mesa Airlines operates for US Airways Express. in the Southwest, as US Airways Express US Airways Express is an airline brand name, rather than a fully certificated airline, and as such, the US Airways Express name is used by several individually owned airlines or airline holding companies which provide regional airline and commuter service for US Airways. throughout the East and Midwest, and independently as Mesa Airlines in New Mexico, Texas and Colorado. Read Gregory Spear's commentary regarding market sentiment Market Sentiment The feeling or tone of a market (i.e. crowd psychology). It is shown by the activity and price movement of the securities. 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