Zacks.com featured expert Kevin Matras highlights: Gehl Company, ICT Group, Patterson-UTI Energy, Southern Union and USG Corporation.CHICAGO -- Kevin Matras combines some of his winningest strategies to create a Custom Consensus screen. Stocks in this week's article are Gehl Company (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 :GEHL), ICT (1) (Information and Communications Technology) An umbrella term for the information technology field. See IT. (2) (International Computers and Tabulators) See ICL. 1. (testing) ICT - In Circuit Test. Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:ICTG ICTG Irish Christmas Tree Growers ICTG Information and Communications Technology Group (SAIC) ), Patterson-UTI Energy Company Profile Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. provides onshore contract drilling services to exploration and production companies in North America. The Company owns 403 land-based drilling rigs that operate in oil and natural gas producing regions of Texas, New Mexico, , Inc. (NASDAQ:PTEN PTEN Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase PTEN Phosphatase and Tensin Homolog PTEN Prime Time Entertainment Network (television network) ), Southern Union Company (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SUG n. 1. A kind of worm or larva. ) and USG Corporation USG Corporation (NYSE: USG), also known as United States Gypsum Corporation, is a Fortune 500 (rank 396 in 2007)[1] company that manufactures construction materials. USG Corporation was organized on January 1 1985 as the holding company of its subsidiaries. (NYSE:USG (UNIX Systems Group) The division within Novell that was responsible for UnixWare. See USL. ). 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. : Every week in this article, I either go over a unique way to screen for stocks or publish a proven, profitable screening strategy. If you're a regular reader of this feature, you know that most of our strategies have done 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 our winningest strategies. This too is a great strategy for picking winning stocks from many diversified approaches. Aside from using the Zacks Rank for many of the screens, there are several other filters layered on top to help you find the best stocks from different styles. The screens I'm currently using in my Custom Consensus strategy come loaded with the Research Wizard program. --Big Money --Breakouts --EPS Growth --Filtered Zacks Rank --ROE --PEG --Upgrades and Revisions2 --Increasing Cash Flows --Sales and Margins --Winning Ways 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. Here are five stocks from this week's (4/24/06) Consensus list.
GEHL Gehl Company
(from the Increasing Cash Flows screen, & the ROE screen)
ICTG ICT Group, Inc.
(Increasing Cash Flows screen, & the ROE screen)
PTEN Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc.
(EPS Growth screen, PEG screen, & Upgrades and Revisions2
screen)
SUG Southern Union Company
(EPS Growth screen, & Upgrades and Revisions2 screen)
USG USG Corp.
(Increasing Cash Flows screen, & the ROE screen, &
the Upgrades and Revisions2 screen)
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