Dear Subscriber,

With earnings season starting this afternoon, we will soon start seeing some stocks jump in reaction to their bullish reports.

However, as Kevin Matras points out, almost all of the most successful stocks have given hints before taking off.

What are these hints? Kevin tells you in Screen of the Week.

Read: Earnings Acceleration


PeopleandPicks.com, the investment community of Zacks.com, has a lot of great features. One of my favorites is the Most Followed Stocks list.

This list shows which stocks are being traded the most, and whether sentiment has been bullish or bearish.

Though some of the stocks are pretty obvious (e.g. Apple (APPL)), there are others that you might not expect to see as among the most popular.

Check out the list yourself: Most Followed Stocks

Wishing you prosperity,
Charles Rotblut, CFA
Senior Market Analyst & Editor,
Profit From the Pros

Today's Top Stories: Wednesday- July 08, 2009

ZACKS RANK BUY STOCKS

• Aggressive Growth - Merit Medical Systems, Inc (MMSI) first quarter record sales of $58.4 million drove net income 28% higher to $5.5 million. The record sales drove earnings per share to 19 cents, up from 15 cents in Q1 of 2008. Read More...
   
• Growth & Income - SEI Investments Co. (SEIC) beat analyst estimates for the first-quarter coming in at 23 cents per share, 1 penny ahead of the consensus. Estimates are up, with the current-year climbing 4 cents in the last 60 days to $88 cents. Read More...
   
• Momentum - Jefferies Group, Inc. (JEF) pre-released second-quarter results with revenue showing a record $500 million, while income is expected to top $50 million, a sharp increase from a quarterly loss in the same period last year. Read More...
   
• Value - Casey's General Stores, Inc. (CASY) has a forward P/E of 13.02 and a price-to-book ratio of 1.80. The company has a solid 5-year average return on equity (ROE) of 11.27%. Read More...
   

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