Discounted Fundamental Strength
This Profit Track identifies stocks with strong underlying fundamentals and low valuations. These are companies with solid balance sheets and a history of profitability that are reasonably priced. Although conservative in approach, this strategy has generated double-digit returns for five consecutive years, including an 18.6% return for the first five months of 2006.
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Earnings and Margins
Earnings are the single most important metric for a company. Combine that with a healthy Net Profit Margin and you find a screen that has generated a cumulative return of +536.3%, including a 8.5% return for the first five months of 2006.
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Growth and Income
This Profit Track looks for stocks that are paying dividend yields of greater than 8% along with other attractive fundamental attributes. Although this screen is based on a long-term and lower risk approach to investing, it has a history of outperforming the S&P 500.
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High Rank Value
Many value investors look for stocks trading at Price/Earnings multiples below 15.0 and Price/Book multiples below 3.0. Unfortunately, not all value stocks are bargains. By requiring a high Zacks Rank in addition to a low valuation, this strategy finds the true bargains — bargains that generated returns of 1.4% in the first five months of 2006.
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Low Price
Looking for stocks priced below $20? How about stocks with discount valuations and a positive trend in earnings estimates revisions? This strategy not only finds such stocks, but also generated a 22.2% return for the first five months of 2006.
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PEG
If you like to use a company's PE ratio to determine its value, you'll love using the PEG ratio. Find out which companies offer the greatest value regardless of growth rate to enjoy stellar returns.
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Recent Price Strength
This screen looks for stocks trading in the upper range of their 52-week highs along with attractive Zacks Rank and Broker Ratings. This strategy proves that the "trend is your friend" with a +13.9% return versus +2.1% for the S&P 500 in the first five months of 2006.
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Return on Equity (ROE)
One of the quickest ways to gauge whether a company is creating assets or gobbling up investor's cash is to look at their ROE. This fast moving Profit Track returned an impressive +21.4% in 2005. For the first five months of 2006, it continued to outperform the S&P 500, returning 18.5% versus the S&P 500 rise of 2.1%.
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Upgrades and Revisions
This screen focuses on EPS Revisions, along with Broker Ratings and Rating Changes. According to Zacks Investment Research "earnings estimate revisions are the most powerful force impacting stock prices". Couple that with the proven benefits of upgrades in ratings from brokerage firms and you have a strategy that delivered a +16.5% return in the first five months of 2006.
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