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Zacks.com highlights: Verso, Boise Cascade, Beazer Homes USA, California Resources and Bristow Group

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Chicago, IL – November 22, 2017 - Stocks in this week’s article include: Verso Corporation , Boise Cascade Company (BCC - Free Report) , Beazer Homes USA (BZH - Free Report) , California Resources Corporation (CRC - Free Report) and Bristow Group .

Screen of the Week of Zacks Investment Research:

Watch Out for These 5 Stocks After Broker Rating Upgrades

The Q3 reporting cycle, which is almost over, has unveiled a healthy picture. With only a handful of companies left to report, the season is expected to end on a high, displaying significant earnings growth. In addition to recording bottom-line growth, a sizeable number of companies have reported better-than-expected earnings per share.

Generally, an earnings beat leads to stock price appreciation. Given this favorable background, investors would like to add outperformers to their portfolios as they strive to design a portfolio of stocks that will fetch them handsome returns.

However, the task is by no means an easy one. This is because the investing world is full of uncertainties and stock prices are sensitive to recent developments. Additionally, the same group of stocks may not work under all circumstances.

For example, airline stocks may benefit from declining oil prices but may fall out of favor in the event of oil prices moving up. One of the well-accepted strategies to brave market uncertainties is to maintain a well-diversified (i.e. include stocks from different industries) portfolio.

Therefore, selecting the right stocks involves thorough research and cannot be done arbitrarily. With time at a premium these days, it is next to impossible for investors to go through the extensive process. Given this backdrop, it is in the best interest of investors to seek guidance from “experts in the field”. The concerned experts are brokers.

Such investment specialists attend conference calls, company presentations and also interact with management. Brokers revise their earnings estimates after carefully examining the pros and cons of an event for the concerned stock. Naturally, their stock related actions (upgrade or downgrade) serve as an invaluable guide as far as fixing the target price of a stock(s) is concerned as they have a lot more information on a company and its prospects than individual investors. In fact, a rating upgrade normally leads to stock price appreciation and vice versa.

The above write-up clearly suggests that by following broker actions, one can arrive at a winning portfolio of stocks. Keeping this in mind, we have designed a screen to shortlist stocks based on improving analyst recommendation and upward revisions to earnings estimates over the last four weeks. Also, since the price/sales ratio is a strong complementary valuation metric in the presence of analyst information, it has been included. The price/sales ratio takes care of the company’s top line, making the strategy effective.

And that's what we're screening for today…

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