CHICAGO, June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Stocks in this
week's article include: Con-way Inc. (NYSE: CNW),
Entegris, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENTG), Perry Ellis International,
Inc. (NASDAQ: PERY), Standard Motor Products, Inc.
(NYSE: SMP) and Virgin Media Inc. (NASDAQ: VMED).
Kevin Matras goes over a Relative
Price Change screen to help you find top performers no matter what
the market is doing.
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Screen of the Week written by Kevin
Matras of Zacks Investment Research:
Over the previous few weeks, with the market going down, I've
found myself screening for stocks that are actually going up or, at
the very least, have a relative price strength better than the
market.
Of course, this doesn't mean you should only look at its price
change. But by including those kinds of things in your screening,
some very interesting stocks will come up.
You'll also notice that I said relative price strength. There
are, of course, periods where virtually everything is going down.
So screening for absolute positive price changes will often times
come up with zero results in these periods, just when you need them
the most.
But also, when the market is doing nothing but going up, you
want to get into the pacesetters and outperformers, not the
laggards that are going up only because the rising tide is raising
all the ships.
So using the relative price strength will always put the
outperformers on your list in both good times and bad. In this
week's screen, I'm looking for relative price change winners that
also have the fundamentals to potentially make these gains
continue.
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