We are now more or less two thirds of the way through earnings season. This seems like a good time to revisit a screen we first ran about a month ago. Using the data we generate as we scan over 7200 stocks and ETFs at Alert HQ, we assembled a screen that is composed of stocks with the following characteristics: The stock must have shown sequential quarterly growth as well as year-over-year growth in both EPS[More...]
In this week’s screen, we’re going to focus on searching for bottomed-out stocks that have recently hit or are trading near their 52-week lows.
The last week or so has been pretty brutal (in fact this whole year has been setting records on the downside so far), but the markets won’t go down forever.
And in this ...
Late on Thursday, online retailer Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced that fourth quarter net income rose to $225 million, or 52 cents a share, compared to earnings of $207 million, or 48 cents a share in the corresponding quarter, a year ago.[More...]
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