The Daily Workshop Report
by Robert Sheard (TMF Sheard)

Growth Screens

13.83%  Relative Strength  
4.32%  Unemotional Growth  
3.57%  EPS Plus RS  
1.53%  S&P 500 Index  
1.01%  Investing for Growth  
0.64%  Low Price/Sales  
0.62%  YPEG Potential  

Value Screens
4.82%  Dogs of the Dow  
4.05%  Dow Jones Ind Avg  
3.78%  Beating the S&P  
3.21%  Dow Combo  
2.30%  Unemotional Value  
2.30%  Beating the Dow  

My apologies for the very late hour of this weekend's database update. If you check the AOL date/time stamp, you'll see it was posted on Sunday night, but just barely. Fortunately, I don't leave town very often, so this is going to be an exception rather than the rule. Thanks for bearing with me.

Today's action for the Growth screens reversed last week's action just a bit. Today some of the big losers were last week's big winners, a pretty typical event actually. As stocks shoot up, they often slip back a bit as the market adjusts to the new price level. Among those stocks today were American Power Conversion <% if gsSubBrand = "aolsnapshot" then Response.Write("(NASDAQ: APCC)") else Response.Write("(NASDAQ: APCC)") end if %>, which slipped just over 5%.

Also among the Growth losers was Oxford Health Plans <% if gsSubBrand = "aolsnapshot" then Response.Write("(NASDAQ: OXHP)") else Response.Write("(NASDAQ: OXHP)") end if %>, CompUSA <% if gsSubBrand = "aolsnapshot" then Response.Write("(NYSE: CPU)") else Response.Write("(NYSE: CPU)") end if %>, National Education <% if gsSubBrand = "aolsnapshot" then Response.Write("(NYSE: NEC)") else Response.Write("(NYSE: NEC)") end if %>, and Green Tree Financial <% if gsSubBrand = "aolsnapshot" then Response.Write("(NYSE: GNT)") else Response.Write("(NYSE: GNT)") end if %>.

The Growth winners, however, were anything but high-tech stocks today. The big mover was food processing company Morningstar Group <% if gsSubBrand = "aolsnapshot" then Response.Write("(NASDAQ: MSTR)") else Response.Write("(NASDAQ: MSTR)") end if %>, which soared nearly 9%. Trailing a bit behind Morningstar, but still recording sweet moves, were Paychex <% if gsSubBrand = "aolsnapshot" then Response.Write("(NASDAQ: PAYX)") else Response.Write("(NASDAQ: PAYX)") end if %> and PeopleSoft <% if gsSubBrand = "aolsnapshot" then Response.Write("(NASDAQ: PSFT)") else Response.Write("(NASDAQ: PSFT)") end if %>.

Among the Value stocks, J.P. Morgan <% if gsSubBrand = "aolsnapshot" then Response.Write("(NYSE: JPM)") else Response.Write("(NYSE: JPM)") end if %> and International Paper <% if gsSubBrand = "aolsnapshot" then Response.Write("(NYSE: IP)") else Response.Write("(NYSE: IP)") end if %> led the way today. Keep in mind that International Paper is the stock the Foolish Four approach skipped at the beginning of the year. The Unemotional Value approach, however, included both it and AT&T since as the lowest-priced stock, IP wasn't also the highest-yielding stock. Today's pop in International paper helps out the UV approach a bit.

On the down side for our Value screens, oil stocks and automobiles, Friday's big winners, lagged the market.

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