The Daily Workshop Report
by Robert Sheard (TMF Sheard)

LEXINGTON, KY. (Sept. 29, 1997)

Scroll to the bottom for year-to-date Growth and Value Screen results.

Over the past two weeks, while I've been on sabbatical to work on my book manuscript, a number of stocks in our Workshop screens have split. I believe I've caught them all in today's numbers, but if you believe I've missed one (or more), drop me a note and I'll double-check.

The following companies split in the past two weeks:

ENSCO International (ESV) 2-for-1

Dollar General (DG) 5-for-4

Helen of Troy (HELE) 2-for-1

Robert Half International (RHI) 3-for-2

Smithfield Foods (SFDS) 2-for-1

Texaco (TX) 2-for-1 (splits tomorrow morning)

This week also draws to a close our third quarter for the growth screens. Using the Friday, October 3 Value Line issue and the Monday, October 6 issue of Investor's Business Daily (which is published Saturday), I'll be updating all of the Workshop database statistics and the rankings for the twelve screens we currently track. Look for the update in the Workshop (on the AOL site) sometime Saturday evening. The update often doesn't make it to the website until Monday, but as an intermediate measure I'll ask one of our web message board hosts to post a copy in the Workshop message folder over the weekend.

In the meantime, if you're missing the current Investing for Growth rankings from Friday, September 26, here is the list of all stocks qualifying for consideration, in IFG order:

1) Iomega (IOM)

2) Western Digital (WDC)

3) Dell Computer (DELL)

4) Quantum (QNTM)

5) Sun Microsystems (SUNW)

6) Compaq Computer (CPQ)

7) Dollar General (DG)

8) Franklin Resources (BEN)

9) T.Rowe Price (TROW)

10) HBO & Co. (HBOC)

11) Claire's Stores (CLE)

12) Microsoft (MSFT)

13) Helen of Troy (HELE)

14) Robert Half International (RHI)

15) Frontier Insurance Group (FTR)

16) Tellabs (TLAB)

17) Smithfield Foods (SFDS)

18) State Street Corp. (STT)

It's good to be back. Fool on!

Monthly Growth Screens
(Jan. 3 to present)
98.21%  Relative Strength  
47.94%  Investing for Growth  
36.45%  EPS Plus RS  
32.18%  YPEG Potential  
27.45%  S&P 500 Index  
26.17%  Formula 90  
22.04%  Unemotional Growth  
21.34%  Low Price/Sales  

Annual Value Screens
(Jan. 1 to present)
25.52%  Dogs of the Dow  
24.89%  Beating the S&P  
24.59%  Dow Combo  
23.93%  Dow Jones Ind Avg  
22.96%  Unemotional Value  
22.96%  Beating the Dow  
17.77%  Foolish Four