Not only does Value Line provide analysis of 1700 larger more popular stocks but they also offer a Small & Mid Cap Survey offering analysis of 1800 smaller stocks. One of their screens sorts all those stocks into percentiles of price growth persistence over the last 10 year period. Today I used the Value Line screener to sort those smaller stocks by stocks that were in the 80 – 100 percentile range and then used Barchart to see which stock currently had upward momentum as indicated by Barchart’s technical buy indicators.
The top 5 were Home Bancshares (NASDAQ:HOMB), Littelfuse (NASDAQ:LFUS), Primerica (NYSE:PRI), First Interstate Bancsystem (NASDAQ:FIBK) and Bank of the Ozarks(NASDAQ:OZRK).
Home Bancshares
Barchart technical indicators:
- 100% Barchart technical buy signals
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 13 new highs and up 14.06% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 69.62%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 45.17
- Recently traded at 46.85 with a 50 day moving average of 41.21
Littelfuse
Barchart technical indicators:
- 96% Barchart technical buy signals
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 11 new highs and up 21.91% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 76.66%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 108.51
- Recently traded at 113.30 with a 50 day moving average of 94.54
Primerica
Barchart technical indicators:
- 96% Barchart technical buy signals
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 8 new highs and up 7.67% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 66.19%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 50.71
- Recently traded at 51.52 with a 50 day moving average of 46.40
First Interstate Bancsystem
Barchart technical indicators:
- 96% Barchart technical buy signals
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 11 new highs and up 7.42% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 65.88%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 29.46
- Recently traded at 29.95 with a 50 day moving average of 27.77
