INVESTORS BUSINESS DAILY..April 28,1999
Smart Select:Corporate Ratings
UBID ONSL AMZN BIDS
EPS RANK 3 5 3 22
RPS 69 56 99 99
ACC/DIS B B A B
GRP/STR A A A A
EPS Rank measures a company's earnings per share growth rate both short and long-term.
First, the two most recent quarters' earnings growth are compared with the same quarters
one year prior. Then we examine the company's three-to-five year annual growth rate. The
results are compared to all other companies in the William O'Neil+Co., Incorporated database
and ranked on a scale from 1 to 99, with 99 being the highest. For example, an EPS Rank of 80
means that a particular company's earnings results are in the top 20% of the more than 10,000
corporations being measured.
EPS Rank allows you to objectively measure the actual earnings performance of one company
to another. For example, you can compare IBM's past record to Digital Equipment, Microsoft,
AT&T, or any other stock. This capability makes EPS Rank an invaluable tool for screening
the strongest, best performing companies from the laggard underperformers.
The Relative Price Strength (Rel. Str.) Rank measures a stock's price movement over the last
12 months and compares it to all other stocks on the NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX markets. The results
are ranked on a 1-99 scale, 99 being the strongest. For example, XYZ Corp. has a Rel. Str. of 98.
This means that during the past 52 weeks, XYZ's price outperformed 98% of all other stocks.
Stocks ranking above 80 in relative strength can be considered strong performers, and stocks below 70
in relative strength can generally be considered laggard performers.
The Relative Price Strength Rank lets you compare any stock's price performance against the rest of the
over 10,000 stocks tracked in the William O'Neil+Co., Incorporated database. |
