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To: Ultimate_Trader who wrote (36744)	2/25/2010 7:05:25 PM
From: EL KABONG!!!	Respond to of 78918

Try Value Line and see if that fits the bill for you... EK!!!

To: Ultimate_Trader who wrote (36744)	2/25/2010 8:27:38 PM
From: Paul Senior	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78918

Ultimate Trader. Yes, Value Line. That might work. You get sector analyses and comparable metrics for individual stocks in a sector on adjacent pages. I can't suggest anything better. (I don't claim though to be either an expert or knowledgeable person esp regarding software packages.) I don't know what data you would be expecting and screening for in a "fundamental value analysis" package when you dig down into a particular company and how a software program would compare those metrics and numbers to another company in the same sector. I know of no program whose software compares one company to another, metric-by-metric. I have to believe those programs are out there; I'm just saying I don't know of any. You also mention comparing sector-to-sector. The research section of at least a couple of brokerage firms I know of does give sector performance (% up or down of various sectors for different time periods (e.g. 1 day, ytd, one year) and for different populations (e.g. how various sectors compare based on Russell 3000, S&P 500, Nasdaq.) How helpful this is regarding your wanting to see "if a particular sector...is inflated/deflated", I do not know. For example I see that "telecommunication services" sector in the Russell 3000 is the worst performing sector based both on ytd and 1 yr. "Consumer Discretionary" the best. Does that mean "telecommunication services", being the worst sector with stock performance, is "deflated" and therefore a buy now? Or is the sector something to be avoided? The broker I am looking at says Standard & Poor's and Ned Davis Research both recommend "underweight" (as of 2/24/10)for "telecommunication services". For "consumer discretionary" the recommendations by these two firms are "market weight" and "overweight", respectively. Of course for us value investors, without looking at company specific details and just speaking philosophically, we might be considering doing something opposite from these two firms' recommendations: i.e. we'd be wanting to buy something that's undervalued (maybe beat up the most, like "telecom services", and maybe at the same time be a little more reluctant to buy or hold on to stocks that have already moved up as in the best performing "consumer discretionary" sector.