Chicago, IL – November 10, 2009- Kevin Matras shows how to search for stocks with increasing Cash Flows, but low Price-to-Cash Flow ratios. Stocks in this week’s article include Bare Escentuals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BARE), Cantel Medical Corp. (NYSE: CMN), HealthSpring, Inc. (NYSE: HS), Toro Company (NYSE: TTC) and Viacom Inc. (NYSE: VIA.B). Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://at.zacks.com/?id=5528

Screen of the Week written by Kevin Matras of Zacks Investment Research:

The Price to Earnings ratio (or P/E) is probably the most common ratio in determining whether a company is under or overvalued.

However, the Price to Cash Flow (or P/CF) is another great ratio to do just that.

Cash of course is vital to a company's financial health, especially nowadays, in order to finance operations, invest in the business, etc.

And cash can't really be manipulated on the Income Statement like earnings can.

The reason

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“As I approach retirement in a few years, I’m very encouraged by the cash flow my portfolio can generate. If I can generate nearly 8% cash flow in the worst bear market in 70 years, and with minimal capital gains, I’m feeling pretty good about the future.”

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Toro Ventures Incorporated is an oil and gas exploration company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington. Trading on the OTCBB, they focus their efforts on finding projects that are low-risk to generate cash flow, and on finding larger projects that they can develop as joint ventures. Toro believes they can offer their shareholders value in the near term by securing opportunities that they can develop using existing infrastructure and the experience of established oil and gas operators.

Toro Ventures also believes they can play a role in reducing US dependency on foreign oil by being an active explorer and developer of proven domestic reserves. They have recently entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) in Oklahoma. This LOI is with Nitro Petroleum on the Crown Oil and Gas Lease in Pottawatomie County. The company is moving aggressively into the oil and natural gas exploration business because of increased world demand, short

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MyECheck Inc. is a financial electronic transaction processor and provider of alternative payment solutions for internet and mobile commerce. In the past two days the stock has risen 35.38% and 19.32% respectively. A $10,000 investment on Monday would have resulted in a return of $16,153.85 in just 48 hours.

The consumer services sector has actually lost over 2% as a whole in the same two-day period that MyECheck has shown the impressive gain of over 61%. Monday’s 35% gain took place on 89,882 shares while today’s 19% gain took place with 97,717 shares traded. In that short window of time, the recently volatile Dow Jones Industrial Average has gained only 38 points on below average trading volume.

One advantage to the services offered by MyECheck Inc. is that they are mutually beneficial to both the buyer and seller. Their

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Our current #1 position reports tomorrow AM; usually my methodology is to cut back on all positions ahead of earnings but due to the severe undervaluation in this name, I am keeping my entire stake going into the cattle call tomorrow. I'm not sure if this quarter will be "the one" or it will happen next quarter, but the current $3.14 EPS 2008 analyst estimate I find to be completely beatable, in fact by a large margin. I am hoping guidance tomorrow better reflects that. But even at the "$3.14" we have a forward P/E ratio of under 15 for a company growing well over 100% this year, and should be able to grow >50% for the next few years. At the $4.00 or so I believe it can achieve this year in EPS its trading under 12.Most peers trade at forward P/e ...

Despite Flo's excitement that headline is misleading. In posts that talk about stock picking versus all fund portfolios versus some combination of the two, comments get left opining that stock picking is difficult or risky or whatever. So for the fund investor who goes narrower than an SPY, EFA, AGG mix could they spend the time and do the work to own three stocks from themes that were especially compelling to them for which there was no sector or country product? Sticking with three narrow themes for which I have no exposure, let's say an investor believes Cyprus (oh yeah, there's a stock market there) is the place to be, well for that person there is only one choice (that I know of); The Bank Of Cyprus (BCYPF) and it has been a pretty good proxy for the General Index of Cyprus ...