Citi Trends Inc. (CTRN), a value-priced retailer of urban fashion apparel and accessories, has reported strong fiscal 2009 third quarter results with a net income of $0.6 million or 4 cents per share compared to a net loss of $0.7 million or 5 cents in the year-earlier quarter.  The earnings were primarily driven by a 21.4% increase in total sales during the quarter to $127.4 million from $104.9 million in the year-ago quarter. Same-store sales also increased 6.3% year-over-year, benefiting from the back-to-school season and improved discretionary spending outlook of customers amid early signs of an economic recovery.  The improvement in sales was also driven by prudent inventory management, merchandise selection in accordance with the sales trends, and solid execution at the store level. Year-to-date gross margin was up 40 basis points to 38.6% from 38.2% in the previous year, including 50 basis points improvement resulting ...

Citi Trends Inc.’s (CTRN) MACD indicator has moved into bearish territory with a reading of -0.1053. The Zacks #5 Rank (“Strong Sell”) stock declined more than 1% to $14.49 in morning trade. The Zacks Consensus Estimate on the company’s earnings for the year ending Jan 2010 has reduced by 2 cents over the past month to $1.30 per share."CTRN" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?Zacks Investment Research

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Chicago, IL - June 18, 2009 - Four free stock picks are being made available today on Zacks.com. The industry's leading independent research firm highlights one Zacks #1 Rank Strong Buy or a Zacks #2 Rank Buy stock for each of the four main styles of investing: Aggressive Growth, Growth & Income, Momentum, and Value.

The four highlighted picks are: Citi Trends, Inc. (CTRN), Strayer Education, Inc. (STRA), PF Chang's China Bistro Inc. (PFCB) and Corrections Corporation of America (CXW).     Today, Zacks is promoting its ''Buy'' stock recommendations. Four daily picks are offered free at http://at.zacks.com/?id=88

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Here are the stocks added to the Zacks #1 Rank ("strong buy") List today:

Access National Corp (ANCX) Acxiom Corp (ACXM) American Public Education Inc (APEI) Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN) Chico's FAS Inc (CHS) Citi Trends Inc (CTRN) CPEX Pharmaceuticals Inc (CPEX) Jo-Ann Stores Inc (JAS) Legal & General Group Plc (LGGNY) PepsiAmericas Inc (PAS) PLATO Learning Inc (TUTR) Raven Industries Inc (RAVN) Sears Holdings Corp (SHLD) TravelCenters of America LLC (TA) View the entire Zacks #1 Rank List.

"ANCX" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?"ACXM" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?"APEI" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?"CFFN" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?"CHS" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?"CTRN" Free Stock Analysis: Buy? Sell? Hold?"CPEX" Free Stock ...

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Chicago, IL - March 31, 2009 - Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Forest Laboratories Inc (FRX), General Motors Corp (GM), DryShips Inc (DRYS), Nissan Motor Co (NSANY) and Citi Trends Inc (CTRN).

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Here are highlights from Monday's Analyst Blog:

Forest Labs Hold Reiterated

Forest Laboratories Inc (FRX) turned in a very solid fiscal 2008. While 3rd quarter revenue was below our forecast, EPS was significantly better due to stronger operating margins as a result of better-than-expected gross margins and lower R&D and SG&A expenses. Revenue

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Chicago, IL – March 18, 2009- Kevin Matras writes about the R-Squared Growth Rate and how it can help you find outperforming stocks. Stocks in this week's article include Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. (CBRL ), Citi Trends, Inc. (CTRN ), Domino's Pizza, Inc. (DPZ), Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (EEFT ) and MasTec, Inc. (MTZ). Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://at.zacks.com/?id= 109

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

The title of this week's article either scared people away, or made you click on it to read more. If you're reading this now, you're of course one of the latter. Congratulations.

So let's get right to it. The R-Squared Growth Rate is a measure of how close the actual earnings come in to the earnings growth on a regression basis.

In other words, how closely

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Stocks highlighted in this article are: Cracker Barrel (CBRL), Citi Trends, Inc. (CTRN), Domino's Pizza, Inc. (DPZ), Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (EEFT) and Mastec, Inc. (MTZ).

< ?DART(15);?> The title of this week's article either scared people away, or made you click on it to read more. If you're reading this now, you're of course one of the latter. Congratulations.

So let's get right to it. The R-Squared Growth Rate is a measure of how close the actual earnings come in to the earnings growth on a regression basis.

In other words, how closely do the earnings conform to the regression line?

The range for an R-Squared value is between 0 and 1. The higher the value, the closer the data points are to matching the regression line. (In this example, the data points are EPS growth numbers.)

A value of 1

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