A stock that I have stumbled on recently in one of my price and volume scans has me quite excited that I have found a young gem that could turn into a monster stock.

This stock is Aecom Technology Corporation (ACM) and is a provider of construction management and planning services to the transportation, facilities, and environmental markets. And these are the perfect markets to be in according to the growth in this outstanding company.

Earnings have been stellar, with EPS growth the past six quarters of 100%, 83%, 93%, 81%, 12%, and 59%. Sales, the past eight quarters, have been just as impressive with growth of 46%, 37%, 26%, 26%, 21%, 23%, 15%, and 7%.
Despite the growth in sales slowing a bit, the overall trend is extremely healthy.

This includes the 2008 and 2009 estimates which are expected to show EPS rising 29% and 19% those two years respectively. This current growth …

Investors have been surprised by the FTSE/JSE All Share Index’s strong rally of 24,9% since the market’s low on 23 January 2008. What is even more surprising is the large difference in the improvement of the major sub-indices. Resources companies have rallied by an incredible 44,8% on the back of only a few shares, followed by industrial companies with 18,6% and financial companies with only 9,4%.

As a result of the sharp rise in commodity prices on global markets and the woes of foreign banks (owing to the credit crunch), investors are sorely tempted to switch investments in resources companies to financial companies. However, investors should bear in mind that the return on an investment in a

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