Last time I was screening top yielding stocks among S&P500 components and this time I run my fundamental stock screen for growth stocks. I set as a criteria "Estimated earnings growth for next 5 years" to be at least 25% per year. There are 18 companies with such a projected growth. For better picture I've also added P/E ratio and share price return on yearly and quarterly basis.Investing strategy based on strong projected EPS growth shows following results. S&P 500 index is yearly down by -18% and average return for selected stocks is up by 20%. On quarterly basis S&P 500 down by -9% and again beaten by growth stock with average return -2%. ...

American Public Education Inc. (APEI) offers online postsecondary education to 25,000 students in 50 states and 130 countries for the military and public sector. This company has the best of both worlds as it enrolls students from both the armed forces which ensures the company profits even when the civilian market slows down.

For now, however, there is nothing slowing down for APEI as the growth engines are hitting on all cylinders. Even though the stock is new to the Nasdaq, the company has been around since 2002 and earnings have recently been growing at a phenomenal rate. So much so that this online education company is #1 in its commercial services-schools group based on earnings growth.

EPS has grown 400%, 300%, -50%, 267%, 300%, 63%, over 999%, and 73% the past eight quarters. Along with the current growth, 2008 and 2009 EPS estimates are for the stock to gain 33% and …

Everyone that loves to make money knows that growth in earnings and sales is very important in the best stock. For those that are looking to put their money in a relatively cheap technology stock that is showing some huge recent growth in EPS and sales look no further than Marvell Technology Group (MRVL).

MRVL is an Electronice-Semiconductor Manufacturing stock that designs analog, digital, mixed-signal and microprocessor ICS for storage, telecom/data, and consumer markets. Recently on June 3rd the company introduced the 88NV8120 PCI Express-based NAND flash controller for use in both PC’s and Mobile Internet Devices. It is very cool products like this that now has the stock making investors a lot of money since the January lows. And I doubt the price gains are finished right here.

MRVL has recently shown some amazing EPS growth with EPS growing 17%, 567%, and 380% the past three quarters. Not only is the …

While it isn’t necessarily safe to invest in this hot stock now, a serious pullback, in Flir Systems (FLIR) is definitely a place to look to add this fantastic electronics-military systems stock.

Growth in EPS and sales is what has proven to be behind the moves of the best stocks during their biggest run ups and the growth we have in FLIR is exactly what I want to see in any stock that I go long.

EPS growth the past seven quarters has been a fantastic 64%, 18%, 125%, 36%, 28%, 15%, and 33%. During those exact same quarters, sales have grown an even more impressive 18%, 19%, 38%, 33%, 43%, 31%, and 47%. You do not see this kind of growth in EPS and sales often and when you do see you want to be long that stock.

This EPS growth has given this stock an EPS growth rate of 28% along …