NXT Nutritionals Inc. is a developer and marketer of proprietary, patent-pending healthy alternative sweeteners as well as food and beverage products. The common ingredient for all of the company’s products is its SUSTA natural sweetener, a minimal calorie, all-natural, nutritional sweetening system. The company believes that SUSTA is superior to all other sweeteners on the market and that it is the healthier and better-tasting sweetener that consumers have long sought.

The company’s SUSTA sweetener is targeted at individuals craving sweetness but for whom sugar is either an unviable option or is an undesirable option. At the top of this group are diabetics, individuals on weight loss programs, and those proactively managing obesity.

SUSTA will be the only sweetener in the retail marketplace that is all-natural, low glycemic, contains prebiotics (soluble fiber) and probiotics, aids digestion, contains essential vitamins and minerals, helps to maintain healthy blood sugar levels and supports the immune system.

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Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. (WINN) reported fiscal fourth-quarter results earlier this week. The company swung to a net profit of $9.4 million from a net loss of $5.5 million in the year-ago quarter. Earnings per share came in at 17 cents, which missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate by a penny. Winn-Dixie is one of the leading food retailers in the U.S. and currently operates 515 grocery locations, including more than 400 in-store pharmacies, across Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia and Mississippi. The Jacksonville, FL-based company’s sales posted a slight growth of 1.4% year over year to $1.72 billion. This was driven by a 1.6% rise in identical-store sales, mainly due to a favorable shift in the timing of Easter holidays, partially offset by higher sales of generic drugs compared to branded ones. The company, which emerged from bankruptcy protection in November 2006, is remodeling its stores in the ...

Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. (NASD: WINN), one of the nation’s largest food retailers that currently operates 521 retail grocery locations, including more than 400 in-store pharmacies in Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, and Mississippi, recently announced the company’s financial results from its first fiscal quarter of 2009 ended September 17, 2008. Net sales in the first quarter totaled $1.7 billion, a gain of $55.0 million, or 3.4 percent, compared to the prior-year period.

The company’s shares traded higher earlier this week after the announcement of the financial results. Winn-Dixie reported increased sales as a result of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike and Tropical Storm Fay, benefiting from pre-storm purchases and the company’s ability to reopen stores before competitors. Management is maintaining its previously issued guidance that full fiscal year 2009 adjusted EBITDA will range between $110 million and $125 million.

Chairman, chief executive officer and president, Peter Lynch, commented, “This was an excellent quarter

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L-3 Communications (LLL), a Zacks #1 Rank company, has been consistently outperforming the Dow Jones ($DJI), S&P 500 (SPX) and Nasdaq (COMP) amid recent turmoil and over the long-term.

Higher Estimates

Wall Street is bullish on the aerospace and defense communications company. Analysts increased full-year 2008 earnings forecasts on L-3 communications from $7.13 to $7.19 per share in just the past week. For 2009, the consensus estimate moved up from $7.54 to $7.59 over the same time period.

Rewarding Shareholders with Income

The company recently declared a quarterly dividend of 30 cents per share, noting that it is payable on December 15 to shareholders of record at the close of business on November 17.

LLL is scheduled to release results for the third quarter on October 23.

Read our Sep 25, 2008 analysis.

Last Week's Growth and Income Zacks Rank Buy Stocks

Casey & General Stores (CASY) has been trading ahead of the

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Casey & General Stores (CASY) has been trading ahead of the broader market amid recent turmoil and over the long-term. While grocers and food retailers have been slowing down, convenience stores like CASY have been outperforming. CASY has been consistently outperforming the Dow Jones ($DJI), S&P 500 (SPX) and the Nasdaq (COMP). The company offers a dividend yield of 1.2%, while the majority of its industry peers pay no dividend at all.

Company Description

Casey & General Stores, Inc. together with its subsidiaries, operate convenience stores under the Casey's General Stores name in the Midwest states. It has operations in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and Indiana. The company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Ankeny, Iowa.

Solid Growth

The company reported an all-time high in earnings for the first fiscal quarter, surpassing the consensus estimate

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Datameg Corporation (DTMG.OB) is a holding company committed to positioning itself to deliver the next-generation network services and environmentally-conscious plastics to help the environment. At this time, the company is working to roll-out customers’ Internet voice, data and video services while continuing to evaluate technological advances for development or advancement. Datameg has such a diverse group of subsidiaries making up its framework and expects its subsidiaries, NetSymphony, QoVox, and American Marketing & Sales, to contribute to its profitability and cashflows.

QoVox is on a mission to become a leading provider of network monitoring and fault isolation tools for telecom networks. QoVox is working to partner with leading communications companies to deliver verifying connectivity, voice-quality measuring tools that isolate and troubleshoot issues. The subsidiary’s solutions will enable service providers to maintain optimal service levels and increase customer satisfaction.

The team at NetSymphony has developed a unique active testing and monitoring solution

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You know you’re well on your way to building for future enterprise growth when over 50 percent of the ‘top 50′ food retailers and food distributors in the U.S. use your product. That’s the case with Retalix Ltd.’s software solutions, which they offer to retailers and distributors on a global basis. Headquartered in Ra’anana, Israel, and with offices in Dallas, Texas, Retalix is an independent provider of enterprise-wide software for business. Founded in 1982, they trade on NASDAQ.

The company offers a portfolio of software applications that automate and synchronize essential retailing, distribution, and supply chain operations. This enables enterprises to integrate headquarters, warehouses, and stores into one efficient operation. Retalix serves grocery chains, convenience and fuel retailers, food and consumer goods distributors, and independent grocers.

Retalix offers in-store operational and management tools for point-of-sale, front office, and back-office operations. They also provide solutions that enable in-store personnel to carry out

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Financial NewsJason Corcoran in Moscow23 June 2008 Investment climate is steady as new leader continues reform agenda Russia’s equity markets are enjoying the country’s honeymoon period under its new leadership, but investors remain wary of how the power-sharing arrangement will evolve.The changing of the guard on May 7 saw Vladimir Putin hand over the presidential mantle to his protégé Dmitry Medvedev. Within hours, Medvedev had nominated his mentor Putin as Prime Minister.The smooth choreography proved to be a fillip for Russia’s main stock markets and sparked a buying spree by foreign funds.The MSCI Russia Index was the best performing emerging equity market last month, rising 15.7%, and outperforming the MSCI EM Emea index, which rose 7.3% in the same month. Inflows recorded in the third week of May of $542m (€350m) were the highest in Russia ...

Seawright Holdings Incorporated is a developmental stage company that engages in the spring water bottling and distribution business in the United States. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, the company is located adjacent to a fresh-water spring with a long operating history within a few miles of major east coast population centers like Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia and even New York City.

The company currently distributes its products to several local whole food retailers and has recently begun working with Balducci’s, a larger local chain. However, in order to become a profitable company, Seawright will need to either expand to some larger reasonable stores or partner with larger water bottling companies.

Seawright is currently in negotiations with a couple of big players in the bottled water industry to propose an offer that would sell 1/3 of its daily output to another provider. This deal would provide more

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