Today we are featuring top-performing "Aggressive Growth" equity mutual funds, which primarily invest in high-risk equity securities to achieve maximum growth.

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Waddell & Reed Adv New Concepts A (UNECX) was incepted in June 1983. The fund seeks capital growth by investing primarily in a diversified portfolio of common stocks of U.S. and foreign mid-cap companies.

Kimberly A. Scott has been lead manager at the fund since February 2001. The fund has topped the total returns of its benchmark index in the last 1-, 3- and 5-year periods.

The fund's top holdings include Henry Schein Inc. (HSIC), Global Payments Inc. (GPN) and Noble Energy Inc. (NBL).

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T. Rowe Price New Horizons (PRNHX) was incepted in June 1960 with the objective of providing long-term growth of capital by investing in common stocks of small, rapidly growing companies.

While the fund invests most assets in U.S. common stocks, it may also purchase other securities including foreign stocks, futures, and options. As of March 2009, the fund had allocated 95.8% of its assets in domestic stock, 2.8% in cash, 0.8% in foreign stock and 0.6% in preferred.

Henry Schein Inc. (HSIC), O'Reilly Automotive Inc. (ORLY) and FMC Technologies Inc. (FTI) are among the fund's top holdings.

T. Rowe Price New Era (PRNEX) seeks to provide long-term capital appreciation by investing primarily in the common stocks of companies that own or develop natural resources and other basic commodities. The fund also invests in stocks of selected non-resource growth firms.

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Henry Schein Inc. (HSIC) posted better-than-expected first-quarter EPS and stood by its 2009 profit forecast, sending shares higher by more than 6% today.

Excluding restructuring costs, the medical products company earned 64 cents per share, beating the average forecast of 58 cents.

Henry Schein indicated that its operating margin, eliminating restructuring costs, was up 77 basis points to 6.4%. This was mainly due to the cost-cutting measures taken by the company.

Meanwhile, revenue declined 2.2% to $1.5 billion, due to the impact of the firmer dollar.

The company reaffirmed its full-year guidance of $3.11 to $3.26 per share, excluding items. The consensus for the current year is pegged at $3.15 per share.

Henry Schein, a Zacks #3 Rank ("Hold"), is trading on volume of 923,000 shares, compared to the daily average of 817,873.

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