Six Dow components are scheduled to report as large-cap stocks dominate the first big week of earnings season. The 6 companies are Bank of America (...

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

Achillion Pharmaceuticals Inc (ACHN) Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (ACH) American Apparel Inc (APP) American River Bankshares (AMRB) Amerisafe Inc (AMSF) Boots & Coots Intl Well Inc (WEL) Center Financial Corp (CLFC) Central Valley Community Bancorp (CVCY) Chelsea Therapeutics International Ltd (CHTP) China-Biotics Inc (CHBT) Clean Energy Fuels Corp (CLNE) G-III Apparel Group Ltd (GIII) General Finance Corp (GFN) Global Traffic Network Inc (GNET) HCP Inc (HCP) James Hardie Industries NV (JHX) Knoll Inc (KNL) Komatsu Ltd (KMTUY) Medivation Inc (MDVN) Nidec Corp (NJ) Peoples Educational Holdings Inc (PEDH) Princeton National Bancorp Inc (PNBC) Real Goods Solar Inc (RSOL) ShengdaTech Inc (SDTH) Shiseido Co Ltd (SSDOY) Stanley Inc (SXE) ...

In mid-April, I wrote about the how daunting forming a sound stock screening strategy could be for investors. In an effort to help investors find winning stocks provide a sneak peak into some Zacks’ market-beating strategies, I highlighted four stock-picking screens from the Research Wizard and included a stock that was produced by each screen.

The stocks were Accenture Ltd. (ACN), Cimarex Energy Co. (XEC), Stone Energy Corp. (SGY) and Walter Industries, Inc. (WLT). Each company has performed better than all three major averages over the past year.

The screening strategies are the Upgrades and Revisions2, Filtered Zacks Rank2, Value Method1 and Momentum Method1.

The Upgrades and Revisions 2 strategy focuses primarily on stocks with upward Earnings Estimate Revisions and Rating Upgrades. This screen generates approximately 8-10 stocks a month, has an excellent win ratio (74%) and has shown consistently impressive returns year after year.

One company that currently fulfills

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The five best performing stocks on the Zacks #1 Rank List last week were: Genco Shipping & Trading Ltd. (GNK), Knoll, Inc. (KNL), Mariner Energy, Inc. (ME), Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (GMCR) and Parker Drilling Company (PKD).

Genco Shipping & Trading Ltd. (GNK) was a top-performing Zacks #1 Rank company last week as shares gained more than 10.7%. Earnings estimates for this year are up 3% in the past month, and analysts currently expect 2009 EPS to grow approximately 37% from 2008. Meanwhile, GNK has beaten Wall Street's quarterly earnings expectations for 4 consecutive quarters with an average surprise of 14.6%.

Favorable contracts and profit-sharing agreements led to a strong second-quarter performance for GNK, which it reported on Jul 30. Earnings per share of $1.95 beat the consensus of $1.72 by almost 13.4%. Revenues jumped 184% from last year

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Many of the readers of my previous articles about buying dividends were concerned that they didn't have enough time to look at the stocks going ex-dividend for the following week. So for this article, I'm listing the stocks that are going ex-dividend for the next three weeks. All of the following nineteen stocks that are going ex-dividend have yields greater than 3%, P/E ratios of 18 or less, and PEG ratios less than 1.9%. Quest Capital Corp. ( QCC ) 6/11/2008 4.81% P/E: 13 PEG: 1.06 United Bankshares, Inc. ( UBSI ) 6/11/2008 4.14% P/E: 13 PEG: 1.62 Worthington Industries, Inc. ( WOR ) 6/11/2008 3.48% P/E: 18 PEG: 1.19 C&F Financial Corporation ( CFFI ) 6/11/2008 4.44% P/E: 11 PEG: 1.38 Corus Entertainment Inc. ( CJR ) 6/11/2008 3.13% P/E: 13 PEG: 0.91 Comerica Incorporated ( CMA ) 6/11/2008 7.07% P/E: 9 PEG: 1.83 Knoll, Inc. ( KNL ) 6/12/2008 3.59% P/E: 9 PEG: 0.66 National ...