Shares of The Corporate Executive Board Company (EXBD) are up approximately 9.5% Tuesday after receiving a brokerage upgrade. The firm believes that professional services companies may have reached the bottom in their demand shortfall during the summer.

< ?DART(15);?> Meanwhile, EXBD was able to surpass EPS expectations in its second quarter, and has enjoyed steady improvement in earnings estimates for several months. Volume today is at 167,000 shares, compared to the daily average of 210,000.

EXBD provides best practices research and analysis focusing on corporate strategy, operations and general management issues. It is one of 5 companies from the Business Services industry on today's 224-stock Zacks #1 Rank List. The other names are Cardtronics, Inc. (CATM), Lender Processing Services, Inc. (LPS), TrueBlue, Inc. (TBI) and Wright Express Corporation (WXS).

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