A stock that I have stumbled on recently in one of my price and volume scans has me quite excited that I have found a young gem that could turn into a monster stock.

This stock is Aecom Technology Corporation (ACM) and is a provider of construction management and planning services to the transportation, facilities, and environmental markets. And these are the perfect markets to be in according to the growth in this outstanding company.

Earnings have been stellar, with EPS growth the past six quarters of 100%, 83%, 93%, 81%, 12%, and 59%. Sales, the past eight quarters, have been just as impressive with growth of 46%, 37%, 26%, 26%, 21%, 23%, 15%, and 7%.
Despite the growth in sales slowing a bit, the overall trend is extremely healthy.

This includes the 2008 and 2009 estimates which are expected to show EPS rising 29% and 19% those two years respectively. This current growth …

I really like Chinese gaming company Perfect World (PWRD) from a fundamental perspective; after selling off from its guidance after a very good earnings report [May 19: Perfect World - Good Earnings, Light Guidance - Buying the Dip] the stock spent a few days in purgatory before making a nice rebound. However, at this point technically we have some technical resistance ahead, both the 50 and 200 day moving averages lie ahead; the 50 day in the $26s and the 200 day around $27. Honestly this is as perfect of a setup as you could ask for from a technical perspective. Sell now right below resistance areas, and rebuy either (a) on a move over $27 or (b) on a pullback. So I'm executing the first part of that strategy (sell) here around $26.20... then for the second part (buy back), if the stock ...

Banks have had a rough time lately and the market performance of their stocks reflect that. Now that Secretary Paulson and some others are calling a bottom for the financial crisis, it is timely to look at the Keefe Bruyette & Woods Large Bank Index and the ETF that tracks it (KBE).

Technicals:

The five-year chart shows the KBW index (BKX in black) versus the S&P 500 (proxy SPY in gold). The BKX 200-day average is shown in blue and the 50-day average is shown in violet.

The YTD chart shows the KBW large bank ETF (proxy KBE in blue) versus the S&P 500 (proxy SPY in red).

The KBE candlestick chart provides alternative detail of the YTD performance of KBE alone, along with its 200-day and 50-day day moving averages.

KBE has massively underperformed the S&P 500. As of May

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