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

AES Corp (AES) Akzo Nobel NV (AKZOY) Alliance Financial Corp (ALNC) Atlantic Tele-Network Inc (ATNI) BASF SE (BASFY) Biovail Corp (BVF) Carbo Ceramics Inc (CRR) Cato Corp (CATO) Cellcom Israel Ltd (CEL) Chunghwa Telecom Co Ltd (CHT) Covidien Plc (COV) DG FastChannel Inc (DGIT) Diodes Inc (DIOD) Dover Corp (DOV) E.ON AG (EONGY) Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd (ENH) Gap Inc (GPS) Investors Bancorp Inc ...

Stocks featured in this article are: Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (DLB), Dollar Tree, Inc. (DLTR), Hansen Natural Corp. (HANS), Myriad Genetics, Inc. (MYGN) and Silver standard Resources, Inc. (SSRI).

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It's calculated by dividing current assets by current liabilities.

The higher the ratio, the more liquid assets a company has to meet its short term obligations.

A ratio of 2 or more (meaning a company has at least twice as many short-term assets than short-term liabilities) is generally considered good.

Currently, the average current ratio for S&P 500 stocks is 1.67.

Not surprisingly, the Finance Sector (as applied to companies with over 50,000 shared traded on a daily basis) has one of the worst Current Ratios with a median of just 1.06.

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