Last time I was screening top yielding stocks among S&P500 components and this time I run my fundamental stock screen for growth stocks. I set as a criteria "Estimated earnings growth for next 5 years" to be at least 25% per year. There are 18 companies with such a projected growth. For better picture I've also added P/E ratio and share price return on yearly and quarterly basis.Investing strategy based on strong projected EPS growth shows following results. S&P 500 index is yearly down by -18% and average return for selected stocks is up by 20%. On quarterly basis S&P 500 down by -9% and again beaten by growth stock with average return -2%. ...

There are thousands of stocks trading on U.S. exchanges right now. And there are thousands more trading on major foreign exchanges. So there are clearly lots of opportunities out there at any given time.

The million-dollar question: How do you separate the wheat from the chaff? Heck, I spend every single day following the markets and researching great income investments … and there’s still no way I can easily study a fraction of the stocks out there!

To make matters worse, the biggest names tend to hog all the limelight from analysts and the mainstream media. So it’s extremely hard to find new, off-the-radar investment ideas, especially ones that will meet your personal investment goals.

Today, I want to tell you how you can whittle down a universe of stocks to a manageable group of names worth investigating more thoroughly ……