The Globe and Mail attempts to identify high-quality, profit
Globe says TORQ, others have strong relative momentum
2014-05-22 06:58 ET - In the News
The Globe and Mail attempts to identify high-quality, profitable, Canadian companies that are also undervalued and flying under the radar in its Thursday, May 22, edition. The Globe's Craig McGee writes in the Number Cruncher column that he used the services of Morningstar CPMS to identify stocks with the best combination of the following metrics: return on equity over the latest four quarters; price to earnings over the latest four quarters; gross profit to total assets; quarterly earnings momentum (that is, the percentage change in the latest four quarters' earnings per share compared with the four quarters' EPS of one quarter ago); revision of the current year's consensus earnings estimate over the past three months; and return over the past year. Stocks were screened out if they were in the bottom quarter of the database based on market cap or average volume. Stocks with a negative price change over the past month were also avoided. Stocks with reasonable valuations and strong relative momentum are TORC Oil & Gas, Ag Growth International, Bankers Petroleum, Chinook Energy, Western Forest Products and CCL Industries.