Kevin Matras Highlights the Following Stocks: Badger Meter, Lionbridge Technologies and MidSouth Bancorp

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 17, 2003--Zacks.com releases it's exclusive Screen of the Week report that highlights another successful stock picking strategy developed with their Research Wizard software. Kevin Matras revisits one of his most popular screens that focuses on Cash Flow. If you're looking for a strategy with average annual gross returns in excess of +55%, then keep reading to discover this strategy along with 3 top picks. Some stocks in this week's screen are: Badger Meter, Inc. (NYSE:BMI), Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:LIOX) and MidSouth Bancorp Inc. (NYSE:MSL). Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://sotw.zacks.com

Screen of the Week written by Kevin Matras of Zacks Investment Research:

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Increasing Cash Flows: A Historically Profitable Screening Strategy

Every week Kevin Matras uses this forum to publish unique ways to screen for stocks along with winning stock picking strategies that have historically performed great over the last few years. This week, he would like to revisit one that was published before and that continues to outperform... It's his Increasing Cash Flows strategy.

Cash Flow is considered, by some analysts to be a company's most important financial barometer. Since Cash Flow pays the bills and keeps the company operating. Many look to it as the best measure of a business's profits and financial health.

The parameters to this screen are as follows (starting out with some basic qualifying definitions, including a stock price greater than or equal to $5):

Zacks Rank equals 1 (The Zacks Rank has proven to be one of the best, if not THE BEST rating systems out there.)

Avg. Broker Rating equals 1 (While he doesn't follow the brokers' ratings that closely, Kevin prefers to have a favorable view from the 'Street'.)

Current Cash Flow greater than or equal to the 5 Year Ave. Cash Flow ($/share) (This will produce only those stocks that are exhibiting Stable or Increasing Cash Flows with respect to their 5 Year Avg. Cash Flow numbers.)

Results:

Over the last 2 years, this strategy has shown an average annual gross return of over +57%. This strategy is rebalanced monthly and holds on average of only 8 stocks at a time. And it has an impressive 75% win ratio (winning periods).

Three stocks that currently qualify the screen this week are:

    BMI   Badger Meter, Inc.
    LIOX  Lionbridge Technologies, Inc.
    MSL   MidSouth Bancorp Inc.

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