Friday, July 1, 2011

Apollo Group shares surge on 3Q earni...

Apollo Group shares surge on 3Q earnings surprise - msnbc.com http://ow.ly/1dyNBq

1 comment:

iowac said...

Ok, so here is a great example of what I posted on another news topic about positive earning suprises only being a lead to a possible "Stock to Watch", but you need to look at other factors.

Here we can see this stock had a decent positive earnings suprise. Matter of fact, they have seen several decent and some good positive earning suprises over the past several quarterly reports. However take a look at their ranking in the group "Schools" They rank 16th, still think this is a strong buy now? Maybe, maybe not.

I would actually find out how the other schools in the top 3 slots were doing. Are they also beating earnings, is their student base growing, or in the case of Pheonix going down, but earning more due to falling default loan rates.

To see the past earnings and rank you can use the link below.
StockMarketWatch

Also check out this link from Zacks for more detailed report on their earnings Zacks.com

Both Investors.com and Zacks.com rank BPI - Bridgeport #1 in the School industry.

Have a look at Investors.com smart sector indicator on the bottom left, it is passing all fields - Investors.com

Then head back to this site and have a look at the earnings suprises and how the stock price is trending up, not down. It also just passed its 52 week high mark. Now which stock would you own, BPI or APOL? But see how the lead from APOL helped find a potential good stock to watch? StockMarketWatch