COVER STORY
Mining the Data
GROWTH INVESTORS
Look for prospects with the biggest one- and three-year sales gains, as well as earnings growth rates that exceed the stocks' price-earnings ratios.
BARGAIN HUNTERS
Check out companies with higher grades for one-year sales and profit growth than for three years. To see if a rebound is really under way, check the Industry Rankings tables for rising net margins. A p-e ratio below the industry average shows Wall Street may not have caught on.
THE CAUTIOUS
Look for companies with strong and consistent profit grades over both the one- and three-year periods. Then, follow up in the Industry Rankings tables by looking for high dividends and reasonable p-e ratios compared with averages for the industry and the overall market.
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