Tryouts for the Fabulous Firecracker Data Dump

[mrmarket]

I'll be running my model next weekend for the Fabulous Firecracker winner. Readers of this forum can enter their own picks to be considered. Please make sure the stock is at or near its high and has sustainable POSITIVE earnings (companies that are not profitable will NOT be considered).

Post them here on this thread until I close it out.

[Iggy]

Hrmm...

I was going to suggest ZEUS, but then noticed it was already in your last data dump, courtesy of you. I'll get back to you on that one...

[Websman]

Mr Market...

Even though it only made it to #18 last time, I'm still have to say DHB. It closed at $14.94 today.

I will understand though, if you don't want to consider it for the dump.

I see what else I can come up with and get back to you...

[stocks54]

USB

My suggestion: USB

Regards,

[stockedup]

My pick is TM

Marsha

[billyjoe]

Two good ones : FHRX and LCAV
billyjoe

[Jaws57]

ELAB

This one makes your dump everytime. I pick ELAB for your final 5.

Jaws57

[Tsevni98]

My pick is CALM

Calmaine foods.PE of 6 smilar to your previous winner SAFM but alot cheaper.

Egg prices are through the roof.CALM produces 13 percent of this countries eggs. Again they are profitable with $2+ in earnings with earnings due on July 13th.

[MEA_1956]

Well my pick is EPIC, not sure if they have enought earnings to make the list. Here are some facts that just might perk up some attintion for the newbies.
O ZERO As In Notta. DEBT
Growth Est. for next 1/4 88.9%
Sales Growth for next 1/4 53%
Return on Equity 72%
Monies in my pocket 9.2%
Go Big Red in there BLOOD 100% [I hope] ===> MEA

[jiesen]

my pick=TM

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=568&ncid=568&e=4&u=/nm/20040629/bs_nm/autos_quality_dc

Although Marsha beat me to it this time, I'll be resubmitting TM this week.

see my last post on TM in previous tryouts for further explanation...

[stockedup]

Jiesen, here is some info on TM in case you haven't seen it....I got this off the forum at Investors Business Daily.
This is from Bloomberg, today, June 2, 2004

Toyota Makes More Hybrids Amid Rising Gasoline Price (Update4)
June 2 (Bloomberg) -- Toyota Motor Corp., the world's largest carmaker by market value, boosted production of the Prius gasoline-electric car by a third in April, amid surging oil prices that spurred demand for fuel-efficient vehicles.

Production of the so-called hybrid car was raised to 10,000 units a month from 7,500, spokesman Shigeru Hayakawa said in Tokyo. The Prius plant in central Japan's Aichi prefecture can produce 130,000 cars a year with overtime, 44 percent more than its earlier production target, he said. Toyota raised its 2004 Prius sales forecast by 71 percent in December.

The Prius, priced as low as $20,000, more than 10 percent higher than a comparable car running on gasoline, is attracting U.S. consumers after regular-grade gasoline prices rose 39 percent on average this year to $2.051 a gallon. General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. will start selling their first hybrid models this year, seven years after Toyota introduced the Prius.

``Toyota is clearly the leader of the pack,' said Atsushi Osa, who helps manage the equivalent of $47 billion at Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management Co. in Tokyo. The company ``has a huge potential in environmentally friendly technology as it plans to expand the lineup.'

Toyota President Fujio Cho told Bloomberg in June 2003 the company plans to double its hybrid range to six models by about 2006, putting the gasoline-electric engines on pickup trucks, sport-utility vehicles and its Lexus luxury vehicles. Toyota sells its hybrid technology to Nissan Motor Co. and Ford.

Ford plans to produce gasoline-electric version of its Escape sport-utility vehicle next month in the U.S., while General Motors plans to sell hybrid large pickup trucks later this year. Nissan plans to release a hybrid Altima sedan in the U.S. in 2006.

Fuel Efficient

The Prius can go as far as 55 miles (89 kilometers) on a gallon of gasoline in combined city and highway driving while emitting 90 percent less tailpipe exhaust than the average new car of a same-size engine, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. General Motors Corp.'s Hummer H2 sport- utility vehicle achieves about 11 miles to the gallon, while a midsize sedan can typically can go about 25 miles on a gallon.

Prius sales more than doubled in the first four months of 2004 to 37,396 units due to demand in the U.S. and in Japan, on pace to meet its target of selling 130,000 units this year. The carmaker sold more than 120,000 Prius cars in the last six years. Toyota plans to sell 300,000 hybrid cars globally by 2006.

The Prius stayed on dealer lots for an average of just six days in April, the shortest period of any model sold in the world's biggest automotive market, according to a survey by J.D. Power & Associates. The hybrid car is most popular in California and was the vehicle of choice for actor Tim Robbins at this year's Oscar ceremony in February.

Surging Demand

Surging demand has lengthened the waiting time for U.S. customers to at least three months and up to nine months for the Prius, depending on where the model is sold.

Demand for hybrid-electric cars, the most fuel-efficient class of vehicles, has risen 41 percent in the U.S. to a record 22,919 units this year through April, led by a 78 percent increase for the Prius and a 10.9 percent gain for Honda Motor Co.'s Civic Hybrid and Insight models.

Toyota, which posted its fourth straight record annual profit for the year ended March 31, sold 20,287 Prius cars in Japan in the first four months of 2004, from 1,456 a year earlier, while sales in North America rose 86 percent to 14,159 units. Honda sold 9,023 hybrid cars in the first four months of 2004.

Toyota expects to sell about 50,000 units in the U.S. this year, up from its initial goal of 34,000, according to John Hanson, a spokesman at Toyota Motor Sales.

In Japan, Toyota's hybrid lineup includes the Prius, the Crown luxury car, the Estima and Alphard minivans. Toyota's Lexus luxury unit will start selling a hybrid version of the RX 330 sport-utility vehicle late this year, followed by the hybrid Highlander sports-utility vehicle in early 2005.

Toyota shares, which have gained 10 percent in 2004, fell 0.8 percent to 3,990 yen in Tokyo

[shannonkeo]

AVO and COHT

I would suggest looking into AVO and COHT, both of which are accelerating earnings and acting nicely.

[Mi6op]

prft

[Karel]

Dare I say KCS?

[mmaarrkk88]

ARLP & WCC

ARLP
WCC