Zacks.com Featured Expert Kevin Matras Highlights: Florida East Coast Industries, SBS Broadcasting, and Petro-Canada

Business Wire, May 4, 2005

CHICAGO -- Kevin Matras combines some of his winningest strategies to create a Custom Consensus screen. Stocks in this week's article are: Florida East Coast Industries, Inc. (NYSE:FLA), SBS Broadcasting (NASDAQ:SBTV) and Petro-Canada (NYSE:PCZ). Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://at.zacks.com/?id=109

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

Every week in this article, Kevin either goes over a unique way to screen for stocks or publishes a proven profitable screening strategy. If you're a regular reader of this feature, you know that most of the strategies have done fantastic. The only real decision is in choosing which one(s) you want to start using.

Well instead of choosing just one, why not look at them all and create a Custom Consensus of some of Kevin's winningest strategies.

This too is a great strategy for picking winning stocks from many diversified approaches. Because aside from using the Zacks Rank for many of the screens, there are many other filters layered on top of it to find the best stocks from different styles.

The screens Kevin is currently using in his Custom Consensus strategy come loaded with the Research Wizard program.

--Big Money

--Breakouts2 (cheap stocks near their 52 week highs)

--EPS Growth

--Filtered Zacks Rank

--ROE

--PEG

--Upgrades and Revisions2

--Increasing Cash Flows

--Sales and Margins

Simply run each screen, generate a list of qualified tickers for each one and then count how many times a stock appears in all of those screens. If they appear in two or more screens, they qualify for the Consensus portfolio.

This week (5/2/05), there are eight top Consensus picks. Here's three of them;

FLA   Florida East Coast Industries, Inc.
SBTV  SBS Broadcasting
PCZ   Petro-Canada

Sign up now for your two week free trial to the Research Wizard and get this Custom Consensus list week after week along with all of the individual strategies as well. And learn how easy it is to build and test your own winning strategies too. Click here and see how. http://at.zacks.com/?id=111

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