Zacks Growth and Income Strategy Highlights: American Home Mortgage Investment Corp., Diana Shipping, Nam Tai Electronics and Trustreet Properties

Business Wire, Dec 1, 2006

CHICAGO -- The Zacks Growth and Income Profit Track strategy looks for stocks with unusually high dividend yields. Although this screen is based on a long-term and lower risk approach to investing, it has a history of outperforming the S&P 500. Four stocks meeting this screen's exclusive criteria are: American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. (NYSE: AHM), Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE: DSX), Nam Tai Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: NTE) and Trustreet Properties, Inc. (NYSE: TSY). View the entire list of stocks for the Growth and Income Profit Track at http://at.zacks.com/?id=1850

Here are details about four companies currently identified by the Growth and Income Profit Track:

American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. (NYSE: AHM) offers a current dividend yield of 11.62%. The company recently declared a quarterly dividend of $1.06 per share. In late October, AHM reported third-quarter earnings per share of $1.36, versus the previous year's $1.09. Third-quarter earnings also topped the consensus estimate of $1.35 per share.

Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE: DSX) recently released its report for the third quarter, stating that its successful strategies to grow its fleet, while maintaining a flexible chartering policy that permits it to benefit from the dynamic of its marketplace, also have resulted in Diana Shipping being able to increase its dividend for the third quarter of 2006 to 40 cents per share. DSX has a current dividend yield of 10.47%.

Nam Tai Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: NTE), a Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) company, posted non-GAAP third-quarter earnings of 28 cents per share in late October. The result was nearly 22% ahead of the consensus estimate. Nam Tai Electronics has topped analyst estimates four times out of the past five consecutive quarters. The company satisfies the criteria for this Profit Track with a current dividend yield of 8.81%.

Trustreet Properties, Inc. (NYSE: TSY) offers a current dividend yield of 23.53%. The company recently announced its financial results for the third quarter, which included revenues of $54.9 million. The result was a year-over-year increase of 6.6% from last year's revenues of $51.5 million. TSY also recently declared a dividend of 33 cents per share.

Discover all the current stocks currently on the Growth and Income Profit Track at: http://at.zacks.com/?id=1896

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