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The founder and editor of MagicDiligence.com, a website dedicated to researching and recommending only the best stocks in Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula Investing screen.
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  • Magic Formula Investing Weekly Roundup 6/10/2012 0 comments
    Jun 10, 2012 8:10 AM | about stocks: LACO, LPS, TPX, COOL, INTX, NVMI, FWLT, HLF, BAH, CA, ORCL, LO, TRW, AMAT, MD

    Magic Formula Investing (MFI), as described by hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt in The Little Book that Beats the Market, consists of ranking stocks by earnings yield (cheap) and return on capital (quality), adding the rankings together, and buying from the resulting lists. Below are stocks that have moved into, and dropped out of, 3 of the MFI screens used by MagicDiligence:

    Entering the 50 over 50 million screen:

    Lakes Entertainment Inc (LACO)
    Lender Processing Services Inc (LPS)
    Tempur-Pedic International Inc. (TPX)

    Dropping out of the 50 over 50 million screen:

    Majesco Entertainment Co (COOL)
    Intersections Inc (INTX)
    Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd (NVMI)

    Entering the 50 over 1 billion screen:

    Foster Wheeler Ltd (FWLT)
    Herbalife Ltd (HLF)
    Tempur-Pedic International Inc. (TPX)

    Dropping out of the 50 over 1 billion screen:

    Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp (BAH)
    CA Inc (CA)
    Oracle Corp (ORCL)

    Entering the 30 over 3 billion screen:

    Lorillard Inc (LO)
    TRW Automotive Holdings Corp (TRW)

    Dropping out of the 30 over 3 billion screen:

    Applied Materials, Inc (AMAT)
    Mednax Inc. (MD)

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