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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:

American Public Education Inc (APEI)
Buckle Inc. (The) (BKE)
Ballantyne Strong Inc (BTN)
Dice Holdings Inc (DHX)
Dynamics Research Corp (DRCO)
PetMed Express Inc (PETS)
Quality Systems Inc. (QSII)
Spirit Airlines Inc (SAVE)

Dropping out of the 50 over 50 million screen:

Dex One Corp (DEXO)
Deluxe Corp (DLX)
InterDigital Inc (IDCC)
QLogic Corp (QLGC)
Tempur-Pedic International Inc. (TPX)
Unisys Corp (UIS)
Valassis Communications Inc. (VCI)
Veeco Instruments Inc (VECO)

Entering the 50 over 1 billion screen:

Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)
EMCOR Group Inc. (EME)
Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ)
Interpublic Group of Companies Inc. (The) (IPG)
The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. (MHP)
Seagate Technology (STX)
TRW Automotive Holdings Corp (TRW)
Western Digital Corp (WDC)

Dropping out of the 50 over 1 billion screen:

Deluxe Corp (DLX)
DeVry Inc (DV)
ITT Educational Services Inc (ESI)
General Dynamics Corp (GD)
Iconix Brand Group Inc (ICON)
InterDigital Inc (IDCC)
SanDisk Corp (SNDK)
Strayer Education Inc (STRA)

Entering the 30 over 3 billion screen:

Global Payments Inc. (GPN)
Interpublic Group of Companies Inc. (The) (IPG)
Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT)
The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. (MHP)
Seagate Technology (STX)
Western Digital Corp (WDC)

Dropping out of the 30 over 3 billion screen:

AmerisourceBergen Corp (ABC)
Accenture, Ltd. (ACN)
General Dynamics Corp (GD)
Harris Corp (HRS)
Joy Global Inc (JOY)
SanDisk Corp (SNDK)

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