Today's 5 Top Small Caps
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Jim Van Meerten writes on financial subjects here and on Barchart Portfolio Blogs and Seeking Alpha. He earned a BS in Accounting and Business Administration from Berry College; a Juris Doctorate from the Woodrow Wilson School of Law; and attended post-baccalaureate and graduate courses in Business Administration, Quantitative Math, and Education at Florida Atlantic University, Georgia State University and University of North Carolina at Charlotte. In the past he has been an accountant, attorney, adjunct professor in Business Law, Accounting and Internal Auditing, financial advisor, supervisory principal, and compliance officer. He also passed the Georgia CPA Exam, the Certified Internal Auditor Exam, and the FINRA Series 7, 24 and 9/10 exams.He is presently also a contributor on MSN Top Stocks Blog, Motley Fool and is a member of the M100 on Marketocracy, an elete honor chosen by the editors of Marketocracy as being in the top 100 portfolio managers of over 100,000 portfoiios they review. He would enjoy hearing your comments at JimVanMeerten@gmail.com.
Today's 5 Top Small Caps
Today I used Barchart to sort the S&P 600 Small Cap Index to find the stock with the most frequent new highs in the last month. I then skipped over the stocks that didn't have positive gains for the last week and month and reviewed the charts using the Flipchart feature.
Today's list includes Interval Leisure Group (IILG), AK Steel (AKS), DSP Group (DSPG), Cedar Shopping Centers (CDR) and Home Bancshares(HOMB):
Interval Leisure Group (IILG)
Barchart technical indicators:
- 96% Barchart technical buy signals
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 18 new highs and up 23.27%
- Relative Strength Index 80.44%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 30.11
- Recently traded at 31.15 with a 50 day moving average of 25.93
Barchart technical indicators:
- 100% Barchart technical buy signal
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 13 new highs and up 42.66% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 84.37%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 6.19
- Recently traded at 7.39 with a 50 day moving average of 5.18
DSP Group (DSPG)
Barchart technical indicators:
- 96% Barchart technical buy signal
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 13 new highs and up 14.06% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 70.68%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 9.03
- Recently traded at 9.23 with a 50 day moving average of 8.12
Barchart technical indicators:
- 96% Barchart technical buy signals
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 13 new highs and up 9.23%
- Relative Strength Index 65.89%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 5.91
- Recently traded at 6.12 with a 50 day moving average of 5.71
Barchart technical indicators:
- 96% Barchart technical buy signals
- Trend Spotter buy signal
- Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
- 12 new highs and up 11.54% in the last month
- Relative Strength Index 70.77%
- Barchart computes a technical support level at 37.16
- Recently traded at 37.98 with a 50 day moving average of 34.74