Slope of Hope Blog Posts

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FocalEquity.com Stock and ETF Highlights

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1. NYSE:VLO Valero Energy Corporation

VLO is nice value stock with attractive value related factors relative to its peers within the oil and gas sector. The stock had a vicious rally since its bottom in October and it passed its 200 SMA. Hopefully the 200 SMA turns from a strong resistance to a strong support.

VLO

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Autozone Valuation (by FocalEquity)

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AutoZone, Inc. (NYSE: AZO): currently ranks 3,061 out of 3,514, towards the bottom 15% of the stock universe. Trend wise, the stock has maintained a healthy rise. However, valuation wise, it is getting more and more expensive. We expect some kind of a pull back in this stock soon.

AZO 

Stock Ranking Model (by FocalEquity.com)

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Let's discuss some popular stock's after Monday's close.

Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: MNTA): This stock plunged over 20% on Monday. Our stock ranking model ranks this stock as 2,347 out of 3,514 after the data update as of 9/16/2011, towards the bottom of the stock universe. Such ranking would be very accurate for this stock after Monday’s action.

MNTA 

Range Resources Corp. (NYSE: RRC): RRC had a huge intraday move today. It ranks poorly in our model despite the upswing and the overall uptrend YTD. Current ranking is 3,264 out of 3,514.  RRC is a short based on the stock ranking model.

RRC short