NDN 99 Cents Only Stores Common Stock

Since inception in 1988, the S&P 500 has outperformed the Zacks #5 Rank List - Stocks to Sell Now by 80% annually (+2% versus +10%). While the rest of Wall Street continued to tout stocks during the market declines of the last few years, Zacks told investors which stocks to sell or avoid.

Here is a synopsis of why RSTI and TSL have a Zacks Rank of #5 (Strong Sell) and should most likely be sold or avoided for the next one to three months. Note that a #5 Strong Sell rating is applied to 5% of all the stocks in the Zacks Rank universe:

Rofin-Sinar Technologies?s (RSTI) second -quarter earnings of 43 cents per share, announced on May 5, missed analysts? expectations by 9 cents. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2011 slid a penny to $2.00 per share. The following year?s forecast dropped 4 cents to $2.36 per share in the same period.

Trina Solar Limited (ADR) (TSL) reported an earnings of 63 cents per share in its first quarter on May 17, which was 45 cents wider than the Zacks Consensus Estimate. Net income was $47.7 million in the first quarter of 2011, decrease from $145.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2010. Moreover the diluted earnings per ADS reduced 2 cents to 63 cents per share on a year-over-year basis. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2011 dipped 15 cents to $3.31 per share in a span of a month. Next year?s forecast slid 16 cents in the same time span.

Here is a synopsis of why SSP and NDN have a Zacks Rank of 4 (Sell) and should also most likely be sold or avoided for the next one to three months. Note that a #4 Sell rating is applied to 15% of all the stocks ranked by Zacks;

The E.W. Scripps Company (SSP) announced first-quarter loss of 13 cents per share on May 10, which missed analysts? projections by 160 %.The total operating revenue reduced 2.1 % as compared to 2010. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the full year slipped 8 cents to a loss of 11 cents per share over the past 60 days.

99 Cents Only Stores (NDN) posted a fourth-quarter earnings of 25 cents per share on May 25, which not only missed the average forecast by 7 % but also fell by 7% on a year-over-year basis. For the full year, the Zacks Consensus Estimate fell 4 cents to $ 1.15 per share from $ 1.19 in the last couple of months. Next year?s estimate moved down to $ 1.29 per share from $ 1.46 during that time span.
 
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