The 5 Best Value Line Small & Mid Cap Stocks

Not only does Value Line provide analysis of  1700 larger more popular stocks but they also offer a Small & Mid Cap Survey offering analysis of 1800 smaller stocks.  One of their screens sorts all those stocks into percentiles of price growth persistence over the last 10 year period. Today I used the Value Line screener to sort those smaller stocks by stocks that were in the 80 - 100 percentile range and then used Barchart to see which stock currently had upward momentum as indicated by Barchart's technical buy indicators.

The top 5 were Home Bancshares (HOMB), Littelfuse (LFUS), Primerica (PRI), First Interstate Bancsystem (FIBK) and Bank of the Ozarks (OZRK).

Home Bancshares (HOMB)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 100% Barchart technical buy signals
• 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 69.62%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 45.17
• Recently traded at 46.85 with a 50 day moving average of 41.21

Littelfuse (LFUS)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 11 new highs and up 21.91% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 76.66%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 108.51
• Recently traded at 113.30 with a 50 day moving average of 94.54

Primerica (PRI)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 8 new highs and up 7.67% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 66.19%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 50.71
• Recently traded at 51.52 with a 50 day moving average of 46.40

First Interstate Bancsystem (FIBK)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 11 new highs and up 7.42% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 65.88%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 29.46
• Recently traded at 29.95 with a 50 day moving average of 27.77

Bank of the Ozarks (OZRK)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart techncial buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 13 nw hgihs and up 19.00% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 76.53%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 50.68
• Recently traded at 54.73 with a 50 day moving average of 46.27