American Vanguard Group - AVD - Growth Stock

I promised you a little something extra in the last half of the year so here it is.  Some of you would like to see Fundamental Analysis combined with Technical Analysis and I think I've found a way to do it.  On my Barchart Portfolio Blogs under the News, Views and More Stocks subheading you will now find an list of stocks that I think have the highest potential for short term profits because they have both fundamental and technical factors going in their favor. The list will be updated each month and I'll try to feature several of them in additional blogs.  The first to be featured is American Vanguard Group (AVD).

Barchart technical indicators:

• 100% Barchart technical buy signal
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 9 new highs and up 13.53% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 66.17%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 26.53
• Recently traded at 2.67 with a 50 day moving average of 25.60

Fundamental factors:

• 2 Wall Street brokerage firms are following the stock and both consider it a strong buy
• Analysts predict sales will grow 15.80% this year and another 21.00% next year
• Earnings estimates are for an increase of 34.20% this year, 24.50% next year and an annual rate increase of 20.00% for the next 5 years
• P/E 29.70
• Dividend yield .36%
• B+ financial strength rating 
• Analysts think is these numbers continue investors at this level could see an total annual rate of return in the 12% - 14% range

3 Small Cap S&P 600 stocks on the move up

This afternoon I used Barchart to screen the Small Cap S&P 600 stocks to find the 3 with the most steady and consistent upward price momentum and found American Vanguard (AVD), Oritani Financial (ORIT) and Headwaters Inc. (HW)

American Vanguard (AVD)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signal
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 16 new highs and up 79.04% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 79.04%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 20.83
• Recently traded at 21.28 with a 50 day moving average of 17.44

Oritani Financial (ORIT)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% Barchart technical buy signal
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 15 new highs and up 13.97% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 79.84%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 14.66
• Recently traded at 14.85 with a 50 day moving average of 13.26

Headwaters Inc (HW)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 72% Barchart technical buy signal
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving average
• 15 new highs and up 39.14% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 68.33%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 3.96
• Recently traded at 4.23 with a 50 day moving average of 3.23

American Vanguard

American Vanguard Corp. (AVD) - is a holding company, which through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the manufacturer and formulation of chemicals for crops, human and animal health protection. These chemicals which include insecticides, fungicides, molluscicides, growth regulatorsain, and soil fumigants, are marketed in liquid, powder, and granular forms.

Technical Factors to Consider:

• 100% Barchart technical buy signal
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above it's 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 11 new highs and up 38.31% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 85.16% and rising
• Trades around 11.93 with a 50 day moving average of 9.25

American Vanguard sell signals

There are sell signals this morning on American Vanguard (AVD) a holding company, which through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the manufacturer and formulation of chemicals for crops, human and animal health protection. These chemicals which include insecticides, fungicides, molluscicides, growth regulatorsain, and soil fumigants, are marketed in liquid, powder, and granular forms.

Technical Factors:

• 100% Barchart short term technical sell signal
• Trend Spotter (tm) sell signal
• Below 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• Down 19.88% off its recent high
• Relative Strength Index 40.65% and falling

Jim Van Meerten is an analyst for  Marketocracy Capital Management.  He shares his knowledge and experience from over 40 years of investing in stocks, mutual funds and ETFs on Barchart.com  in his daily blog -- Barchart Portfolio Blogs.

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