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

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

AK Steel (AKS)

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

Cedar Shopping Centers (CDR)

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

Home Bancshares (HOMB)

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