5 Mid Caps for Momentum Investors

Today I wanted to find 5 Mid Cap stocks that would be of interest to Momentum Investors.  I used Barchart to sort the S&P 400 Mid Cap Index stocks first for the most frequent number of new highs in the last month, then again for technical buy signals of 80% or more.  It just so happened that the best 5 were all REITs.  Today's Watch List includes:

Healthcare Realty Trusts (HR), Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI), Duke Realty (DRE), Medical Properties Trust (MPW) and Senior Housing Properties Trust (SNH).

Healthcare Realty Trust (HR)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 18 new highs and up 8.73% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 74.25%
• Technical support level at 33.80
• Recently traded at 33.89 with a 50 day moving average of 31.75

Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 10 day moving averages
• 18 new highs and up 10.15% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 79.33%
• Technical support level at 34.38
• Recently traded at 34.87 with a 50 day moving average of 32.45

Duke Realty (DRE)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 88% technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 16 new highs and up 8.20% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 68.08%
• Technical support level at 27.80
• Recently traded at 27.68 with a 50 day moving average of 26.01

Medical Properties Trust (MPW)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 16 new highs and up 13.70% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 78.30%
• Technical support level at 14.09
• Recently traded at 14.11 with a 50 day moving average of 13.05

Senior Housing Properties Trust (SNH)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 96% technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 16 new highs and up 10.37% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 71.79%
• Technical support level at 22.19
• Recenlty traded at 22.03 with a 50 day moving average of 20.29

5 Small Caps on the Move

Today I used Barchart to sort the S&P 600 Small Cap Index stocks to find the stocks with the best current momentum.  I first sorted for the most frequent advances in the last month then used the Flipchart feature to review te charts.

The stock that made the cut were DXP Enterprises (DXPE), EastGroup Properties (EGP), LTC Properties (LTC), Medical Properties Trust (MPW) and Ruby Tuesday (RT):

DXP Enterprises (DXPE)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 80% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 13 new highs and up 11.49% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 65.55%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 107.67
• Recently traded at 111.45 with a 50 day moving average of 102.86

EastGroup Properties (EGP)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 40% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 12 new highs and up 1.64% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 55.00%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 61.96
• Recently traded at 63.40 with a 50 day moving average of 62.74

LTC Properties (LTC)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 100% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 12 new highs and up 4.61% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 62.65%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 37.75
• Recently traded at 39.35 with a 50 day moving average of 38.04

Medical Properties Trust (MPW)

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 4.81% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 67.00%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 13.17
• Recently traded at 13.46 with a 50 day moving average of 13.02

Ruby Tuesday (RT)

Barchart technical indicators:

• 72% Barchart technical buy signals
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 11 new highs and up 34.50% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 81.82%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 7.44
• Recently traded at 7.66 with a 50 day moving average of 6.23