I Want a New Stock

I Want a New Drug Stock

I will likely be adding another stock by Mid-June. It is never too early to begin considering the candidates. One point about MFI, the lists really don’t change very quickly. Only when either new earnings data comes out or if the stock goes on a spurt.

I did a pull of stocks from the website which gave me 50 stocks to think about. I quickly pared that list down based on having already nixed certain stocks and the other stocks were nixed as I want to try to be diversified. Here are the current candidates:

Symbol	Trade	Market Cap	EBITDA	EPS (ttm)
OVTI	28.58	1.52B	110.44M	1.48
ASEI	60.85	497.69M	49.81M	3.27
FTD	12.95	362.30M	65.96M	0.74
KSWS	27.20	933.29M	105.00M	2.10
FDG	34.7236	5.10B	877.12M	5.808
VTRU	38.35	376.83M	94.40M	2.45
RAIL	63.12	793.42M	113.10M	5.18
AGYS	16.47	502.73M	59.83M	0.64
KG	17.73	4.29B	782.87M	0.41
ORCT	12.95	199.25M	22.02M	1.44

What am I looking for? I think that ideally you want stocks that have some pricing power. I also want stocks that have increasing earnings and revenues. All else being equal, I suppose I would rather have a small cap (under $1b) than a large cap. A strong balance sheet would be a positive as well. Finally, I would want to read the most recent news and make sure there aren’t any death knells out there.

During the upcoming week, I'll try and comment a bit on each candidate and see if I can convince myself of the best buy.