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Corrections Corp. - Take All Prisoners
This company operates prisons. Demand for its services is going nowhere but up...

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NN Inc. - Rollin', Rollin', Rollin'  
Precision bearings are the game here. NN has global reach and earnings may jump, though it needs a rebound in the US auto industry to fire on all cylinders.

Lab Corp. of America - Testing, Testing 

General Dynamics - Land, Sea, Air, Everywhere 

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Taser Int'l - Electrifying?

American Tower - Has It Only Just Begun?

Alpha Natural Resources - Solid Black Gold

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Symyx Tech. - Ready for Takeoff?

Kirby Corp. - Barges Full of Profits
Kirby is the largest inland barge operator in the U.S. Demand is strong and price hikes are sticking, so earnings are very solid... 

C.H. Robinson - Move Those Refrigerators and Color TVs
CH Robinson helps companies transport their products by using excess space with other transportation companies...

Boston Scientific - Ready to Rebound?
This company makes products used in minimally invasive surgical procedures such as stents and pacemakers. Lawsuits have hurt results, but cost cutting should help going forward... 

Zimmer Holdings - Artificial Limbs, Real Profits 
Zimmer can put the spring back in your step or the zing back in your swing. The company designs and markets orthopedic products, including reconstructive implants used in knee or hip replacement surgery...

ResMed - Breathing Easy
ResMed makes and distributes medical equipment used to diagnose and treat respiratory disorders that occur during sleep, such as sleep apnea. Insurers are beginning to pay for certain therapies...

Red Hat - Clients Like Openness
Red Hat hopes that businesses are ready to try open-source operating systems on for size. The company dominates the market for Linux. It's tough to compete with Microsoft, but earnings are growing and order backlog is up...

Amazon.com - That Vision Thing
The world's top online retailer is also a force in web infrastructure services (cloud computing) and digitial media. Watch out, here comes Web 2.0...

Omnicom Group - More Like Omnipresent
This is the world's #1 corporate media services conglomerate, with advertising, marketing, and public relations operations serving some 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries...

Gannett Co. - Extra, Extra, Read All About It!
This is the leading U.S. newspaper publisher but also runs a number of TV stations and even web sites like CareerBuilder.com. The stock sports a dividend yield of 5.4%...

Wal-Mart Stores - Breakout or Blip?
The stock price of this retailing industry leader has been range-bound for eight years, but it's starting to break out to the upside...

Ross Stores - Recession? What Recession?
This discount retailer of clothing and other closeout merchandise continues to deliver great earnings even in tough economic times...

Buckle, Inc. - Knows Its Customer
This retailer springing from the Midwest sells fashion-conscious 12- to 24-year-olds the clothes they've just got to have...

Central European Distribution - Bottoms Up..So's The Bottom Line
CEDC imports and distributes more than 700 brands of beer, spirits, and wines in Poland. It's pushing into Russia and Hungary next...

Herbalife - Healthy In Body And Bottom Line
This company makes weight control products including meal replacements, snacks and "enhancers" sold around the world. China sales doubled last year...

Coca-Cola - It's The Real Thing
Coke's stock price has gone nowhere for several years now, but it's a steady performer, profits keep rising and the return on equity is awesome...

Mathews International - Turning Memories Into Profits
Demographics are just one factor pushing demand for Mathews' caskets and bronze memorials. The company is also expanding internationally...

AGCO Corp - Another Ethanol Beneficiary 
Demand for AGCO's tractors and other farming equipment is driven by growing populations and a growing appetite for biofuels...

Informatica - Moving Data, Lots of Data
This software company helps enterprises access, integrate, and consolidate data across systems. Earnings have been erratic, but strong international business and buyout potential make Informatica interesting...

Parexel - As in Par Excellence
This is a top contract research organization for some of the world's largest drug, biotech, and medical device firms. Growth is solid and the stock reflects it...

Flextronics - Movin' On Up?
Flextronics offers turnkey manufacturing services to many of the world's leading electronics companies. It has production capacity around the globe and the pieces are in place for better sales and earnings...

Xilinx - Ready to Rebound?
Programmable chips from Xilinx help customers like Agilent, Cisco, and IBM get new products to market. Business is strong even in North America...

Quest Diagnostics - Testing Positive for Profits
This leader in medical diagnostic services appears to be back on a course of solid growth, thanks to acquisitions in the cancer testing area...

Xerox - Back on Track
This company is best known for copiers, but it's rejuvenated with new products and services and riding a strong international business...

Plexus - Potential Is There
Plexus is the manufacturer behind the electronic equipment, with customers such as Juniper Networks, GE, and Siemens. It has production capacity all around the world...

Hewlett Packard - Still A Growth Story
A very healthy international business puts HP in great shape despite the U.S. economic woes. All divisions are showing revenue growth...

Amdocs - Leave the Billing to Them
This is a leader in outsourced billing and customer care for the telecom and cable industries. This stock has cheapened considerably, but the outlook for solid growth remains...

Colgate Palmolive - Consumer Juggernaut
A diverse stable of consumer products, from toothpaste to household cleaners and pet food, have Colgate Palmolive delivering solid results...

Covanta - Turning Waste Into Profits
The former insurance-focused company has made itself a leader in the waste and energy services markets. Limited landfill space and the growing push for waste-to-energy bode well for the future...

Live Nation - A New Business Model in Music
This company is best known as a concert promoter, but it's making some huge deals that encompass licensing rights, new music releases, and more...

Herman Miller - Sitting Pretty
Even as the US economy slows, this maker of high quality office furniture is finding new markets to support growth and strong profits...

Superior Industries - A Bumpy Ride?
This company is a leading maker of cast and forged aluminum wheels for passenger cars and light trucks. It's gaining market share...

Windstream Corp - Calling Income Investors
This is the largest domestic, rural wireline telecom company. The hefty dividend certainly attracts the eye of income-oriented investors...

ITC Holdings  - Feel the Buzz
If your looking for a utility that's also a growth story, ITC is it. The dividend is decent and earnings are ramping...

Fortune Brands - Absolute Relief
Investors were relieved to see that Fortune didn't get sucked into a bidding war for ABSOLUT vodka. The golf and spirits businesses should do fine this year...

Timken Co. - Turnaround Time?
This company makes bearings that range in weight from a mere half an ounce to nine tons. Timken bearings find their way into products from computers to railroad cars...

Amedisys - Bringing Healthcare Home
This company's home health care segment comprises skilled nursing and home health aide services, as well as programs focused on diabetes, wound care, and geriatric surgical recovery...

DRS Technologies- Military Markets, Marching Profits
Tracking military activity involves complex methods, but DRS Technologies makes the tasks manageable with electronic systems that process, display, and store all the data...

Adobe Systems- A House Built to Last
This software company is holding up well through the current U.S. economic slowdown. In fact, its customer and product diversity should support much stronger growth than Adobe lets on...

Martek Biosciences- A Different Kind of Oil
Martek makes and licenses nutritional oils for use in baby formula, dietary supplements, nutritional drinks, breakfast cereals, and some dairy products. Its oils are made primarily from the omega-3 fatty acid DHA...

EMS Technologies- Wireless Everywhere
EMS makes wireless systems that can help you communicate, whether you're walking the warehouse floor or floating in space. This small-cap is aimed at new markets with big potential...

Newmarket Corp.- Oil Additives Add Up To Profits
This company makes additives for petroleum products that improve refining or performance. Demand is strong, but the stock is hardly undiscovered by investors...

United Parcel Service - If You Believe
UPS is the world leader in package-delivery. It also offers logistics and freight forwarding services. If you believe the U.S. economy will recover sooner rather than later...

Huron Consulting - Bad Times Mean Good Times
Huron provides a variety of financial consulting services to corporate clients that are in financial distress or involved in other legal and regulatory disputes. The worse things get, the better Huron does...

IHS Inc - Finding Black Gold
IHS is a publisher of technical documents for clients in the energy, defense, aerospace, construction, electronics, and automotive industries. One example: IHS's data makes the odds for success in oil exploration much higher for drillers...

K-Tron International - Out of This World
K-Tron makes gravimetric and volumetric feeders that let manufacturers control the flow of solid bulk and liquid materials during manufacturing processes...

Mettler-Toledo - On Balance, Very Good
This company makes computerized scales, analytical balances, as well as other weighing instruments and scientific equipment. Growing demand from emerging markets should keep business on an upward trajectory...

Invitrogen - Cloning Profits
Invitrogen makes kits that not only simplify but also speed up gene cloning, expression, and analysis. This company has a global customer base and large, untapped markets still to pursue...

PetSmart - Dog with Fleas or the Cat's Meow?
This leading specialty retailer in pet supplies has taken a beating in the past six months as margins are squeezed and near-term growth slows. The long-term outlook is still appealing, though...

Jack Henry & Assoc. - Solving Some of a Bank's Problems
Jack Henry provides integrated in-house and outsourced computer systems to banks and credit unions. It takes a lot of the back office processing out of banks...

Ameriprise Financial - Making Money From Money
Ameriprise Financial is a leading provider of financial advice. Formerly American Express Financial, it offers planning, products, and services to individual and institutional investors...

Sybase - Climbing Ever Higher?
This database software stock has marched steadily higher over the past several years, and its international customer base bodes well for the future...

Praxair - Steady on the Gas
This company is a century-old provider of industrial gases. Despite the maturity of this industry, Praxair is delivering double-digit growth and attracting investors that seek steady profits in good economic times or bad...

R.R. Donnelley - Printing Profits
This is the world's largest commercial printer. In the age of electronic communication, it still has plenty of business. A recession will hurt, but RR Donnelley is generating a lot of cash to keep operations in good shape...

Corning - Flat Screens for Fat Profits
Business is holding up well for this glass-maker, even through the economic downturn. Corning continues to expect strong demand for LCDs used in flat-screen TVs and PCs...

Range Resources - Getting to the Oil
This company has a different approach to pumping oil and natural gas. If the oil or gas is somewhere, anywhere, they will get it. If there's a town sitting on it, no problem. That's because Range uses a new method of drilling called horizontal drilling...