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AMPH - American Physicians Svc


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This market is not producing stocks with astronomical returns like we saw in 1999, 2003, and even 2004. Gains now seem to get cut off anywhere between 50-100% unless you are PDO and MXC. Although its been difficult I still manage to find excellent stocks although the market is bad. I want to see stocks with tremendous growth in sales and earnings, not 15% growth but 100% or more. This gives me laser focus on the top growth stocks in the market. With this focus on growth I’ve come across AMPH - American Physicians Svc. Lets get to the numbers:

Sales % growth YoY: 120.92%
3 yr Sales growth: 43%

EPS % growth YoY: 1,476.11%
3 yr EPS growth: 45%

These are certainly the type of growth numbers I want to see, very high and even its 3 year growth is impressive. Moving onto management and if they are successful. Many studies show how important Return on Equity can show how effective a management team is. Anything above 17% or more clues me in on an effective team. AMPH sports a healthy 31.04% ROE, showing me they can produce.


Talk about all this growth many often wonder about P/E ratios. I could care less about P/E ratios because I focus on quality of growth and not so much on price. However, when a P/E as low as AMPH sports its worth mentioning. AMPH sports a 5.5 price to earnings ratio. Why so cheap with growth in sales and earnings? Its quite simple, institutions are just now beginning to notice as well as mutual funds.

Onto the charts.

Taking a look at the daily chart you’ll notice that there is one drawback to this stock. It trades thinly, roughly 28k shares a day are only traded on this issue. With only 28k shares trading daily it makes this stock more vulnerable to wild intra-day swings and why we do not have a large institutional following.

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The weekly shows the inability to close the weeks on the highs. But, what you do see is the relative strength vs. the S&P500 is steadily growing. A great sign, now we just need more upside volume.

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I would love to begin a position with a bounce supported by volume from its 50dma.

Market Speculator

Disclosure: No positions in AMPH, MXC. Author owns PDO

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4 Responses to “AMPH - American Physicians Svc”

  1. Sue Massey on June 8th, 2008 3:01 pm

    I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road!

  2. zee http://z-stock.blogspot.com/ on June 8th, 2008 8:35 pm

    I think JUNE 6th will look like the market top–2 to 3 weeks out. I think the market turned bearish..not sure yet, but all these bug huge red candles, all have to play out next few days, and they usually play out to the downside–imo..we’ll see.
    zee
    I had all puts going into Friday–IWM FFIV, ( few others)
    problem is I closed out when dow was down 200, so I left big chunks of profit on the table–
    I might buy KO and PEP later this week

  3. zee http://z-stock.blogspot.com/ on June 8th, 2008 8:41 pm

    I was sort of hoping you had some opinion about Friday’s sell-off. I think it could get worse, but I really don’t know.

  4. Market Speculator on June 9th, 2008 5:59 am

    hey zee,

    I think it gets worse for the Dow Jones Industrials and S&P500. Did you see the large cap oil names tick lower on Friday??? Unreal if you ask me, how can those names be lower with oil pushing higher by 11 bucks??

    The NASDAQ is your strength along with the Small and Mid-Cap names. A little history lesson, it took the market over 1.5 years after the peak of oil in 1979 to put a bottom in and rally.

    I think the market remains mixed!

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