Below are today’s upgrades to Validea’s Small-Cap Growth Investor model based on the Motley Fool’s public strategy. This strategy looks for small cap growth stocks with solid fundamentals and strong price performance.
CRA INTERNATIONAL, INC. (CRAI) is a small cap growth stock in the business services industry. The Motley Fool’s strategic rating was revised from 69% to 76% based on the company’s underlying fundamentals and stock valuation. A score of 80% or higher usually indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock, and a score of over 90% usually indicates strong interest.
Company Profile: CRA International, Inc. is a consulting services firm that applies analytical techniques and industry knowledge to a variety of customer engagements. The Company provides services in two areas: litigation, regulation, financial consulting and management consulting. Providing consulting services to corporate clients and attorneys in various litigation and regulatory proceedings, conducting research and analysis, testimony, and comprehensive litigation and regulatory proceedings in all areas of finance, accounting, economics, insurance, forensic accounting and investigations. provide excellent support. The company’s management consulting services include strategy development, performance improvement, corporate strategy and portfolio analysis, market demand estimation, new product pricing strategy, intellectual property and other asset evaluation, competitor behavior evaluation, new Includes source analysis. The company operates primarily in the Americas, Europe and Australia.
The following table summarizes whether a stock meets each test of this strategy. Not all criteria in the table below are equally weighted or independent, but this table provides a quick overview of a security’s strengths and weaknesses in the context of the strategy’s criteria. .
| Profit rate: | pass |
| Relative Strength: | pass |
| Sales and EPS growth compared to the same period last year: | failure |
| Insider Holding: | failure |
| Cash flow from operating activities: | pass |
| Profit Margin Consistency: | pass |
| Percentage of R&D expenses to sales: | neutral |
| Cash and cash equivalents: | failure |
| Accounts receivable: | pass |
| Long-term Debt/Equity Ratio: | pass |
| “THE FOOL RATIO” (P/E TO GROWTH): | pass |
| Average Number of Shares Outstanding: | pass |
| sale: | failure |
| Daily Dollar Volume: | pass |
| price: | pass |
| Income tax rate: | pass |
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Home Bancorp Co., Ltd. (HBCP) Small cap value stock in the money center banking industry. The Motley Fool’s strategy rating was revised from 65% to 72% based on the company’s underlying fundamentals and stock valuation. A score of 80% or higher usually indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock, and a score of over 90% usually indicates strong interest.
Company Profile: Home Bancorp, Inc. is the bank holding company of Home Bank, NA (The Bank), a nationally licensed bank. The bank operates through approximately 38 banking offices in the Acadiana, Baton Rouge, Greater New Orleans and North Shore (Lake Pontchartrain) areas of southern Louisiana and the Natchez area of western Mississippi. The Bank is primarily engaged in collecting deposits from the public and using those funds to invest in loans and securities. Its primary sources of funding are customer deposits, loan repayments, investment repayments, and funds borrowed from outside sources such as the Federal Home Loan Bank (FHLB) of Dallas. These funds mainly consist of first mortgage loans, home equity loans and loans, commercial real estate loans, construction and land loans, multifamily loans, commercial and industrial loans, etc. for one household to his four households. Used in loan structuring. consumer loans.
The following table summarizes whether a stock meets each test of this strategy. Not all criteria in the table below are equally weighted or independent, but this table provides a quick overview of a security’s strengths and weaknesses in the context of the strategy’s criteria. .
| Profit rate: | pass |
| Relative Strength: | failure |
| Sales and EPS growth compared to the same period last year: | failure |
| Insider Holding: | pass |
| Cash flow from operating activities: | pass |
| Profit Margin Consistency: | failure |
| Percentage of R&D expenses to sales: | neutral |
| Cash and cash equivalents: | pass |
| “THE FOOL RATIO” (P/E TO GROWTH): | pass |
| Average Number of Shares Outstanding: | pass |
| sale: | pass |
| Daily Dollar Volume: | failure |
| price: | pass |
| Income tax rate: | failure |
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