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"With roughly 41% of the stocks in the S&P SmallCap 600 Index trading at price/earnings ratios of 10 or less, there are some screaming bargains calling for attention," says Richard Moroney.

In his small-cap focused quantitative service, Upside, he explains, "The abundance of inexpensive names makes it easy to overlook the best bargains, so we used a three-part screen to identify truly cheap stocks." Here's two industrial sector names that pass his screens.

"First, we used our Quadrix® rating system to screen for stocks with Value scores above 50 and Overall scores above 85.

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President-elect Barack Obama plans to offer a $900 billion infrastructure investment plan, according to an economic adviser. Three companies are among the beneficiaries of that plan. And it might be worth looking at them as investments.

Each week I track which stocks are moving in and out of the top 25 Magic Formula Stocks for companies with a minimum market cap of 50 and 2000 billion. Here are the moves for the week ended 10-26-08

Top 25/50 Million:

In:

• China 3C Group (CHCG.OB)
• EMCOR Group, Inc (EME)
• Korn/Ferry International (KFY)
• United Online, Inc. (UNTD_
• iBasis (IBAS)

Out:

• Biovail (BVF)
• BroadVision, Inc. (BVSN.OB)
• Mesabi Trust  (MSB)
• Sucampo Pharmaceuticals (SCMP)
• Terra Industries (TRA)

Top 25/2000 Million

In:

Each week I track which stocks are moving in and out of the top 25 Magic Formula Stocks for companies with a minimum market cap of 50 and 2000 billion. Here are the moves for the week ended 9-13-08:

Top 25/50 Million:

In:

• Lam Research Corp (LRCX)
• KHD Humboldt Wedag International Ltd (KHD)
• NVIDIA Corp (NVDA)

Out:

• ChinaCast Education Corporation (CAST)
• Questcor Pharmaceuticals (QCOR)
• Meredith Corporation  (MDP)

Top 25/2000 Million

In:

• KBR Inc (KBR)
• Lam Research Corp (LRCX)
• MEMC Electronic Materials Inc (WFR)

Out:

• EMCOR Group, Inc (EME)
• Gannett Co., Inc. (GCI)
• Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)

Emcor Group (EME) showed up on our stock screen today and after review, we jumped on it. EME has demonstrated strong earnings and sales growth over the past twelve months, yet in our view, remains very attractively priced. Earnings and Sales have grown 60% and 26.8% respectively over the past 12 months, but their PE ratio is under 14.