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Russell 2000 Top Performers Since the Crash (ATSG, AXL, ARM, BZ, CKEC, CTIC, CNO, GPRE, HGSI, LZB, PIR, PWER, PMI, UIS, VNDA)

247admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:29:44 +0000

The bull market is officially one-year old now. March 9, 2009 was the absolute low for the index levels. VSInvestor.com has pulled many of biggest stock movers from the Russell 2000 Index. Amazingly, we had to include stocks which up a whopping 800% just to get the list down to close to 40 stocks. This shows many ten-baggers or 1,000% gains.

Some of the key stocks which showed gains in the ten-bagger category are Air Transport Services Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATSG), American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc. (NYSE: AXL), ArvinMeritor Inc. (NYSE: ARM), Boise, Inc. (NYSE: BZ), Carmike Cinemas Inc. (NASDAQ: CKEC), Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTIC), Conseco Inc. (NYSE: CNO), Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: GPRE), Human Genome Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: HGSI), La-Z-Boy Inc. (NYSE: LZB), Pier 1 Imports Inc. (NYSE: PIR), Power-One Inc. (NASDAQ: PWER), PMI Group Inc. (NYSE: PMI), Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS), and Vanda Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: VNDA).

And those are just some….. Check out the gains off the table below from the Russell 2,000:

Company	Price % Change, 52-Wk
Air Transport Services Group Inc.	1,136.36
American Axle & Manufact. Holdings, Inc.	2,382.50
American Capital Ltd.	947.38
ArvinMeritor, Inc.	2,662.22
Avis Budget Group Inc.	2,764.10
Beazer Homes USA, Inc.	1,365.52
Belo Corp.	1,198.28
Boise Inc.	2,040.00
Brigham Exploration Company	1,376.32
Carmike Cinemas, Inc.	823.08
Cell Therapeutics, Inc.	1,931.80
Century Aluminum Company	1,266.36
Charming Shoppes, Inc.	1,254.17
Conseco, Inc.	1,457.89
Crosstex Energy, Inc.	1,012.64
Dana Holding Corporation	5,117.39
Diedrich Coffee, Inc.	8,617.50
Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, Inc.	4,125.97
Ferro Corporation	818.56
Green Plains Renewable Energy Inc.	996.97
Human Genome Sciences	1,728.82
La-Z-Boy Incorporated	2,276.67
LodgeNet Interactive Corp.	981.97
Modine Manufacturing Co.	1,153.01
Oriental Financial Group Inc.	967.89
Pier 1 Imports, Inc.	4,693.33
Power-One, Inc.	960.53
Radian Group Inc.	1,014.58
Rex Energy Corporation	1,153.57
Ruby Tuesday, Inc.	853.68
Solutia Inc.	958.9
Sonic Automotive, Inc.	1,126.32
Stone Energy Corporation	925.97
Sunrise Senior Living, Inc.	1,616.67
Tenneco Inc.	2,445.35
The E.W. Scripps Company	1,115.19
The Phoenix Companies, Inc.	879.31
The PMI Group, Inc.	856.25
Tuesday Morning Corporation	1,110.53
Unisys Corporation	1,073.94
Valassis Communications, Inc.	2,118.75
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1,208.41

There were many others which could have been included.

JON C. OGG

Major Price/Volume Alert: Pier 1 (PIR)

247admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:48:45 +0000

Pier 1 Imports Inc. (NYSE: PIR) saw a sudden spike higher late in the morning. The company’ CEO spoke at an annual meeting and said that the first month of the new quarter is running better than internal projections. The company has also approved a par value reduction to accommodate a reverse split as well; and it elected 8 members of the board.

He said a month ago after the loss report last month that Pier 1 traffic was gradually improving and that many sales declines were getting smaller.

Pier 1 shares are up 14% at $2.27 on over 1.3 million shares. That now matches its average volume for a whole day and its 52-week range is $0.10 to $5.70.

Jon C. Ogg
July 1, 2009 (11:51 AM EST)

Down Volume Spike: Pier 1 (PIR)

247admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:28:42 +0000

Pier 1 Imports inc. (NYSE: PIR) is seeing a flurry of trading to the downside after the company missed earnings estimates yet again. How many times can one company disappoint? Shares were down about 16% but now after 55 minutes of trading shares are down 19.8% at $5.00. We have also already seen it surpass its average daily volume as more than 3.9 million shares have already traded hands at 10:25 AM EST.

Avg. Daily Volume: 2.25 million shares
52-week range: $3.26 to $8.96
OPTIONS: YES

Jon Ogg

June 19, 2008