Zacks.com highlights: Dean Foods, Archer Daniels Midland, Hub Group, Arrow Electronics and Echo Global Logistics

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Chicago, IL – August 6, 2018 - Stocks in this week’s article include: Dean Foods Company DF, Archer Daniels Midland Company ADM, Hub Group, Inc. HUBG, Arrow Electronics, Inc. ARW and Echo Global Logistics Inc. ECHO.

Screen of the Week of Zacks Investment Research:

5 Stocks to Buy with Broker Rating Upgrades

The Q2 earnings season is in full swing with multiple companies having already reported their quarterly financial numbers. The picture that has emanated is an extremely healthy one with the top and the bottom lines of the S&P 500 companies expanding 9.3% and 23.9% respectively on a year-over-year basis, according to our Earnings Preview report.

While 80.1% companies outpaced the Zacks Consensus Estimate with respect to earnings, 73.8% beat expectations on the revenue front. Generally, an earnings beat by a company generally leads to an appreciation in its stock price. Given this highly bullish backdrop, investors would like to add outperformers to their respective portfolios for healthy returns.

However, the task is far from easy with a plethora of companies present in the market. Moreover, the complexities associated with the stock market makes it even more difficult for individual investors to select outperformers in their portfolios in the absence of proper guidance.

Broker Advice - An Invaluable Guide

The requisite guidance to design a winning portfolio comes from brokers. Brokers, not only scrutinize the publicly available financial documents, but also attend company conference calls and other presentations.

Since brokers arrive at their recommendation (buy, sell or hold) on a stock after thoroughly analyzing the company fundamentals, it is natural for investors to be guided by the direction of estimate revisions while deciding their course of action on a particular stock. Estimate revisions serve as an important pointer regarding the price of a stock. In fact, a rating upgrade generally leads to stock price appreciation. Similarly, the price of a stock may plummet following a rating downgrade.

Estimates can move north for a number of reasons – favorable earnings performance, a bullish guidance, product launch or any favorable macro scenario.  To take care of the earnings performance, we have designed a screen based on improving analyst recommendation and upward estimate revisions over the last four weeks.

And that's what we're screening for today…

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