Street Justice: Now's The Time!!

Welcome back! How was your 4th of July? Good, I hope. I had fun shootin off some fireworks. I didn't lose any limbs either! So it was a good 4th for me. I'll have to say I don't know that I liked the market being closed for 3 days. Other than the fireworks, I was BORED! I can't wait till morning. Before I go over the companies I found over the weekend, I wanna say something. I wanna say Thank You to all the men and women in our Armed Forces. One of my readers "Senor ORO" recently thanked me for a shout-out I gave him for his smart investing. I was humbled, if anything I owe him and all the rest of our service men and women a HUGE thank you. You guys are the reason I have the freedom to invest in and write about the market, among other things. So I say to you "Senor ORO" and the rest or our armed forces THANK YOU!!! We may not all agree on the reasons we go to war, but I think everyone knows the ones that have to fight it are worth their weight in Gold(no pun intended).
I worked hard this weekend to bring you 3 big earners for next week and beyond. These guys are all favorites of mine. First up is AFAM/Almost Family. They provide integrated adult day health services and visiting nurse services. AFAM provides skilled medical services in patients homes to enable recipients to reduce or avoid periods of hospitilazation or nursing home care. They also have inpatient "homes" that are generally of a custodial rather than a skilled nature. Almost Family operates in Florida, Kentucky, Ohio, Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Indiana and Alabama. AFAM is a great earner. Their EPS were up 75% over the last year and 21% over last quarter. They also saw an increases of 79% in net income over the past 52 weeks and a 22% bump in net income over the last quarter. Relative value, timing and safety are all excellent and to top it off AFAM has an average annual sales growth of 37%. There were 2 analysts weighing in on AFAM with 1 strong buy and 1 buy. This next company isn't a big secret. SOHU/Sohu.com has been makin money for a little while now. They provide comprehensive online products and services to customers and businesses in China. I think of them as Google in China. Their products and services include aggregated content, search and directory, wireless services, e-commerce, online games, free and premium email and enterprise services. SOHU kicks butt in relative value, timing and safety and boasts a 76% average annual sales growth. They had an EPS growth of 41% over last quarter and are expected to increase EPS by 178% over the year. I believe they will with an annual net income increase of 35% over the last year and 43% over the quarter. 15 analysts gave recommendations on SOHU with 4 strong buys, 7 buys and 4 holds. STRA/Strayer Education is my final company for today. They provide post secondary education services to working adults. STRA offers graduate and undergraduate degree programs in business, administration, accounting, information systems technology and public administration through traditional classrooms and online courses. They have 5 campuses in 10 states along the east coast of the US. Strayer kicks it up a notch in relative value, timing and safety. Their EPS were up 37% over the last 52 weeks and 22% over the quarter. They have the same good numbers a lot of my favorite have. Only STRA has one more I like a whole bunch too. The $1.50 they pay a share in dividend yield. Which is expected to have a 27% growth rate. As you can tell these 3 are solid earners pretty much no matter what. Don't take my word for it though, check em out yourself too.
I had all weekend to try and figure out where I think the market is headed next week. As usual I'm bettin on some energy names that have served me well. I think we may start to see a rally in companies that aren't chained down by oil cause I don't think oil will drop much if at all this week.
It's been a rough first half of the year for the market. I know there were some hot sectors, but the Bears were certainly roaring. So, how do you see the second half? Are we headed for a recession or coming out of one? Let me know.
As I write this blog post I am making some profits on shorting the EUR/USD it took a nice hit when the Forex market opened. Ofcourse the profits in my practice account were much larger than for my real money, but I'll take what I can get. This week is gonna have a lot of economic data coming at us. I'll try to keep up on it all. I am anchoring my Forex account with a small long position in the AUD/USD.
Well, I'm gonna get to bed. I wanna get up early and get my market fix(lol). The 3 big earners I gave you today should carry your portfolios nicely into the future. I'll be back tomorrow(as usual) with 3 more ripe ones, cause we're all in this together. Thanks for reading.