"SOW"--STOCK OF THE WEEK: 31% ROI in 7 days

YAHOO!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO SANDRA KUPSKY FOR ANOTHER FABULOUS STOCK OF THE WEEK SELECTION.

Kupsky selected USG on April 7. If you purchased the stock that day, you've made $10 per share in a week. USG was trading at $33.32 on the 7th and closed yesterday at $43.90/share.

In February, USG, a building products company released it's 2004 earnings statement: USG Corporation Reports Fourth Quarter 2004 Net Sales Of $1.2 Billion And Net Earnings Of $85 Million; Net Earnings For The Year Total $312 Million.

Kupsky chose this stock in part because of the following comparisons between the fourth quarter of 2004 vs. 2003 fourth quarter:

Net sales increased 26 percent
Net earnings rose 85 percent
Record shipments were recorded.

Gypsum also announced that it was investing $132 million to rebuild and modernize it's Norfolk, Virgina manufacturing facility. If you bought USG when Kupsky posted the blog at $33.32 per share you made +31.84%. We are not "pump and dump" traders and will continue to hold the stock in our "SOW" portfolio.

The criteria we use to select stocks include value, market momentum, financial strength and psychological considerations. The wonderful thing about selecting based on values is that surprises can be big. In this case, there was no way for us to know that asbestos reform would finally get support from democratic senators.

Still we want to toot our horn for Sandra. Time and again she is finding stocks that are beating the market; good job Mrs. Kupsky!