Penny Stock Pick - XPO

The penny stock on the spotlight today is Express-1 Expedited Solutions Inc. (XPO), the Buchanan, MI based transportation and logistics services provider. Althoguh there were no major headines recently, recent trend is showing the stock is on a rise since tanking to new low of 50 cents around May of last year. Let's take a detail look at the stock to see if this is the stock you want to buy.

Technical
The technical chart shows positive sign as 50 day moving average is on top of 200 day moving average with stock trading above both moving averages. MACD also show bullish signal as MACD is above signal line. However ROC and KD are somehow weak as ROC is at overbuy level and K line may drop below D line.

Insider
Recently from the insider chart 26,000 shares were on the buy side while 30,000 shares were on the sale side. The buys came from the top management such as director and president while most sale came from the beneficial owner. With the company's management team bullish on the stock, we can be pretty sure that they won't try to mess up the stock performance.

Financial
The income statement show some weakness as the company has earned less revenue from $42 million in 2004 to $39.8 million in 2005. Moreover net loss has increased from $3.2 million to $5.8 million, also a negative sign. However the recent two quarters were showing positive sign as the company actually reversed to net income in the fourth quarter of 2005 and the first quarter of 2006 which is why the company has not sell stocks or borrowing money recently despite low cash level.

Penny Stock Score (1~5) 5 is highest
1. Market Potential(transportation/logistic): 3.5
2. Technical: 4
3. Insider: 4
4. Financial: 3.5
Recommendation: Buy