Friday, August 2, 2013

My Stock of the Day: AHS


AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. (AHS) isn’t a penny stock, but of late it has been selling for less than $15.

What’s more, it’s a selection by the AAII-Driehaus stock-selection strategy. As a portfolio, its picks have returned average total annual returns in double digits for the last 10, 5, and 3 years (18.0%, 23.1%, 24.2%) and 23.3% in 2013 through June 30. In market-collapse 2008, it held about half its value by dropping from $17.17 at the 2007 close to $8.46 at the close of 2008. The strategy is among the 77 followed by AAII. It is explained at:

My 5-year Yahoo chart for AHS is dramatic, with good pullback buying opportunities in 2009, 2010, and 2011. See:

My 3-month chart shows sharp up and down action with a buying opportunities in April and May 2013 and perhaps again now or soon.  The progress of AHS needs to be watched closely now. See:

Never forget this: All investments and savings are gambles on the unknowable future and thus subject to loss.
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