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While the release of economic data doesn't stop next week (see economic schedule highlights below), the earnings season does wind down dramatically. Most of the S&P 500 companies already have reported on the past quarter, which means dismal earnings news is largely behind us, at least for a while. About the only companies of note expected by analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters to report falling earnings this week are Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST), Wendy's/Arby's Group Inc. (NYSE: WEN), Foot Locker Inc. (NYSE: FL), Bank of Montreal (NYSE: BMO), and Steinway Musical Instruments Inc. (NYSE: LVB).

While PetSmart Inc. (NASDAQ: PETM) and Big Lots Inc. (NYSE: BIG) quarterly profits are expected to be about the same as a year ago, Liz Claiborne Inc. (NYSE: LIZ), Kenneth Cole Productions Inc. (NYSE: KCP), Ciena Corp. (NASDAQ: CIEN), and Trina Solar Ltd. (NYSE: TSL) are expected to have swung to losses in the most recent quarter.

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Stock screeners are tools that let investors filter through a large number of stocks according to chosen criteria. While helping investors pick stocks and narrow down options, it is important to remember that a stock screener is just a tool and every investment should be analyzed on its own merits to make sure it fits with your personal portfolio and risk characteristics. Welcome to my new weekly column that finds interesting investment opportunities with the help of our Stock Screener.

This post is a continuation of Stock Screener: Generating power with batteries and solar energy -- Part I

A quick recap: With all the talk lately about alternative energy, I wanted to see what the Power Generation & Storage industry has in store. Within the industry, I gave pretty wide criteria with the only constraints being a market capitalization of over $500 million and a profitable 2006.

The stock screener returned five companies listed here by market cap: Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), Energizer Holdings Inc. (NYSE: ENR), Trina Solar Ltd. (NYSE: TSL), EnerSys Inc. (NYSE: ENS) and Greatbatch Inc. (NYSE: GB). These could roughly be divided into two main businesses: Solar energy and batteries. Energizer, EnerSys and Greatbatch are battery manufacturers for different uses, while Suntech and Trina manufacture PV and solar cells and modules.

In Part I, I looked at the solar stocks, today, I'll look at the battery stocks:

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Stock Screener: Generating power with solar and batteries -- Part II originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:05:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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