Top 5 Companies in the Electrical Components & Equipment Industry With the Lowest Forward Earnings Yield (VICR, WIRE, ROP, PPO, AYI)

Jan 24, 2013 (SmarTrend(R) News Watch via COMTEX) -- Below are the three companies in the Electrical Components & Equipment industry with the lowest forward earnings yields. Using projected earnings for the current fiscal year, the forward earnings yield is useful to compare a stock's return vs. owning a similar stock or other yield assets (e.g. bonds). Generally, the higher the earnings yield, the more undervalued the stock.Vicor ranks lowest with a forward earnings yield of 0.7%. Encore Wire is next with a forward earnings yield of 2.9%. Roper Industries ranks third lowest with a forward earnings yield of 4.2%.

Polypore International follows with a forward earnings yield of 4.6%, and Acuity Brands rounds out the bottom five with a forward earnings yield of 4.7%.

SmarTrend recommended that its subscribers protect gains by selling shares of Vicor on July 25th, 2012 by issuing a Downtrend alert when the shares were trading at $6.26. Since that call, shares of Vicor have fallen 14.2%. We are now looking for when a new Uptrend will commence and will alert SmarTrend subscribers in real time.

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