January 3, 2017

VALUATION WARNING: Overvalued stocks now make up 65.45% of our stocks assigned a valuation and 32.41% of those equities are calculated to be overvalued by 20% or more. Fifteen sectors are calculated to be overvalued.

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--ValuEngine Top STRONG BUY Upgrade Is CECO

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For today's edition of our upgrade list, we used our website's advanced screening functions to search for UPGRADES to BUY or STRONG BUY with complete forecast and valuation data. Career Education Corporation (CECO) is our top-rated upgrade this week and it is a STRONG BUY.

Below is today's data on Career Education Corporation (CECO):

Career Education Corporation is a provider of private, for-profit post-secondary education with campuses throughout the United States and Canada, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates. Their schools enjoy long operating histories and offer a variety of master's degree, bachelor's degree, associate degree, and diploma programs in career-oriented disciplines. They offer educational programs principally in the following four career-related fields of study, Visual Communication and Design Technologies, Information Technology, Business Studies, and Culinary Arts.

VALUENGINE RECOMMENDATION: ValuEngine updated its recommendation from BUY to STRONG BUY for CAREER EDU CORP on 2016-12-30. Based on the information we have gathered and our resulting research, we feel that CAREER EDU CORP has the probability to OUTPERFORM average market performance for the next year. The company exhibits ATTRACTIVE Momentum and P/E Ratio.

You can download a free copy of detailed report on Career Education Corporation (CECO) from the link below.

ValuEngine Forecast
	Target Price*	Expected Return
1-Month	10.22	1.27%
3-Month	10.59	4.93%
6-Month	11.05	9.55%
1-Year	11.64	15.31%
2-Year	13.11	29.91%
3-Year	14.58	44.46%

Valuation & Rankings
Valuation	72.52% overvalued	Valuation Rank(?)	4
1-M Forecast Return	1.27%	1-M Forecast Return Rank	100
12-M Return	169.79%	Momentum Rank(?)	97
Sharpe Ratio	0.10	Sharpe Ratio Rank(?)	59
5-Y Avg Annual Return	6.94%	5-Y Avg Annual Rtn Rank	67
Volatility	69.58%	Volatility Rank(?)	24
Expected EPS Growth	-79.15%	EPS Growth Rank(?)	4
Market Cap (billions)	0.68	Size Rank	58
Trailing P/E Ratio	11.69	Trailing P/E Rank(?)	88
Forward P/E Ratio	56.06	Forward P/E Ratio Rank	6
PEG Ratio	n/a	PEG Ratio Rank	n/a
Price/Sales	0.77	Price/Sales Rank(?)	75
Market/Book	2.62	Market/Book Rank(?)	43
Beta	2.12	Beta Rank	10
Alpha	0.74	Alpha Rank	96

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