IBD Weekly Top Ranked Medical Stocks...


The following list represents the top ten medical stocks ranked according to Earnings Per Share and Relative Strength by Investor's Business Daily (10/21/06)

scores out of 100 (last week's rank, change in score):

1(1) Lifecell [LIFC] EPS=99 RS=94
2(4) Arrhythmia Research [HRT] EPS=91(+1) RS=98
3(3) Icon [ICLR] EPS=93 RS=96
4(4) Immucor [BLUD] EPS=95 RS=93(-2)
5(6) Systems Xcellence [SXCL] EPS=90 RS=96(-1)
6(5) Wellcare [WCG] EPS=94 RS=92(-2)
7(8) Parexel [PRXL] EPS=92 RS=93 (-1)
8(7) Celgene [CELG] EPS=97 RS=88(-2)
9(9) Hologic [HOLX] EPS=99 RS=83 (-3)
10(-) Rochester Medical [ROCM] EPS=87 RS=94


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