Top Rated StockScouter Stocks

There are numerous free investing sites out there that provide their own ratings for stocks.  One of the more widely known is MSN's StockScouter service.  The ratings are based on a 1 (worst) to 10 (best) scale "using a system of advanced mathematics to determine a stock's expected risk and return."  We screened the S&P 500 for StockScouter's top rated stocks, and 38 of the 500 stocks in the index received a "10" rating.  Below is the list of these 38 stocks sorted by year-to-date percent change.  CHK, HAL, NSC and BNI are the best performers in the list, while AAPL, AGN, INTC and ADBE are the worst performers.  We never recommend using any of these lists as blanket buy signals.  Instead, they can be used as a supplement to an investor's own analysis or a starting point for further analysis.  We'll check back on the performance of these names in a couple of months to see how StockScouter's top rated stocks have performed.