August 5, 2016

VALUATION WATCH: Overvalued stocks now make up 43.55% of our stocks assigned a valuation and 13.95% of those equities are calculated to be overvalued by 20% or more. Six sectors are calculated to be overvalued.

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ValuEngine Sector Overview

Sector Talk--Retail/Wholesale

  Below, we present the latest data on Retail/Wholesale stocks from our Professional Stock Analysis Service    Top five lists are provided for each category.  We applied some basic liquidity criteria--share price greater than $3 and average daily volume in excess of 100k shares. We have been following the sector closely of late because it has been correlated so tightly to overall equity price moves.

Top-Five Retail/Wholesale Stocks--Short-Term Forecast Returns

Top-Five Retail/Wholesale Stocks--Long-Term Forecast Returns

Top-Five Retail/Wholesale Stocks--Composite Score

Top-Five Retail/Wholesale Stocks--Most Overvalued

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United Rentals, Inc. (URI) is one of North America's largest equipment rental companies with over branches in the majority of states, several Canadian provinces and Mexico. The company offers for rent different types of equipment to customers that include construction and industrial companies, manufacturers, utilities, municipalities, homeowners and others.

VALUENGINE RECOMMENDATION: ValuEngine continues its STRONG BUY recommendation on UTD RENTALS INC for 2016-08-04. Based on the information we have gathered and our resulting research, we feel that UTD RENTALS INC has the probability to OUTPERFORM average market performance for the next year. The company exhibits ATTRACTIVE P/E Ratio and Company Size.

Read our Complete Detailed Valuation Report on United Rentals HERE.

Valuation & Rankings
Valuation	1.86% undervalued	Valuation Rank(?)	49
1-M Forecast Return	1.06%	1-M Forecast Return Rank	98
12-M Return	17.45%	Momentum Rank(?)	79
Sharpe Ratio	0.52	Sharpe Ratio Rank(?)	83
5-Y Avg Annual Return	24.84%	5-Y Avg Annual Rtn Rank	95
Volatility	47.37%	Volatility Rank(?)	39
Expected EPS Growth	5.70%	EPS Growth Rank(?)	33
Market Cap (billions)	7.68	Size Rank	88
Trailing P/E Ratio	9.39	Trailing P/E Rank(?)	92
Forward P/E Ratio	8.89	Forward P/E Ratio Rank	87
PEG Ratio	1.65	PEG Ratio Rank	29
Price/Sales	1.32	Price/Sales Rank(?)	58
Market/Book	5.11	Market/Book Rank(?)	24
Beta	2.52	Beta Rank	7
Alpha	0.09	Alpha Rank	74

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ValuEngine View Portfolio Rides Brexit Bounce To 8% Gain

For June/July, we had a great month as the markets shook off the “Brexit” fallout and powered up once again. Our long-only ValueEngine View portfolio matched the upswing perfectly with a big gain of 8.82%. We beat the benchmark S&P 500's similar gain of 8.39% by 43 bps. The trailing 12 month gain of the VE View is -5.23% versus the S&P 500 gain of 2.9%. The return since inception of the View is 108.25% versus the S&P's gain of 91.48%.

We had a perfect 100% hit ratio this month with 15/15 winning positions. Seven of our picks provided double-digit returns with Thor Industries leading the way with a great 22% pick up. Other double-digit returns came from Cooper-Standard, AMN Health Care, Employers Holdings, Smith and Wesson, and Windstream. The big gains meant that none of our picks hit stop-losses levels set at 10%. We will retain those stops at the 10% level moving forward.

Currently, the Valuation Model finds that 45.37% of the equities to which we can assign a valuation are overvalued--with 15.22% coming in overvalued at 20% or more. Seven sectors are calculated to be overvalued. Our valuation figures still show a "normal" market, with valuations nowhere near that bargain level they presented in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote.

The markets in the US and elsewhere certainly shook off that Brexit panic, with several indices setting new records over the past few weeks. Many analysts found that the uncertainty in the EU removed any possible scenario where the Fed would raise rates any time soon. Of course, that is not to say that some Fed officials don't favor increases, but the time to hit the brakes may have passed by given the fact that the US is in the midst of a presidential election, and the central bank is notoriously skittish about any hint of political bias.

Once again, after this week's meetings, the Fed has stood pat. But, if good data for the US and world economy holds up, the Fed may push for an increase in September. Again, we find that the labor market should still be given some room to run. As always, and as we repeat like a mantra, the balancing act between the dual mandate of control inflation and foster full employment creates tension.

In our July portfolio, we turnover just four positions. On a sector basis the model likes Consumer Discretionary stocks and Tech stocks, We add one selection from our Valuation model's aggressive-growth strategy, one position from our Forecast model's diversified-growth strategy, and two positions favored by both.

Below are the latest results from our VE View Strategy Newsletter:

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• It utilizes a three factor approach: fundamental variables such as a company's trailing 12-month Earnings-Per-Share (EPS), the analyst consensus estimate of the company's future 12-month EPS, and the 30-year Treasury yield are all used to create a more accurate reflection of a company's fair value.

• A total of eleven additional firm specific variables are also used. The ValuEngine View portfolio is constructed by integrating both our Aggressive Growth—based on the Valuation Model--and Diversified Growth—based on the Forecast Model-- Portfolio Strategies.

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