In our weekly Pops & Drops publication, we feature companies with significant fundamental score improvements/deteriorations in our rankings, along with a positive/negative change in our weekly price trend indicator. At the end of each trading week we scan our 5,200 stock universe to find these potential movers. We highlight the pops to buy and the drops to sell. Prior weeks recommended Pops & Drops trades are tracked in the last section below.
In a down week for markets ending August 16, we only recorded 3 pops. There were 15 drops. We like two companies to