NICK and DLX Gave Us a Big Boost Today

Today was an outstanding day for our Buy List. Thanks to great earnings from Nicholas Financial (NICK), that stock rallied for a 4.89% gain today. The shares closed at $12.22 which is NICK’s highest close in over four years.

The other big gainer was Deluxe (DLX) which rose 3.95% on better-than-expected earnings. The stock hit a new 52-week high today. We already have a 10.95% gain in DLX for the year.

We also saw decent gains from Ford (F) and Leucadia (LUK). Both Oracle (ORCL) and Leucadia made new 52-week highs. AFLAC (AFL) also hit a new 52-week high of $58.84 early in the day but it gave some back before the close.

For the day, the Buy List gained 0.74% which was well ahead of the 0.22% gain for the S&P 500. For the year thus far, we’re up 5.52% compared with the S&P 500’s 3.33%.

This is shaping up to be one of the best Januarys for Wall Street in a long time. My advice: Don’t get used to it.

Posted by on January 27th, 2011 at 5:44 pm


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