5 Stocks With Ugly Earnings Momentum — FNBN GYRO PNX CPN SHLD

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This week, these five stocks have the worst ratings in Earnings Momentum, one of the eight Fundamental Categories on Portfolio Grader.

FNB United () is a bank holding company. FNBN also gets F’s in Equity and Cash Flow. .

Gyrodyne Company of America, Inc. () leases industrial and commercial real estate to diversified entities. GYRO also gets F’s in Earnings Growth, Equity, Cash Flow and Operating Margin Growth. .

Phoenix Companies, Inc. () operates as a holding company, which offers life insurance and annuity solutions for its customers’ retirement and protection needs. PNX gets F’s in Earnings Growth and Sales Growth as well. Shares of the stock have declined 19.5% since January 1. This is worse than the S&P 500, which has remained flat. .

Calpine Corporation () is an independent wholesale power generation company engaged in the ownership and operation of natural gas-fired and geothermal power plants in North America. CPN also gets F’s in Earnings Growth and Operating Margin Growth. The stock currently has a trailing PE Ratio of 657.60. .

Sears Holdings Corporation () is a broadline retailer with full-line and specialty retail stores in the United States and Canada. SHLD gets F’s in Analyst Earnings Revisions, Equity, Cash Flow and Sales Growth as well. The price of SHLD is down 16.6% since the first of the year. .

Louis Navellier’s proprietary Portfolio Grader stock ranking system assesses roughly 5,000 companies every week based on a number of fundamental and quantitative measures. Stocks are given a letter grade based on their results — with A being “strong buy,” and F being “strong sell.” Explore the tool here.