Gerstein sat down with Steve Forbes in June, and talked about his stock screening methods, buy-and-hold investing and his doubts about Apple.

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To find these stocks, I created a simple screen in our Stock Investor Pro stock screening program that looks for stocks with four specific characteristics.

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Of course keep in mind that any and all stock screening tools do not know about news events such as an oil spill, but only evaluates the financial numbers based upon quarterly earnings filings.

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McGraw Hill ( MHP) appeared in a stock screening strategy I created (and described in an October 4, 2012 article) in connection with an effort to determine if it was worthwhile to pay attention to earnings season.

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Marc Gerstein is editor of Forbes Low Priced Stock Report and research director at Portfolio123 and author of Screening the Market (Wiley, 2002).

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