WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? Yesterday we scoured the country for the companies with the best growth outlooks. Today, we'll look for the opposite: companies that have the poorest outlooks for growth. TODAY'S SCREEN We'll use the screening tool available from Thomson One Analytics again. We'll look for stocks that have less than 5 per cent expected revenue and share profit growth for this year and next. We'll add a minimum market capitalization of $250-million. We'll rank stocks by the worst expected profit growth for next year. We'll also throw price-to-earnings ratios into the table so that you can get a feel for how cheap or expensive these stocks are. SO WHAT DID WE TURN UP? Just 10 companies turned up with this screen; Methanex, Biovail and Teck Cominco are return offenders from a similar screen that we ran back in May. The others are mostly oil and gas energy trusts, which as a group are suffering from all sorts of problems, from low natural gas prices to high payout ratios to declining assets.
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