Top 15 Low Risk, High Return Stocks

Below is the list of top 15 stocks that have had at least 10% returns in the past 4 weeks and have Risk Scores in the bottom 25 percentile (i.e., more than 75% of all other stocks in our database have higher historical risk).

Lancaster Colony Corp., (Nasdaq: LANC), (Return: 25%), (Risk Percentile: 22), (Google Yahoo Financials Chart)

National Fuel Gas Co., (NYSE: NFG), (Return: 15%), (Risk Percentile: 22), (Google Yahoo Financials Chart)

American States Water Company, (NYSE: AWR), (Return: 13%), (Risk Percentile: 20), (Google Yahoo Financials Chart)

UMH Properties Inc., (AMEX: UMH), (Return: 13%), (Risk Percentile: 20), (Google Yahoo Financials Chart)

Wyeth, (NYSE: WYE), (Return: 12%), (Risk Percentile: 24), (Google Yahoo Financials Chart)

Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P., (NYSE: SXL), (Return: 12%), (Risk Percentile: 22), (Google Yahoo Financials Chart)

Buckeye Partners, L.P. (NYSE: BPL), (Return: 12%), (Risk Percentile: 23), (Google Yahoo Financials Chart)

International Business Machine, (NYSE: IBM), (Return: 11%), (Risk Percentile: 22), (Google Yahoo Financials Chart)

McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., (NYSE: MHP), (Return: 11%), (Risk Percentile: 25), (Google Yahoo Financials Chart)

Magellan Midstream Partners, (NYSE: MMP), (Return: 11%), (Risk Percentile: 20), (Google Yahoo Financials Chart)

MOCON, Inc., (Nasdaq: MOCO), (Return: 10%), (Risk Percentile: 22), (Google Yahoo Financials Chart)

Affiliated Computer Services, (NYSE:ACS), (Return: 10%), (Risk Percentile: 23), (Google Yahoo Financials Chart)

Watson Wyatt Worldwide Inc., (NYSE: WW), (Return: 10%), (Risk Percentile: 23), (Google Yahoo Financials Chart)

Abbott Laboratories, (NYSE: ABT), (Return: 10%), (Risk Percentile: 16), (Google Yahoo Financials Chart)

Edwards Lifesciences Corp, (NYSE: EW), (Return: 10%), (Risk Percentile: 19), (Google Yahoo Financials Chart)

Our Methodology:
The above list is based on Value Prime's analysis of more than 5,000 NYSE, NASDAQ and AMEX stocks (excluding stocks in the financial sector) that have at least three years of solid earnings data . Risk Percentile Rankings and Risk Scores are calculated by Value Prime based on the most recent 5 years of monthly stock prices. If 5 years of data is not available, the maximum available monthly pricing data is used.