Zacks Partners With Chaikin Stock Research to Power Next Generation Investment Research Applications on iPhone

CHICAGO, Feb. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Zacks Investment Research, Inc. announces a partnership with Chaikin Stock Research to supply fundamental and consensus data for financial statements, earnings estimates, and earnings dates for display with stock research reports available on ChaikinPowerTools.com, and within the new Chaikin Power Tools iPhone application.

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With Zacks data and stock analysis behind it, Chaikin Power Tools makes critical stock market data easy to understand and digest, thus simplifying the investor's buy/sell/hold decisions. The Chaikin stock tools distill complex information affecting stock prices into easily understood green/red ratings based on an unbiased, proprietary multi-factor model, independently back-tested and proven.

"With Chaikin Power Tools and Zacks data, investors now have a quick and easy way to go beyond simple quotes and really assess the performance potential of individual stock investment ideas, literally in their pockets." according to Bryant Sheehy, Director of Business Development for Content and Data at Zacks Investment Research, Inc.

"Zacks data is instrumental in providing us with the breadth of coverage needed to populate our Chaikin Power Gauge Reports.  From our website investors can order, and receive in seconds, a comprehensive free report on any of 5000 stocks, thanks to Zacks' content.  As a result, we can now provide individual investors with the quality of research previously available only to Wall Street firms" states Marc Chaikin, founder and CEO of Chaikin Stock Research.

ABOUT CHAIKIN STOCK RESEARCH, www.chaikinpowertools.com

Chaikin Stock Research, LLC, was founded by Marc Chaikin, a recognized expert in the field of investment research, technical analysis and quantitative models. Marc created groundbreaking real-time analytics workstation for institutional portfolio managers and traders, marketed by Bomar Securities, later sold to Instinet Corp, then a subsidiary of Reuters. His research into supply and demand for stocks led to the creation of the widely used Chaikin Oscillator and Chaikin Persistency of Money Flow, the basis of Investor Business Daily's Accumulation/Distribution Rating.

ABOUT ZACKS

Zacks Investment Research provides institutional and individual investors with the analytical tools and financial information necessary to the success of their investment process. Founded in 1978, Zacks' early contribution to investment analysis was the discovery that earnings per share estimate revisions are the most powerful force affecting stock prices. This discovery is built into the Zacks Rank proprietary methodology for predicting stock price performance. The Zacks Rank has produced average annual returns in excess of 28% since 1988. Today Zacks produces data feeds for estimates, stock ratings, earnings report data, fundamental data, and institutional holdings for US and Canadian traded equities, as well as investment research reports and research software tools for investors.  

SOURCE Zacks Investment Research, Inc.