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The following are today's upgrades for Validea's Book/Market Investor model based on the published strategy of Joseph Piotroski. This value-quant strategy screens for high book-to-market stocks, and then separates out financially sound firms by looking at a host of improving financial criteria.

SILVERCORP METALS INC (SVM) is a small-cap value stock in the Gold & Silver industry. The rating according to our strategy based on Joseph Piotroski changed from 0% to 80% based on the firm’s underlying fundamentals and the stock’s valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.

Company Description: Silvercorp Metals Inc. is a mining company. The Company is engaged in producing silver, gold, lead, and zinc with a long history of profitability and growth potential. It is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development, and mining of mineral properties. The Company's operations include Ying Mining District, GC Mine and BYP Mine. Its Ying operation is located approximately 240 kilometers (km) west-southwest of Zhengzhou, the capital city of Henan Province, China, and 145 km southwest of Luoyang. The flagship Ying operations consist of seven underground mines, including SGX, HZG, HPG, TLP, LME, LMW and DCG and two processing plants (combined 2,600 tpd capacity) The GC mine is located approximately 200 km west of Guangzhou, the capital city of Guangdong Province, China. The BYP Mine is located approximately 220 km southwest of Changsha, the capital city of Hunan Province, China. It also operates two sulphide flotation plants at Ying with a total design capacity of 2,600 tpd.

The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria.

Detailed Analysis of SILVERCORP METALS INC

DMC GLOBAL INC (BOOM) is a small-cap growth stock in the Oil Well Services & Equipment industry. The rating according to our strategy based on Joseph Piotroski changed from 0% to 80% based on the firm’s underlying fundamentals and the stock’s valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.

Company Description: DMC Global Inc. is an owner and operator of asset-light manufacturing businesses. It owns and operates Arcadia Products, DynaEnergetics and NobelClad, three asset-light manufacturing businesses that provide differentiated products and engineered solutions to segments of the construction, energy, industrial processing and transportation markets. Arcadia Products supplies architectural building products, including exterior and interior framing systems, windows, curtain walls, storefronts, doors and interior partitions to the commercial construction market. DynaEnergetics designs, manufactures and sells highly engineered products utilized by the global oil and gas industry for the perforation of oil and gas wells. NobelClad produces explosion-welded clad metal plates for use in the construction of corrosion resistant industrial processing equipment, as well as specialized transition joints for use in construction of commuter rail cars, ships and liquified natural gas processing equipment.

The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria.

Detailed Analysis of DMC GLOBAL INC

About Joseph Piotroski: Piotroski isn't your typical Wall Street big shot. In fact, he's not even a professional investor. He's a good old numbers-crunching accountant and college professor. But in 2000, shortly after he started teaching at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business, Piotroski published a groundbreaking paper in the Journal of Accounting Research entitled "Value Investing: The Use of Historical Financial Statement Information to Separate Winners from Losers". In it, Piotroski laid out an accounting-based stock-selection/shorting method that produced a 23 percent average annual back-tested return from 1976 through 1996 -- more than double the S&P 500's gain during that time. Piotroski's findings were reported in major financial publiations like SmartMoney. Today, he teaches accounting at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

About Validea: Validea is aninvestment researchservice that follows the published strategies of investment legends. Validea offers both stock analysis and model portfolios based on gurus who have outperformed the market over the long-term, including Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, Peter Lynch and Martin Zweig. For more information about Validea, click here

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