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The following are today's upgrades for Validea's Price/Sales Investor model based on the published strategy of Kenneth Fisher. This value strategy rewards stocks with low P/S ratios, long-term profit growth, strong free cash flow and consistent profit margins.

TURTLE BEACH CORP (HEAR) is a small-cap value stock in the Electronic Instr. & Controls industry. The rating according to our strategy based on Kenneth Fisher changed from 40% to 60% 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: Turtle Beach Corporation (Turtle Beach) is an audio and gaming technology company. Turtle Beach is engaged in developing, commercializing, and marketing products under Turtle Beach and ROCCAT brands. The Company is a provider of headset solutions for use across multiple platforms, including video game and entertainment consoles, handheld consoles, personal computers (PC), tablets and mobile devices. Its PC peripherals brand, ROCCAT, creates PC gaming keyboards, mice and other gaming accessories focused on the PC gaming market. The Turtle Beach brand has a market of gaming headsets with a portfolio of headsets for Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo consoles, as well as for PCs and mobile/tablet devices. It also includes the Neat Microphones brand, which creates, manufactures, and sells digital universal serial bus (USB) and analog microphones. Its subsidiaries include VTB Holdings, Inc., Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc., TBC Holding Company LLC, Turtle Beach Europe Limited and TB Germany GmbH.

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 TURTLE BEACH CORP

About Kenneth Fisher: The son of Philip Fisher, who is considered the "Father of Growth Investing", Kenneth Fisher is a money manager, bestselling author, and longtime Forbes columnist. The younger Fisher wowed Wall Street in the mid-1980s when his book Super Stocks first popularized the idea of using the price/sales ratio (PSR) as a means of identifying attractive stocks. According to his alma mater, Humboldt State University, Fisher is also one of the world's foremost experts on 19th century logging. Appropriately, Fisher's firm, Fisher Investments, is located in a lush forest preserve in Woodside, California, where the contrarian-minded Fisher says he and his employees can get away from Wall Street groupthink.

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