Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. has been seeking new ways to boost revenue amid macro-economic headwinds like budget-strained customers, reductions in government benefits, higher taxes, tighter credit and higher group health care costs.

One of the challenges of fundamental investing is trying to find decent ideas that are off the radar.

Utilities are the top scoring sector across our universe, followed by industrial goods. Healthcare and consumer goods score in line. Managers should be overweight large and mid cap healthcare and under weight small cap healthcare.

The highest scoring names in small cap from 1 year ago (6/13/2013) returned 440 bps more than the Russell 2000.

The top scoring sector remains utilities. Consumer goods, industrial goods, and healthcare also score above average. Financials, services, basics, and technology score below average.

The average small cap score this week is 48.46, above the four week moving average score of 46.12. The average small cap is trading -25.83% below its 52 week high, -3.53% below its 200 dma, and has 8.93 days to cover held short.