Famous investor, William J. O'Neil has studied the greatest stock market winners over the last 50 years and uncovered their common characteristics. These characteristics are known today as the CAN SLIM^® Investment Research Tool — the seven characteristics great growth stocks exhibit before they make their major price gains. The American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) studies of over 50 well known investing strategies found that CAN SLIM^® outperformed the S&P 500 with an 860.3% eight-year compounded result (January 1998 through December 2005).

CAN SLIM^® has been popularized by Investor's Business Daily^®, the newspaper O'Neil launched in 1984. O'Neil created Investor's Business Daily, a national business and financial daily newspaper, in response to investors' need for relevant market data and investing education. For the first time, individual investors gained access to condensed, easy-to-use versions of the same critical stock research previously reserved for professional money managers.

IBD^® and its companion website, Investors.com, provide over 1 million investors worldwide with a variety of proprietary products and services, relevant news from the investor's perspective, as well as innovative research, investment education, efficient stock rankings and screens unavailable anywhere else. IBD differs from traditional market journalism and provides an unconventional research-based approach to interpreting the economy and identifying emerging stock market trends. Its editorial stands alone since all reporting is driven by its research-based findings and its ability to spot trends faster.