The "Chart of the Day" is the Acxiom Corp (ACXM), which showed up on today's Barchart "Signals - Top 100 Stocks" list. Acxiom today is consolidating below Wednesday's 2-1/3 year high. Axciom, with a market cap of $1.2 billion, provides IT data and systems outsourcing services for its enterprise clients. Acxiom on Jan 28 reported fiscal-Q3 EPS of 18 cents, which was above the market consensus of 15 cents. Stephens on Jan 28 reiterated its Overweight rating on Axiom and raised its target to $21 from $15 due its view that Axciom's earnings report was impressive and that Axciom has a positive outlook with reasonable valuation. Baird on Jan 25 upgraded Acxiom to Outperform from Neutral and raised the target to $20 from $11 due to the improving marketing environment, earnings leverage, and improving sales efficiency.

How we found the Chart of the Day:

We found the "Chart of the Day" by scanning the Barchart "Signals - Top 100 Stocks" list. The Top 100 Stocks ranks stocks by a combination of their overall opinion, signal strength and signal direction to come up with a list of the top 100 stocks by opinion. Each analytic used within the signals is rated by signal strength and direction. The strengths are allocated 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 points; the directions are allocated 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 points. This gives a maximum of 55 points per signal. The totals are added up depending on buy, sell and hold rating and ranked 1 to 100 for the top 100 bullish stocks and the top 100 bearish stocks. The signal strength and signal direction ratings are available from the advanced opinion pages. Signal strength and signal direction are independent of the signals rating.

Barchart's Opinion trading systems are all a Buy and Barchart's Trendspotter trading system is a "Buy."

• Trendspotter: Buy
• Short-Term Indicators: 100% Buy
• Medium-Term Indicators: 100% Buy
• Long-Term Indicators: 100% Buy
• Overall Average 100% Buy