The Globe and Mail attempts to identify stocks trading near their historical average valuations, but showing positive price momentum in its Thursday, April 28, edition. The Globe's Ian Tam writes in the Number Cruncher column that as the recent rally of the S&P/TSX composite index from March continues into April, investors confident of an extended rally may look to take advantage of some of this recent market momentum. Mr. Tam says value-oriented investors, however, will find it difficult to simply jump in on general market signals without some further analysis. With this in mind, Mr. Tam looked for stocks showing recent momentum, but are also trading at or near their historical average valuations. He looked for positive one-month and three-month price momentum. Mr. Tam gave consideration to historical relative price-to-book, price-to-earnings, price-to-cash-flow and price-to-sales ratios. To qualify, companies needed to have at least $12.5-million in volume traded over the past month. Mr. Tam's momentum stock picks are McEwen Mining, Kirkland Lake Gold, Endeavour Mining, Avigilon and Home Capital Group.