Thing is, it's far more complicated than that. Take Apple for example: positive growth, maintains huge earnings (profit margin only increasing), and sitting on huge liquid assets, and their stock value has still been falling. It's because psychology drives the market. But I won't bore you guys with Econ lessons. Just saying, looking at volume/PEG/etc isn't always an accurate indicator or predictor of performance.
As Aero pointed out, for someone just dabbling in the market, go with high yield dividends. Some companies like VGR actually give you a stock dividend once a year, on top of the quarterly. I'd recommend cigarette companies. If you're looking for tickers, try VGR, pm, mo. Mmm has been on fire lately, so has V. If you have limited money to invest upfront, look into investing with a Roth IRA. Sogo trade, scottrade and e trade are all reputable and fairly cheap to use as well.
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