Cold Stocks You're Selling Now

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Welcome back to another Foolish review of the coldest stocks as ranked by Motley Fool CAPS. We're looking at the three worst-performing industries over the past 30 days and your favorite short and long candidates in each.

Last time and the time before, homebuilders led the laggards. This week, they're just third worst, down 9.6% since mid-July.

Who's first? Surprise! It's the subprime lenders, down 14% over the past month and back in the basement after a quick burst of sunlight in June.

In second place, it's the cancer drug makers, struggling in their fight against the scourge and down 10.2% over the last 30 days.

According to you, our Foolish readers, the worst stocks in these industries to own now (i.e., those rated one or two out of a maximum five stars in CAPS) are:

Company	CAPS Rating	No. of CAPS Ratings	Bearish CAPS Ratings	Bear Ratio
Beazer Homes (NYSE: BZH)	*	211	154	72.9%
Centex Corp. (NYSE: CTX)	*	252	159	63.1%
Bionovo (Nasdaq: BNVI)	*	35	22	62.9%
NVR	*	167	94	56.3%
Hovnanian Enterprises	*	238	133	55.9%
Lennar (NYSE: LEN)	*	343	191	55.7%
Toll Brothers (NYSE: TOL)	*	574	315	54.9%
Countrywide Financial (NYSE: CFC)	*	464	248	53.4%

Source: Motley Fool CAPS

And your favorite long candidates (i.e., those rated four or five stars in CAPS) are:

Company	CAPS Rating	No. of CAPS Ratings	Bullish CAPS Ratings	Bull Ratio
CompuCredit	****	470	454	96.6%
Celgene (Nasdaq: CELG)	****	511	478	93.5%

Source: Motley Fool CAPS

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Fool contributor Tim Beyers, who is ranked 2,357 out of more than 60,000 participants in CAPS, is a sucker for growth stocks and a regular contributor to David Gardner's Motley Fool Rule Breakers service. Tim didn't own shares of any of the companies mentioned in this story at the time of publication. Find Tim's portfolio here and his latest blog commentary here. CompuCredit is a Stock Advisor newsletter recommendation. The Motley Fool's disclosure policy freezes out Wall Street's worst.