Hot Stocks You're Buying Now
By Tim Beyers
December 3, 2007
Welcome back to another Foolish review of the hottest stocks as ranked by Motley Fool CAPS. We're looking at the three best-performing industries over the past 30 days and your favorite long and short candidates in each.
With a 21.1% average return since early November, home furnishings retailers are once again king of the CAPS kingdom. Money-grubbing financiers improved with a 17% return as a group over the past month but remain a distant second.
And in third place? Please welcome another new entrant: hospitals. Professional caregivers such as Magellan Health Services (Nasdaq: MGLN) have produced a 7.9% average return over the past 30 days.
According to you, our Foolish readers, the best stocks in these industries to own now -- i.e., those with four or five of the maximum five stars in CAPS -- are:
|
Company
|
CAPS
Stars
|
No. of
CAPS
Ratings
|
Bull
Ratio
|
30-Day
Price
Change
|
|
AmSurg (Nasdaq: AMSG)
|
*****
|
46
|
95.7%
|
(0.7%)
|
|
Community Health Systems
(NYSE: CYH)
|
*****
|
37
|
91.9%
|
9.9%
|
|
Wesco Financial (AMEX: WSC)
|
****
|
67
|
89.6%
|
8.1%
|
|
Universal Health Services
(NYSE: UHS)
|
****
|
32
|
81.3%
|
4.2%
|
Sources: Motley Fool CAPS, Yahoo! Finance.
And your favorite short candidates -- i.e., those rated with one or two stars in CAPS -- are:
|
Company
|
CAPS
Stars
|
No. of
CAPS
Ratings
|
Bear
Ratio
|
30-Day
Price
Change
|
|
Haverty Furniture
|
*
|
42
|
78.6%
|
0.0%
|
|
Pier 1 Imports
|
*
|
207
|
64.7%
|
(16.9%)
|
|
CBRE Realty Finance
|
*
|
125
|
60.0%
|
54.3%
|
|
Restoration Hardware
(Nasdaq: RSTO)
|
*
|
117
|
45.3%
|
133.8%
|
|
Crystal River Capital
(NYSE: CRZ)
|
*
|
186
|
33.9%
|
(4.5%)
|
Sources: Motley Fool CAPS, Yahoo! Finance.
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