Hot Stocks You're Buying Now

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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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