As fundamentals-focused long-term investors, Fools never base an investment decision on the daily gyrations of the market. But the market's daily price movements can be useful when looking for new stock ideas for further research, or to keep tabs on watch-list stocks.

Below you'll find today's biggest movers among our five-star stocks -- the highest rating awarded by our CAPS community of more than 86,000 investors. Have a look, and then visit us on CAPS to dig in further on each of them.

 

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Sonus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

(NASDAQ:SNUS)

16.22%

Diagnostic Substances

0.27%

68 of 72

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Sonic Foundry, Inc.

(NASDAQ:SOFO)

12.33%

Application Software

4.11%

135 of 140

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Hill International, Inc.

(NYSE:HIL)

7.35%

Management Services

1.39%

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Other Five-Star Diagnostic Substances
Quidel Corp (NASDAQ:QDEL) up 2.91%
Meridian Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ:VIVO) up 0.09%
Other Five-Star Application Software
Guidance Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:GUID) up 0.80%
Cognos, Inc. (USA) (NASDAQ:COGN) no change
Other Five-Star Management Services
Express Scripts, Inc. (NASDAQ:ESRX) up 1.16%
Exponent, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXPO) up 0.84%