Today's 5-Star Movers

By Motley Fool Staff
April 22, 2008
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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 96,000 investors. Have a look, and then visit us on CAPS to dig in further on each of them.

 

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Sector

Sector Past 30 Days

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Woodward Governor Company

(Nasdaq: WGOV)

17.13%

Industrial Electrical Equipment

10.37%

241 of 245

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Hexcel Corp

(NYSE: HXL)

16.28%

Aerospace/Defense Products & Services

6.87%

107 of 117

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Twin Disc, Inc.

(Nasdaq: TWIN)

14.54%

Diversified Machinery

9.45%

324 of 332

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Other Five-Star Industrial Electrical Equipment
Fuel Tech (Nasdaq: FTEK) up 1.42%
General Cable (NYSE: BGC) up 0.70%
Other Five-Star Aerospace/Defense Products & Services
AeroVironment (Nasdaq: AVAV) up 0.96%
Orbital Sciences (NYSE: ORB) up 0.45%
Other Five-Star Diversified Machinery
Graco (NYSE: GGG) up 0.84%
Dover (NYSE: DOV) up 0.68%

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