Inexperienced investors can easily be led astray from prudent investment decisions. Often, the investor may not understand the difference between a great company and a lousy stock, and at other times, the problem comes down to simple greed and stupidity.
With that in mind, we'll use the aggregated intelligence of the 105,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS to find stocks that CAPS' All-Star players (those ranked in the top 20%) loathe but the rest of the community loves. This discrepancy can be a good sign that something might be wrong at the company, and that further research is in order.
Here are five such stocks:
|
Company |
% All-Star Bulls |
% Non-All-Star Bulls |
CAPS Rating (out of 5) |
Research |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Meritage Homes |
38.3% |
81.6% |
* |
|
|
DR Horton |
20.7% |
59.9% |
* |
|
|
MDC Holdings |
46.3% |
83.5% |
** |
|
|
Fifth Third Bancorp |
24.2% |
64.2% |
* |
|
|
Friedman Billings Ramsey |
21.6% |
79.3% |
* |
Source: Motley Fool CAPS, as of May 26.
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