What's Wrong With These Stocks?

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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 (NYSE: MTH)	38.3%	81.6%	*	MTH
DR Horton (NYSE: DHI)	20.7%	59.9%	*	DHI
MDC Holdings (NYSE: MDC)	46.3%	83.5%	**	MDC
Fifth Third Bancorp (Nasdaq: FITB)	24.2%	64.2%	*	FITB
Friedman Billings Ramsey (NYSE: FBR)	21.6%	79.3%	*	FBR

Source: Motley Fool CAPS, as of May 26.

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