5 Stocks Attracting Top Investors

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There's a reason why more than 30,000 investors flock to Omaha each May, and millions more rummage through the Berkshire Hathaway annual reports: Gleaning knowledge from proven investors is one way to find the stocks that will make you rich.

Using Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's 110,000-member-strong investing community, we can see which stocks are receiving a boost in attention from CAPS All-Star players each week. A sudden increase in bullish interest from top-rated investors could be a sign that the stock deserves further research. In fact, biotech concern Sequenom (Nasdaq: SQNM) was highlighted in this list in early June, and has since risen 68%.

Here are five such stocks:

Company

Industry

% Change in All-Star Bulls From 6/9 to 7/7

CAPS Rating
(out of 5)

CAPS Research

UltraShort MSCI Emerging Markets (AMEX: EEV)

Exchange-traded fund

96%

**

EEV

Consumer Staples Select SPDR (AMEX: XLP)

Exchange-traded fund

105%

****

XLP

National Coal (Nasdaq: NCOC)

Metals and mining

43%

***

NCOC

Central Gold-Trust (AMEX: GTU)

Financial services

136%

*****

GTU

Integrys Energy (NYSE: TEG)

Utilities

39%

****

TEG

Source: Motley Fool CAPS, as of July 7, 2008.

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11/10/2009 10:01 AM
EEV $11.70 Up +0.13 +1.12%
ULTRASHORT MSCI Em… CAPS Rating: *
TEG $37.33 Up +0.33 +0.89%
Integrys Energy Gr… CAPS Rating: ***
XLP $26.70 Up +0.07 +0.26%
Consumer Staples S… CAPS Rating: ***
GTU $43.26 Down -0.29 -0.67%
Central Gold-Trust CAPS Rating: ***
NCOC $1.05 Down +0.00 -0.05%
National Coal Corp… CAPS Rating: ****
SQNM $3.13 Down -0.15 -4.56%
Sequenom, Inc. CAPS Rating: ***

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