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Today's 5-Star Movers

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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 110,000 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

Fools Saying Outperform

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Quality Systems, Inc.
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(Nasdaq: QSII  )

17.99%

Health-Care Information Services

4.40%

2,023 of 2,075

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Hercules Technology Growth Capital, Inc.
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(Nasdaq: HTGC  )

12.50%

Closed-End Fund -- Debt

(1.69%)

126 of 130

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The Middleby Corp
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(Nasdaq: MIDD  )

11.98%

Diversified Machinery

1.51%

2,669 of 2,754

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Other Five-Star Closed-End Fund -- Debt
MVC Capital, Inc. (NYSE: MVC  ) up 3.60%
Apollo Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: AINV  ) up 2.33%
Other Five-Star Diversified Machinery
Twin Disc, Inc. (Nasdaq: TWIN  ) up 5.21%
Gerber Scientific, Inc. (NYSE: GRB  ) up 4.45%

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Related Tickers

2/13/2012 3:59 PM
QSII $44.12 Up +1.03 +2.39%
Quality Systems CAPS Rating: ****
MIDD $96.57 Up +1.27 +1.33%
The Middleby Corp CAPS Rating: ***
HTGC $10.45 Up +0.01 +0.10%
Hercules Technolog… CAPS Rating: ****
MVC $12.50 Up +0.07 +0.56%
MVC Capital, Inc. CAPS Rating: *****
TWIN $33.34 Up +0.94 +2.90%
Twin Disc, Inc. CAPS Rating: ****
AINV $7.21 Up +0.18 +2.56%
Apollo Investment… CAPS Rating: ****
GRB $0.00 Down +0.00 +0.00%
Gerber Scientific,… CAPS Rating: **

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