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 from our CAPS community of more than 115,000 investors. Have a look, and then visit us on CAPS to dig in further on each of them.

 

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Focus Media Holding Limited (ADR)

(NASDAQ:FMCN)

11.35%

Advertising Agencies

5.42%

1,041 of 1,067

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ShengdaTech

(NASDAQ:SDTH)

6.82%

Specialty Chemicals

11.58%

1,067 of 1,080

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ICO

(NASDAQ:ICOC)

6.45%

Synthetics

5.83%

813 of 830

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Other Five-Star Specialty Chemicals:

  • Quaker Chemical (NYSE:KWR) up 2.26%
  • Innospec (NASDAQ:IOSP) up 1.52%

Other Five-Star Synthetics:

  • Landec (NASDAQ:LNDC) up 1.75%
  • Albemarle (NYSE:ALB) up 1.36%