5 Stocks Losing Top Investor Support

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September 9, 2008 | Comments (1)

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"Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell."
-- Sir John Templeton

Just as it makes sense to research the stocks attracting top investors, it's equally important to figure out why smart money is leaving other investments. Using Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's 115,000-member-strong (and growing!) investing community, we can see which stocks are losing support from CAPS All-Star players.

A sudden decrease in interest from top-rated investors could signal that the stock is losing steam, which might make it an awful stock to avoid for now. At the very least, such drops should signal that further research is in order.

Here are five stocks receiving less support from CAPS All-Stars over the past four weeks:

Company	Industry	% Change in All-Star Bulls From 8/11 to 9/8	CAPS Rating (out of 5)	CAPS Research
Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM )	Technology	(29%)	**	RIMM
DryShips (Nasdaq: DRYS )	Transportation	(28%)	**	DRYS
Agrium (NYSE: AGU )	Chemicals	(31%)	***	AGU
Fluor (NYSE: FLR )	Materials & Construction	(26%)	****	FLR
Cameron International (NYSE: CAM )	Energy	(28%)	****	CAM

Sources: Motley Fool CAPS and Yahoo! Finance, as of Sept. 8, 2008.

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Report this Comment On September 09, 2008, at 3:01 PM, ganec wrote:

Gentlemen, Something that for sure investors do not know about the shipping stocks : The shipping bubble has burst and the Baltic Dry Index has collapsed ! Early June the BDI was standing at 11,835 points and today is barely above 5,000. Net loss of 60% of value, freights have fallen steeply and the shipping stocks are still trading at levels which do not deserve. This happens because the investors, even reliable brokerage firms are totally unaware because they are focussing on other DOW & Nasdaq stocks and have no real knowledge on what is going around shipping.
Sell the shipping stocks now ! Tommorrow it may be deadly late !
Someone who knows shipping developments is just giving you an advice !
Truly yours
James

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