Today's 5-Star Movers

By Motley Fool Staff
October 7, 2008
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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 86,000 investors. Have a look, and then visit us on CAPS to dig in further on each of them.

 

Up Today

Sector

Sector Past 30 Days

Fools Saying Outperform

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Cantel Medical Corp.

(NYSE: CMN)

18.42%

Medical Instruments & Supplies

(11.73%)

76 of 93

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Melco PBL Entertainment (Macau) Limited

(Nasdaq: MPEL)

16.43%

Resorts & Casinos

(37.29%)

987 of 1024

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Chase Corp

(AMEX: CCF)

16.37%

Industrial Equipment & Components

(23.31%)

111 of 118

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Other Five-Star Medical Instruments & Supplies
Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corp. (Nasdaq: IART) up 4.02%
Stryker Corp (NYSE: SYK) up 2.99%
Other Five-Star Industrial Equipment & Components
Ceradyne, Inc. (Nasdaq: CRDN) up 2.68%
Pentair, Inc. (NYSE: PNR) up 0.70%

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