3 Stocks Hitting Low Notes

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By Motley Fool Staff
January 6, 2009 | Comments (0)

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When a stock hits a fresh low, it can either signal a dirt cheap dream stock or a dreadful stock to avoid. Separating the wheat from the chaff is difficult, but finding well-run companies at bargain-basement prices is a great way to accumulate a fortune over the long run.

With that in mind, we'll use the aggregate intelligence of the 125,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS to see what the community is saying about stocks hitting 52-week lows today. The community's approval (signified by four- and five-star ratings) could indicate that further research is in order.

Here are three such stocks:

Company	Today’s Intraday Price	Industry	Fools Saying Outperform
Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI)	$8.47	Software	3110 of 3189
The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW)	$15.94	Chemicals	1780 of 1877
PROSHARES TR (NYSE: SCC)	$76.84		241 of 346

Source: Motley Fool CAPS, as of Jan. 6, 2009.

Top-rated software companies:

TeleCommunication Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSYS): Stock price is 153% higher than last year.
NAVTEQ Corp (NYSE: NVT): Stock price is 72% higher than last year.

Top-rated chemicals companies:

Sociedad Quimica y Minera (ADR) (NYSE: SQM): Stock price is 70% higher than last year.
Balchem Corp (Nasdaq: BCPC): Stock price is 14% higher than last year.

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Disclosure is important to us here at The Motley Fool. The stocks mentioned in this article received their CAPS ratings from participants in The Motley Fool's CAPS service and have hit 52-week lows during today's trading. No individual person selected the stocks in this article, so there is no author to disclose an interest in them. Annual performance is measured over a 365-day period. Since this article was automatically generated by identifying the stocks rated by the CAPS community and by buyers in today’s market, it is possible that Motley Fool personnel (and even The Motley Fool itself, through our Million Dollar Portfolio, Ready Made Millionaire, and Motley Fool PRO services), have positions in these stocks. We thought you'd like to know that. You can learn more about The Motley Fool’s disclosure policy here.

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