Today's 5-Star Movers

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February 25, 2009 | Comments (0)

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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 125,000 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	Research
Nicor, Inc. (NYSE: GAS)	11.07%	Gas Utilities	(5.81%)	139 of 153	Research
Balchem Corp (Nasdaq: BCPC)	8.13%	Chemicals	(6.40%)	165 of 169	Research
Catalyst Health Solutions, Inc. (OTC BB: CHSI)	8.05%	Health-Care Providers and Services	1.94%	290 of 298	Research

Other Five-Star Gas Utilities: China Natural Gas, Inc.(OTC BB: CHNG) up 4.97%; AmeriGas Partners, L.P. (NYSE: APU) up 2.03%
Other Five-Star Chemicals: American Pacific Corp (Nasdaq: APFC) up 4.07%; Yara International(OTC BB: YARIY) up 0.05%
Other Five-Star Healthcare Providers and Services: TLC Vision Corp (USA) (Nasdaq: TLCV) up 7.00%; Sunrise Senior Living, Inc. (NYSE: SRZ) up 1.14%

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APU	$37.20		+0.38	+1.03%
AmeriGas Partners,…		CAPS Rating:

GAS	$39.25		+0.68	+1.76%
Nicor, Inc.		CAPS Rating:

SRZ	$3.29		+0.06	+1.86%
Sunrise Senior Liv…		CAPS Rating:

APFC	$7.20		-0.20	-2.70%
American Pacific C…		CAPS Rating:

BCPC	$31.90		+0.75	+2.41%
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