2 Stocks Hitting Low Notes

By Motley Fool Staff
March 9, 2009 | Comments (1)

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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 130,000-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 two such stocks:

Company

Today’s Intraday Price

Industry

CAPS Rating (out of 5)

Fools Saying Outperform

Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF)

$12.33

Personal Products

1 Stars

249 of 363

Forest Oil Corp (NYSE: FST)

$10.57

Oil, Gas and Consumable Fuels

4 Stars

298 of 309

Source: Motley Fool CAPS, as of March 9, 2009.

Top-rated personal products companies:

  • American Oriental Bioengineering (NYSE: AOB): Stock price is 59% lower than last year.
  • Inter Parfums, Inc. (Nasdaq: IPAR): Stock price is 64% lower than last year.

Top-rated paper and forest products companies:

  • Votorantim Celulose e Papel S.A (ADR) (NYSE: VCP): Stock price is 88% lower than last year.

Join us on CAPS to learn more about these and countless other interesting stock ideas.

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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, Motley Fool Pro, and Ready Made Millionaire 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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  • Report this Comment On March 09, 2009, at 3:07 PM, pondee619 wrote:

    "Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE: HLF)

    $12.33

    Personal Products

    249 of 363

    Forest Oil Corp (NYSE: FST)

    $10.57

    Oil, Gas and Consumable Fuels

    298 of 309"

    And yet after the three year and the past one year time frames the two stocks are about even. What does this tell us about the utility of a CAPS rating?

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