2 Stocks Hitting Low Notes

By Motley Fool Staff
March 17, 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

Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENER)

$13.80

Electrical Equipment

3 Stars

975 of 1053

Apollo Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: AINV)

$2.10

Capital Markets

4 Stars

927 of 961

Source: Motley Fool CAPS, as of March 17, 2009

Top-Rated electrical equipment companies:

  • Preformed Line Products Company (Nasdaq: PLPC): Stock price is -11% lower than last year.
  • REGAL-BELOIT Corp (NYSE: RBC): Stock price is -17% lower than last year.

Top-Rated capital markets companies:

  • Vanguard Health Care ETF (NYSE: VHT): Stock price is -20% lower than last year.
  • Central Fund of Canada Limited (USA) (AMEX: CEF): Stock price is -22% lower 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, 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 17, 2009, at 4:50 PM, rocket22man wrote:

    Sorry, Energy Conversion Devices is not in the "electrical equipment" industry; it's "alternative energy". In which case a more appropriate comparison might be FSLR.

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