2 Stocks Hitting Low Notes

By Motley Fool Staff
March 23, 2009 | Comments (3)

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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

International Bancshares Corp (Nasdaq: IBOC)

$6.87

Commercial Banks

2 Stars

363 of 400

UltraShort FTSE/Xinhua China 25 ProShares (NYSE: FXP)

$27.70

 Funds

2 Stars

289 of 411

Source: Motley Fool CAPS, as of March 23, 2009.

Top-rated commercial banks companies:

  • Umpqua Holdings Corp (Nasdaq: UMPQ): Stock price is 26% lower than last year.
  • Royal Bank of Canada (USA) (NYSE: RY): Stock price is 30% 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, or 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 23, 2009, at 4:54 PM, ghitis wrote:

    IBOC fell today like a rock, based on an article published today at 9 am, by Citron Research. Basically it says that IBOC is a "bad bank" full of "toxic loans" all over Texas. The graph shows the steep drop that coincides with the time of publication of the article.9 am.

    http://www.citronresearch.com/index.php/2009/03/23/citron-ex...

    I invite peopleto read it comment.

  • Report this Comment On March 23, 2009, at 6:26 PM, ChesapeakeSailor wrote:

    IBOC is also a Hidden Gems recommendation. But that doesn't even appear in the Fool's vaunted disclosure. Very disappointing.

  • Report this Comment On March 25, 2009, at 3:52 AM, evo34 wrote:

    Typical of a Fool.com "news" story. Pick two random stocks that happened to move in the same direction as their CAPS ratings, and fill the rest of the page with a promo for the site...

    ghitis is correct about why IBOC tanked, but obviously the time he lists is inaccurate (market not even open at 9am). The report appears to have been posted at ~10am ET, though it was not emailed to mailing list recipients until 10:18 am.

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