2 Stocks Hitting Low Notes

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May 13, 2009 | Comments (1)

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
Questcor Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: QCOR )	$3.88	Pharmaceuticals		240 of 254
H&R Block, Inc. (NYSE: HRB )	$14.62	Diversified Consumer Services		219 of 416

Source: Motley Fool CAPS, as of May 13, 2009.

Top-rated pharmaceuticals companies:

Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. (Nasdaq: MTXX ) : Stock price is 26% higher than last year.
Schering-Plough Corp (NYSE: SGP ) : Stock price is 26% higher than last year.

Top-rated diversified consumer services companies:

Noah Education (NYSE: NED ) : Stock price is 50% lower than last year.
Sotheby's (NYSE: BID ) : Stock price is 55% 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), 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 May 14, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Truther wrote:

Sadly the Fool's Guru's have been rating Questor (QCOR) as an outperform since it was over $5.00. When the rest of the market was enjoying gains of 10%, 20%, 30% . . . this stock was going in the OPPOSITE direction. They (Questor) can't seem to find anyone on the planet that knows the "Magic Formula" to get a sNDA past the FDA. So my tendency is to rate this stock a "Loser" for at least the next 2 quarters.

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