Today's 5-Star Movers

By Motley Fool Staff
May 20, 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 130,000 investors. Have a look, and then visit us on CAPS to dig in further on each of them.

 

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Sector

Sector Past 30 Days

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Union Drilling, Inc.

(Nasdaq: UDRL)

10.02%

Energy Equipment and Services

14.96%

200 of 210

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North American Energy Partners, Inc.(USA)

(NYSE: NOA)

9.89%

Energy Equipment and Services

14.96%

175 of 180

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Sadia S.A. (ADR)

(NYSE: SDA)

8.35%

Food Products

14.39%

1340 of 1367

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Other Five-Star Energy Equipment and Services
Superior Well Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: SWSI) up 7.99%
Key Energy Services, Inc. (NYSE: KEG) up 6.59%
Other Five-Star Food Products
AgFeed Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: FEED) up 8.50%
Gruma S.A.B. de C.V. (NYSE: GMK) up 7.13%

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