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Today's 5-Star Movers

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August 21, 2009 | Comments (0)

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 135,000 investors. Have a look, and then visit us on CAPS to dig in further on each of them.

	Up Today	Sector	Sector Past 30 Days	Fools Saying Outperform	Research
ScanSource, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCSC )	9.02%	Electronic Equipment, Instruments and Components	10.59%	63 of 66	Research
Nordson Corp (Nasdaq: NDSN )	8.71%	Machinery	13.86%	138 of 145	Research
Superior Well Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: SWSI )	7.85%	Energy Equipment and Services	6.06%	215 of 234	Research

Other Five-Star Electronic Equipment, Instruments and Components: CTS Corp (NYSE: CTS ) up 5.45%; SMART Modular Technologies (WWH), Inc. (Nasdaq: SMOD ) up 4.40%
Other Five-Star Machinery: Mueller Water Products, Inc. (NYSE: MWA ) up 8.35%; Terex Corp (NYSE: TEX ) up 6.80%
Other Five-Star Energy Equipment and Services: Union Drilling, Inc. (Nasdaq: UDRL ) up 6.99%; Willbros Group, Inc. (NYSE: WG ) up 6.16%

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