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4-Star Stocks on the Upswing

By Motley Fool Staff
August 31, 2009 | Comments (1)

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Sadly, there's no such thing as an ultimate buy signal when it comes to investing in stocks. Identifying companies with the wind at their backs takes time, patience, and a good dose of due diligence.

There is, however, an easy way to increase your odds of finding the stocks that will beat the market. At Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's investing community of more than 135,000 members, we've found that our "five-star portfolio" is up 15.31% between January 2007 and April 2009, compared to a loss of 40.6% for the S&P 500.

To fully capture the upside potential of those highly rated stocks, it makes sense to identify them just as soon as they are upgraded to four- and five-star status. Fortunately, our CAPS screener now makes it possible to do this. Below, for example, is a list of companies that have been upgraded to four-star status from three stars just yesterday. These stock ideas are only a starting point, of course. Be sure to join us on CAPS to dig in even further.

Company	All-Stars Saying Outperform
Tesoro (NYSE: TSO)	936 of 999
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock (Nasdaq: GLDD)	109 of 120
Bancolombia (NYSE: CIB)	169 of 178
Royal Gold (Nasdaq: RGLD)	338 of 372
Ensign Group (Nasdaq: ENSG)	108 of 112
Clorox (NYSE: CLX)	472 of 502
American Public Education (Nasdaq: APEI)	148 of 159

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Report this Comment On September 01, 2009, at 4:28 PM, greenwave3 wrote:

ENSG, along with SUNH, is very undervalued in the healthcare sector.

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