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5-Star Stocks on the Upswing

By Motley Fool Staff | More Articles
October 15, 2009 | Comments (1)

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 back 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 140,000 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.

In order to fully capture the upside potential of those five-star stocks, it makes sense to identify them just as soon as they achieve 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 five-star status from four 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
Diamond Hill Investment Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: DHIL )	161 of 167
FormFactor, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORM )	1057 of 1085
QLT, Inc. (USA) (Nasdaq: QLTI )	121 of 150
iShares S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (NYSE: PFF )	104 of 108
Cia. Energetica de Minas Gerais (ADR) (NYSE: CIG )	174 of 178
Hologic, Inc. (Nasdaq: HOLX )	721 of 742

Data from Motley Fool CAPS, October 15, 2009

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Report this Comment On October 19, 2009, at 10:55 PM, johnmg47 wrote:

I am amazed that FORM would actually receive over a 1000 votes - 97% - when it can't hold a price level for hardly a single day in September-October, 2009. If this is a BUY - Omigod - what's a sell?! And if some disengenous soul likes this stock, they surely aren't buying it, which really makes me wonder about these ratings.
FORM the strongest of strong buys - 5 stars - maybe a rating mistakenly voted for those silver discs floating above Roswell, New Mexico and the guys in the shiny suits? But not to be too negative, if FORM does eventually find a way to go green - say just once upon a time - maybe this month or next - then let's let the Motley fools in on the secret too.

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