3 Stocks Losing Top Investor Support

By Motley Fool Staff
November 11, 2009 | Comments (1)

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"Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell." -- Sir John Templeton

Just as it makes sense to research the stocks attracting top investors, it's equally important to figure out why smart money is leaving other investments. Using Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's 140,000-member-strong investing community, we can see which stocks are losing support from CAPS All-Star players.

A sudden decrease in interest from top-rated investors could signal that the stock is losing steam, which might make it an awful stock to avoid for now. At the very least, such drops should signal that further research is in order.

Here are three stocks receiving less support from CAPS All-Stars over the past month:

Company

Industry

% Change in All-Star Bulls From 10/12 to 11/11

CAPS Rating (out of 5)

CAPS Research

Collective Brands Inc. (NYSE: PSS)

Specialty Retail

(41%)

 2 Stars PSS

EnerNOC, Inc. (Nasdaq: ENOC)

Commercial Services and Supplies

(37%)

 2 Stars ENOC

First American Corp (NYSE: FAF)

Insurance

(37%)

 3 Stars FAF

Source: Motley Fool CAPS, as of November 11, 2009

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  • Report this Comment On December 29, 2009, at 4:56 AM, fullcircle0 wrote:

    I thought MF was all about long-term investment so I'm baffled why you post the above article about which stocks had been losing investors over the past MONTH. What sort of discussion are you planning on eliciting? Even more confusing, an article later on (Dec 2009) about winners actually had one or more of the same stocks that appears in this article. For the newbies, what are we to make of consecutive articles seemingly giving conflicting signals about some of these stocks?

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2/10/2010 11:21 AM
FAF $31.32 Down -0.17 -0.54%
First American Cor… CAPS Rating: ***
PSS $19.97 Down -0.04 -0.20%
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