The Best Investing Ideas in Health Care

Chasing highfliers is a sucker's game. But tracking monthly trends across the market can lead to great investment ideas, as well as shed new light on stocks you already have in your portfolio.

Let's take a look at the biggest movers in the health-care sector. These stocks -- which include companies from the health care equipment and supplies, health-care providers and services and technology sectors -- have clocked some of the biggest gains during the last month.

Health-Care Market Movers

Company	Industry	CAPS Rating (out of 5)	30 Day Return	Market Cap	Price / Earnings
Home Diagnostics (Nasdaq: HDIX  )	Health-care equipment & aupplies	****	80.72%	195.15M	42.96
LCA-Vision (Nasdaq: LCAV  )	Health-care providers & services	****	37.00%	143.33M	N/A
Pharmacyclics (Nasdaq: PCYC  )	Biotechnology	*	65.07%	290.92M	N/A
Sunrise Senior Living (NYSE: SRZ  )	Health-care providers & services	**	14.83%	212.45M	N/A

Those returns are certainly eye-catching. But do these highfliers have staying power?

Let's see what The Motley Fool CAPS community (more than 150,000 investors strong) has to say about the best plays in the Health Care market.

And the next big winners are ...
The following health-care stocks are of similar size in comparable industries to the ones in the previous chart. However, these are companies CAPS members think have more promising future returns than the ones already making waves.

 CAPS Community Health-Care Favorites

Company	Industry	CAPS Rating (out of 5)	Market Cap	Price / Earnings	Fools Saying Outperform
Shamir Optical Industry (Nasdaq: SHMR  ) (Alternative to HDIX)	Health-care equipment & supplies	*****	161.36M	14.95	47 of 0
Health Grades (Nasdaq: HGRD  ) (Alternative to LCAV and SRZ)	Health-care providers & services	*****	152.5M	25.52	386 of 401
Monogram Biosciences (Nasdaq: MGRM  ) (Alternative to PCYC)	Biotechnology	*****	104.59M	N/A	59 of 62

Of course, some of today's winners might continue to rack up outsize returns. But isn't it better to snag tomorrow's winners before they start running up?

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