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, while shedding new light on stocks you already have in your portfolio.

Let's take a look at the biggest movers in health care. These stocks -- which include companies from the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors -- have clocked some of the biggest gains during the last month.

Health-care market movers

Company	Industry	CAPS Rating	30-Day Return	Market Cap	Price / Earnings
Biovail (NYSE: BVF  )	Pharmaceuticals	***	31.78%	3.04B	29.16
Arena Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ARNA  )	Biotechnology	***	29.83%	381.73M	N/A
AVANIR Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: AVNR  )	Pharmaceuticals	****	22.51%	309.17M	13
Neurocrine Biosciences (Nasdaq: NBIX  )	Biotechnology	**	22.41%	305.96M	91.67

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

Let's see what The Motley Fool CAPS community (more than 165,000 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, and in comparable industries, to the ones in the previous chart. However, CAPS members think these companies have more promising future returns than those already making waves.

 CAPS community health-care favorites

Company	Industry	CAPS Rating	Market Cap	Price / Earnings	Fools Saying Outperform
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (NYSE: RDY  ) (Alternative to BVF)	Pharmaceuticals	****	5.26B	29.16	495 of 522
YM BioSciences (AMEX: YMI  ) (Alternative to ARNA and NBIX)	Pharmaceuticals and biotechnology	****	95.76M	33.35	84 of 85
Obagi Medical Products (Nasdaq: OMPI  ) (Alternative to AVNR)	Pharmaceuticals	*****	250.25M	35	276 of 301

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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