These Stocks Are Bouncing Back

However hard the market slams a stock, there's always the chance it'll come bouncing right back. We'll consult our Motley Fool CAPS community to find shares on the rebound, examining a specific sector of the economy in search of companies with rising CAPS ratings.   

There are 109 stocks listed under "media" in the CAPS' screener, but we've found more than a few that are well respected with four- and five-star ratings. Those accolades mean our 165,000 CAPS members are confident that these stocks will beat the market in the months ahead, but let's see what members are saying about the ones below:

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The market may have hit the panic button, but a string of triple-digit up days has made it almost a bad dream. With the S&P 500 still up 13% over last year, CAPS media stocks have fared a lot better, with average returns of more than 65% from the year-ago period. Of course, helping those returns were companies like Focus Media above and Sirius XM Radio, both of which doubled or better. Conversely, VisionMedia weighed down the returns as did TiVo, which fell by double-digit rates.

So let's take a closer look at why investors think that some of these other companies won't be jumping from the frying pan into the fire now that the market is surging again.

Some spring in its step
Is Disney heading over to the dark side? Only if you consider zombies, ghosts, goblins, and pirates to be "dark." New movies to come out -- including The Haunted Mansion and a new Pirates of the Caribbean that will be infested with zombies -- show the House of Mouse is slipping back into the Dark Arts.

Yet, while Disney still gets most attention for its movies and theme parks (after all they did contribute almost half of its revenues last year), its "little" purchase of social-gaming developer Playdom for $768 million could let it move into the dark side of social networking: those annoying games on Facebook and MySpace that are so popular. With Farmville developer Zynga on the outs with Facebook, Disney could step in with Playdom, which is said to have an estimated 42 million active players every month.

Disney's also in talks with Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) to place its gaming network on the developing rival social site.

CAPS member Oatflake says Disney's sprawling properties simply make it an easy bet to win big with:

Huge company, very diversified. Has theme parks, more TV networks than you probably realize, a near complete monopoly on family film entertainment, huge library of rereleasable movies, merchandising agreements bigger than anyone, and a loveable brand that for some reason seems to do no wrong.

International markets are smokin'
Focus Media provides advertisers with hundreds of thousands of customized LCD displays, poster frames, and outdoor billboards in shopping malls, elevators, and hospitals across dozens of Chinese cities. It is one of the largest out-of-home advertisers, meaning it dominates the ad market designed to reach consumers when they're away from home.

It has only a few smaller competitors, like VisionChina Media and China MediaExpress (Nasdaq: CCME) challenging it; the latter has the largest TV ad network on intercity buses.

CAPS member BusierDad says VisionChina will come out on top since it's a smaller company that's building momentum. But you'll find that 97% of the 1,100 CAPS members rating Focus Media believe it will get the bigger ad budget.

The ball's in your court
There are many factors that go into whether a stock is a buy or sell, so it pays to start your own research on these stocks on Motley Fool CAPS. Read a company's financial reports, scrutinize key data and charts, and examine comments fellow investors have made -- all from a stock's CAPS page. Head over to CAPS today and share your thoughts with other investor analysts on whether you think these stocks are ready to bound higher.