The CAPS Screen: 10 Peter Lynch Stocks

By Ilan Moscovitz
May 23, 2008 | Comments (1)

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Peter Lynch is famous not just for his enviable track record as 13-year head of Fidelity Magellan, but also for his quirky investment strategies. The market's best stocks, according to Lynch, are small, growing companies flying below Wall Street's radar.

It makes sense, after all, to pick out the strongest companies that have the greatest chance of being overlooked, and hence, mispriced. As investors, we should all take advice from the man who not only minted fundholders a 28-bagger but actually coined the investing term "-bagger."

With that in mind, I used our new CAPS screening tool to find stocks Peter Lynch might love. Below are 10 companies with no more than five CAPS-rated Wall Street analysts calling the stock.

They also have:

Three-year trailing earnings-per-share growth above 25%
Price-to-earnings multiples below 30
Market capitalizations below $10 billion
At least 300 CAPS picks
Four or five-star ratings from our CAPS community.

Remember, in the first year for which we have data, four-star companies outperformed with an average gain of more than 19%. Five-star stocks did even better.

Company	Share Price	Sector	Market Cap
Aluminum Corp. China (NYSE: ACH)	$43.78	Basic Materials	$5.9 billion
American Oriental Bioengineering (NYSE: AOB)	$11.43	Health Care	$890 million
GigaMedia (Nasdaq: GIGM)	$17.37	Technology	$931 million
Jones Lang LaSalle	$67.01	Financial	$2.1 billion
Manitowoc (NYSE: MTW)	$39.50	Industrial Goods	$5.1 billion
Pride International (NYSE: PDE)	$44.95	Basic Materials	$7.5 billion
Synalloy	$16.69	Basic Materials	$104 million
TGC Industries	$7.17	Basic Materials	$125 million
Tidewater (NYSE: TDW)	$67.07	Services	$3.5 billion
USEC (NYSE: USU)	$6.41	Basic Materials	$713 million

Data from Motley Fool CAPS and Yahoo! Finance as of May 23.

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Ilan Moscovitz thinks the CAPS screen is the new four square and that Bill Mann is the new Peter Lynch. Jones Lang LaSalle and American Oriental Bioengineering are Hidden Gems recommendations. GigaMedia is a Global Gains selection. The Fool's disclosure policy calls spikes.

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