5-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Chipotle Mexican Grill

• Report this Comment On September 16, 2008, at 5:21 PM, sb101cu wrote:

  First, I do not understand why would TMF allow contributors to post recommendations for which they do NOT own shares. " Foolish contributor Brian Pacampara owns no position in any of the companies mentioned. "

  Secondly there is a flaw in the logic.Of the total members the ratio of the outperformers to underperformers is 1823 : 237. It is not just the concept of ratio. In ADDITION to the ratio, the NUMBER of members is COMPARATIVELY more important than just the ratio. That is the concept behind the CAPS ranking.

  What do you fools say...

• Report this Comment On September 16, 2008, at 8:06 PM, TMFGebinr wrote:

  Hi sb101cu,

  Thank you for reading and for your comments.

  Considering there are many hundreds of stocks about which we write or mention in our articles, it would not be fair to our writers to require that they own shares before they are allowed to write about a company.

  As you pointed out, though, we do require our writers to disclose any ownership interest, which lets readers judge whether or not the writer may be biased. However, to prevent the appearance of manipulation, if they do own shares, they cannot have traded in them during the 10 days prior to publication nor are they allowed to trade in them for 10 days following publication. For complete details of our disclosure policy, please visit the page found at the link above, just below the article.

  As for the CAPS rating (number of stars), the number of calls and time frames for those calls are accounted for in the rating. However, the calls of the All-Star members weigh more heavily than those of other participants. Thus, as the editor of this series of articles, it makes sense to me to have Brian point out the number of All-Stars rating the company and the number of outperforms / underperforms. More details of the star rating system can be found in the article linked on the words "five-star ranking" in the above article.

  Regards,

  Jim Mueller

  Financial editor, The Motley Fool

  (And for disclosure purposes, because I am commenting on this article, of the companies mentioned in the article, I own shares of Yum! Brands, but no others.)

• Report this Comment On September 16, 2008, at 8:09 PM, TMFGebinr wrote:

  Oops, I didn't see it at first. I also own shares of B-wild.

  Jim

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