3 Stocks Hitting Low Notes

When a stock hits a fresh low, it can either signal a dirt cheap dream stock or a dreadful stock to avoid. Separating the wheat from the chaff is difficult, but finding well-run companies at bargain-basement prices is a great way to accumulate a fortune over the long-run.

With that in mind, we'll use the aggregate intelligence of the 110,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, to see what the community is saying about stocks hitting 52-week lows today. The community's approval (those with four- and five-star ratings) could be a sign that further research is in order.

Here are three such stocks:

Company	Today’s Low	Industry	CAPS Rating	Fools Saying Outperform
AT&T (NYSE: T  )	$30.60	Telecommunications	****	3521 of 3742
Zoran (Nasdaq: ZRAN  )	$9.36	Electronics	****	170 of 185
Silicon Motion Technology (Nasdaq: SIMO  )	$11.08	Electronics	*****	564 of 573

Source: Motley Fool CAPS, as of July 28, 2008.

Four- and five-star telecommunications companies:

• Turkcell (NYSE: TKC  ) -- stock price is 11.1% cheaper than last year.
• Verizon (NYSE: VZ  ) -- stock price is 20.3% cheaper than last year.

Four- and five-star electronics companies:

• Trimble Navigation Limited (Nasdaq: TRMB  ) -- up 0.1% in the last year.
• Tyco Electronics (NYSE: TEL  ) -- stock price is 5.4% cheaper than last year.

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