Back in June, our new CAPS screening tool -- which utilizes the collective intelligence of the 115,000 members of the free investment community -- called the demises of Fannie Mae, Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual (NYSE:WM), and Merrill Lynch (NYSE:MER). But keeping in mind that ugly stocks can make great opportunities, I wanted to see if our screener would be equally successful picking attractive financial stocks.

These financial stocks also have:

  • Market capitalizations greater than $1 billion.
  • At least 300 active picks.
  • Five-star ratings, the highest possible, from our CAPS community.

Remember, in the first 20 months for which we have data, CAPS' five-star companies outperformed the market with an average annualized gain of 12%.

Company

Share Price

Market Cap (in billions)

Apollo Investment (NASDAQ:AINV)

$17.77

$2.4

Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE:BAM)

$27.47

$15.6

Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE:JLL)

$45.30

$1.4

Lloyds (NYSE:LYG)

$20.20

$26.3

Nasdaq OMX (NASDAQ:NDAQ)

$32.20

$6.4

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

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