As fundamentals-focused long-term investors, Fools never base an investment decision on the daily gyrations of the market. But the market's daily price movements can be useful when looking for new stock ideas for further research, or to keep tabs on watch-list stocks.

Below you'll find today's biggest movers among our five-star stocks -- the highest rating awarded by our CAPS community of more than 115,000 investors. Have a look, and then visit us on CAPS to dig in further on each of them.

 

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Metalico, Inc.

(AMEX:MEA)

13.40%

Steel & Iron

(20.37%)

1047 of 1073

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China Medical Technologies, Inc. (ADR)

(NASDAQ:CMED)

9.39%

Medical Instruments & Supplies

(5.84%)

1092 of 1120

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International Royalty Corp

(AMEX:ROY)

9.17%

Nonmetallic Mineral Mining

(15.52%)

188 of 198

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Other Five-Star Steel & Iron
POSCO (ADR) (NYSE:PKX) up 2.43%
Insteel Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:IIIN) up 2.29%
Other Five-Star Medical Instruments & Supplies
The Aristotle Corp (NASDAQ:ARTL) up 5.41%
Osteotech, Inc. (NASDAQ:OSTE) up 4.49%