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Today's 5-Star Movers

By Motley Fool Staff – Updated Apr 5, 2017 at 2:24PM

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Maybe what glitters really is gold.

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 120,000 investors. Have a look, and then visit us on CAPS to dig in further on each of them.

Company

Up Today

Sector

Sector Past 30 Days

Fools Saying Outperform

Research

Vitro S.A. (ADR)

(NYSE:VTO)

22.86%

Packaging & Containers

-21.70%

50 of 54

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POSCO (ADR)

(NYSE:PKX)

21.61%

Steel & Iron

-35.85%

840 of 865

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Korea Electric Power (ADR)

(NYSE:KEP)

18.06%

Foreign Utilities

-25.75%

205 of 211

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Other Five-Star Steel & Iron:
Gerdau S.A. (ADR) (NYSE:GGB) up 8.46%
Vale (NYSE:RIO) up 7.89%

Other Five-Star Foreign Utilities:
Huaneng Power International (ADR) (NYSE:HNP) up 7.62%
CPFL Energia S.A. (ADR) (NYSE:CPL) up 6.85%

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Disclosure is important to us here at The Motley Fool. The stocks mentioned in this article received "five-star" ratings from participants in The Motley Fool's CAPS service and are showing strong percentage gains in today's market, at least compared with other CAPS five-star stocks. No individual person selected the stocks in this article, so there is no author to disclose an interest in them. Since this article was automatically generated by identifying the stocks loved both by the CAPS community and by buyers in today’s market, it is possible that Motley Fool personnel (and even The Motley Fool itself, through our Million Dollar Portfolio), have positions in these stocks. We thought you'd like to know that. You can learn more about The Motley Fool’s disclosure policy here.

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