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 125,000 investors. Have a look, and then visit us on CAPS to dig in further on each of them.

 

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St. Jude Medical, Inc.

(NYSE:STJ)

12.03%

Health-Care Equipment and Supplies

0.63%

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Carpenter Technology Corp

(NYSE:CRS)

11.16%

Metals and Mining

4.67%

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Other Five-Star Commercial Banks
The Bank of Nova Scotia (USA) (NYSE:BNS) up 2.36%
First Community Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ:FCBC) up 1.18%
Other Five-Star Health-Care Equipment and Supplies
Vision-Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:VSCI) up 11.02%
Electro-Optical Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:MELA) up 3.83%
Other Five-Star Metals and Mining
Vista Gold Corp. (AMEX:VGZ) up 22.56%
Ternium S.A. (ADR) (NYSE:TX) up 6.68%