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 140,000 investors. Have a look, and then visit us on CAPS to dig in further on each of them.

 

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Sector Past 30 Days

Fools Saying Outperform

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Lufkin Industries, Inc.

(NASDAQ:LUFK)

7.19%

Energy Equipment and Services

7.90%

649 of 664

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K V Pharmaceutical Company

(NYSE:KV-A)

6.10%

Pharmaceuticals

2.43%

245 of 253

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TETRA Technologies, Inc.

(NYSE:TTI)

6.06%

Energy Equipment and Services

7.90%

308 of 315

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Other Five-Star Energy Equipment and Services
Superior Well Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:SWSI) up 6.69%
Allis-Chalmers Energy, Inc. (NYSE:ALY) up 4.46%
Other Five-Star Pharmaceuticals
Tongjitang Chinese Medicines Co. (ADR) (NYSE:TCM) up 12.87%
Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) up 3.22%

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