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Oct 21 2009, 04:25 PM
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
This post comes from The Motley Fool's Rich Smith.
It's every investor's worst nightmare -- buying a rocket stock just before it takes a nose dive.
MSN Money maintains a list of companies whose shares hit 52-week highs, and investors read this list and tremble -- some with greed, others in terror. These and other stocks with momentum usually enjoy favorable ratings at our MSN CAPS investing community; everyone loves a winner.
Listed below are five of the companies hitting 52-week highs in the past week. Which among them does the CAPS community consider most likely to continue to outperform? If your guess is Google, which has been setting 2009 highs since reporting last week that third-quarter profit was the largest in the company's 11-year history, well, thanks for playing along, but you're wrong.
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Turns out, the 140,000-plus investors comprising CAPS are far less bullish on the glitzy Internet pacesetter than they are toward an operator in the more prosaic world of oil and natural gas refining, transportation and storage.
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Oct 14 2009, 05:36 PM
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CAPS Editor
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
This post comes from The Motley Fool's Matt Koppenheffer.
I am always looking for a good deal, whether that means buying an extra box of Golden Grahams when they're on sale or pouncing on undervalued stocks.
The idea that anybody would sell a stock for less than it's worth seems silly, but legendary value investor Ben Graham (no relation to the cereal) tells us, by way of allegory, how we can spot these situations.
In "The Intelligent Investor," Graham introduces readers to a wacky chap named Mr. Market. Mr. Market's game is to pay house calls, offering to sell you interests in businesses he owns or buy interests in businesses you own.
Sometimes Mr. Market is excited when he arrives, offering premium prices for your holdings; other times, he's inconsolably depressed about the future, selling what he's got for pennies on the dollar.
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To find stocks that make Mr. Market despondent, I've turned to the MSN CAPS investor community. I'm looking for companies that had five-star ratings (the highest) from the community within the past month and that could be considered undervalued despite the rally that pushed the Standard & Poor's 500 Index ($INX) to its 2009 high today.
Here are our stocks, all but one of which have a five-star CAPS rating:
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Posted
Oct 07 2009, 01:59 PM
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CAPS Editor
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
 This post comes from Matt Koppenheffer at partner site The Motley Fool.
"I like to go for cinches. I like to shoot fish in a barrel. But I like to do it after the water has run out." -- Warren Buffett.
In an effort to track down some of the companies that may fall into that "fish in a barrel" category, I've turned to the MSN CAPS investment community. Using CAPS' stock screener tool, I searched for companies with price-to-earnings ratios below 15, long-term debt-to-equity ratios below 50%, returns on equity of at least 10% and favorable ratings from the CAPS community.
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Below are three of the names that came through the screen. Each is a sector-leading name that nonetheless might be flying below many investors' radar screens.
These aren't offered as formal recommendations, but as starting points for additional digging. Each stock's CAPS page is a good place to launch your research; you can find a company's financial reports, scrutinize key data and charts, and examine the comments your fellow investors have made.
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Sep 23 2009, 04:37 PM
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CAPS Editor
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
This post comes from The Motley Fool's Rich Smith.
The idea of buying a stock right after it establishes a 52-week high sends dread through most investors, who worry about the whole "gravity" thing.
That's the thesis of my weekly column on Nasdaq ($COMPX) stocks trading around their one-year highs. I run the names through the wisdom-of-the-crowds meter we call MSN CAPS, and out comes a list of stocks that could be poised to plunge.
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But while many of the stocks will indeed fall back to Earth, some seem immune to gravity, steadily riding a megatrend to ever-greater heights.
Today, we'll move beyond stocks hitting 52-week highs to identify companies surpassing five solid years of outperformance. Each of these stocks recently appeared on a MSN Money list of stocks trading at new five-year highs. What we want to know is which of these will thrash the market averages for another half-decade. Read More...
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Sep 15 2009, 01:45 PM
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CAPS Editor
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
This post comes from The Motley Fool's Morgan Housel.
"I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful."
Hard to argue with that seed of wisdom from Warren Buffett, isn't it?
Despite the recent rally, there's still plenty of fear out there. The beauty of it is how much opportunity it's creating for investors patient and diligent enough to reach for the babies thrown out with the bath water.
For help in finding such companies, I turned to the MSN CAPS investment community and the CAPS stock screener tool. I was after a list of companies with the following characteristics:
- A five-star rating on CAPS, signifying that it's considered best-of-breed by the community.
- Estimates of profitability in the year ahead.
- Terrible performance over the past 52 weeks.
Yes, most stocks satisfy this last condition, but what I'm really looking for are stocks with the bullish consensus implied by the stocks' five-star ratings and still cheap despite the market's run-up over the past six months. Among the stocks that came through the screen are seven with values so paltry they demand a closer look. None are formal recommendations, just good starting points for you to dig deeper.
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Sep 09 2009, 06:04 PM
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CAPS Editor
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
 This post comes from Rich Duprey at partner site The Motley Fool.
Some stocks are one-hit wonders, making a big splash when they first appear before quickly fading into obscurity. But for other stocks, that initial run-up is merely a preview of bigger and better gains to come.
Today, we've compiled a list of 10 stocks that spiked in August. We then paired the names with the ratings for each company issued by the MSN CAPS community. The higher each stock's rating, the greater CAPS members' faith in the company's ability to continue beating the market.
We're looking for stocks that might stay hot as the summer winds downs.
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Here's our list:
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Sep 03 2009, 02:48 PM
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CAPS Editor
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
 This post comes from Morgan Housel at partner site The Motley Fool.
Even with the recent rally, it's ugly out there. Many companies that overleveraged their balance sheets are permanently impaired and will likely never fully rebound. Citigroup (C) and Fannie Mae (FNM) come to mind.
We had an unprecedented boom; now we're slowly trying to claw out of an unprecedented bust. That's how markets work.
Even so, history tells us that market panics and forced sell-offs indiscriminately throw the good out with the bad. The "sell-now-ask-questions-later" mood of global investors is providing bargain-hunting investors with the sort of opportunities we haven't seen in decades. Use that to your advantage.
I've consulted with MSN CAPS, the investment community organized to help individuals beat the market, to hunt down a trio of dirt cheap, high-quality companies.
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Each has a four-star rating at CAPS. While top-rated five-star stocks obviously have bullish consensus, we've found that stocks moving up from three stars to four are likely being driven by "smart money." By getting in early, investors may be able to eke out a few extra percentage points of gain from these equities. So it's worthwhile to sift through the CAPS database to find four-star companies that could be on the cusp of achieving a bullish consensus among investors.
Have a look:
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Aug 30 2009, 09:57 PM
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AllStarPortfolio
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
Since I'm sure you're just as tired as I am with blogs about “calling” Sirius (SIRI) at 5 cents, and since I'm equally sure you don't want to hear someone bragging about how great of an investor they are, especially if your portfolio is still down from the recent carnage, let me be clear that you won't find that in this post! (I’ll leave that for when I score my 10th or so 10-bagger, not my first, especially when I have some serious losses to more than help balance my ego).
An investor who wants to be successful (and don't we all!), should spend some time and effort examining the stocks in their portfolio, both the winners and the losers to see what they can learn from the investment. I think investors DO spend a great deal of time considering those stocks that didn't perform as as they had hoped.
They are either angry at themselves, blaming company management, blaming the economy, blaming "Mr. Market" for being foolish or contrary, or blaming their third grade teacher for not doing a better job of teaching them basic math. Rather than blaming anyone, a thorough analysis of what they may have left out would be a better use of their time if they want to avoid similar mistakes.
Less obvious: We should study our winners. This could be equally as beneficial, but I suspect we rarely take this route either
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Aug 25 2009, 04:03 PM
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CAPS Editor
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
 This post comes from Matt Koppenheffer at partner site The Motley Fool.
If I asked you to cook up your ideal company, what would it look like?
I'm not asking for your favorite Fortune 500 company or an up-and-coming small-cap. I want you to think about the components you'd give to a company you could concoct right from scratch.
Would it be in a particular industry? Would it provide services, or would it make products? Would it have fat profit margins or make money instead by doing a huge volume?
We could spend all day going over the details of this magnifique dish, but I'd guess there's one ingredient we'd all liberally add to our creations: growth. All other additives are great, but how interesting can a business be if it's stagnating without avenues for expansion?
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I've dug up a sample of real-world companies expected to post significant growth in the years ahead. To see which might be the best bets, I've consulted with MSN CAPS, the investment community organized to help individuals beat the market. CAPS incorporates the knowledge, information and skills of more than 135,000 investors.
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Aug 19 2009, 02:47 PM
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CAPS Editor
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Money Blog: Top Stocks Blog - MSN Money
 This post comes from Rich Duprey at partner site The Motley Fool.
Some companies are obviously great investments -- in hindsight. Yet for every stock screaming "Buy me!" others simply give us a nudge and a nod.
How can we isolate tomorrow's great investments from the thousands of pretenders? At MSN CAPS, these opportunities are frequently found among four-star stocks.
Top-rated five-star stocks obviously have bullish consensus, but we've found that stocks moving up from three stars to four are likely being driven by "smart money." By getting in early, investors may be able to eke out a few extra percentage points of gain from these equities.
That's why it's worthwhile to sift through the CAPS database to find four-star companies that could be on the cusp of achieving a bullish consensus among investors.
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