You could have made a lot of money if you'd invested in Brigham Exploration (Nasdaq: BEXP) this time last year. It's more than doubled because of the rising price of oil and natural gas.

But you didn't have to dabble in commodities to double your money.

In fact, the companies below were ranked as five-star stocks by our Motley Fool CAPS community last August. And since then, all have also been two-baggers or better, without the risk of gambling on commodity prices.

Company

Industry

52-Week Price Change

Axsys Technologies (Nasdaq: AXYS)

Electronics

202.3%

Peerless Manufacturing

Industrial

166.5%

Ebix (Nasdaq: EBIX)

Computer Software & Services

155.8%

ICON (Nasdaq: ICLR)

Diversified Services

102.6%

Data from CAPS and Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's.

As you can see, the CAPS community was -- and is -- on to something. In fact, in our first 20 months of collecting data, five-star stocks collectively outperformed the market by about 12 points, while one-star stocks actually underperformed the market by a little more than 11 points.

With this in mind, I went looking for stocks that could be two-baggers next year. Using our CAPS screener, I looked for stocks that:

Here are some of the stocks I came across:

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