Hey there, Fools. I've summoned our
Motley Fool CAPScommunity once again to highlight a few
of Thursday's biggest winners among the stocks with
top ratingsof four or five stars:
Company
Yesterday's Gain
Harvest Energy Trust (NYSE: HTE)
33.38%
Energy Conversion Devices (Nasdaq:
ENER)
10.32%
Penn West Energy Trust (NYSE:
PWE)
9.00%
Honeywell International
4.25%
Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE: FCX)
4.09%
There's a reason I selected those notable gainers, as
opposed to other winners making noise on Thursday, like
low-rated
Sears Holdings (Nasdaq: SHLD): Stocks go up
all the time, but unless you were able to predict the pop,
what does it matter? Â
Our community of more than 140,000 CAPS Fools considers
its high-star stocks the most likely to outperform the
market.
Written in the (five) stars?
For example, 99.5% of the 402 All-Star members who've
rated
Harvest
Energyhave a bullish opinion of the stock. In
late July, one of those top Fools,
Alex1453, explained that the Canadian energy income trust
simply needed to be trusted:
Regardless of how "green" anyone thinks they can be or
what (if any) energy legislation gets passed, the truth is
that there is no conceivable way that any large economy can
fully disavow oil and natural gas. So basically, this
company is going to be around for a while, has a sellable
product, and will still/always offer a reasonable to high
dividend.
Harvest is up 84% since that call. In fact, yesterday's
massive surge came after Korea National Oil Corp. said it
would purchase Harvest for $1.7 billion, representing a 37%
premium over Wednesday's closing price.
The bullish lesson?
Learn to think like a
business owner, not a stock trader. All sorts of noise
can suppress a stock's price in the short term, but true
investors focus on the factors that
reallycount over time. As CAPS' Alex1453
demonstrates, by gobbling up attractive assets at
bargain prices, you give yourself plenty of "upside"
opportunities -- including getting bought by one of the big
boys -- to earn an outsized return.
And now for the losers ...
Of course, winning isn't everything in the stock
market. Here are five of Thursday's biggest decliners with
one- or two-star ratings: Â Â
Company
Yesterday's Loss
Affymetrix (Nasdaq: AFFX)
18.06%
NVE
9.33% Continued... |