Hey there, Fools. I've summoned our
Motley Fool CAPScommunity once again to highlight a few
of Monday's biggest winners among the stocks with
top ratingsof four or five stars:
Company
Yesterday's Gain
Manitowoc (NYSE: MTW)
6.78%
Terra Industries (NYSE: TRA)
6.74%
Coventry Health Care
5.40%
A-Power Energy (Nasdaq: APWR)
4.81%
Melco Crown Entertainment
4.64%
There's a reason I selected those notable gainers, as
opposed to other winners making noise on Monday, like
low-rated
Ford Motor (NYSE: F): Stocks go up all the
time, but unless you were able to predict the pop, what does
it matter?
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, 96.6% of the 1,225 members who've rated
Terrahave
a bullish opinion of the stock. Just
last month, one of those Fools,
barnettech, thought that it was a particularly fertilized
time to dig in:
People have to eat even during hard times, and with
population growth and a limited amount of land to grow
food. Agriculture is a great place to invest. The
fundamentals on this stock are great right now.
Consistent with that call, shares of Terra spiked
yesterday after
CF Industries upped its bid to acquire the
fertilizer producer by adding a cash portion to its last
offer.
The bullish lesson?
Learn to think like a
business owner, not a stock trader. All sorts of noise
can depress a stock's price in the short term, but the true
investor is able to focus on the factors that
reallycount over time. As CAPS' barnettech
demonstrates, by buying into
high-quality companieswith attractive trends working in
their favor, you give yourself plenty of "upside"
opportunities -- including getting bought by one of the
bigger 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 Monday's biggest decliners with one- or
two-star ratings:
Company
Yesterday's Loss
PMI Group (NYSE: PMI)
15.70%
Geron
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