Hey there, Fools. I've summoned our
Motley Fool CAPScommunity once again to highlight a few
of Tuesday's biggest winners among the stocks with
top ratingsof four or five stars:
Company
Yesterday's Gain
Burlington Northern (NYSE: BNI)
27.51%
CapitalSource
13.10%
Energy Conversion Devices (Nasdaq:
ENER)
10.96%
Yamana Gold (NYSE: AUY)
8.05%
Union Pacific
7.90%
There's a reason I selected those notable gainers, as
opposed to other winners making noise on Tuesday, like
one-star stock
AIG (NYSE: AIG): 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, 97.3% of the 2,228 members who've rated
Burlington
Northernhave a bullish opinion of the stock. In
late January, one of those Fools,
addedupon, brought some rather interesting Oracle
activity to our community's attention:
[H]igh energy prices will return, increased
[regulations], all contribute to the resurrection of the
rails. In addition, something unusual is happening with
Warren Buffett and [Burlington Northern]. He now owns well
over 20% of [Burlington Northern] and continues buying. I
know of no other stocks where Buffett owns > 20% without
moving for controlling interest or an outright buyout.
Shares of the railroad giant are up 44% since that call.
Of course, most of that gain came yesterday after Buffett's
Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A)(NYSE:
BRK-B), in what he calls an "all-in" bet on the U.S. economy,
agreed to buy the companyfor $44 billion -- consistent
with addedupon's intuition.
The bullish lesson?
Learn to
follow the smart money. By closely monitoring the moves
of proven money masters, you can create a powerful source of
"best ideas" for your own portfolio. As long as you
understandthe investment case and can purchase the
stock within a similar price range, riding a respected
manager's coattails can be a great way to
market-thumping gains.
And now for the losers ...
Of course, winning isn't everything in the stock
market.
Here are five of Tuesday's biggest decliners with one- or
two-star ratings:
Company
Yesterday's Loss
Cedar Fair, L.P. (NYSE: FUN)
26.58%
A123 Systems
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