Hey there, Fools. I've summoned our
Motley Fool CAPScommunity once again to highlight a few
of Wednesday's biggest winners among the stocks with
top ratingsof four or five stars:
Company
Yesterday's Gain
Shanda Interactive (Nasdaq: SNDA)
8.92%
Allied Irish Banks
7.74%
ICICI Bank (NYSE: IBN)
7.19%
Merck (NYSE: MRK)
6.42%
Patriot Coal (NYSE: PCX)
6.07%
There's a reason I selected those notable gainers, as
opposed to other winners making noise on Wednesday, like
one-star stock
Ambac Financial : 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, 94.6% of the 262 All-Star members who've
rated
Motley Fool Rule Breakers
selection
Shandahave a bullish opinion of the stock. In
late September, one of those Fools,
Ragingsamosa, helped our community connect with the
online gaming company: "Very profitable; decent pipeline of
games; lots of cash on hand; has a hand in various industries
likely to experience a lot of growth (gaming, online
entertainment, literature); based in China and has a business
model that may eventually be portable to other foreign
countries."
Following yesterday's pop, Ragingsamosa is beating the
market nicely since that call.
The bullish lesson?
Know when to
break the rules. High-growth stocks in emerging markets
are notoriously fraught with risk, but by seeking those with
a strong leadership position and solid balance sheet, you can
reduce your downside substantially
.As
Warren Buffettrecommends, "Put together a portfolio of
companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the
years, and so also will the portfolio's market value."
And now for the losers ...
Of course, winning isn't everything in the stock
market.
Here are five of Wednesday's biggest decliners with one-
or two-star ratings: Â Â
Company
Yesterday's Loss
STEC (Nasdaq: STEC)
38.92%
True Religion Apparel
24.44% Continued... |