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
IMS Health (NYSE: RX)
23.32%
Allied Irish Banks
10.58%
American Capital (Nasdaq: ACAS)
8.63%
Mechel (NYSE: MTL)
8.19%
Qualcomm (Nasdaq: QCOM)
5.41%
There's a reason I selected those notable gainers, as
opposed to other winners making noise on Thursday, 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, 93.6% of the 266 members who've rated
Motley Fool Hidden Gems
selection
IMS
Healthhave a bullish opinion of the stock. Less than
two months ago
,
one of those Fools,
KempInTheWoods, highlighted the health care data provider
as a healthy turnaround bet:
Currently undervalued. Wide moat: information on drug
sales from wide variety of sources. Pharma companies have
temporarily cut back on IMS's services, but longer term
will have to come back to them.
IMS is already up 41% since that call. Of course,
more than halfof that gain came yesterday after a pair of
investment funds, TPG Capital and CPP Investment Board, said
they would acquire the company for $4 billion.
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. By buying into
well-positioned companies at
bargain prices, you give yourself plenty of "upside"
opportunities -- like being bought out 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:
Company
Yesterday's Loss
Whole Foods Market (Nasdaq: WFMI)
15.47%
Aeropostale
11.99% Continued... |