For more than a year, we've been chronicling companies that appear to be on their deathbeds. As we note, not every company will give up the ghost. But since that original column, quite a few have either disappeared entirely or seen huge drops in their share prices: Fannie Mae, Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Washington Mutual, and XM Satellite Radio, to name just a few.

We check for stocks that have drawn the lowest one-star rating from the 140,000-plus savvy investors in our Motley Fool CAPScommunity. Then we pair that information with various financial ratios, which flash like a neon sign if the end is near.

Now that a third of those original companies have gone under or otherwise vanished, lets take a look at some of those stocks we deemed to be on their deathbeds:

Stock

Price at First Appearance

Price Today

% Chg

Hawaiian Holdings

$4.19

$6.82

62.77%

MGIC Investment (NYSE: MTG)

$2.24

$4.28

91.07%

Regency Centers (NYSE: REG)

$35.75

$33.15

(7.27%)

Ryder System (NYSE: R)

$34.90

$42.31

21.23%

Vonage (NYSE: VG)

$1.14

$1.35

18.42%

Pulte Homes (NYSE: PHM)

$11.70

$9.66

(17.44%)

Dolan Media

$6.59

$12.78

93.93% Continued...