5-Star Stocks on the Upswing

by Motley Fool - November 7, 2009 - 0 comments

Sadly, there's no such thing as

an ultimate buy signalwhen it comes to investing in
stocks. Identifying companies with the wind at their back
takes time, patience, and a good dose of due diligence.

There is, however, an easy way to increase your odds of finding the stocks that will beat the market. At Motley Fool CAPS,
the Fool's investing community of more than 140,000 members, we've
found that our "five-star portfolio" is up 15.31% between January 2007
and April 2009, compared to a loss of 40.6% for the S&P 500.

In order to fully capture the upside potential of those five-star
stocks, it makes sense to identify them just as soon as they achieve
five-star status. Fortunately, our CAPS screener
now makes it possible to do this. Below, for example, is a list of
companies that have been upgraded to five-star status from four stars
just yesterday. These stock ideas are only a starting point, of course.
Be sure to join us on CAPS to dig in even further.

Company	All-Stars Saying Outperform
Emergent BioSolutions, Inc. (NYSE: EBS)	433 of 449
JSC MMC Norilsk Nickel (ADR)(OTC BB: NILSY)	129 of 133
Valero Energy Corp (NYSE: VLO)	4268 of 4457
RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd. (Nasdaq: RRST)	248 of 254
L.B. Foster Company (Nasdaq: FSTR)	424 of 452
Tesco Corp (USA) (Nasdaq: TESO)	256 of 266

Data from Motley Fool CAPS, November 6, 2009

Last edited by Rakhi Kaptiyal on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 09:21 | Write to author: Motley Fool |