Even on the market's worst days, buyout news and other
short-term forces can send individual stocks up by 10%, 25%,
even
50%.     Â
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For example, shares in
Omniture jumped 26% last week when
Adobe Systems said it would
pay top dollar-- $1.8 billion -- for the company.
But beyond less-predictable events like that one are
stocks with fundamentally compelling reasons for recent
momentum. The trick is to find those stocks. That's where
Motley Fool
CAPScomes in.
The story behind the story
CAPS is no
crowd of
lemmings. Its best-performing members' opinions do more
to shape
each company's ratingthan the picks of poorer-performing
peers. Let's use the collective wisdom of more
than 140,000 CAPS members to filter out the noise
and find companies offering strong momentum.
We'll use CAPS' handy
stock screening
toolto quickly zero in on companies with a price increase
of at least 25% in the past four weeks, a market cap of
greater than $100 million, and
a betaof less than 3. Below
is a sample of stocks that our screen returned. If you'd
like,
run this screen yourself-- just keep in mind that results
may change as the market does.
Company
CAPS Rating
(Out of 5)
4-Week
Price Change
Danaos
****
59.5%
E*TRADE Financial (Nasdaq: ETFC)
****
30.5%
Western Refining (NYSE: WNR)
****
26.4%
Nokia (NYSE: NOK)
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