Even on the market's worst days, buyout news and other
short-term forces can send individual stocks up by 10%, 25%,
even
50%.
Sometimes, it's a ruse. For example, shares of
Petrobras Energia (NYSE: PZE) showed what
appeared to be a surge of 180% one day last week, but the
move was actually the result of a reorganization and share
exchange with its holding company that had no fundamental
implications for the businesses.
But beyond neutral 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 their
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 stock 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
Genesis Lease
*****
28.5%
Mechel (NYSE: MTL)
****
33.5%
Dynegy (NYSE: DYN)
****
28.6%
Strategic Hotels & Resorts
***
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