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 of
Brocade Communications Systems (Nasdaq: BRCD)
rose 18% in one day last week, after the company announced it
was
looking for buyers.
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 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
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
Ceragon Networks (Nasdaq: CRNT)
*****
30.3%
Jamba
****
69.4%
Buckle
***
26.7%
InterOil (NYSE: IOC)
*
48.6%
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