CAPS Screen: 7 Stocks That Made the Jump

Visiting Motley Fool CAPS , the Fool"s free investing community, can be the most profitable and fun part of your day. Based on the aggregated intelligence of110,000 (and growing!) investors participating in CAPS, our datahas shown that stocks given a five-star ranking (the highest) outperform the market by a significant margin . In the first year of CAPS, five-star stocks beat the market by anaverage of 19.4 points!

It gets better

Amazingly, there is another set of stocks which beat even thefive-star stocks: newly minted four-star stocks. Our statisticiansfound that a portfolio of stocks purchased as they became four-starstocks, and sold when they became 4.5-star stocks, returned 41% --some 32.5 points of outperformance, and the best returns any CAPSsegment had to offer.

In light of this idea, you can use our CAPS Screener to find stocks that made the jump from three stars to four. Iscreened for: Four-star stocks in CAPS, up from three-star stocks as of one monthago. Market capitalizations of at least $100 million. Rated by at least 100 members