4 Stocks Bucking the Downtrend (at Motley Fool)

It may be difficult to believe, but even during these grim days of imploding balance sheets and government bailouts, there are still stocks moving up by 10%, 25%, or even 50%. For example, Secure Computing's stock surged 23% in a day when it was announced that McAfee would purchase the company for $465 million. While many times price jumps come from buyouts or other less-predictable events, some companies have fundamentally compelling reasons for recent momentum. The trick is to find those stocks. That's where Motley Fool CAPS comes in. The story behind the story CAPS is no crowd of lemmings. Its best-performing members' opinions do more to shape each company's rating than the picks of their poorer-performing peers. Let's use the collective wisdom of more than 115,000 CAPS members to filter out the noise and find companies... [read full story]                    

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