Compton Petroleum Corporation (CMZ)

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5 Top Stocks at Half Price
By Rich Duprey
November 16, 2009 | Comments (0)

You love buying your shirts when they go on sale. And who can resist a buy-one-get-one-free offer? So when our stocks go on sale, why do we bemoan their low prices?

Smart investors like Warren Buffett or Marty Whitman love it when their stocks are suddenly selling at bargain-basement prices. For them, these companies become no-brainer buys.

The investors in the Motley Fool CAPS community also like a bargain, apparently. Below, you'll find five companies whose shares are selling at least 50% below their 52-week highs, but which still earn high honors from our investor-intelligence database. Consider it a BOGO sale on stocks.

Stock
CAPS Rating (out of 5)
% Off 52-Week High

Angiotech Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ANPI)
*****
55%

Compton Petroleum (NYSE: CMZ)
*****
50%

DRDGOLD (Nasdaq: DROOY)
****
55%

Helicos BioSciences (Nasdaq: HLCS)
****
55%

LDK Solar (NYSE: LDK)
****
61%


Naturally, we want you to look a bit closer at these stocks before buying. You can get low-priced appliances in the dent-and-ding section of your home-remodeling superstore, but their quality might not be so good. Same thing here: Make sure there's nothing seriously wrong with the company before you plug it into your portfolio


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