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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

5 Stocks Approaching Greatness

Some companies are obviously great investments -- in hindsight. Sure, we should have bought Starbucks at its IPO and earned hundredfold returns over the years. Yet for every stock out there screaming "buy me," others simply give us a nudge and a nod. How can we tell tomorrow's obviously great investments from the thousands of pretenders?

The stars' walk of fameOn Motley Fool CAPS, these opportunities can be found among our four-star stocks. In CAPS' proprietary ratings system, they rank higher than most of the other 5,300 companies in the CAPS universe, but they're just shy of superstardom. While their five-star peers might draw all the attention, we can sift through CAPS to find four-star firms approaching greatness:

Bucyrus International (Nasdaq: BUCY)
SiRF Technology (Nasdaq: SIRF)
Mercadolibre (Nasdaq: MELI)
Mosaic (NYSE: MOS)
SanDisk (Nasdaq: SNDK)

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