Five surprises from the bargain bin
With the U.S. stock market rising in six of the past seven weeks, investors are starting to feel that 2010 isn't so bad after all.
Some securities, however, have missed the party. Among the stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, about three dozen have declined 20% or more so far this year. The S&P 500 is up 5%. Some of these laggards now look like bargains. Here are five that I want to bring to your attention.
Text by John Dorfman, chairman of Thunderstorm Capital and a columnist for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own. One of his clients owns shares in Boston Scientific. Otherwise Mr. Dorfman has no long or short positions in the stocks discussed in this column, for clients or personally