3 stocks that rose more than 5% yesterday

3 stocks that thumped the market yesterday

Bargain hunting oversold stocks

Mike King

Mike King is a Fool.com.au Investment Analyst and Writer. He caught the investing bug more than a decade ago, at a time when the U.S. had invaded Iraq and fear reigned in the markets. His initial success as the markets took off encouraged his passion and thirst for knowledge. With 13 years behind him at one of Australia's largest domestic banks, Mike's passion for stocks led him to join a boutique funds management firm, where he stayed for four years. A seven-year stint in equity research at one of the largest investment banks in the world followed that, giving Mike a thirst to pursue his passion further. Mike holds a Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment and a Graduate Certificate in Financial Planning. His passion is to help retail investors invest better, and that passion was one of his primary reasons for joining The Motley Fool Australia in late 2011. Mike has written thousands of articles since joining, including for Fairfax Media, Yahoo!7, Ninemsn and has also appeared on ABC's The Business. You can see all of Mikes' holdings here

Published June 29, 2012 11:51 am AEST

The S&P / ASX 200 Index (Index: ^AXJO) (ASX: XJO) rose just 0.04% yesterday, to end at 4,044.8, despite positive Wall Street leads overnight. Investors appeared to shun the market in the afternoon, as they started looking towards the EU Summit, which began yesterday.

Despite the flat market, these three stocks managed to rise by more than 5%. The theme appears to be investors hunting for stocks that may have been oversold.

Select Harvests Limited (ASX: SHV) jumped 11 cents, or 9.4% to $1.28. An orchard grower, Select Harvests recently sold 11 gigalitres of water to the Federal government for around $18m. Not bad for a company with a market cap of just $73m! The company still has ownership of another 30 gigalitres of water entitlements. In a letter to shareholders earlier this month, the company also announced that it expected its 2012 almond crop to be 35-45% higher than the 2011 crop. Select Harvests looks set to report a bumper 2012 financial year profit, and could be worthy of further research.

Macmahon Holdings Limited (ASX: MAH) shot up 3.5 cents to 55.5 cents, a 6.7% rise. The international contract mining and construction company has seen its share price fall more than 30% in the last three months, as investors show their concern for mining services stocks. With revenues of over $1.8bn and an order book in excess of $3.2bn, Macmahon appears to have previously been priced for failure.

TFS Corporation Limited (ASX: TFC) climbed 5.4% to 49 cents. Shares in TFS have risen 24% since the end of May, perhaps as investors see the stock as a bit of a bargain at these prices. The company owns and manages Sandalwood plantations in Western Australia. Despite the price rise, the stock is still trading on a trailing P/E of 4.7, and paying a dividend yield of 9.7%.

Foolish takeaway

Markets can overreact when there is so much doom and gloom about. Foolish investors can take advantage of this situation, as bargains can appear when stocks become oversold. Whether these companies end up being bargains is yet to be proven, but might be worthy of further research.

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