Neglected stocks

Last week, Mark Hulbert reported on a new study in The New York Times that found that from 1962 to 2003, stocks that could go at least a day without trading any shares -- like Brazil Fast Food -- outperformed stocks that traded every day by more than 8 percentage points annually. And that was the case even though the "neglected stock portfolio," as researchers Athanasios Bolmatis and Evangelos Sekeris called it, contains "a disproportionate number of stocks that underperform the market by a dramatic margin."