Date updated:10-18-2008
If you have the courage to call this epochal bear market's bottom, you might want to know which stocks bounce quickest in an upturn. You might consider some "cheap losers." This is Joe Mezrich's term for stocks selling at a cheap price-to-book-value ratio and a recently crushed stock price.

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CDNS
Cadence Design Sy - $6.02
- +0.33%
- $5.96
Wall Street has turned its back on stocks like Affymetrix (AFFX) or Cadence Design Systems (CDNS), two suppliers of essential technology tools whose end users have been belt-tightening. San Jose, Calif.-based Cadence is in turmoil following Wednesday's departure of its chief executive and four lieutenants after their failed bid for rival Mentor Graphics and an unwise sales strategy for Cadence's software-which semiconductor firms use to design new chips. Nevertheless, Cadence is an entrenched leader whose fortunes would rise after a management turnaround and a chip-industry recovery.

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AFFX
Affymetrix - $5.71
- +0.88%
- $5.66
As for Affymetrix, the Santa Clara, Calif., company is also cutting costs after announcing Tuesday that it missed September-quarter sales forecasts -- its second quarterly whiff. Shares of the genomics supplier now go for less than half of the company's $9 per share in cash, and less than twice free cash flow. Yet Affymetrix pioneered the manufacture of the "gene chips" used by medical researchers to measure activity levels of genes implicated in diseases and their treatments. Its shares now offer a cheap bet on the adoption of gene chips by doctors seeking to predict which drugs work best on a patient's cancer.

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BRKS
Brooks Automation - $6.88
- -2.13%
- $7.12
Restructuring, too, are Brooks Automation (BRKS)the semiconductor-factory supplier, and Spherion (SFN) a white-collar staffing company that's digesting several acquisitions.

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BGG
Briggs Stratton - $18.66
- -1.84%
- $18.73
Briggs & Stratton (BGG), the small-engine maker, is moving manufacturing to China in an effort to widen its profit margins.

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PENX
Penford Corporati - $6.75
- +1.66%
- $6.62
Other cheap losers are Penford (PENX), whose industrial-starch factory is coming back on line after the June floods of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Griffon Corp. (GFF), a supplier of garage doors, aircraft electronics and plastic film whose shares have attracted the interest of Goldman Sachs and Barron's Roundtable member Mario Gabelli.

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GFF
Griffon Cp - $8.83
- -2.00%
- $8.95
Other cheap losers are Penford (PENX), whose industrial-starch factory is coming back on line after the June floods of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and Griffon Corp. (GFF), a supplier of garage doors, aircraft electronics and plastic film whose shares have attracted the interest of Goldman Sachs and Barron's Roundtable member Mario Gabelli.
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