Stockpickr: The Top NYSE Stocks Under $5

Of the 12,000 or so portfolios in Stockpickr, only two non-pro portfolios hold Solectron. However, three very good hedge funds own the stock. One I'm a big fan of is Forest Hill Capital, run by ex-Morgan Keegan banker Mark Lee. They are specialists in both chip companies and obscure public companies from the Southeast. I once visited them in Little Rock and spent quite a bit of time getting to know them.

Solectron is also owned by value investor David J. Greene, a private firm founded at the tail end of the Depression in 1938. From their Web site: "The firm looks for undervalued securities that are misunderstood by the marketplace. Specifically they look for securities with low P/E, P/B and P/S but are generating good cash flow with a strong management team in place. The ideal candidate is a multi-segment business often possessing several growth-oriented segments hidden by slower growing parent. Other investors many times ignore these types of companies due to their confusing structure."

Looks like they might've found what they were looking for in Solectron. Here are all of Greene's top holdings. The third hedge fund that owns Solectron is Ritchie Capital.

Another name on the less than $5/profitable/NYSE list is Omnova Solutions(OMN Quote), which is trading at $4.71. It is a specialty chemical maker, an area I know nothing about, but analysts expect it to earn 45 cents a share next year, giving it a forward P/E of just over 10. Investor Guru Seth Klarman, whom I've written about here before, owns 19% of the company. Klarman is famous for writing the book, "Margin of Safety" based on Buffett's most important statement about investing ("always have a margin of safety"). It's impossible to find Klarman's book for less than $600 on eBay. Here are Klarman's top holdings.

To see the rest of the list of low-priced but profitable NYSE stocks, Margin of Safety>check it out in our Today's Lists section.