Author Bio Since 1995, Rick has been writing for The Motley Fool, where he's a consumer and tech stocks specialist. Yes, that's a long time with more than 20,000 bylines over those 24 years. He's been an analyst for Motley Fool Rule Breakers and a portfolio lead analyst for Motley Fool Supernova since each newsletter service's inception. He earned his BBA and MBA from the University of Miami, and he splits his time living in Miami, Florida and Celebration, Florida. Follow @market Stocks are hot these days, but there are always exceptions to the rule. There are more more than 1,400 stocks with market caps greater than $300 million that have fallen over the past year. A little more than two-thirds of those investments have fallen by at least 10% since last year. Most of the markdowns are earned, but Wall Street doesn't always get it right.