The Growth Stocks You Should Be Buying

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We all know the legends of growth investing. But I submit that growth grabbers can learn as much from a single phrase from Warren Buffett -- the patron saint of value investing -- as they might from the writings of Lynch and Fisher:

Be greedy when others are fearful.

I take this as a call to rebellion -- to invest where others won't. To zig as timid stock pickers zag. To order fish when the surrounding company chooses steak. And to buy stocks that cheapskates fear, such as iRobot (Nasdaq: IRBT), because they're the best value stocks available.

Let the haters be your friends
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To me, the best of these are high growers -- expected to improve earnings by 15% a year over the next five -- that have been heavily shorted. Firms with 5% or more their available shares sold short can blast off like a rocket when the skeptics are proven wrong.

Let's have the list
Here's today's list of growth stocks that others fear:

Company	CAPS Rating	Short Interest	5-Year Growth Estimate
EMCORE (Nasdaq: EMKR)	**	39%	30%
Ruth's Hospitality Group (Nasdaq: RUTH)	**	20%	17.1%
Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN)	**	26.2%	26.7%
Rackable Systems (Nasdaq: RACK)	**	10.5%	16.5%
Blue Nile (Nasdaq: NILE)	**	51.3%	21%

Sources: Motley Fool CAPS; Yahoo! Finance; Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's; and wsj.com.

Bear in mind that this isn't a list of recommendations. Instead, I offer these stocks as candidates for further research.

We've got some interesting choices here. I'm hooked on priceline.com -- and not just because of Bill Shatner's "Negotiator" commercials. Blue Nile, a Rule Breakers recommendation, is less attractive because of the downturn in consumer spending.

Rack 'em up
Which of these is worth buying now? I like Rackable Systems, which combines servers and storage in a portable, power saving box that Web businesses seem to love.

Ask Facebook. Rackable's gear helps the social superstar serve more than 80 million active users. Color me unsurprised. Power doesn't come cheap now that oil and coal prices are rising, so efficiency matters.

I'm not the only one who thinks so. "Getting out of my circle of competence here, but this stock seems cheap," Foolish colleague Tim Hanson wrote in December. "I think we're looking at a future of disposable servers that are also energy-efficient."

But is the stock really cheap, as Tim asserts? I think so. At current prices, investors are paying $1.03 for every dollar of Rackable revenue. Here's what that means in English: as a group, investors expect little revenue growth -- even though Facebook is adding enough infrastructure to support 250,000 new users per day.

I think they're crazy. But I'm more interested in what you think. Would you buy Rackable Systems at today's prices? Let us know by signing up for CAPS today. It's 100% free to participate.

See you back here next week for five more misunderstood multibaggers in the making.