CAPS Screen: Is There Value in Growth?

Growth: It's not just for breakfast anymore. Looking for stocks with serious growth rates has proved to be a market-beating strategy for the Rule Breakers newsletter service.

With that success in mind, I wanted to highlight some growth stocks that may be undervalued as a result of this brutal bear market. I combined my search -- conducted with our very own Motley Fool CAPS screener -- with some value elements. Specifically, I looked for:

• Market caps greater than $200 million.
• Companies that have grown revenue and earnings per share by more than 20% on average for the past three years.
• Companies whose stocks carry a price-to-earnings ratio of less than 15.

Then I matched the results with companies that analysts expect will grow earnings per share at or beyond 10% annually over the next five years. Below are seven stocks that turned up; they may be cheap, and they could continue posting strong returns.

Data from Motley Fool CAPS and Yahoo! Finance as of Aug. 7, 2008.

This is not a list of stock recommendations to buy but rather a starting point for further research. Hansen Natural, maker of Monster energy drinks; Manitowoc, a notable infrastructure play; and NYSE Euronext all strike me as ideas worth further exploration.

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