If you're not a subscriber to our Motley Fool Rule Breakers newsletter service, you may not even realize that today is the third Wednesday of the month. What's so special about today? It's a day of enlightenment for growth stock enthusiasts. It's the day when the latest issue of the monthly newsletter becomes available and two brand new stock picks are revealed.
Easy, now. You've got plenty of time. The new issue won't be released until the market closes today. However, even if you find yourself checking out the issue fashionably late, there are still some pretty good reasons to pay belated attention.
Since the newsletter's launch last year, the average recommendation has soundly beaten the market. Then again, as of Tuesday, the S&P 500 has averaged a negative return during the premium research newsletter's tenure. Just staying in the black would be enough to topple the indexers.
Yes, these are volatile growth stocks. Implosions will happen when you are fishing in the mercurial growth-stock waters. The newsletter already has a couple of those troublesome picks. On the other hand, more than half of the newsletter's past 24 past recommendations are showing double-digit percentage gains since they were first singled out. In a few hours, we will kick off the second year of picking out superior stock ideas. Can we keep it up?
So are you coming around? Getting excited about today? Is this the day alternative energy provider Plug Power (NASDAQ:PLUG) or Grand Theft Auto video game publisher Take-Two Interactive (NASDAQ:TTWO) will finally make the cut? They are just two of the 225 stocks in our active Rule Breakers Universe. The latest entry is iRobot (NASDAQ:IRBT). Yes, the company went public only a few days ago, but how can an ultimate growth newsletter not take a closer look at this revolutionary appliance maker? From its popular Roomba automatic vacuum cleaners to its new Scooba mopping device, iRobot bears watching as a company that is changing the way many of us tidy up our homes.
Finding great growth stocks early in their defiance cycle has been lucrative in the past. Three of the recommendations over the past year have gone on to more than double, including Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) and Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG). How early did you get into those companies? Early enough to average 150% gains in only a matter of months?
So, yes, tonight we will be adding two more selections to our list of active picks. That's not all you will find in the newsletter, though. We will be taking a look back at the first dozen issues. My column in this issue is dedicated to the early-adopter breakthroughs that have taken place over the past year -- and the innovations that will rock 2006. Other articles are dedicated to the latest trends in biotechnology and nanotechnology. There is also a lively community board to keep the exchanges going above and beyond the regular distribution of new issues and mid-month updates.
So the next time you find yourself wondering how companies like flash drive giant SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) or DVD rental revolutionary and Motley Fool Stock Advisor pick Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) found the gumption to more than double in recent months, odds are that the trail to higher share prices started with a bunch of savvy investors who spotted the possibilities before anyone else did.
Want to see if superior growth investing is a worthwhile investing strategy for you and your money? Learn more about the Rule Breakers service by kicking the tires with a free 30-day trial. Act quickly, though. The next issue is now just hours away.
Longtime Fool contributor Rick Munarriz finds that eating, sleeping, and breathing growth stocks will work wonders for your financial health. He does own shares in Netflix. The Fool has a disclosure policy. He is also part of the Rule Breakers newsletter research team, seeking out tomorrow's ultimate growth stocks a day early.
