Ah, the joys of skepticism.
We rebel investors at Motley Fool Rule Breakers believe the multibaggers in the making, while not often cheap by the numbers, are always misunderstood. The extraordinary skepticism they face makes them excellent value stocks.
Hitting just one of these home runs can make all the difference to your portfolio. Just ask David Gardner, who bought Amazon at a split-adjusted price of $3.24 a share in 1997. He's up more than 2,300% since.
It's stocks like Amazon that helped David to produce nine years of better-than-20% average annual returns in the real-money Rule Breaker portfolio, even while suffering stinging losses from Guitar Center and 3Dfx, among others.
Let the haters be your friends
David continues this home-run investing tradition today at Rule Breakers. You can follow the moves of his rebel alliance with a free trial of the service. Or, if you prefer to pick your own stocks, there's Motley Fool CAPS, a 100% free stock-picking community whose 105,000-plus participating investors rate stocks on a scale of one to five stars. More than 5,600 rated companies are in the database right now.
How can this help you? Each week, using CAPS, we'll search for one- and two-star stocks that have at least 5% of their available shares sold short but are expected to grow their earnings by no less than 15% over each of the next five years.
Let's have the list
Here are today's unloved growth stocks:
|
Company |
CAPS Rating (out of 5) |
Short Interest |
5-Year Growth Estimate |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Priceline.com |
** |
30.6% |
26.7% |
|
True Religion Apparel |
** |
59.7% |
21.0% |
|
Standard Microsystems |
** |
10.1% |
18.0% |
|
DealerTrack Holdings |
** |
12.5% |
17.1% |
|
MGM Mirage |
** |
13.3% |
16.6% |
Sources: Motley Fool CAPS; Yahoo! Finance; 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. Casino operator MGM Mirage put up decent fourth-quarter numbers, and its board recently authorized a 20 million-share buyback. Denim rebel True Religion shows signs of being ready to shine.
No love for the Negotiator?
Even so, I can't forsake Priceline, a veteran of this column for reasons I simply cannot fathom. Why don't Fools like this stock? Top bear pitcher abitarecatania explained it this way in February:
A $4.7 billion dollar website travel agency? 52-week high going into U.S. war led recession / depression? DON'T BE STUPID!
And last week's follow-up:
The capitalization of this website is now higher then all of the combined U.S. airlines. But I guess Priceline will not be affected by high fuel? Sure ... run-up is one of the dumbest run-ups in the market today.
OK, but what if your Web travel agency is winning just as its peers are losing? That's what we have at Priceline:
|
Metrics |
Forward P/E |
Projected Growth Rate |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Priceline |
23.8 |
25.5% |
11.6% |
38.4% |
|
Orbitz |
Not material |
16.6% |
1.3% |
(15.6%) |
|
Expedia |
14.9 |
13.4% |
6.0% |
6.1% |
Source: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's. Returns are for the trailing-12-month period.
Winners usually keep on winning, and with competition getting weaker by the day, the price is still right for Priceline.
But that's my take. I'm more interested in what you think. Would you buy Priceline 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 unloved growth stocks.
