The best traders will tell you the key to finding any undiscovered avenue for growth is looking in some of the most unlikely places. It is finding an opportunity in a company changing event or the sudden instance of growth before growth is realized. Nobody wants to mess with the likes of IBM or MSFT or INTC or CSCO where the exponents of growth have been realized and the growth curve has moved in favor of a downward trend more than half the time as opposed to an upward trend. In other words they are commoditized.
If you had been exposed to HANS in 1999 on the OTC at 50 cents, various forums would have deleted their mere existence because they were an OTC stock and because they were 50 cents. You would have missed out on a 70000% increase in your portfolio. Instead, they would rather you be buying the growth curve after a 2 for 1 and a 4 for 1 split where the exponential move got ahead of itself and it had become commoditized. Listening to those people now would have netted anyone severe losses. But! Because of what HANS did, it continues to be allowed to be recommended because of its past with no regard for the future. It's the same with all of these other names that drag our indices and have led mutual funds to their most severe losses in decades. Those we can talk about right? Therefore, the foundation for growth still remains the same. Finding opportunities in the most unlikely places.
So, remaining in the same sector, it is more than obvious you have to find the next avenue for growth and opportunity.
Here is the growth making it the leading beverage stock in the entire beverage sector by a landslide. This comes when several leading analysts are citing invididual growth plays in the beverage sector as a prime play for portfolio appreciation:
http://biz.yahoo.com/
Here is the transcript from Seeking Alpha of the earnings call held 8/4/2008:
http://seekingalpha.com/
Now here is Reuters talking about the opportunity:
http://www.reuters.com/
These are all media references reporting news for anyone to peruse. A I said, the media reports news and company's report news and events. It's up to all of us to determine where an opportunity exists. If we leave it up to analysts and message board moderators to make our decisions for us then.......