TODAY, David Gardner is recommending you stuff your portfolio with shares of a local small-cap company that bears a remarkable resemblance to eBay in the early days... Alexandria, Virginia / August 31, 2010 Dear Fellow Investor, Once again, the so-called experts are calling us "simpletons". And guess what? We're flattered! The 'whys' and 'how's' are straight ahead. So let's start from the beginning. To understand the scale of this opportunity, we need to go back to Labor Day weekend, 1995. When an average 30-year-old, who never made very good grades in school... but had a little bit of programming experience... decided to try an experiment. He launched a virtual flea market. Matching buyers and sellers online. Buyers and sellers of just about anything, you see, it didn't matter. Most people thought his idea was crazy... I remember it well, I was one of them! Today -- just 15 years later -- his experiment has grown into a company with over 16,000 employees and worth more than $30 billion. Pierre Omidyar and his crazy idea, which later became known as eBay, made small fortunes for early individual investors. If you scooped up eBay stock in the fall of 1998, at, say, a split-adjusted $1.50... with shares over $23 today you'd be sitting on a 15-bagger. Yet, a lot of the so-called "smart money" financial writers and commentators of the day would've tried to make you feel unwise for buying eBay. They would've brayed on about the high prices Internet stocks were trading for... Suggesting instead, you should be selling stocks. Then holding cash. And building a bunker in your backyard to prepare for Y2K. Their tune never seems to change. Here's something else that never changes... The best way to invest TODAY is the same as it's been throughout history. Just ask Warren Buffett. Or Peter Lynch. Or any of the world's most successful investors. They'll tell you to find a company poised to dominate a highly profitable niche. Grab up shares. Then hold on for years and years while the stock goes on a tear. And when you can confidently identify a moment when extreme market pessimism coincides with an unusually attractive stock valuation, and a potential historic business opportunity -- like eBay in the early days -- lean into it! Because these are the moments when history's boldest fortunes are built. I'm talking about moments like RIGHT NOW. So let's not waste any more time... The stock you're about to discover looks a lot like eBay in the early days -- nobody else is doing what this little company is doing (like eBay in the late 90s)... it's harnessing the exponential power of an expanding network (think about how eBay becomes increasingly profitable with each additional buyer and seller)... and much more as you'll see in a second. Plus, this little dynamo has the same explosive characteristics that our 3 biggest winners possessed when we recommended them -- like Marvel (now part of Disney, up 1,563%), Quality Systems (up 1,086%), and Priceline (up 812%)... it's a small company with plenty of room to grow... it operates in a somewhat unexciting, yet highly lucrative niche... it just made key acquisitions... and here's the best part... | Hardly anybody is paying attention! Simply because the market is so unsettled at the moment.Take a look... Last Saturday, The New York Times reported, "Small Investors Flee Stock Market." On Monday CNBC's hyperactive stock jock Jim Cramer announced, "It's Really, Really Ugly Out There." Yet a handful of analysts are quietly upgrading their ratings on this small-cap stock David likes. Straight ahead you'll see why. But first I have a confession to make. As publisher of a one-of-a-kind, fiercely independent investment advisory service -- recently awarded "Best Financial Advisory Product" in our industry -- I have NO interest in providing our readers a bunch of good stocks. And they LOVE me for it! You see, instead of telling our members about a large number of "pretty good" stocks, we're committed to recommending to our close-knit and loyal group that one rare, life-changing stock. We're talking about a single fortune maker. The kind of investment your grown-up grandchildren will one day talk about with hushed voices and a revering twinkle in their eye. My name is Mark Brooks. I'm the publisher of The Motley Fool's flagship newsletter service, Motley Fool Stock Advisor. This is the now legendary investment advisory service that features the personal picks of Motley Fool co Founders David and Tom Gardner... You may recognize David and Tom as the two maverick brothers who flipped the Wall Street establishment upside down in the early 1990s. By putting on jester caps and speaking out against conflicted financial services... shady corporate accounting... and any and everything that tilted the playing field against individual investors like us. In fact, a former chairman of Merrill Lynch once described the Gardner brothers as thoroughly "dangerous" men. Because they were behind the simple notion that nobody is better suited to manage your money than you are! Or you may know them as two of the most successful and respected stock pickers on the planet... "2 of the most widely followed stock market advisors in the world," as they were dubbed by a competitor not long ago. Maybe you recall David Gardner getting a lot of attention in the financial press in 1997 for recommending an up-and-coming Internet retailer that ended up going from $3 a share to over $100 in just 3 years. I remember it well... many so-called expert investors and financial writers laughed him off. Calling Amazon "the river of no returns"... If you bought... and held... shares of Amazon.com until today, with shares trading above $125 -- you'd be up over 3,500%. That's a "36-bagger" in 13 years. Which is to say, you would've made 36 times your original investment. Or roughly a 32% annualized return for well over a decade. Not bad, right? And that's really just the beginning of the story here. In 2002 and 2003 when investors were paralyzed by fear of recession, terrorism, war, and the lingering effects of the tech wreck... David and Tom Gardner cut through the market malaise with a handful of stock recommendations that went up like moonshots: | In July 2002, David Gardner recommended snapping up shares of the comic book entertainment company Marvel Enterprises. At the time, it was trading around a split-adjusted $3.50 a share... by the fall of 2008 it was trading above $36... Then Marvel was acquired by Disney, and today members of our group are sitting on a 1,563% return! In March 2003, the day David recommended video game maker Activision, it closed at a split-adjusted $1.79... today it trades at over $11, and our group cheered YET ANOTHER 500%+ gainer! In April 2003, Tom Gardner recommended buying shares of a company called Quality Systems that takes old-fashioned medical and dental records and converts them to digital files... When Tom recommended the stock, it was trading at just above a split-adjusted $5 a share... just over seven years later the stock is above $59 a share. Meaning a 1,086% gain for our group! | You're about to discover all there is to know about our group, Motley Fool Stock Advisor. You'll even come upon a way to get David Gardner's latest small-cap stock pick, and pay nothing if you choose! You'll begin to see how we've grown rich together by defying the self-serving financial fear-mongers and smug perma-bears time and time again... You'll discover how we've tuned out the hyperactive talking heads. And the cufflink crowd of the cable financial news industry. Thrown hot coffee in the face of the Wall Street establishment... and we've got a Fool pile of dough to show for it! And rest assured, this isn't get-rich-quick hyperbole you see everywhere these days. These are get-rich-assuredly FACTS. So if you're willing to spend a few minutes, I'm certain I can make it worth your while. Because you're about to discover what could be our NEXT 500%+ gainer... and you can get the name, stock symbol, and full details instantly if you choose. To tell you about it, I have to go back 7 or 8 years to the days of a coiled up stock market and an uncertain future... If you recall, 2002 and 2003 was a period of doubt punctuated by exciting innovations and companies like Netflix (another early Stock Advisor recommendation!)... cloud computing and Amazon... and all sorts of gadgets from Apple -- they were all just coming into focus. And here we are again at a moment of profound doubt and opportunity! So let me tell you a little more about David and Tom and how they invest... David is usually drawn to high-growth stocks with a technological edge. While Tom often takes a page from Peter Lynch's playbook and favors overlooked companies in industries that other people find drab, boring, or even unpleasant. This one market-malaise-busting small-cap stock we're recommending has both traits... and the potential to become one of the great stock market stories of 2010-2020. It's an online auction vendor dealing in salvage, surplus, and wholesale, primarily from government sources. Everything from bulldozers to bicycle parts. Titanium tubes to tube socks. And everything in between. It's the eBay of the armed forces... the Priceline of the public sector -- with very little direct competition for much of its business. Because it already has a number of highly lucrative U.S. federal government contracts sewn up. With many, many more on the way... both domestically and abroad. Now just consider the thousands of federal, state, and local governments and institutions around the world that are right now swimming in debt... and looking for ways to dispose of surplus goods efficiently... and you'll begin to make out the size and shape of this opportunity. These governments and institutions are beginning to turn to one small, local, publicly traded company. That's right, our market-malaise-busting bull's-eye stock! It's already an established leader that can provide the services others simply can't. Things like warehousing, title transfers, and dispute resolution. They even march through salvage yards and warehouses and take photos of the auction items. The list goes on and on. Here's the sweet spot in all this for you: this stock is still a great buy. More important, we believe it could turn into a MULTI-BAGGER. A stock like Marvel before Disney acquired it... Or a stock like Priceline -- the market's #1 performing stock of the last 5 years according to Bloomberg -- which David recommended in May 2004! David caught onto this Internet comeback story way ahead of the masses. He first recommended Priceline in May 2004. And readers who bought in at that time are up an incredible 812%. Here's the story... According to The Wall Street Journal, most of Priceline's profits these days come from selling European hotel rooms. And all this grew from a few key acquisitions it made during the middle of the decade. You see, David understood that Priceline's purchase of TravelWeb.com gave the company its own proprietary system for booking hotel reservations. Then, acquiring Booking.com provided entry into the European market. Today, David sees a similar scenario coming together for this local small-cap I've been telling you about... and that's great news for you! This little company is already working with large European firms, the U.K. Ministry of Defense, and the U.S. Department of Defense in Germany. It's matching buyers and sellers of industrial equipment, and rapidly positioning itself as the European source for business surplus. And it recently expanded its European reach even further with a few key acquisitions (just like Priceline a half-decade ago)... and revenues are climbing rapidly as a result! Believe me, I'd like nothing more than to give you the ticker symbol and all the details right here. But out of respect for our paid Stock Advisor readers, I must send you the full write-up in a brand new report called "The Motley Fool's One Market-Malaise-Busting, Bull's-eye Stock." The report is chock full of EVERYTHING you need to know. Including how long we expect this stock to stay in a buying window. And how much you can expect to make when it takes off. And when it takes off, hold on to your hat. Because as I mentioned, this company is still small. With a market cap of just over $350 million. And in an industry with a player like eBay that's valued at more than $30 billion. So it's not hard to imagine this company 10 times bigger. And you 10 times richer! It's also not hard to imagine an acquisition scenario like Disney taking over Marvel (and paying Stock Advisor members handsomely in the process). The bottom line in all this: there's no time like RIGHT NOW to take control of your finances and start making a bundle. Just like those Stock Advisor readers who set their fear aside and took David's 2002 Marvel recommendation. Just as Marvel began raking in profits by licensing its collection of comic book characters and using its own movie studio to bring them to the big screen... with blockbusters like Spider-man... The Hulk... X-Men... and Iron Man. And of course there's the revenue from DVD sales, cable television licensing, and action figure sales... Had you invested $10,000 back then -- you'd be sitting on more than $166,000 right today! That's why I want to rush you our hot-off-the-press FREE report with full details on what could be Stock Advisor's next 500%+ gainer. I'm so confident this special FREE report will properly position you for this massive and inevitable opportunity -- I'm willing to GUARANTEE it. I'll explain the guarantee in a moment. But first, let me ask you a quick question... Are you interested in cutting way down on the financial clutter in your life? At the same time getting rich faster and more assuredly than at any point in the past? I'm talking about simplifying your financial affairs in order to make yourself much richer -- not just over the next 2 to 4 years, but every year you invest for the rest of your life? If so, doesn't this feel like the right moment to take charge, once and for all? Let me tell you more about David and Tom Gardner. How they work. And how they find stocks that are trouncing the market. Stocks like Activision -- up over 500%... Borg Warner -- up over 200%... Hasbro -- up over 185%... Dolby -- up over 240%... the list goes on. In fact, overall, for the last 8 years, David's AVERAGE stock recommendation is UP 83%... and Tom's is UP 41%... all while the S&P 500 has just barely broken even for the same period. Motley Fool Stock Advisor crushes the S&P 500!  But let's back up a second. A minute ago, I said I'm not interested in telling Stock Advisor members about a bunch of pretty good stocks. I'm only interested in the life-changers and fortune makers. Right? Well admittedly, most of our picks are doing "pretty well". But here's something you can take to the bank -- all the stocks David and Tom are actively recommending are ones they believe someday will become multi-baggers, and powerful wealth-builders for you. And the moment they no longer believe that about a particular stock, they issue a sell recommendation. And that's not to suggest they always agree. In fact, I've never known two brothers more different from each other. I've also never known two brothers more competitive. And, as a balance, that's worked out very well -- especially for investors like you and me. Let me show you what I mean. David is a dedicated growth investor with a legendary track record. He keeps his eyes peeled for those rare companies with a "game changer" product or service. Tom prefers to dig into a company's financials a little more. He sometimes examines a company's books in a way that might embarrass an auditor. He muckrakes for hidden liabilities. He burrows deep into the numbers and kicks out gold nuggets with the bottom of his feet -- finding hidden assets Wall Street never seems to know about. And this hard work pays off! To the tune of a $10,000 investment in Quality Systems in 2003, when Tom recommended it, growing to more than $118,000 today. But again, I didn't email to chirp about gains we've made. We're much more concerned with gains yet to come. That's why I'd like to redirect your attention to what could be our NEXT 500%+ stock... "The Motley Fool's One Market-Malaise-Busting, Bull's-eye Stock" -- YOURS FREE!: This company has a powerful and growing "network effect" in place. As they expand in reach and become an entrenched part of how governments and businesses cut logistics costs and reclaim money from surplus goods... a positve feedback loop is kicking in. Meaning, more users on one side of the network attract users on the other side, which attracts users on the first side. And on and on. 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Inside this special report, you'll learn the full details of our 7 key investment principles... plus the individual stock-picking rules we follow to uncover their biggest wins. Now, let me ask you one final question: Are you 100% satisfied with the investing path you're on now? If you can't honestly say "yes"... then maybe you're tired of hit-or-miss investing, and the half-baked research and overblown fear messages that unfortunately inform too many investment decisions these days. If you're interested in watching a handful of stocks multiply your wealth many times over... while harnessing the simple secret the world's most successful investors use over and over again... If you want to discover a host of ways to live a richer lifestyle... and invest alongside a bevy of like-minded investors... This could be just such an opportunity! And what do you have to lose? PLUS, if you act right this instant. We'll rush you this fast-action bonus: Please hurry. It's going to be hard to offer so much... for so little... for very long! Most important, I urge you to click the "START NOW" button to cut through the current market malaise. And discover the ONE STOCK set to soar in the days ahead... And while a lot of investors will try to wait and see if stocks are still the best way to grow your money over time -- you'll position yourself for years and years of substantial gains. At some point in the not-too-distant future a lot of investors will look back at today's share price, and wonder how they missed out! Others, however, will look back proudly with the sense of accomplishment that only comes from snapping up a life-changing opportunity. Let me hear from you soon,  Mark Brooks Executive Publisher, Motley Fool Stock Advisor P.S. Maybe you're thinking, "okay, so David Gardner hooked into a big winner, it happens. It's not necessarily proof he's a stock-picking genius." If so, let me direct your attention to this:  That's right. David recommended the market's top 2 performing stocks of the last 5 years... JUST OVER 5 YEARS AGO. That's like hitting the center of the dartboard with the match on the line. Then on your way back to the bar, turning around and hitting the bull's-eye again! P.P.S. This is a no-lose proposition. You're covered by our DOUBLE GUARANTEE. All the details of "The Motley Fool's One Market-Malaise-Busting, Bull's Eye Stock..." not to mention all the content you can access on the Stock Advisor members-only website: all the recommendations of the past issues... all the articles and reports full of actionable growth investing advice, are all yours to keep with our compliments, regardless of how long you're with us! All scorecard returns as of July 13, 2010. Unless otherwise noted, all figures as of August 26, 2010. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |