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Great article....These Stocks Can Easily Double Your Money
By Adam J. Wiederman
December 18, 2009 | Comments (1)

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A lot of investors are bragging about their investment performance during 2009.

Who are these people, you ask? Shareholders of some of these top-performing stocks:

Company
Rank
Year-to-Date Dividend-Adjusted Increase


Market Capitalization
on Jan. 1, 2009

Diedrich Coffee
1
9,561%
$2.0 million

Netlist (Nasdaq: NLST)
5
1,977%
$5.8 million

Valassis Communications (NYSE: VCI)
10
1,297%
$63.4 million

Human Genome Sciences (Nasdaq: HGSI)
14
1,192%
$287.3 million

Telestone Technologies (Nasdaq: TSTC)
15
1,128%
$14.7 million


Data from Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's.


Notice anything about those companies? They're small. Very small. Now compare their performance with some of the top stocks of the S&P 500 index over the same time:

Company
Rank
Year-to-Date Dividend-Adjusted Increase

XL Capital
1
388%

Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD)
3
322%

Micron Technology (NYSE: MU)
7
231%

SanDisk (Nasdaq: SNDK)
17
157%

Amazon.com
18
148%


Data from Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's.


While the latter results are nothing to sneeze at, particularly given that the overall market was up just 21% over that period, wouldn't you rather have the former?

Where you'll find the double-baggers
Small caps' tendency to outperform their large-cap brethren isn't just a down-market happenstance -- it held true in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, as well.

In any market, the stocks with the most potential for outsized returns (stocks that will double, triple, or even increase your investment tenfold) are not found among large caps, but rather among stocks that are:

1. Ignored.

2. Obscure.

3. Very small.

Why? Because the market's greatest inefficiencies (and, thereby, greatest opportunities) lie hidden among the investments that Wall Street analysts and institutional investors shun only because of their size.

Starting today
Investing in small-cap stocks makes many people nervous -- and today's market volatility is sending many people into the arms of stable, financially pristine large-cap stocks. Which makes now an even better time to buy up shares of oversold small caps.

But not all small caps are equal. You want to make sure you buy small caps that have a rock-solid balance sheet and a solid business model. Both these factors ensure that the company will be around five to 10 years from now, giving it plenty of time to double, triple, or increase tenfold in size.