Warren Buffett made billions buying undervalued companies before market sentiment swung back in their favor. Legendary sandalwood bandit and handlebar mustache-master Veerappan made his personal fortune by staying one step ahead of the law. And our Motley Fool Hidden Gems newsletter -- headed by Fool co-founder Tom Gardner -- is currently beating the market by 25 points with its recommendations of small-cap companies that haven't yet registered on Wall Street's radar.
With these examples in mind, I used our new CAPS screening tool to find the stocks poised for big gains -- before Wall Street catches on.
They have:
Trailing three-year earnings growth of at least 10%.
Market capitalizations of at least $1 billion.
Four- or five-star ratings in CAPS, up from one, two, or three stars at the beginning of 2008.
Remember, in the first year for which we have data, four-star stocks like Aluminum Corp. of China (NYSE: ACH) (up 311% during that year) yielded on average more than 19% returns. Five-star stocks did even better.
Company
Share Price
Sector
Market Cap (billions)
CNET
$7.70
Technology
$1.1
Coach
$36.04
Consumer goods
$12.5
Dick's Sporting Goods
$29.47
Services
$3.3
DuPont (NYSE: DD)
$48.94
Basic materials
$44.1
FedEx (NYSE: FDX)
$98.65
Services
$30.6
Moody's
$38.59
Financial
$9.4
Prudential (NYSE: PRU)
$77.28
Financial
$34.5
QUALCOMM (Nasdaq: QCOM)
$44.36
Technology
$71.8
VMware (NYSE: VMW)
$70.24
Technology
$30.0
WellCare Health Plans (NYSE: WCG)
$43.01
Health Care
$1.8
Data from Motley Fool CAPS and Yahoo! Finance as of May 1.
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