THE ULTIMATE

GUIDE TO MODERN
10-BAGGERS
How to find the next
1,000% gainer without
getting lucky
By Stephen McBride and Dan Steinhart
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Three things to know right away:

1. 10-baggers aren’t all that rare.

2. The best 10-baggers share a handful of traits. We call these traits the “Core 4.” Less
than 1% of stocks possess all four of these traits.

They don’t all become 10-baggers. But for the ones that do, a 1,000% gain is often
only the beginning. The average overall gain among the “true” 10-baggers we’ve
identified is 6,768%.

3. There are two reliable ways to find 10-baggers. One approach involves timing the
market. The other approach does not. We’ll show you both. We greatly favor the
latter.

This research project was inspired by the great Peter Lynch. He coined the term
“10-bagger.” He also popularized a way of finding them called “GARP” investing, or Growth
at a Reasonable Price.

The basic premise: find fast-growing companies that can sustain revenue growth, are
profitable, and aren’t overvalued. Do this, and your odds of finding a big winner skyrocket.

Peter Lynch’s performance as head of the Magellan Fund was legendary. His track record
rivals even Warren Buffett. Buffett beats Lynch on longevity, having posted compound
returns of 20% over about 50 years. But Lynch achieved much higher returns overall,
having generated 29.2% for 13 years.

At that rate of return, $10,000 turns into $596,176 in 13 years. But unfortunately for
investors in Lynch’s mutual fund—and for the investing world as a whole—he then exited
the game. Lynch retired at age 46. He had made plenty of money and wanted to spend
more time with his three daughters.

If Lynch were investing professionally today, how would he change his approach to find
modern 10-baggers? That’s the question we set out to answer.

Methodology

We studied every US stock in existence over the last 20 years.

We used various data sources, including Polygon.io, Financial Modeling Prep, and Yahoo
Finance.

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We also used premium artificial intelligence (AI) systems to gather, parse, and cross-check
the data. All in all, we had to sort through several million data points.

Prior to the debut of ChatGPT and generative AI in November 2022, this would have been
impossible without a team of data scientists and coders. Most people don’t yet realize what
a gamechanger AI is for sophisticated financial research.

We seem to be in a special window right now where a small team that leverages AI can get
results that used to require the resources of a hedge fund.

Beyond that, we used a combination of AI and human analysis to classify the 10-baggers
and ultimately zero in on the Core 4 traits that tend to be shared by true 10-baggers.

Finding #1: 10-baggers are abundant

First, we cast the widest possible net. We looked at every stock’s monthly closing low and
high prices since 2004, and we calculated which ones achieved 10-bagger status at any
point.

There were roughly 5,000 publicly-traded US stocks in the last 20 years, depending on how
you count. We found 1,651 stocks that produced 1,000% returns at any point in the
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Surprised there were that many 10-baggers? Well, did you know the whole S&P 500 has
gained 1,000% since the financial-crisis bottom in 2009?

Which leads to a key insight:

Finding #2: Many 10-baggers come with an asterisk*

Not all 10-baggers are created equal.

We found hundreds of stocks that technically gained 1,000%+. But you would’ve had to
have uncommonly lucky timing to actually collect that level of return.

Our goal was to arrive at a framework for finding 10-baggers that doesn’t rely on luck or
timing the market. So, we whittled down the list by eliminating the following 10-baggers:

1. Penny stocks.

2. Stocks in highly cyclical sectors and/or those that depend on commodities prices to
thrive, such as most energy and mining stocks. While it’s possible to 10X your money
in short order on a gold stock, doing so requires great timing, luck, or both.

3. Stocks in highly speculative sectors that depend on binary outcomes, like biotech.
While there’s ample opportunity to 10X your money in biotech, it requires
specialized knowledge and connections. And a willingness to bet on binary events
like FDA approvals.

4. Other “flash in the pan” stocks that hit 10-bagger status but failed to maintain it.

The 2020/21 bubble produced a lot of these. GameStop (GME), for example, shot
from under $1/share to over $80/share—a 7,900% gain in under one year. But it
came back down almost as quickly, as there was no fundamental backing to this
meme stock.

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In short, we discarded the 10-baggers that look like this:

GameStop (GME)
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We’re interested in 10-baggers that look like this:

Tesla (TSLA)
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Finding #3: Buying during a crisis can give you 1,000% returns

The period of 2008–2009 deserves special attention.

Since it was such a tough time for financial markets, thousands of individual stocks
bottomed during these years. Hundreds then went on to produce 1,000% returns, primarily
because their starting prices were so low.

This category of 10-baggers is full of companies in sectors that were hit hardest during the
financial crisis: banks, homebuilders, automakers, and real estate. Look at Ford (F), as an
example. It bottomed in 2009 under $2/share. It technically became a 10-bagger in 2022
when it briefly reached over $20/share.

But no one would mistake Ford for a growth stock, let alone a high-quality one. We
excluded stocks like Ford from our analysis.

That said, many high-quality stocks also posted 10-bagger returns from 2008–2009. We
created a special category for them called “2008/09 survivors.” These are distinct from
companies like Ford and managed to 10X off their 2008/09 bottoms despite having
nonexistent growth.

Instead, they’re quality companies that traded for dirt cheap in 2008/09. You could’ve
made 10X, 20X, or 30X your money buying them near the bottom. Companies in this group
include names like Caterpillar (CAT), Delta Air Lines (DAL), and Deere & Co. (DE).

Nothing wrong with these stocks. They were great investments if you bought them
anywhere near the incredibly low prices presented by the financial crisis. But they’re not
the kind of 10-baggers we’re looking for.

At the start of this report, we promised to show you two reliable ways to make 10X your
money in an individual stock. You just learned the first: Buy high-quality stocks during a
crisis. Time will take care of the rest.

Of course, this is just another form of timing the market. Our goal was to build a
framework to find stocks that can 10X without getting lucky or timing the market.
So, we removed the “2008/09 survivors” from our primary data set.

After removing all the false 10-baggers, here’s the full picture:

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Next, let’s look at the Core 4 traits they tend to have in common.

True 10-bagger Trait #1: Fast, sustainable growth

“Growth stocks are rarely cheap. You’re paying for future earnings, and the good ones are worth
it.”— Peter Lynch

Lynch greatly preferred profitable stocks. He rarely touched unprofitable ones. His original
criteria required a company to have minimum earnings growth of 20% per year. Earnings is
another word for profits.

Of all the ways the market has changed since Lynch’s time, this is probably the biggest.
These days, many companies—especially technology companies, where 10-baggers are
most heavily concentrated—pursue a “grow now, profit later” approach. They do this
because it works!

Tesla (TSLA), for example, didn’t turn profitable until 2020. Yet its stock had already
become a 41-bagger by then, soaring 4,100%+.

There are many, many such examples among the greatest stocks of the last 20 years.

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Amazon (AMZN) wasn’t consistently profitable until 2015. Its stock was already up 36,567%
by then (a 365-bagger!)

Shopify (SHOP) didn’t turn a profit until 2020. Its stock had already appreciated by 6,200%.

See the pattern? Today’s fastest-growing companies that produce the biggest stock price
gains are often unprofitable or barely profitable. We’ll discuss profitability more in Trait #3.

What these companies did have was rapid and consistent revenue growth. Look at how
fast, and how consistently, these companies grew revenue before they reached consistent
profitability:

3 year revenue CAGR

Years before
consistently profitable
Tesla Amazon Shopify

10 140% 27%
9 55% 29%
8 158% 31%
7 150% 32%
6 114% 32% 105%
5 51% 36% 98%
4 54% 36% 86%
3 74% 30% 74%
2 52% 23% 59%
1 39% 21% 63%

Our analysis indicates that rapid, consistent revenue growth is the #1 predictor of
10-bagger returns. We measured the revenue growth of our true 347 10-baggers using a
three-year compound revenue growth rate (CAGR). The results are telling.

The average growth was 22% in the year their run began and 38% within a four-year
window of when their run began.

The S&P 500 as a whole has a long-term revenue growth rate of about 5%.

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So, depending on how you count, these 10-baggers grow around 5X–9X faster than a typical
company:

Long term revenue growth

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Tesla hit the highest revenue growth of all, exceeding 1,000% at the start of its run in 2010.
It maintained blistering growth all the way through 2018, never dropping below 50%. It was
never profitable in all this time… yet its stock is now up 31,900%.

Below is a snapshot of the 10-baggers that achieved a three-year CAGR of over 100%
during their run—a rare feat. Many are well-known, great stocks like Alphabet (GOOG),
Salesforce (CRM), Meta Platforms (META), and Shopify.

Moderna (MRNA) is the most recent entrant. It had some of the most explosive revenue
growth ever recorded for a public company when it rolled out its COVID vaccine.

You’ll also notice many lesser-known names:

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Gain Starting market cap Revenue CAGR Profitable?

TSLA Tesla 35,553% $1,848,216,021 1,069% NO

PODD Insulet 7,680% $163,532,085 797% NO
MRNA Moderna 2,838% $4,832,682,028 425% NO

ACGL Arch Capital 2,671% $1,307,664,369 244% YES

FTAI FTAI Aviation 3,941% $564,944,636 240% NO

GOOG Alphabet 4,323% $47,686,176,124 233% YES
Cogent
CCOI 2,940% $230,815,768 212% NO
Communications
Incyte Genomics,
INCY 5,848% $284,868,130 189% NO
Inc.
eXp World
EXPI 1,606% $620,724,278 180% NO
Holdings
PANW Palo Alto networks 2,782% $2,569,698,229 167% YES
CRM Salesforce, Inc. 10,376% $1,494,336,598 160% NO
Balchem
BCPC 2,952% $171,172,534 141% YES
Corporation
DXCM DexCom, Inc. 31,061% $134,257,020 139% NO
META Meta Platforms 3,370% $43,574,342,462 139% YES
NTRA Natera, Inc. 2,430% $417,640,920 137% NO
NOW ServiceNow, Inc. 4,085% $2,959,100,000 133% YES
BX Blackstone Inc. 9,488% $1,278,337,126 131% YES
VEEV Veeva Systems Inc. 1,632% $3,531,491,700 114% YES
SHOP Shopify 6,713% $1,844,730,340 105% NO
DLR Digital Realty Trust 3,152% $196,634,995 102% YES
WIX WIX.com 2,045% $621,361,126 101% NO
MPWR Monolithic Power 16,787% $186,347,378 101% NO

Average 7,467% NO: 59%

Median 3,655% YES: 41%

To call these 10-baggers is an understatement. The average was a 74-bagger, and the
median was a 36-bagger.

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Of course, these are the best of the best—extraordinary companies that posted
extraordinary gains.

The common thread is they all grew revenue very, very fast… and sustained that growth for
years.

You’ll also notice that 59% of these companies were not profitable at the start of their run.
More on that in Trait #3.

True 10-Bagger Trait #1:

Sustainable revenue CAGR growth of at least 20%.

True 10-bagger Trait #2: Small at the start… but not too small

“The size of the company has a lot to do with how much room it has to grow. It’s hard for a
$50 billion company to grow much, but a $500 million company can double in size relatively
quickly.”—Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch liked smaller stocks. “Small” in his time was generally under $1 billion in market
cap.

Of the 347 10-baggers we studied, the average market cap at the start of their run was $3.3
billion. For context, that’s roughly 1/1,000th the size of Apple (AAPL) today. The median
was a bit smaller at $750 million.

The idea here is simple: Smaller companies have a lot more room to grow fast. A $5
billion company can gain 2,000%, 3,000%, 4,000%, or more without breaking a sweat. It’s
mathematically impossible for a $500 billion company to do the same.

But there’s such a thing as too small.

When you wade into tiny micro-caps, you start dealing with pre-revenue companies.
Although they don’t make any money, they tend to burn a lot of it paying expenses. True,
there are gems among these stocks. But they’re unpredictable. Often, these are lottery-
ticket startups or biotech science projects that have long odds of working.

73% of the 10-baggers we identified had a starting market cap between $200 million and
$20 billion. We believe this is the “sweet spot” for future 10-baggers.

This criteria excludes all companies in the S&P. Currently, the smallest S&P company,
American Airlines Group (AAL), has a market cap of about $20 billion.

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Here’s a sampling of the starting market caps and overall gains of five well-known,
extremely successful growth stocks:

Salesforce (CRM): $1.4 billion. 10,376% gain.

Monster Beverage (MNST): $350 million. 15,530% gain.

Arista Networks (ANET): $5.2 billion, 3,006% gain.

Palo Alto Networks (PANW): $2.6 billion, 2,782% gain.

Nvidia (NVDA): $3.8 billion, 82,384% gain.

If you’re wondering how this translates into share price… the median 10-bagger had a
share price just under $15/share. 215 of the 347 stocks had a share price under $20/share.

True 10-bagger Trait #2:

Has a market cap above $200 million, but below $20 billion.

Trait #3: Profitable or “intentionally unprofitable”

As mentioned, Lynch usually insisted on buying profitable stocks. In his time, that was a
viable way to find 10-baggers. Today, the “grow now, profit later” approach of many of the
fastest growers requires us to expand our horizons.

We showed you earlier how Tesla, Amazon, Shopify, and many others gained thousands
of percent before they were consistently profitable. That doesn’t mean profitability isn’t
important. No company can succeed if it doesn’t eventually turn a profit.

The key question to ask when evaluating an unprofitable growth stock: Why is it
unprofitable?

If the answer is it’s pouring all its cash and then some back into growth, that’s a good start.
If the company could be profitable now but chooses not to be in order to grow fast, that’s
also a good sign.

In short, you want to buy growth stocks that are forgoing profits now in order to earn much
bigger profits in the future.

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Today’s world is dominated by disruptive innovation. New products, categories, and

industries are being launched faster than ever before. A new industry is like a newly
discovered territory—companies race to claim as much of it as they can. The financial
rewards of securing a dominant share of a lucrative new market can be huge.

Meta (formerly Facebook) didn’t worry early on about how to monetize its gargantuan
user base. It just gathered as many users as possible and used its 3 billion+ userbase to
dominate social media.

Amazon didn’t worry about turning much of a profit early on. Instead, it first invested in
building out its e-commerce dominance. Then, it built out its logistics network and its
Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform, which eventually became its main profit
engine.

Or consider Roku (ROKU). The connected-TV pioneer was unprofitable in eight out of nine
years since it’s been public. But 90 million households now use Roku. Its revenue grew 32%,
41%, 51%, 55%, and 40% from 2018–2022. Its stock has appreciated over 2,150%.

How do you spot an intentionally unprofitable company? It largely comes down to

judgement and experience. But here are some places to start:

• Read earnings releases to get an idea of the CEO’s vision.

• Calculate how much of a price hike would be required to make the company
profitable.

• Look at exactly how unprofitable it is. Is it deep underwater, or could it easily turn
on the profits with a few tweaks?

• Look for companies investing heavily in Research & Development, marketing, or

otherwise making “optional” expenditures.

At RiskHedge, we use our proprietary “Real Cash Flow” metric to measure a company’s
profitability while stripping out any accounting fictions. But that is beyond the scope of this
report.

Across our data set, 66% of our 347 10-baggers were profitable one year into their journey.
This rose to 83% three years in, and 91% were profitable by 2023.

This shows that current profitability isn’t always all that important. What’s important is that
the company can become profitable eventually, after it’s carved out a dominant market
share.

Other takeaways:

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In crisis times, we have the “luxury” of insisting on profitability. Eighty-five percent

of our 10-baggers that bottomed in 2007–2009 were profitable. That’s because nearly all
stocks were hammered during this time, leaving many opportunities to pick up 10-baggers
for cheap.

During big market dislocations, it pays to tilt your analysis toward profitable companies. In
other times, profitable future 10-baggers can be scarce, and revenue growth tends to rule.

Unprofitable companies become 10-baggers faster: Profitable companies, on average,

took 7.5 years to become 10-baggers. Unprofitable ones took only six years. And most of
the fastest 10-baggers of the last 20 years were not profitable to begin with.

Here’s a look at the 10 fastest 10-baggers. They all handed out 1,000% gains in 1.5 years or
less. Eighty percent of them were unprofitable:

Years to 10 Bag Max gain Profitable year run began?

CELH Celsius Holdings 0.6 138,100% NO

EXPI eXp World Holdings 0.8 1,606% NO

RDNT RadNet 0.8 15,041% NO

TSLA Tesla 0.9 35,553% NO

SMLR Semler Scientific 1.1 10,848% NO

ENPH Enphase Energy 1.2 42,083% NO

MRNA Moderna 1.3 2,838% NO

MNST Monster Beverage 1.4 15,530% YES

SITM SiTime Corporation 1.5 1,278% NO

PATK Patrick Industries Inc. 1.5 19,421% YES

Lastly, the proportion of 10-baggers that were profitable at the beginning of their run has
been steadily declining as the market has grown more sophisticated. In the early 2000s,
over 80% of future 10-baggers were profitable. Now, it’s around 50% or less:

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True 10-bagger Trait #3:

The company is either profitable or “intentionally unprofitable” because of
aggressive reinvestment in growth.

Trait #4: Concentrated in technology, especially platform

technologies

“The best way to find great investments is to look around and see what’s changing in the way
people live and work.”—Peter Lynch

Peter Lynch was a chameleon who succeeded with many different investing styles. But he
was best known for getting investment ideas by looking at the world around him, and by
trusting his own personal experience.

Lynch invested in Walmart (WMT) (30-bagger) because he saw new stores popping
up, knew it only had 18% of the US market, and had a scalable business model. He first
invested in Dunkin Donuts (DNKN) because he read about it in a newspaper, liked its
coffee, and saw stores being built around Boston, where he lived.

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That kind of obvious retail growth is in the past now. What would Lynch see today if he
were investing professionally? The answer is obvious: technological disruption.

AI, self-driving cars, miracle drugs like Ozempic, quantum computing progress, Ubers,
Airbnbs, streaming TV, Amazon packages, drones, self-driving cars. The list goes on. The
world is changing before our eyes, and the signs are all around us.

Here’s a look at the sectors where past 10-baggers came from. Technology is the #1
10-bagger breeding ground:

10-Baggers by Sector
Technology 129

Industrials 109

Consumer Cyclical 70

Healthcare 53

Financial Services 50

Basic Materials 22

Consumer Defensive 18

Communication Services 10

Real Estate 10

Energy 5

Utilities 3

0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140

Keep in mind, this significantly understates the importance of technology. That’s because
when many tech companies reach a certain level of success, they get reclassified into
different sectors.

Meta, Google, and Netflix (NFLX) are considered to be in the “communications sector.”
Amazon and Tesla are “consumer cyclical.”

Let’s be real—these are tech stocks. Tech stocks that disrupted and reshaped entire
industries. In some cases, they took over entire industries.

Technically, 10-baggers can come from anywhere. But they’re most abundant in the
technology sector, by far. Technology dominates 10-baggers because technology is simply
“what’s new.”

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Remember, these are companies disrupting old markets or creating new ones. The biggest
winners are often the ones that can grow the fastest and capture the biggest share of a
lucrative new market.

Which brings us to the last trait of true 10-baggers.

The biggest gains tend to cluster around platform technologies.

A platform technology is the foundation of an industry or a whole new way of doing things.
It often provides the infrastructure or ecosystem that enables other entities (such as
developers, businesses, or users) to create, interact, and grow.

Platform technologies have three key characteristics:

1. Foundational: They’re the “base layer” for other technologies and businesses.

2. Scalable: They can grow extremely fast without too much additional investment.

3. They have a huge potential market.

Many of the greatest 10-baggers created, developed, and/or commercialized platform

technologies. To name a few:

1. eXp World Holdings (EXPI): Created an online platform for real estate agents that
eliminated the need for expensive overhead. It was one of the fastest 10-baggers
ever, gaining 2,619%% from 2018–2021.

2. Moderna (MRNA): Created the mRNA platform that allows scientists to develop
new medicines and gained 4,211%.

3. Amazon (AMZN): Created the most successful e-commerce platform… then

followed it up by creating AWS, the most dominant cloud computing platform. Its
stock gained 17,823%.

4. Shopify (SHOP): Created the world’s most successful online small business platform
and rose 9,429%.

5. Apple (AAPL): Created the worldwide market for smartphones—the biggest new
platform technology of the last 20 years. It gained 23,545%.

6. Netflix (NFLX): Created the #1 streaming platform and cemented itself as one of
the best performing stocks of all time, up 74,054%.

7. Adobe (ADBE): Created the #1 creative platform: Its stock rose 4,356%.

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8. Salesforce (CRM): Created the #1 customer relationship management platform and

soared over 11,000%.

9. The Trade Desk (TTD): Created a data-driven online ad-buying platform. Its stock
went up 6,333%.

10. Meta Platforms (META): Created the #1 social media platform and rose 3,538%.

11. Palo Alto Networks (PANW): Created a foundational platform for cybersecurity
and rallied 3,083%.

12. Cloudflare (NET): Also created a foundational platform for cybersecurity. In the
biggest, fastest-growing industries, there’s room for multiple 10-baggers. In this
case, NET climbed 1,429%.

13. Roku (ROKU): Created the #1 connected TV platform, rising 3,016%.

14. Microsoft (MSFT): Created the ultimate platform with Microsoft Windows. And the
stock rose 3,050% since the mid-2000s.

But a company need not create a platform technology to see big gains in its stock
price. Dozens of companies have achieved great success by piggybacking off platform
technologies created by others.

Smartphones enabled Meta, Uber (UBER), and Airbnb (ABNB), and dozens of others.

Netflix’s pioneering of streaming created opportunities for targeted ad companies like The
Trade Desk.

Amazon pioneered e-commerce but spawned dozens of competitors, including Shopify and
Wix (WIX)—both of which became 10-baggers.

So what’s the next great platform technology?

AI will require many different platforms, several of which are already in development.

Other promising candidates: drug development, self-driving tech, drones, virtual/

augmented reality, quantum computing, and robotics.

Opportunities abound.

True 10-bagger Trait #4:

The company is most often technology-focused, and ideally involved in a
platform technology.

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Summing up the Core 4 10-bagger traits:

#1: Sustainable revenue CAGR growth of at least 20%.

#2: Has a market cap above $200 million but below $20 billion. Share prices tend
to be under $20/share.

#3: The company is either profitable or “intentionally unprofitable” due to

aggressive reinvestment in growth.

#4: Concentrated in technology, especially platform technologies.

We mentioned that Peter Lynch achieved extraordinary returns during his 13-year career,
beating even Warren Buffett.

By the end of Lynch’s career, he managed billions of dollars. Had he continued to manage
money, his returns probably would’ve reverted to the mean a bit. The more money you
mange, the harder it is to make outsized returns. Lynch said so himself:

If you’re managing billions of dollars, you’re restricted to investing in large, liquid

stocks. Smaller amounts of money can be deployed in small-cap stocks or less-followed
companies, where there’s more potential for outperformance.

Warren Buffett agrees:

It’s a huge structural advantage not to have a lot of money.

This illustrates a key advantage held by individual investors: They don’t need to worry about
turning $10 billion into $100 billion. Turning $5,000 into $50,000 or $100,000 will suffice.

That’s achievable when you follow the Core 4 traits demonstrated here.

Finally, remember why we invest in the first place. Lynch retired at 46, allegedly saying
he had memorized 2,000 P/E ratios but missed his daughter’s birthday.

We all want enough money to be able to make these kinds of choices. You only have to
get rich once—and catching just one 10-bagger can make a real difference in getting there
faster.

We hope this 10-bagger research contributes to your wealth.

—Stephen McBride and Dan Steinhart

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About the authors:

Stephen McBride is Chief Analyst Dan Steinhart is co-founder and

of RiskHedge, a research firm that publisher of RiskHedge and a
specializes in helping investors Certified Public Accountant.
profit from technological disruption.

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