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Georges Yared

For 30 years, Georges Yared has helped investors pick companies that break the mold. Companies like Color Kinetics, Kyphon, Apple and aQuantive—all tripled for his readers in the past 18 months.

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May 16, 2008

By Georges Yared, Editor, GameChangers

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Have we become a nation of flirts and gigolos?

Investors, especially of the Wall Street type, profess undying love in one quarter for a particular stock, only to claim deadly enmity 90 days later.

For GameChanger investors, this is an incredible opportunity. After all, we believe that a company has changed the game, which means that our horizon is at least 9 months away, not 90 days.

The herd is our friend, even if it is not always friendly.

Take Shaw Group (SGR). Shaw changed the nuclear power game. This is a generational shift in global priorities, and Shaw is on the leading edge of it. If Shaw didn’t get a single new nuclear power plant contract for 5 years, they’d still be in great shape.

So Shaw's earnings come out, and they were excellent, but analysts want more, so it sold off 4%. Yesterday’s prom queen—tonight’s wallflower.

Understand: I’m not whining. I’m buying!

I’m rubbing my hands like Ebenezer Scrooge, thinking of all the money we’ll make from tossed-aside GameChangers like Shaw Group. I’ve made a lot of money for my clients in situation just like this over the last 30 years, and that's what I’m doing now for my GameChangers subscribers, who are on high alert to pick up several bargains and build positions in several exciting GameChanger stocks.

Before I tell you about one of my favorites, let's take a look at what exactly a GameChanger is.

What Is a GameChanger?


If you want to understand what a GameChanger is, look no further than that symbol of bright ideas, the lightbulb. Thomas Edison’s invention has been steadily improved by his original company, General Electric (GE), for many generations, but the incandescent bulb never really changed.

Then along come light emitting diodes, and suddenly the game changes. California, Australia and Canada have already passed laws banning Edison’s invention. In the U.S., where lighting accounts for 22% of all electricity consumption, widespread use of LED lighting could cut that usage in half!

I was among the first analyst to recommend Color Kinetics (CLRK), the most advanced maker of the technology used for LED bulbs. My clients made up to 425% in the stock. (It was recently bought by Philips for a generous sum.)

That’s what GameChangers do: solve a problem, redefine an entire industry, upset the applecart, grab a huge competitive lead—and make investors...