What's the one investment that's crushed every major index... beaten most major stocks... and doled out 49 times better gains than the S&P 500?
Nope, not oil, gas, gold, or silver. Not Google, not Microsoft. Nor tech or biotech. Instead, says Lehman Brothers, it's the one investment with a market destined to "grow 500% over the next 10 years."
But I'm ready right now to give you three of the world's best ways to get in... plus, a full year of more "special situation" stocks like these... absolutely FREE and backed by my absolute "300% payoff" guarantee...
Dear Fellow Market Hound,
Holding Home Depot (NYSE:HD), you could have made a 303% return over the last decade.
On Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), 351%.
And on American Express (NYSE:AXP), about 370%.
And plenty of investors did just that.
But you could have made twice that -- 818%, in fact -- owning shares in another kind of investment that most investors... and most brokers... missed completely.
This same mystery investment is also traded on the NYSE. But of course, there's more ways to buy into it now than just this. Some of the other ways would have given you gains of 332.8%... 412%... 354%... even 766%.
Had your broker had the horse sense to get you in on time.
With those gains, mind you, you could have made more than other investors made on much bigger, more famous companies... names like IBM... Exxon Mobil... General Electric... Procter & Gamble... Johnson & Johnson... McDonald's... Disney... Merck & Co... or Coca Cola...
All on this one kind of investment.
And it's so safe, conservative investors like Barclay's Global, Vanguard, and Mellon Financial... even the Teacher's Retirement Fund of
Some of the world's biggest companies have snapped up a stake too.
Global giant Siemens, for instance, is into this. So is General Electric, with a stake worth over $3 billion. And they expect to make back $10 billion before the current boom is through.
Lehman Brothers is getting behind this finally too, after decades of Wall Street turning a blind eye. The market for this mystery investment, they say, "will rise 500% over the next 10 years."
Doesn't This Sound Like The Kind
of Company You'd Like To Own?
No, this mystery investment is not an oil or gas company.
It outperformed both of those investments, even with energy prices hitting record highs. This one investment also beat gold, silver, biotech, and regular old tech over the same period.
In fact, if you bunch together a handful of publicly traded companies that focus on this one investment -- over pretty much any five year period of the last 25 years -- you'll find yourself beating the return of the overall
In good times, bad times, it doesn't matter.
This one investment has proved one of the most reliable investments you can own. It's extremely stable. Yet very profitable at the same time. And I believe that this one investment should do better than any other you could own over the next 10 years... 20 years... even over the rest of this century.
And no, I'm not the only one saying this. The Christian Science Monitor calls this investment "blue gold." And Fortune magazine calls it "the oil of the 21st century."
What I'll do for you, however, is do more than just talk...
The World's Three Best Ways To Profit...
With My Personal "300% Payoff" Guarantee
I'd like to send you a FREE report I've just written.
It details what I believe are the world's three best ways for you to get in on this same booming investment. Just tell me where to send the report and it's yours.
By the way, I'll also give you a full year's membership in a completely new resource for elite market-watchers. I've founded it myself. And it features "special situation" investments just like the ones you'll read about in the FREE report I'd like to send.
One last thing.
I'll send all this to you with an unprecedented -- and unlimited -- "300% payoff" guarantee. That's right. I'll promise you, just five minutes from now, that sometime in the next 12 months... on the regular "special situation" stock recommendations I could be sending you FREE... that you'll have the chance to make back at least 300% on your money.
At least once, using the recommendations I'll give you.
How does that sound?
Before I explain how this works...
How "Blue Gold" Crushed The Dow
Take a look at this chart... 
As recently as about a year ago, thousands of lazy brokers wouldn't so much as nod in the direction of "blue gold" investments. Now they're scrambling to find their footing.
Why now?
After all, just holding a handful of the shares related to this one investment would have given you an annual average gain of 18.5% every year for a decade straight. That's better than double the S&P 500, nearly double the Dow, and more than double the NASDAQ over the same period.
Just over the five years, holding these same under-recommended shares would have given you over 12 times the Dow's performance... and over 49 times what other investors made holding the S&P 500!
And remember dividends?
Many of the companies connected with "blue gold" have paid decades for years.
In fact, the biggest publicly traded company in the "blue gold" market has paid dividends to shareholders every year since 1945. And in November 2005, they hiked up their dividend payout by another 10%. That's the 15th increase in just 14 years!
Soon afterward, shares split 4 for 3.
Try to find that on the list of "household" shares brokers typically shove across the table. "Blue gold," as I'll prove to you, offers investors a whole new and long-lasting bonanza of profits.
Yet, nobody's told you a thing.
What do you say we finally let the cat of the bag...
What Is This Secret Investment?
One more thing before I lift the curtain.
I want you to understand -- what I'm about to show you offers you enormous potential.
Over the next 15 years, the
And that's just a drop in the ocean of capital about to pour into this market.
What is this mystery investment?
The publicly traded market for this one investment already tops out at over $661 billion worldwide. Outside of oil and electricity, in fact, the industry surrounding this is the third largest in the world.
Without it, every major economy in the world would grind to a halt.
It is, in a word... water. Yep, water. The "oil of the 21st century."
How could this be true?
We've seen the flowing fountains of Europe... the swimming pools dotting
Yet, big money investors tell a different story.
One recent report, from U.S. research group Summit Global Investment, calls water "the world petroleum industry in 1920." "In our view," they report, "every serious investment portfolio should own a group of these stocks over the years to come."
Even The Street.com agrees: "[Water] demand is accelerating, but... is not affected by inflation, recession, interest rates, or changing tastes."
I agree.
But I can do my fellow analysts one better, by actually giving you the names of the next three stocks that will take off, thanks to this explosive new trend...
Let Me Introduce Myself
Before we go any further, I should introduce myself. My name is Chris Mayer.
You might know me from my appearances on Fox Television's weekly "Bulls & Bears" financial show. Or maybe you've read my analysis in the Daily Reckoning or Grant's Interest Rate Observer or even my own Capital & Crisis, the new subscriber-only market analysis service I launched for independent investors.
If you do, you know I don't like taking wild chances.
That's why I spent over a year researching the three opportunities I'm about to share with you now. See, there are 103 publicly traded companies in the
Some of these companies are huge. Others are so small, they show up as barely a blip on the radar screen. Here's the thing. These smaller, letter watched water-industry stocks offer you HUGE untapped potential.
In the FREE report I mentioned, called "Blue Gold: Three Blockbuster Water Plays Ready To Burst Wide Open," I'll simply give you my three best picks for making a fortune on this.
But over the next five minutes, there's something I'd like you to do for me. I'd like you to let me show you that there's an even greater opportunity. A way for you, in fact, to tap into all kinds of "special situation" investing recommendations just like these three companies... absolutely FREE, for up to a year. With a minimum gain of 300% on my recommendations, guaranteed.
I'll show you how in just a second.
First, let me give you a taste of what you'll discover inside the report...
"Blue Gold" Blockbuster Stock #1:
The Single Biggest
Since Oil at $10 and Gold Under $200
What's one of the most under watched and misunderstood investing trends?
Crumbling water infrastructure. Think about it.
The
Some of these
With over 55,000 public drinking water systems... about 20,000 public wastewater treatment plants... and around 75,000 dams and reservoirs... in the U.S. alone... you're looking at a massive infrastructure in need of updating and repair.
Here's the opportunity...
New 2005 water purity laws from the EPA demand that those systems get updated.
And remember, that's just the
China's market for water-systems infrastructure will grow at nearly twice the global rate -- with as much as $250 billion in new spending, just between now and the end of 2008.
While a lot of water-industry infrastructure companies will make a fortune replacing or providing that equipment, the one I've pegged for you here could crush all the rest on total shareholder performance over the months ahead...
How To Ride The "Blue Gold"
Buyout Boom for Even Greater Profits
Under your feet, huge pumps keep millions of gallons of pure water flowing through the water systems that fill our tubs, our swimming pools, and our kitchen sinks. These pumps can move water as fast as
They're the beating heart of the water-delivery network.
And that's what this company does. They provide cutting-edge pump technology.
Their business started with a handshake in 1933.
Today, they dominate the water pump industry. Last year, sales for this company were $231 million. That was with a 17% increase in
Last year, earnings per share popped a mind-boggling 180%. Meanwhile, net profit on these sales grew even faster still, giving the company enormous operating leverage and a huge pile of cash. Plus, the company carries zero debt. It's no wonder they've paid shareholders growing annual dividends every year for the last 33 years straight.
Those facts alone make this a juicy opportunity.
But here's the "special situation" that makes it even more attractive.
While this little company dominates its market for pump technology, it still keeps a relatively small footprint on Wall Street. That makes it a very likely takeover target. Which could mean overnight gains for early shareholders.
Just last year, there were nine major takeovers in the water-pump industry.
As Stephen Hoffmann, a top water industry analyst, says, "It's safe to say that the market for the enormous range of pumps in the water industry is at least a multi-billion dollar market and growing."
One More Cherry On This Sundae
Besides being a takeover target, this company is also a backdoor play on the energy boom. Virtually all the major oil producers who tap into Canadian tar sands use this company's pumps. Meanwhile, the
Both make this an even safer bet.
How high could this fly?
Last year, this company cranked out earnings of $1.43 per share. This year's consensus earnings look to hit $1.69. I believe that's way too low and that Wall Street brokers are about to miss one of the best investments the water sector has seen yet.
Within five years, look for this mystery company to hit $5 per share in earnings. Based on a price multiple of 15 times earnings, I see shares in this company hitting $75 within the next few years.
That would give you gains of at least three times the current price.
And it could go even higher.
Just look at a world map. While world population has tripled over the last century, world water use has soared more than six fold. More than half the world's populations will live in cities by 2010.
The bigger cities get, the faster communities grow, the greater the demands on water infrastructure. And the more pumps the world will need to keep all that water moving.
And the company I name for you in your FREE copy of my new report stands to corner a major chunk of that market.
It's small, with a market cap of just $300 million. For that reason, I just couldn't recommend it to a wide audience of other investors. The share price would soar to fast for you to get in.
But in my new service for elite members, called "Mayer's Special Situation Report," I can easily share stocks just like this one with the smaller group of potential investors I'm inviting to join my inner circle.
And I'll start sending you these regular "special situation" stock alerts FREE for up to a year.
Starting the same day I rush you a FREE copy of my new water report, "Blue Gold: Three Blockbuster Water Plays Ready To Burst Wide Open."
The "Special Situation" Stocks
Most Other Investors Will Miss
Like I said, I come across opportunities like this all the time.
And not just in the water industry. They're everywhere.
But I haven't had a way to share them with you until now.
Look, I know how to "read" a company to know when it's ripe for investors.
In my days as a top commercial banker, it's what I did around the clock. Regularly, I made the call on whether companies making as much as $400-million were "credit-worthy" of the commercial loans they hoped to secure.
At a bank, you don't play games. You don't make mistakes. And you don't take chances. I had to turn down countless "near-perfect" businesses, simply they didn't fit the straight-laced, strict evaluation model the bank demanded.
Even though I knew these companies had the stuff to make fortunes.
It's the same now when I make recommendations on the talking head investment programs, in the mainstream press, or even in issues of my Capital & Crisis monthly advisory letter.
I hold back some of the best investments I've ever come across, because the wider audience of investors just isn't ready for those few opportunities that stray a little too far from the conventional path toward profitability.
But these more sophisticated? "special situation" picks could rack up a fortune in the hands of a more experienced, educated investor. I believe you qualify as that savvy kind of reader. Which is why I hope you'll consider taking on a trial subscription to my new advisory service, "Mayer's Special Situation Report," FREE for up to one full year.
Each of the recommendations we'll look at over this year has something different about it, something that opens us up to an opportunity just a little beyond what the average investor has come to understand or expect.
It could be a company too new and untested. Or a gamble on a turnaround story. Or a much more predictable mega-acquisition story. It could even be a very conservative play, on a company that's simply listed on an exchange most mainstream investors or Wall Street brokers have yet to explore.
The risks we'll take with my picks in "Mayer's Special Situation Report" could run moderately higher (I'm still a stickler for safety)... but the potential gains on these plays could run many times higher. So does the potential for much faster returns.
How often do these come up?
In my last 24 recommendations, I've spotted the opportunity for "special situation" profits in as often as one in every three plays. But I had no viable way to share them with you until now. I'd like to start sending you these "special situation" alerts as soon as possible.
And it can start as soon as three minutes from now, in the three special stock picks you'll find detailed in "Blue Gold: Three Blockbuster Water Plays Ready To Burst Wide Open," the FREE report I'll rush the moment you start your trial membership in our inner circle of readers.
Here's another sample of what you'll find inside...
"Blue Gold" Blockbuster Stock #2:
Making Money, Drop by Drop
With only 2.53% of the world's water being fresh... and most of that frozen in glaciers... companies that find, transport, treat, and deliver H20 to the masses stand to make a fortune.
Take bottled water.
It's a $100 billion industry. And growing.
Bottled water sales in
In
And nobody drinks more bottled water than we do right here in the
Even though, ounce for ounce, you pay about four times more for bottled water than you do for a gallon of gasoline -- even with gas at today's eye-popping prices.
Bottled water is the fastest growing drink sales category in the world.
Why?
Dying For a Drink
The big money isn't in bottled water. It's in water treatment.
Consider...
- Half of all hospital beds worldwide are filled with people suffering from water-related diseases. Around the world, about 30,000 people a day die from water-borne diseases -- the same as crashing 150 jumbo jets every day.
- In
- Meanwhile, less that 15% of
- Only 310 of the 669 largest cities in
- In the
- Worldwide, we pollute as much water as we use up every year -- with fresh water disappearing faster than the population rate, according to the World Bank. What about desalinized water? It's expensive. You need energy to remove the salt -- which can bump up the cost as much as 20 times what we pay for fresh water to irrigate our crops.
The second "special situation" company you'll find in your FREE copy of "Blue Gold: Three Blockbuster Water Plays Ready To Burst Wide Open" has booked rich contracts to solve those problems. And in the process, could make you very rich as a shareholder too.
For instance, the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources just announced a plan? to build a mind-boggling 360,000 new waterworks. Within the next three years, 90% of Chinese cities will need treatment plants. Meanwhile,
This company has booked many of the contracts to provide this technology. This is a cash bonanza for anybody selling water treatment technology in Asia. And for investors who hold their shares.
The Water Stock to Own
If You're Only Buying One
Maybe that's why this one company, detailed in your FREE report, has been called a "proxy for the entire global water crisis."
Not only do they have a lock on major projects in
With more than 16 years in the general water treatment business, this is the oldest listed water company on its exchange. And the total value of new business this company in 2006 was tenfold what it was in 2002. Today in 2007, it's now nearly four times larger than it was at this time last year.
By the way, yes, they also own a huge chunk of the desalinization market, both in
Plus, this $1.2 billion company has loads of cash.
And you don't have just me saying this. JP Morgan and Bloomberg analysts both peg revenue for this company to soar six times over within the next two years. With net profit growing 294% by the middle of 2008.
That's astonishing.
But so is this...
What makes this a "special situation" stock is the fact that, in March of this year, this company sold off -- for a 20% profit -- an oddball contract they had in the Middle East. This gave them lots of extra cash to reinvest in better projects in
It also tightened their focus on lower risk, higher profit ends of the business. And it erased what would have been a future obligation to fork over as much as $200 million in future projects in
This move alone could double this company's pre-tax profit margins.
There's something else.
In April of this year, this company also picked up a 51% stake in a Dutch company that develops and makes ceramic filtering membranes for the biotech, drug, oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. Very few companies own the expertise to make these kinds of filters, even though they're in high demand.
Plus, as part of the deal, the company I'll name for you in the FREE report also won the exclusive rights to market and sell these new ceramic filers anywhere in the world except Europe. Once
At the current rate, target revenue for this company could rocket to nearly $471 million by the end of 2008. That's a fivefold jump. At these profit margins, that'd put net profit at better than three times current earnings. Which tells me this stock could jump from under $3 today to better than $7.50, in less than 18 months... for a gain just shy of 190%.
How would you feel about nearly tripling your initial investment?
You can read all about it in your FREE copy of "Blue Gold: Three Blockbuster Water Plays Ready To Burst Wide Open," yours along with a FREE trial subscription to my new "Mayer's Special Situation Report" stock alert service.
New Ways To Make Gains,
Everywhere You Look
As I said, don't think we're just talking about undiscovered water stocks.
I come across these "special situation" plays everywhere you can imagine. In every stripe and color. Real estate and land-related companies, manufacturing and mining, shipping companies, utilities, cash-rich companies on foreign exchanges.
I've wanted to let you in on these for a long time.
Finally, with "Mayer's Special Situations ," I can.
ADR-listed investments, takeover-targets, cutting-edge tech that's just found it's footing but looks like an excellent buy. There's really no limit to where we can take this, once you understood that all I'm doing is applying my same cautious banker's pragmatism to a much wider, more exciting field of opportunity.
The latent potential for a "special situation" investment lies in virtually any company we'll look at. Last April, for instance, I pulled together another special report. Inside, I named five stocks with a higher-than-normal stockpile of net-tangible assets.
I sent this report out to a small group of profiteers, including people just like you. Two of the stocks have more than doubled already. And on average, anybody who took on all five recommendations has already socked away gains of 63% gains on the whole portfolio.
I would have loved to share these stocks with everybody.
But many of them were just too small to name for a wide audience. I expect to discover plenty more of these cash-cranking investments over the year ahead.
Not just opportunities we'll uncover inside balance sheets, but foreign-listed stocks, LEAP plays, option plays, companies on the brink of a major share buyback, upcoming spin-offs, and special dividend announcements.
I could go on with that list forever.
Back-door plays that give you unseen ways to get in on a booming market, "access-constrained" investments that open doors not usually obvious to most investors, even stocks your broker might not know how to buy yet, which I can show you how to snatch up while it's still early and there's still time for you to make a fortune on the play.
You can gain access to these special opportunities for up to a year FREE, as part of an introductory offer on my new "Mayer's Special Situation Report" service.
Details in just a second.
But first...