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Christmas and (insert your favourite vacation here) come but after a year earnings season on the other hand, comes 4 occasions a year. And although earnings season may be devoid of streamers, balloons and cake...the outcome can be just as festive for penny stock investors.

While blue chip giants are bemoaning the begin of earnings season this week, those interested in penny stocks or modest-cap stocks have purpose to cheer...or at the really least, be very optimistic.

Right after almost six years of sturdy overall performance, small-cap stocks headed into 2005 with many industry analysts saying the honeymoon was more than. Modest-cap rates had been as well wealthy they mentioned...the Johnny-come-lately lemmings were also numerous...and the bargains also handful of.

Not surprisingly, penny stocks sailed by means of 2005, beating their bigger counterparts by an equally big margin. For the 12 months ended May possibly 1, 2006, the Russell 2000 index of modest-cap stocks returned 31.5%, compared with 14.1% for the Standard & Poor's 500 index of massive-company stocks.

The longer view is even more impressive. Because March 2000 (the official start off of this rally) the Russell 2000 index has posted an average annual return of 7.3%, vs. -.6% for the S&P 500.

Clearly the penny stock soothsayers are i) not worth listening to ii) not invited on my honeymoon.

Now, just since penny stocks have been performing nicely does not mean that earnings season is a foregone conclusion. In addition, you can't evaluate the benefits of your favourite penny stock choose with these of the blue chip juggernauts.

For instance, earlier this week 1 of the market's bellwether stocks missed its income forecast for the quarter. Analysts pounced noting that the company's share price tag "tumbled" 4% on the news. Another company's missed forecast sent its stock "plummeting" 4.7%.

Penny stocks never tumble or plummet 4%. In the globe of penny stocks, a day-to-day drop or achieve of 5% - eight% is commonplace. Now, need to the penny stock on your radar screen climb 10%, 20%, or 50% on sturdy earnings...that could be described as substantial.

Granted, the earnings results from big-cap stocks are a litmus test to how nicely our economy is doing...and is expected to do. Luckily, penny stocks do not follow the very same rules as their leviathan counterparts. Penny stocks can defy logic and execute well in bad times...or execute poorly when instances are very good.

The point is, you can not read your penny stock company's fiscal outcomes via the same glasses as you would a triple digit goliath. Penny stocks march to their personal tune and encounter day-to-day climbs and drops that would churn the stomach of most Wall Street analysts.

Which is fine...most Wall Street fat cats are satisfied with a 7% return on their safe, boring investment. Penny stock investors are not. quality apple earnings