Ekso Bionics Is Taking Incremental Steps Toward Mega Profits

Keith Fitz-Gerald

One of the worst things an investor can do is "set it and forget it" when it comes to your money - especially in today's markets when "buy and hold" is more akin to "buy and hope."

Buy and manage is what you want to do in the name of profits.

That way you never lose touch - not with your expectations, not with an investment you've chosen, and certainly not with your money.

On that note, let's check in on Ekso Bionics Holdings Ltd. (Nasdaq: EKSO).

A Race Between Patience and Profitability

I hear from tens of thousands of investors who want a stock to go ballistic the moment they buy it.

I'm no different.

In fact, I'm hard-pressed to think of anything I love more than the rush that comes with watching a stock I've recommended take off because I know that readers who are following along are making a killing.

It's why we're all here.

That's why a stock like Ekso can be so exciting and so frustrating at the same time.

Over the years, I've seen plenty of companies like Ekso, so I've learned to balance a good deal of patience with profitability. Admittedly, that's not always easy.

Take Quality Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: QSII), for example.

The company's stock languished from January 1997 to March 1998 in a nearly flat and very tight trading band that had to make more than a few shareholders question their investment when you consider that the S&P 500 returned more than 47% over the same time frame. Worse, the stock actually dropped to enter the 21st century with gains of just $0.03 per share even though the S&P 500 had doubled!

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Skittish investors bailed in a move they would come to regret.

It turns out that QSII was taking steps very similar to those EKSO is taking today. Senior executives were positioning the company to capture a much bigger prize that was not immediately apparent - the shift to cloud computing.

That seems obvious today, but back then QSII made a very deliberate pivot to capture the thousands of hospitals and medical care providers who needed to... who had to... shift to cloud computing to keep costs down and efficiency up. Earnings soared an extraordinary 344% from fiscal year 2000 to fiscal year 2001 as the company led the revolution driving two of our Unstoppable Trends - Medicine and Technology.

Only five years later the stock reached $22 a share in January 2006. Investors who stuck with it laughed all the way to the bank for having the extraordinary patience to clean up with a 3,135% gain that turned every $1,000 invested into more than $32,350.

Monster Beverage Corp. (Nasdaq: MNST) is another one that didn't feel like a winner to early investors, either...

Keith Fitz-Gerald

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Keith is a seasoned market analyst and professional trader with more than 37 years of global experience. He is one of very few experts to correctly see both the dot.bomb crisis and the ongoing financial crisis coming ahead of time - and one of even fewer to help millions of investors around the world successfully navigate them both. Forbes hailed him as a "Market Visionary." He is a regular on FOX Business News and Yahoo! Finance, and his observations have been featured in Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, WIRED, and MarketWatch. Keith previously led The Money Map Report, Money Map's flagship newsletter, as Chief Investment Strategist, from 20007 to 2020. Keith holds a BS in management and finance from Skidmore College and an MS in international finance (with a focus on Japanese business science) from Chaminade University. He regularly travels the world in search of investment opportunities others don't yet see or understand.

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