If 80% of people don't disagree with you, it's not a multi-bagger play

How I find multi baggers using value investing principals: * Find companies that offer a lot of downside protection. So that whatever happens you won't lose much of your initial investment. * The companies have to be growing. That could be users, revenue, earnings etc. * Recent bad news or short term pain is a fantastic buying opportunity. * Last but the most important: The majority of people (\~80%) must believe that this is a bad play. I will elaborate a little bit more with a real life example that shows that you must be a contrarian if you are a value investor. I bought $HOOD when it was trading for cash (\~8B market cap). * The downside protection was there due to their cash pile. * Users were growing, revenue was growing, they were becoming profitable. * The sentiment was horrible after the $GME saga. The most important point: I remember I made a post on $WSB and 80% of the comments were negative. Everyone told me to buy $SOFI instead which at the time was trading for $9 while $HOOD was around $8. Robinhood has 10x since while $SOFI is trading for $21. I know this post might be down voted to oblivion. I am just offering my perspective to value investing. I know the sub has become more about discussing $100B+ companies like $NVO, $UNH, and not about smaller companies which in my opinion have way more upside. Currently my value play is $ACFN. This is the first time I invested in a micro cap and that's why it's only a 5% position on my portfolio. Similar to my other multi baggers more half the people hated it. Which just makes me more confident it will be a multi bagger. We'll see.