Many a great company with positive earnings and even paying dividends began with monkeys like myself running around taking pictures from public roadways and doing all sorts of circus-acts to find public DD.

That level of DD tends to be needed in order to find a company before a blast off of accelerating earnings and while it is still cheap.

As an example, my first pick to investorshub ever was a company with the stock symbol currently of UVE which was UVIH at .04 (yes 4 pennies) per share on the OTC.  All sorts of monkeys screamed "scam scam scam" and, in fact, I was kicked off a DD site that was so full of themselves and their ability to indentify scams.

Anyway, long story short, UVE/UVIH is now on the AMEX at $3.90/share and is paying .32/share in dividends per year currently.  They have paid around maybe $3.00 per share in cash over the years now.  It's up around a 150 bagger since the self-annointed gurus were screaming scam scam scam no such thing as a quality company on the OTC.