By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — To make money in the markets, one needs to be an independent thinker who bets against the consensus and is right. – Ray Dalio I am a…
Tag: Growth Stocks
Are Growth Stocks Cheap?
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — As a value investor, I have a weakness that I have struggled with my whole career: I really like buying things when they go down a…
Bargain Hunting After The Growth Spurt
Growth versus value is a rivalry as old as the stock market itself; is it better to buy stocks from companies with a dizzying potential for profit growth, or invest…
Growth Stocks: Have They Bottomed?
In a piece for Morningstar, John Rekenthaler writes that 2022 has “been a terrible year for growth stocks” and that after an initial free-fall at the beginning of the year…
Motley Fool Founder David Gardner on Finding Rule Breaking Growth Stocks
This week we are joined by David Gardner, founder of the Motley Fool. We discuss his unique Rule Breaker approach to finding long-term growth investments and the criteria that the…
Observations From The Recent Market Decline
By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® (@practicalquant) — We are in the midst of a market catastrophe. There is blood in the streets. There is panic selling. There are forced liquidations. And the S&P…
The Valuation Gap Between Growth and Value, and How to Play It
A recent article in Barron’s reports that downtrodden value stocks are “finally winning” and the “comeback seems for real.” The wide valuation spread between growth and value, along with the…
The Importance of Expectations in Investing (Ep. 63)
There is a common misconception that a good company is always a good investment. But that sometimes isn’t the case. The reason for that comes down to the role that…
Why Growth Investing Is Harder Than You Think (Ep. 47)
Growth investing has seemed easy in the past decade. Growth stocks have easily outpaced both value stocks and the market, which has led to great performance for many growth strategies.…
Excess Returns, Ep. 35: Finding Diamonds in the Rough Among Growth Stocks
Buying expensive stocks has historically been a terrible investing strategy. On average, expensive stocks significantly underperform the market as a whole over time. But despite the poor performance of the…