Value Stock

  

See: Value. See: Value Investing. See: Value Proposition. See: Value of Risk.

Stocks that some investors think are selling for less than they're actually worth.

These stocks are often companies that were once great, but then stumbled. That is, there is great value in them that the market is skeptically not counting at the moment, given the $7.87 a share at which the stock is trading right now.

The company has fallen on tough times because of a sales slump, bad press, or...alien invasion. GE was once worth $50+ a share as priced by the stock market. It then fell to $8. Maybe a huge buying opportunity for a great value stock...or the end of an era, as GE slides into oblivion.

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Finance: What is a value investor?1 Views

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Finance allah shmoop what is a value investor Well of

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value investors and investor who buy stocks that she believes

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have quote hidden unquote value That little wall street just

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isn't appreciating So uh aren't all investors value investors Well

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kind of yes And really no value investor Generally speaking

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in this context waits until a stock with good core

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assets stumbles The company falls on short term hard times

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and maybe quote should unquote traded twenty bucks a share

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But wall street was angry and disappointed and hurt that

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the company grew revenues only seven percent instead of the

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expected fifteen percent for a quarter to and the streets

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sold down the stock from eighteen to seven Well the

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proverbial baby is thrown out with the bathwater And well

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at this point the value investor steps in and buys

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the stock big They hold the stock it's a tte

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seven box The company slowly fixes itself in the stock

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price gradually creeps upward back to that eighteen figure And

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then the value investor likely sells the stock when it

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goes from cheap to being fairly priced like you know

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back in that eighteen twenty dollars target price kind of

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thing Yeah that's where it was supposed to be earlier

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all else being equal Well the normal cycle would then

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have the value investors sell those shares to a growth

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or mo mentum investor Who's credo is more like buy

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high sell higher versus the you know value investor who's

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all about by low then sell when fairly price that's

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like benji graham Look him up it's not a sexy

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but you can make big bank in value Land just

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asked that one billionaire who loves all you can eat 00:01:40.498 --> [endTime] restaurants Yeah what's his name again

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