Think growth and value can’t coexist? Think again.
Traditional value investors pick stocks that are trading below their fundamentals based on a wide variety of measures. As a result and by definition, many dismiss growth companies altogether. But one manager believes that ignoring growth stocks out of hand is “fundamentally flawed.”
Value investor Applied Finance, with $1.25 billion in assets under management, argues that traditional metrics — such as low price-to-book and price-to-earnings multiples — don't provide investors with a comprehensive framework and are inadequate in identifying stocks that are trading below their intrinsic value; in fact, companies that are trading on apparently high multiples may actually be undervalued in terms of their overall valuation, thus creating opportunities for large returns.