Search Home / Analysis / Is the value bump just a few weeks of solid performance or a true comeback? Is the value bump just a few weeks of solid performance or a true comeback? ‘If you buy the cheapest stocks, they do go up eventually’ There will always be something of a pricing gap between value and growth stocks – after all, it is the nature of the former to be cheaper while businesses that can demonstrate significant growth should always command a premium. In the years since the 2008/09 global financial crisis, however, the gap between the two has become more of a chasm and today it is wider than it has ever been. The reasons are clear enough – from low interest rates and a lack of inflation to investors’ increasingly obsessive fascination with a handful of high-growth technology stocks – begging a crucial question for investors: when might this all change?