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Late to the Rally? Bet On Value Stocks

Benjamin Larsson — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:35:58 +0000

An odd thing happened on the way to financial oblivion last year. Stock that started off cheaper than the broad market performed much worse than ones that didn’t.

Value investors, as people who favor such inexpensive shares are called, understandably expected them to lead the market in 2009. Incredibly, they’ve continued to lag well behind — until just the past few weeks. So are value stock finally ready to soar?

Let’s first define the terms. “Growth” and “value” are wishy-washy descriptors, since all companies are meant to grow, and since just about any stock ticker that will be worth more tomorrow is something of a value today. I prefer the terms “popular” and “unpopular.” Generally speaking, growth stocks are popular. They fetch prices equal to many times their current profits or asset values, on the assumption that their profits or asset values will grow quickly in coming years. Value stock are less popular. They trade at lower multiples of their profits and asset values because they’re not expected to grow as quickly.

There are no firm numeric cutoffs. Stock exist in a spectrum between growth and value, not on either side of a fence. Hence, mutual funds and stock tickers indexes labeled as growth and value often hold or track the same stock . To get a clear read on how the two styles are performing, focus on benchmarks that have no overlap, like the S&P Pure Growth and Pure Value indexes. Last year, Pure Value lost 48%, while Pure Growth lost 39%. This year through April, Pure Value lost just under a percent, while Pure Growth gained 10%.

That’s not normal. In past market downturns — from December 1980 to July 1982, from September 1987 to November 1987, from September 2000 to September 2002 — value stock outperformed. They trade with less popularity, after all, so they have less of it to lose when stock as a class lose luster. But value stock are often cheap because of company flaws that, while perfectly manageable in a normal market downturn, can turn disastrous in a global financial flush like the one that began in earnest last fall. Investors during the worst bits of the past year stopped asking about the return on their money and started asking whether they will ever see a return of their money, reckons Robert Arnott, whose firm, Research Affiliates, manages indexes that skew toward value stock

A close look at the numbers suggests value stocsk might have recently broken free of the abuse. While they’ve trailed year-to-date, the damage happened early when the market was falling. Through May 9, the S&P 500 index dropped 25%. Pure Growth lost only 20%, while Pure Value plunged 44%. In April, when stock rose, just the opposite: Pure Growth gained 15%, while Pure Value soared 32%.

Below are listed a handful of members of the S&P 500 Pure Value index that still seem attractively priced.

Screen Survivors
Company	Ticker	Industry	Share Price	Trailing P/E	Yield (%)
Avery Dennison	AVY	Paper products	$28.42	11	5.8
Big Lots	BIG	Discount stores	28.35	15	n/a
Consolidated Edison	ED	Utility	37.36	12	6.3
McKesson	MCK	Drugs	39.11	10	1.2
Verizon Communications	VZ	Telecom	31.04	12	6

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The best 3 Free Desktop Stock Tickers

admin — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:00:00 +0000

With so many different free desktop stock tickers to choose from it can be a tough call to pick which one to use. In this post I’ll go through three of them.

From Stress Free Trading: Desktop US Stock Ticker allows you to have real time stock quotation marks (since it is a free real time stock ticker)streaming showed on the top part of your screen as you work (or play). You may choose the number of U.S. stock secret code that you wish to see streaming across your screen – there is no maximum number of streams you can have. You can also adjust the scroll speed to fit your preferences. A fantastic free stock ticker.
This desktop stock ticker is free and runs on Windows XP. and Windows Vista

Free Stock Ticker from FreeDesktopTools is a lean, mean, stock ticking machine. The ticker receives stock quotation marks in near real time and can be placed somewhere on your desktop. The ticker can be adjusted in width. Any stock listed in any public stock exchange and which can be establish in the Yahoo! Finance section can be added the ticker. The ticker uses very modest ram andcpu power.
The Desktop Stock Ticker is free and runs on Windows XP.

Free Desktop Stock Ticker from Yahoo! Widgets. The Desktop Stock Ticker from Yahoo! is part of the widget 4 installation package, but it can be downloaded from the Yahoo! widget page. It is a simple and very straightforward free stock ticker that shows the stock of your choice with up to 20 minutes delay. It integrates (of course) perfectly with Yahoo! Finance, and a click on the stock brings you to the corresponding financial information page.
The Desktop Ticker is free and runs on Windows XP.

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Get your Free Desktop Stock Ticker today!

admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:42:44 +0000

Free Stock tickers are everywhere! You see them in the Finance Section of all major TV networks, running in the top or bottom of the screen. Every online trading company has one. The benefit of a real time stock ticker are that you get a quick overview of stock prices in a very intuitive format. And you can get your own desktop stock ticker.
There are so many different free stock tickers, each with their own characteristics, but they also share a lot of facial appearance. The most common facial appearance are the company symbol, the value of the companies shares, and the direction in which the stock price is moving.

As mentioned, there are many different ticker software available for your desktop, so you too can have a tape stock ticker running on your computer. Most desktop stock tickers are very small applications, that does not use a lot of RAM or CPU, so you can continue your work. Often the free stock tickers can be configured to alert you if the price of a chosen stock go further than a predefined area or the stock price changes rapidly. The desktop stock tickers can be downloaded from many of the online stock trading companies. Since the tickers often are very small applications, the download and installation is quick and simple done.

Most free desktop stock tickers displays the stock prices in “near real-time”, importance that the prices are delayed – most often 15 to 20 minutes. If you are a customer with an online stock trading company though, you can often get real-time prices with a real time stock ticker – this is obviously a fantastic advantage, especially if you are a day trader, who buys and sells often the same shares though out the day. In this case you need to know the exact price, since you make your money on very small movements. If you are a long term shareholder the delayed prices are of less importance.

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