But value stocks across most industry groups and cap sizes continue to trail their faster-growing counterparts. And as valuations of the favorites continue to push further into uncharted waters, sustained interest in stocks with conservative price-earnings ratios may well be seen before too long.
Value stocks continue to trail their faster-growing counterparts.
Our screen uncovered a number of top-ranked stocks to play the value renaissance. Click here for a 30-day free trial, or sign in if you're already a subscriber. Smaller issues, after handily outperforming their big-cap counterparts thus far this year, may well remain in the forefront of a market in which investor confidence generally is high. Here are seven you should consider buying. We searched our database for stocks that have hit a higher high price every year for the seven years that ended in 1999.