Value Investing News

Weekly roundup of stocks moving in and out of the Magic Formula Investing screen.

Some companies and industries stand to benefit more from the new Obama administration than others. Here's the rundown.

Manpower is a solid company operating in the economically unattractive staffing business. Is it cheap enough to consider buying?

Putting it all together, here are the top 20 Magic Formula stocks ranked by a combination of price/sales, price/book, dividend yield, and relative strength. All of these measures have been shown to lead to outperforming stock picks.

Several studies have shown that low price-to-sales ratio, not price-to-earnings or price-to-book, has been the most reliable indicator of outperforming value stocks. This article shows the top 20 current Magic Formula stocks with the lowest price-to-sales ratios.

Yet another look at my Consistent Cash Creators screen. This time I use 7-year normalized earnings yield to filter out companies at the top or bottom of a particular industry cycle.