Yahoo Finance 3 Buy-Rated Stocks Fit for Value Investors
Value investing is centered around jumping on stocks trading at a discount, with the idea that the market will eventually ‘catch up’ and recognize their true value, which can lead to serious gains.
After all, we all enjoy a good deal.
And the strategy can become even more lucrative when adding in the Zacks Rank, allowing us to find stocks that analysts have recently become optimistic about.
Three top-ranked stocks trading at enticing valuation levels – JD.com JD, KB Home KBH, and AllianceBernstein AB – could all be considered. Let’s take a closer look at each.
JD.com
JD.com operates as an online direct sales company in China. The stock sports the highly-coveted Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), with earnings expectations drifting higher across multiple timeframes.
Shares presently trade at a 7.8X forward 12-month earnings multiple, a fraction of the 39.0X five-year median and five-year highs of 84.9X. The forward 12-month price-to-sales ratio resies at 0.3X, above nicely beneath the 0.5X five-year median.
The company’s quarterly consistency is worthy of highlighting, beating the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate in each of its last ten releases. Below is a chart illustrating the company’s revenue on a quarterly basis.
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KB Home
KB Home is a well-known homebuilder in the United States. Analysts have become bullish across the board, raising their earnings expectations and pushing the stock into a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).
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Shares presently trade at a 7.3X forward 12-month earnings multiple, a few ticks beneath the five-year median and highs of 12.5X in 2020. The forward 12-month price-to-sales ratio presently stands at 0.6X, again beneath five-year highs of 0.8X.
AllianceBernstein
AllianceBernstein, a current Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), provides diversified investment management services, primarily to pension funds, endowments, foreign financial institutions, and individual investors.
The revisions trend for its current fiscal year has shifted notably positive since the beginning of 2024, with the $3.05 Zacks Consensus EPS estimate suggesting 14% year-over-year growth.
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Shares presently trade at a 10.2X forward 12-month earnings multiple, nicely beneath the 11.5X five-year median and highs of 16.3X in 2022. The forward 12-month price-to-sales ratio stands at 1.0X, in line with the five-year median and beneath highs of 1.5X in 2021.
Bottom Line
Value investors are always looking for deals, expecting the rest of the crowd to eventually catch onto the discounts and lead to significant gains.
And when you pair this strategy with the Zacks Rank, which is focused on earnings estimate revisions, it’s much easier to find mispriced stocks with great near-term potential.
All three stocks above – JD.com JD, KB Home KBH, and AllianceBernstein AB – could entice value-focused investors, further underpinned by their Style Scores of ‘A’ and 'B' for Value.
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