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Are You a Value Investor? This 1 Stock Could Be the Perfect Pick

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While you may have an investing style you rely on, finding great stocks is made easier with the Zacks Style Scores. These are complementary indicators that rate stocks based on value, growth, and/or momentum characteristics.

Why Investors Should Pay Attention to This Value Stock

Value investors love finding good stocks at good prices, especially before the broader market catches on to a stock's true value. Utilizing ratios like P/E, PEG, Price/Sales, and Price/Cash Flow, the Value Style Score identifies the most attractive and most discounted stocks.

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Cencora (COR)

Chesterbrook, PA-based Cencora is one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical services companies, which focuses on providing drug distribution and related services to reduce health care costs and improve patient outcomes.

COR is a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) stock, with a Value Style Score of A and VGM Score of B. Shares are currently trading at a forward P/E of 17.7X for the current fiscal year compared to the Medical Services industry's P/E of 18.8X. Additionally, COR has a PEG Ratio of 1.7 and a Price/Cash Flow ratio of 13.9X. Value investors should also note COR's Price/Sales ratio of 0.2X.

A company's earnings performance is important for value investors as well. For fiscal 2024, six analysts revised their earnings estimate higher in the last 60 days for COR, while the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0.01 to $13.44 per share. COR also holds an average earnings surprise of 6.1%.

Investors should take the time to consider COR for their portfolios due to its solid Zacks Ranks, notable earnings and valuation metrics, and impressive Value and VGM Style Scores.

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