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What you need to know about growth and value stocks
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What’s called growth or value in leading stock indexes can be wildly different, and can change year by year.
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Jeff Sommer
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Growth and value are basic categories in stock investing. They are so widely used that you might assume that they mean something specific.
To an extent, they do. Growth stocks promise to deliver a lot of earnings in the future but often deliver less than other stocks right now. Value stocks are priced well below what their advocates consider to be their real worth. They aren’t usually trendy.
