Top Benjamin Graham Deep Value Stocks

Validea used the investment strategy outlined in the book The Intelligent Investor written by Benjamin Graham to create our Value Investor portfolio. Not surprisingly, given that he lived through his family's financial troubles and the Great Depression, Graham used a conservative, risk-averse approach that focused as much on preserving capital as it did on producing big gains. Trendy, hot stocks didn't garner his attention; he was concerned with companies' balance sheets and their fundamentals. How much debt did they carry? How did their stock price compare to the amount of per-share earnings they were generating? Did the firm have strong sales figures? This value-centric, company-focused approach may be used by a lot of investors today, but it was Graham who first popularized it. A key concept behind his approach was the 'margin of safety' -- the difference between a stock's price and the value of its underlying business. Graham focused on stocks with high margins of safety (meaning their stocks were selling on the cheap compared to what he believed to be the intrinsic value of their businesses), because their already low prices offered significant downside protection.

Stocks With the Highest Scores Using Our Benjamin Graham Quantitative Strategy

Ticker Value
Investor		 Price
EDU 100 $2.19
EGO 86 $9.41
ATGE 86 $35.22
BIG 86 $60.02
BIO 86 $702.79
GHC 86 $645.21
GIII 86 $29.75
GTN 86 $21.65
IAG 86 $2.61
NEU 86 $304.54
PKX 86 $78.15
SAGE 86 $43.33
SWBI 86 $23.44
UVV 86 $51.25
VRS 86 $19.04
WOR 86 $61.91
WSO 71 $280.99
WST 71 $378.38
WTS 71 $145.85
WWD 71 $120.02
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