Videos - Stock Selection Strategies

Validea's videos provide a detailed look at our investing system and the tools we offer on the site as well as the principles of factor investing.

Twin Momentum - Dashan Huang

This momentum model looks for a combination of fundamental momentum and price momentum.

P/B Growth - Partha Mohanram

This growth model looks for low book-to-market stocks that exhibit characteristics associated with sustained future growth.

Small-Cap Growth - Motley Fool

This strategy looks for small cap growth stocks with solid fundamentals and strong price performance.

Patient Investor - Warren Buffett

This strategy seeks out firms with long-term, predictable profitability and low debt that trade at reasonable valuations.

Multi-Factor - Pim Van Vliet

This multi-factor model seeks low volatility stocks that also have strong momentum and high net payout yields.

P/E/Growth - Peter Lynch

This strategy looks for stocks trading at a reasonable price relative to earnings growth that also possess strong balance sheets.

Value - Benjamin Graham

This deep value methodology screens for stocks that have low P/B and P/E ratios, along with low debt and solid long-term earnings growth.

Book/Market - Joseph Piotroski

This value-quant strategy screens for high book-to-market stocks, and then separates out financially sound firms by looking at a host of improving financial criteria.

Growth - Martin Zweig

This strategy looks for growth stocks with persistent accelerating earnings and sales growth, reasonable valuations and low debt.

Earnings Yield - Joel Greenblatt

This value model looks for companies with high return on capital and earnings yields.

Contrarian - David Dreman

This contrarian strategy finds the most unpopular mid- and large-cap stocks in the market and looks for improving fundamentals.

Low PE - John Neff

This strategy looks for firms with persistent earnings growth that trade at a discount relative to their earnings growth and dividend yield.

Price/Sales - Kenneth Fisher

This value strategy rewards stocks with low P/S ratios, long-term profit growth, strong free cash flow and consistent profit margins.

Growth/Value - James O'Shaughnessy

This two strategy approach offers a large-cap value model and a growth approach that looks for persistent earnings growth and strong relative strength.

Value Composite - James O'Shaughnessy

This value strategy looks for inexpensive stocks using a composite of value factors.

Quantitative Momentum - Wesley Gray

This momentum model looks for stocks with strong and consistent intermediate-term relative performance.

Private Equity Investor

This leveraged small-cap value model seeks firms that have the characteristics of successful private equity investments.

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Optimal portfolios presented on Validea.com represent the rebalancing period that has led to the best historical performance for each of our equity models. Each optimal portfolio was determined after the fact with performance information that was not available at portfolio inception. As a result, an investor could not have invested in the optimal portfolio since its inception. Optimal portfolios are presented to allow investors to quickly determine the portfolio size and rebalancing period that has performed best for each of our models in our historical testing.

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