GK News and Press, G&K Services Inc. From 06/16/22

From the November peak to the recent trough, U.S. large cap growth stocks lost more than 30%, a decline on par with the pandemic induced bear market. Growth is still trailing the S&P 500 by roughly 10% and nearly 17% versus comparable value indexes. As economic growth slows, i...

Today, we put small-cap Agrify Corporation in the spotlight for the first time. The company is seeing impressive revenue growth supplying cultivation solutions to the hemp and cannabis industries. A full investment analysis follows in the paragraphs below. For further detail...

Growth stocks are under acute pressure as rising interest rates change the dynamics that drive equity valuations. Market corrections are always painful, but investors in growth equities have suffered a particularly harsh blow this year. This year’s market correction reflect...

MSCI U.S. Growth has underperformed its Value counterpart by 16% in the first 4 months of 2022 and had a tough end to 2021 as well. The fact that growth traps are more painful than value traps is, in one sense, not really a surprise. Value stocks are already companies that investors d...

Stocks had a ripsnorter of a rally last week and a lot of people are pondering the question in the title over this long weekend. Sentiment is certainly negative right now by several measures. Sentiment surveys (AAII, Investor’s Intelligence, etc.) are universally negative becau...

MGM initiates robust M&A activity that enhances both its physical and online commercial operations. Expert assessments on the North American Monkeypox outbreak reassure uninterrupted operations of MGM. Its MGM China segment has benefited from a surge in Macau's gaming rev...

How similar will the next three or five years look from the years that immediately preceded the pandemic? And what are the implications for us as global equity investors? We don’t expect anything like the hyperinflation and stagflation we experienced in the 1970s; our outlook s...

In my last two articles on ZIM, I explained why the stock is a buy. ZIM’s 1Q 2022 revenue, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBIT, and net profit are higher than in 1Q 2021 and 4Q 2021. With its new lines and new LNG dual-fuel container vessels, ZIM is ready to benefit from the mar...

IIPR's selloff has continued and shares have nearly been cut in half YTD. Shares now yield 5.1%, which is absurd when you consider the dividend growth track record and potential future dividend growth. It currently trades near all-time low valuations, with shares below a 20x price...

Value continues to trounce growth stocks within the style asset class across all market caps, and the longer-term returns tell us that growth might continue to lag for some time. It’s impossible to say how long the style “alpha” will be sustained. Growth stocks ha...