"You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map," Warren Buffett responded in 2005 when meeting with students asking how to generate 50% annual return.
Research shows that "more popular stocks have higher valuations relative to their fundamentals, but lower expected returns," demonstrating negative correlations between company popularities and long-term risk-adjusted returns. Searching for out-of-favor stocks has been the strategy for many successful investors, including Michael Burry from The Big Shot. My proprietary