69 Graham Value All-Stars, Of 20 'Safer' Choices, Buy Any Of 14

2025-01-22 18:16:53 ET

Summary

• The Value Score identifies large-cap stocks offering the best value relative to their assets and profits, focusing on low-priced, high-value investments.
• The Ben Graham Formula targets ultra-stable stocks with strong earnings, dividends, and low valuations, ensuring long-term stability and minimal losses.
• Analysts forecast significant gains (29.57% to 79.74%) for top-ten GASV stocks by January 2026, highlighting high-yield, low-risk investment opportunities.
• Fourteen of twenty “safer” GASV stocks are ideal buys, with dividends exceeding share prices, ensuring fair-priced, high-yield investments in January 2025.

Foreword

About Large Cap Value

“A Value ranking for large cap stocks from YCharts puts together complementary strategies found during their stock research. The value ranking looks at the price of a stock relative to a number of measurements that determine intrinsic firm value. Only the largest 10% of companies based on market cap are shown in this portfolio.

What it is: The Value Score is a composite score. It tells you how much you are getting in terms of profits, cash flows, assets, sales, etc. for the stock price that you pay. It is a relative measurement, so it says nothing about the overall level of the market. Rather, it answers the question: "Given the current market level, which stocks give you the most current value for your dollar of investment?" Tens are the most value, and 1s are the least.

How to use it: Use it to find companies that are selling at a low price relative to their assets and profits.

Limitations of the Value Score: Watch out for companies with a lot of uncertainty or bad prospects for the future (e.g., Pharma companies with expiring patents, industries on the decline, etc.)

About the Ben Graham Formula

The Ben Graham Formula strategy contains ultra-stable stocks that will infrequently lose money if held over a long period of time. It was developed based on a screen in Graham's book, "The Intelligent Investor." For those who have the book, it is the "Defensive Investor" screen. It selects stocks that are large in terms of sales and total assets, have a strong track record of earnings and dividend payments, have a reasonable current ratio and level of long term debt, and have a low valuation given by PE Ratios and Price to Book Value ratios.” -YCharts.

While over half of this collection of GASV is too pricey, or reveal skinny dividends, fourteen of the twenty “safer” lowest-priced Dogs of the GASV are ready to buy. January finds Pacasmayo ( CPAC ), DHT Holdings ( DHT ), Altria Group ( MO ), Verizon ( VZ ), EnergyTransfer ( ET ), Bank of Nova Scotia ( BNS ), First Interstate ( FIBK ), Columbia Banking ( COLB ), Suncor Energy ( SU ), Manulife Financial ( MFC ), Deutsche Bank ( DB ), Kronos Worldwide ( KRO ), Barclays ( BCS ), on the buy list....

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