- Growth stock
In
finance , Growth Stocks arestock s that appreciate in value and yield a highreturn on equity (ROE). Analysts compute ROE by taking the company's net income and dividing it by the company'sequity . To be classified as a growth stock, analysts expect to see at least 15 percent return on equity.Fact|date=July 2008Growth vs. Value investing
Since 1982, the growth stocks have beaten value stocks during: [cite web
url=http://planning.tdameritrade.com/srl/tda/library_article.jsp?tid=0039&client=tda&catid=000646
title=TD AMERITRADE: Planning & Retirement > Growth vs. Value: Two Approaches to Stock Investing|publisher=planning.tdameritrade.com|accessdate=2008-06-13]*1982
*1985
*1987
*1989-91
*1995-99
*2007During the rest of the years, the value stocks have done better. Note that the 5 years preceding the
dot com bubble burst, growth stocks did better than value, since thenvalue stock s have generally done better.Some advisors advise investing half the portfolio using the value approach and other half using the growth approach. [ [https://www.bernstein.com/public/story.aspx?cid=744&nid=185 Bernstein - Multi-Style Investing: A Tale Of Two Investment ?Styles? ] ]
ee also
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Finance
*Financial ratios
*PE ratio
*Turnaround stock
*Value stock Footnotes
External links
* [http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/05/bloomberg/bxstocks.php Ratios converge between growth and value stocks]
* [http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2004/09/28/how-to-find-the-ultimate-growth-stock.aspx How to Find the Ultimate Growth Stock]
* [http://seekingalpha.com/article/42758 DuPont: Despite Earnings Miss, Still a Growth Stock]References
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