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How Value Investors Can Win With “Ugly Ducklings”

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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One common theme among value investors is the habit of looking for companies that have been beaten up or fallen out of favor for one reason or another. Many investors prefer to stay out of an investment until things are starting to turn around, although some value investors, like Bob Robotti of Robotti Value Investors, seek to identify these so-called "ugly ducklings" long before they become a swan.

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What's in a value stock?

At the 2019 Ben Graham Conference, Robotti explained when he looks for in value names and discussed his theses for

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.