Growth Fund Manager Explains Why Charles Schwab Is A Quality Growth Stock

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Although growth companies typically outperform when interest rates are falling, they haven't done too bad this year. The S&P 500 Growth index is up 17.5% year to date. In fact, the S&P 500 Quality Index is also up year to date, gaining 16% amid the Quality – Growth Investor Conference in London on Sept. 21.

At the conference, Michael Baron of Baron Capital noted that no one says they're targeting low-quality stocks. However, that term "quality" is subjective among investors, each potentially with their own specific list of characteristics that define a stock as a quality name.

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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.