AllianceBernstein, Pulte, Hibbett, Lear, Pier 1 - 5 Stocks To Buy by John Dorfman, Dorfman Value Investments
Buying low is half the secret to making money in the stock market. But as every seasoned investor knows, a cheap stock can stay cheap for a long time.
If you can catch an inflection point when a company’s fortunes are improving but its stock is still cheap, you can make good money. That’s what I’ll try to do in today’s column.
Using software from TD Ameritrade Institutional, I screened this weekend for stocks that:
- Sell for 15 times per-share earnings or less.
- Show at least 15 percent earnings growth in their latest quarter, compared to the previous quarter.
- Posted earnings in the latest quarter that...

