SocGen Global Quantitative Research analysts Andrew Lapthome and Georgios Oikonomou look at how September fared across the various popular investment screens and come up with some interesting findings. Investment screens: The flight to trash Even though equity markets had one of the best Septembers ever, investors seemed to be scraping the barrel – plumping for low quality and weak balance sheet names due to a dearth of quality or value companies. Ironically, the strong market performance hitherto has led to a fall in the number of eligible candidates that show up on the screens – only 21 deep value and…
In The Absence of Value, Investors Opt for Trash
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