Peter Lynch is famous not just for his enviable track record as 13-year head of Fidelity Magellan, but also for his quirky investment strategies. The market's best stocks, according to Lynch, are small, growing companies flying below Wall Street's radar.
It makes sense, after all, to pick out the strongest companies that have the greatest chance of being overlooked, and hence, mispriced. As investors, we should all take advice from the man who not only minted fundholders a 28-bagger but actually coined the investing term "-bagger."
With that in mind, I used our new CAPS screening tool to find stocks Peter Lynch might love. Below are seven companies with four- or five-star ratings from our CAPS community.
They also have:
- Three-year trailing earnings-per-share growth at least 25%.
- Price-to-earnings multiples below 25.
- Market capitalizations below $10 billion.
|
Company |
Sector |
Market Cap |
|---|---|---|
|
Atwood Oceanics |
Basic Materials |
$2.37 billion |
|
Diana Shipping |
Services |
$1.18 billion |
|
FLIR Systems |
Industrial Goods |
$5.04 billion |
|
Fluor Corp |
Industrial Goods |
$8.14 billion |
|
Dolby Laboratories |
Technology |
$5.42 billion |
|
DreamWorks Animation |
Services |
$3.52 billion |
|
Walter Energy |
Basic Materials |
$4.10 billion |
Data from Motley Fool CAPS and Yahoo! Finance as of Dec. 29.
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