Zacks.com featured highlights Barrick Gold, StoneCo, Synovus Financial and BGC Group
For Immediate ReleaseChicago, IL – May 1, 2025 – The stocks in this week’s article are Barrick Gold GOLD, StoneCo STNE, Synovus Financial SNV and BGC Group, Inc. BGC.4 PEG-Efficient Value Picks to Boost Your Portfolio ReturnsAt a time when volatility strikes every second day, investors often rely on value investing rather than other options like growth or momentum. As soon as other investors start selling their stocks at a cheaper rate in times of market uncertainty, these value investors take this as an opportunity to pick good stocks at a discounted price.Several stocks that have surged significantly in the recent past have shown the overwhelming success of this pure-play investment strategy. Here, we discuss four such stocks — Barrick Gold, StoneCo, Synovus Financial and BGC Group, Inc.However, this apparently simple value investment technique has some drawbacks and not understanding the strategy properly may often lead to “value traps.” In such a situation, these value picks start to underperform over the long run as the temporary problems, which once drove the share price down, turn out to be persistent.There are many value investment yardsticks such as dividend yield, P/E or P/B, which are simple and can single out whether a stock is trading at a discount.However, for investors looking to escape such value traps, it is also vital to determine where the stock would be headed in the next 12 to 24 months. Warren Buffett advises these investors to focus on the earnings growth potential of a stock. This is where lies the importance of a not-so-popular value investing metric, the PEG ratio.PEG Ratio at a GlanceThe PEG ratio is defined as (Price/ Earnings)/Earnings Growth RateA low PEG ratio is always better for value investors.While P/E alone fails to identify a true value stock, PEG helps find the intrinsic value of a stock.There are some drawbacks to using the PEG ratio. It doesn’t consider the very common situation of changing growth rates, such as the forecast of the first three years at a very high growth rate, followed by a sustainable but lower growth rate over the long term.Hence, PEG-based investing can turn out to be even more rewarding if some other relevant parameters are also taken into consideration.Here are four stocks that qualified the screening:Barrick Gold: The company, based in Toronto, Canada, is one of the largest gold mining companies in the world. It has many advanced exploration and development projects located across five continents. Barrick Gold produced 3.9 million ounces of gold and 195,000 tons of copper in 2024. Barrick Gold had 89 million ounces (oz) of proven and probable gold reserves at the end of 2024.Barrick Gold currently has a Zacks Rank #2 and a Value Score of A. GOLD also has an impressive five-year expected growth rate of 33.5%.StoneCo: The company provides financial technology and software solutions to merchants and integrated partners to conduct electronic commerce across in-store, online, and mobile channels in Brazil. The company offers financial services, including payment, prepayment, digital banking, and credit solutions.Apart from a discounted PEG and P/E, StoneCo currently has a Zacks Rank #1 and a Value Score of B. StoneCo has a long-term expected growth rate of 26.3%.Synovus Financial: Columbus, GA-based Synovus Financial is a diverse financial services company that conducts its banking operations through Synovus Bank. It provides integrated financial services, including commercial and consumer banking, investment, and mortgage services, to its customers through locally branded divisions of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Synovus Bank, which has 246 branches in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee.Synovus Financial has a Zacks Rank #2 and a Value Score of A. SNV also has an impressive five-year expected growth rate of 10.2%.BGC: The company operates as a financial brokerage and technology company in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company offers various brokerage products. These include fixed-income products like government bonds, corporate bonds, and other debt instruments, as well as related interest rate derivatives and credit derivatives.BGC has an impressive long-term expected earnings growth rate of 24.7%. BGC currently has a Value Score of B and a Zacks Rank of 1. 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Of course, all our elite picks aren’t winners but this one could far surpass earlier Zacks’ Stocks Set to Double like Nano-X Imaging which shot up +129.6% in little more than 9 months.Free: See Our Top Stock And 4 Runners UpWant the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Synovus Financial Corp. (SNV): Free Stock Analysis Report BGC Group, Inc. (BGC): Free Stock Analysis Report Barrick Gold Corporation (GOLD): Free Stock Analysis Report StoneCo Ltd. (STNE): Free Stock Analysis ReportThis article originally published on Zacks Investment Research (zacks.com).Zacks Investment ResearchWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Zacks
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