Investors who bought companies thought to be undervalued have benefitted from the recent outperformance of value stocks over the fastest earnings growers. The past few weeks have allowed value investors to take a rare victory lap, considering how much growth stocks have outperformed throughout this bull market.biggest beneficiariesDerivatives strategists at Goldman Sachs have compiled a list of 20 stocks that"have the potential for continued asymmetric upside.
Investors have already discounted these companies heavily. The average stock on this list has underperformed the"While fundamentals will also determine the long-term trajectory of stocks, we use signals from options and credit markets to identify 20 value stocks from among those where our analysts' estimates show strong value scores," Goldman's Vishal Vivek said in a recent note to clients.
The stocks are all buy- or neutral-rated and were skimmed from the top quintile of Goldman's valuation portfolio. Their credit default swap spreads are all tighter than 200 basis points and have not risen over the past month. They are listed below, sorted from stocks with the smallest drawdown over the past year to those with the largest.