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It’s time to rotate, Jefferies analysts say.
That is, it’s time to swap growth stocks like technology, which have had a long run up since March, for unloved stocks like cyclicals.
It’s an idea that’s emerged over and over again over the past few years — see here and here — only to be abandoned when investors get spooked and retreat back to the familiar growth narrative. But now, Steven DeSanctis and Eric Lockenvitz write, the economic outlook and stock market fundamentals have aligned.
Growth stock “valuations are at extremes and economic indicators are turning up, boosting cyclicals,” the analysts write. “These stocks have started to come back to life a bit but remain very cheap with the cyclicals sitting in the single-digit percentiles vs. Growth, Bond Proxies.”
“The ISM has made a bottom and is improving along with the PMI and so it has become a better economic backdrop for these stocks,” they added.
What’s more, earnings and sales revision trends are getting better for cyclicals, while deteriorating for growth stocks.
MarketWatch reported last week that multiple investing industry sources agree that it’s time for investors to consider cyclicals, but not necessarily abandon growth stocks.
With that in mind, DeSanctis and Lockenvitz helpfully offer a baker’s dozen of buy-rated stocks from cyclical sectors, which they say have “above-average” return on equity and which have not experienced a downward earnings or sales revision, as noted in the table below.
| Company | Sector | ROE |
| Ares Management Corp. ARES, +0.61% | Financials | 8.6 |
| Core-Mark Holding Co CORE, -1.31% | Discretionary | 10.6 |
| Deckers Outdoor Corp. DECK, -2.52% | Discretionary | 25.3 |
| Gentex Corp. GNTX, -0.03% | Discretionary | 21.9 |
| Lear Corp. LEA, -0.51% | Discretionary | 15.2 |
| Martin Marietta Materials MLM, -0.94% | Materials | 11.6 |
| Nordson Corp. NDSN, -0.44% | Industrials | 21.8 |
| Ollie’s Bargain Outlet Holdings OLLI, +0.02% | Discretionary | 13.0 |
| Oshkosh Corp. OSK, -1.98% | Industrials | 18.7 |
| Teledyne Technologies Inc. TDY, -0.43% | Industrials | 16.0 |
| TopBuild Corp BLD, -0.79% | Discretionary | 10.6 |
| Western Alliance Bancorp WAL, -0.88% | Financials | 16.2 |
| Xilinx Inc. XLNX, +2.52% | Info Tech | 30.6 |
| Source: Jefferies Equity Research | ||
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