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prospects for profit growth.
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Kapitall submits:The following is a breakdown of projected EPS
growth rates over the next 5 years by sector (based on S&P 500
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Return of the growth stock
The stock market can be divided into two camps. On one side you
have shares of fast-growing -- but often high-priced -- firms whose
earnings are expanding more rapidly than the market (think Google
or Apple). Then there are value-oriented shares of boring but
reliable businesses that go through cycles of being unloved and
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Cheap Stocks: Further Thoughts on JOE
Greenbackd submits: In my original post about The St. Joe Company
(NYSE: JOE) (see The long and short of The St. Joe Company I
mentioned that Jon Heller of Cheap Stocks had been a past holder.
Jon has clarified his position in a post on Cheap Stocks and
provided some useful comments on where he sees the value: For the
record, while I believe that there is value in St. Joe’s
assets, I have not owned the name since 2008. I originally purhased
shares in the mid $20′s back in the early 2000′s,
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