” It promotes the idea that the stock market is seasonal, and will underperform during the summer months. According to the Corporate Finance Institute, since 1945, stocks have gained on average 6.7% during the six months from November to April versus only 2% from May to October. This phenomenon is likely related to a “Wall Street” tradition dating back to 18th century England when bankers and aristocrats sold stocks, packed up and left the City of London for their summer retreats.
“A lot of these are weeding out, for lack of a better term, the garbage. That is why I think at the base level you’re seeing these stock screens perform well,” says Wayne Sharp, head of research at , which shipped a record 12.2 million tons of steel last year and generated $22.3 billion in revenue, up 130% in a two-year span. Its shares have thrived alongside most American steelmakers in the last three years amid supply chain shortages, rising fivefold since March 2020 and up 16% in the last year. Its record $3.9 billion in net profit in 2022 results in a cheap P/E ratio at just 5.5.
Several of the two dozen stocks passing the Lynch screen criteria are international firms, including Ternium and, a semiconductor manufacturer which is up 20% this year, though it fell in April. The Swiss company has a P/E ratio of 10 and recorded 26% growth in 2022 to $16.1 billion in net revenues. David Dreman made a habit of buying and holding out of favor stocks and wrote a best-selling 1998 book titled"Contrarian Investment Strategies."For more value-inclined investors looking at the construction industry, several homebuilders are in AAII’s David Dreman stock screen with earnings estimate revisions. Dreman is the chairman of Dreman Value Management, which he founded in 1977.