Vancouver, Wash. — Jan 11,2017 — Global, high - growth companies are more likely to invest in account - based strategies, cold calling, rigorous sales training, and data quality initiatives than their
lower growth counterparts according to a survey of 200 sales and marketing organizations conducted in November 2016 by DiscoverOrg, the world's leading marketing and sales intelligence solution.
Broadly speaking, value stocks crushed
their growth counterparts last year.
In that period, the large - cap value ETF handily outperformed
its growth counterpart, albeit with a slightly higher standard deviation (a measure of volatility of returns).
Value stocks relative to
their growth counterparts are experiencing historic under performance.
Although the value indices substantially outperformed
their growth counterparts over the past quarter - century, growth has performed better than value in the 10 years through 2017.
Hence, value firms are perceived as being riskier than
their growth counterparts and, as such, should command a premium.
It should be noted that there is often considerable overlap between this fund and
its growth counterpart, the result of a methodology that uses a generous definition of value stocks.
During that time the S&P 500 / Barra Value Index (SVX) climbed nearly 5 percent, while
its growth counterpart gained just 1.9 percent.
One 2013 essay claims that every Russell value index, everywhere in the world, in every sector, has outperformed
its growth counterpart since inception.