I don't think we can categorically declare that these stocks are
value traps until we give them time to work their way out of the screen one way or another (i.e. they're too expensive because the stock price is up, or the fundamentals are destroyed).
Not exact matches
Until there is, they'll continue to be
value traps.
In order to avoid «
value traps,» or cheap stocks that continue to get cheaper, the manager will generally weight
until a potential stock is in an uptrend before buying.
In his book, Active
Value Investing, Vitaliy Katsenelson makes a compelling argument that equity markets are now
trapped in a range - bound market that he estimates will last
until 2020 or so.