Value Beats Growth

A trend that I don't see to many pundits commenting on is that over the last year {or in the case of this chart going back to the beginning of 2016} value investing has beaten growth investing.  This trends is most pronounced the further down the market-cap chain you travel.  By that I mean smaller capitalized value stocks outperformed their growth oriented indices by a much larger margin than the larger capitalized indices did.  I'm guessing that a lot of this has to do with the earnings growth recession we've seen for the past few years.  It will be interesting to see if this trend continues if economic growth picks up in 2017.  Note that you can double-click on the chart to make it larger for better viewing.

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