Conflicting managers say investors have little to lose, more to gain from these three distressed stocks


The second record-breaking day for the stock looks diced, with the Nasdaq Composite COMP for Thursday.
+ 0.97%
Leads south.

There is no doubt that some people may feel angry about the epidemic we have seen in stocks. Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s “Don’t panic” list states that every hour since the March COVID-19 lockdown, central banks have bought assets 1.4 billion in assets and gained a market cap of 6 1.6 billion on the Nasdaq-100. (More below.)

If the above doesn’t help, our idea is full Call of the day Maybe. It comes from Jack Murphy, chief investment officer and chief portfolio manager at Levin Esterley Capital, which seeks out cheap and unsold value stocks, mostly under peas since the 2008-09 financial crisis.

“We like good companies that have lower prices, have attractive valuation characteristics or we recognize some change going forward. “We choose companies that are breaking up or splitting up,” Murphy told Marketwatch.

He sees a lot of “good companies” out there with 30% to 50% side effects. “The economy doesn’t need to get better, you don’t need interest rates to go down, you don’t need more stimulus money in the economy to make these stock ideas work,” Murphy said.

His first choice is General Motors GM,
+ 9.9૨%
– Year-to-date 15% down. Om tomobile maker generates large cash flows with cars and crossover sport-utility vehicles and trucks, although losing money on its electric vehicle (EV) and driverless car units.

“We think they’re going through a strategic review right now. Should they make a partial initial public offering of their automated electric vehicle business?” He added that, depending on how the scheme works, GM could have at least a 50% valuation.

“The fact is that General Motors, which produces billions of free cash flows, has a market cap of 42 42 billion and Tesla TSLA,
-5.82%,
“There’s not even a billion in Freakflow, with a market cap of $ 5 billion – we think there’s a big disconnect,” Murphy said.

He also likes European cable and broadband operator Vodafone VOD,
+ 0.75%
24% year-to-date below. It features a .3..3% dividend yield, but more importantly, it expects Vodafone to potentially make its cellphone tower business, an IPO, or an IPO of a lucrative industry. That alone could mean 35% to 50% of the stock, he says.

The next stock is Unified DuPont DD,
+ 5.06%
– out of 6% – which merges its nutrition business into international flavors and flavors IFF,
+ 0.97%,
With a spin off funny expectation in early 2021. Shares are down 6% year-over-year.

“It’s an incredibly shareholder friendly transaction because IFF evaluates DuPont’s value at a large premium,” Murphy said. He thinks DuPont will break even more in the future, a major business with the IFF. Another place – DuPont is likely to settle some legal issues and China’s excellent outlook will also boost the stock. “DuPont is trading at 55 dollars but it is close to 85 dollars.”

Speaking of those high-growth stocks, he says investors have been allowing a very strong environment for a very long time to evaluate the environment and we think it is risky. “With a 7% lower decline in premarket in Tesla, jetters could come.

Markets

Nasdaq-100 Futures NQ00,
-1.22%
The S&P 500 is heading south with the ES 100,
-0.50%
Drowning, but Dow Futures DJIA,
+ 1.58%
Flat. SXXP in European stocks,
+ 0.71%
The euro is rebounding like the EURUSD,
-0.34%
The dollar slipped back into the DXY,
+ 0.17%
Strength.

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How polarized is this stock market? Michael Harnett, chief investment strategist at Bank of America, unveils one of his top market statistics:

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+ 1.06%
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+ 0.06%
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+ 1.37%
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