What Is a Value Stock?

A simple guide to understanding undervalued stocks

Todd Lincoln, MBA
Investor’s Handbook
4 min readNov 16, 2022

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What exactly is a value stock?

“Value stocks” describes an investing strategy that looks for companies currently trading below what they’re really worth.

In other words, value investing tries to buy good stocks on the cheap.

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Todd Lincoln, MBA
Investor’s Handbook

Stock-market investor, battle-scarred entrepreneur, and fireside philosopher. Creator of Investor’s Handbook: https://medium.com/the-investors-handbook