The Daily Screen: The Best Large-Cap Value Funds

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Small-Cap Value

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Large-Cap Blend

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When the White House is a jump ball and stock prices are in a free-fall, you realize why it's important to keep value funds in your portfolio.

Big-cap value funds, the focus of today's Daily Screen, essentially hunt for bargains in the stock market among giant companies, favoring those with steady earnings growth but seemingly modest share prices relative to their peers or the market.

This approach can lead to solid returns, with less volatility than growth funds, which tend to favor faster growing companies with steeper valuations. Of course, the definition of "value" is a bit more slippery than growth, because some fund managers consider classic valuations methods such as low price-to-earnings multiples when hunting for values, while others may consider high-growth tech stocks that may not have all of their growth potential priced in. ...