Hi Peter,
Basically growth/income stocks just about encompass the whole market!
One thing to be very conscious of is the ASX200 may have posted a slight new all-time high this week but we aren’t in a market where selloffs are regularly being bought aggressively. Without quantifying the statistics MM is confident that companies that “miss” during earnings season are underperforming the market over the coming months, hence, any bargain hunting should be extremely selective.
A great example is Cochlear (COH), previous market favourite, shown below which tumbled last week after missing profit forecasts during the increasingly volatile earnings season. Here we are on Friday, six trading days later, and even in a market testing new highs and COH is still plumbing fresh 3-year lows. The same was true with CSL which has failed to bounce.
This trend if being driven by a higher proportion of momentum based investing that relies on earnings and price trends. The end result is stocks are generally taking longer to recover, so buying the dip is more often than not, the right approach.
- So, the answer is yes but with extreme caution.