James O'Shaughnessy

… 430 locations in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. LKQ ($4.3 billion market cap) gets strong interest from my James O ’ Shaughnessy -based growth stock model. It looks for firms that have upped earnings per share in each year of the past five-year …

… scrutiny, but AT&T is still a power, having taken in $126 billion in sales in the past year. That size is part of why my James O ’ Shaughnessy -based value model likes AT&T. Two more reasons: AT&T is producing $6.55 in cash flow per share, nearly …

… trailing 12-month sales — and it offers a whopping dividend yield of 10.5%. That big yield is one of the reasons my James O ’ Shaughnessy -based value model is high on Santander. This approach likes large firms with strong cash flows and high dividend yields …

… But even so, there’s no reason an investor should restrict themselves to one or the other. Look, for example, at James O ’ Shaughnessy , whose book What Works on Wall Street forms the basis for one of my best performing “Guru Strategies” (each of which …

… the past three years, with long-term debt/equity declining from 227% to 89%. Rock-Tenn gets approval from my James O ’ Shaughnessy -based growth model. This approach looks for companies that have upped EPS in each year of the past half-decade …

… are also cheap, trading for a very reasonable 14.2 times trailing 12-month earnings and 1.33 times book value. My James O ’ Shaughnessy -based value model also likes Sanofi. It targets large firms with strong cash flows and high dividend yields. Sanofi …

… quite cheap. It trades for just 0.63 times trailing 12-month sales, part of the reason it gets high marks from my James O ’ Shaughnessy -based growth model. Another key part of this approach is a high relative strength over the past 12 months; O …