The Key To The Great Debate On Value vs. Growth
By Lori Calvasina
Published March 29, 2021 | 6 min read
In this edition, Lori gives her take on the Growth vs. Value debate that has become a key underpinning of positioning within the US equity market. She reiterates her preference for Value over Growth in 2021 due to: a better cash deployment profile in Value, stronger earnings momentum in Value, a greater positioning problem in Growth, extended Growth valuations relative to Value, Value’s status in the market as a reflation trade, and surging ETF flows for Value. Lori acknowledges that these are all intermediate term reasons to prefer Value. Ultimately, she believes the ability of Value to continue leading longer term depends on whether the economy can sustain above-trend GDP growth in 2022 and beyond.
Lori Calvasina
Managing Director & Head of U.S. Equity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets
Lori Calvasina joined RBC Capital Markets as Head of U.S. Equity Strategy in 2017 as a Managing Director. Having spent nearly two decades as an equity strategist at major investment banks, Lori is an expert on the US stock market, and regularly represents RBC in the financial media on Bloomberg and CNBC. Prior to joining RBC, Lori was a senior equity strategist at Credit Suisse from 2010 to 2017, covering Small/Mid Cap Strategy from 2010-2014 and both Small/Mid Cap and US Equity Strategy from 2015-2017. She spent the first ten years of her career at Citi in a variety of roles including lead Small/Mid Cap Strategist from 2007-2010. In both 2008 and 2009 Lori was ranked #2 in the Small Companies category in the Institutional Investor All America Research team poll. Lori is a graduate of the University of Virginia and its selective Government & Foreign Affairs’ Honors Program. In 2019, she was named to Crains New York’s list of Notable Women in Finance.
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