- Slow Growers – Aging companies growing slightly faster than GDP. Usually bought for their dividends and buybacks
- Stalwarts – Large, quality companies that are profitable and are growing slightly faster than slow growers
- Cyclicals – A company whose sales and profits rise and fall in a regular, if not completely predictable fashion
- Fast Growers – Small, aggressive new enterprises growing at 20-25% per year
- Turnarounds – Battered, bruised, and possibly in, or facing bankruptcy. The performance of these stocks is largely uncorrelated with the broad market
- Asset Plays –A company that’s sitting on something valuable that the market has overlooked, for example, real estate
– Peter Lynch – Author of One up on the Wall Street
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