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The Applied Finance Group (AFG), known for providing quality institutional equity research to its clients in the United States, has recently developed a global research site to expand its research coverage to over 15 countries around the world, and begin serving investors internationally. AFG’s measure of corporate performance, the Economic Margin (EM), has proven to be effective at understanding a company’s true economic profitability not only across different sizes, styles, and sector universes, but also across different countries.

For those Valueexpectations.com readers who consider themselves value oriented investors, we have provided a good starting list of solid value companies that look attractive as potential investment opportunities for the long term. This list is a good place to start when looking for potential companies to add to your portfolio. The Applied Finance Group (AFG) considers companies with a Market Value/Invested Capital (MV/IC) in the bottom half of the universe as value companies.

Many of the institutional clients of The Applied Finance Group, Ltd. (AFG) tend to focus on large cap stocks and benchmark themselves against the S&P 500 Index, which is why many of the buy ideas from ValueExpectations.com usually come from the large cap index. For those investors who focus on small to mid cap stocks from the Russell 2000, we have provided a list of companies with the most attractive valuations within the index.

Every June, The Applied Finance Group (AFG) hosts its annual conference in Las Vegas to help its clients improve their understanding of AFG’s methodology and valuation framework. Putting these concepts into practice, AFG also provides several actionable Buy ideas that clients can add to their portfolio, upon returning to their office. One of the most popular sessions during the conference is called “Hot Stocks”- a time when AFG analysts give detailed analysis of several stocks that are currently of great interest to the investment community.

Back in February, Valueexpectations.com released a blog highlighting Fidelity’s Low Priced Stock Fund that follows a strategy of only investing in stocks with a share price of under $35. In that blog we provided a list of 30 stocks that we thought were attractively priced according to The Applied Finance Group’s ((AFG)) valuation model broken up into three price brackets: under $10, $10 to $20 and $20 to $35.