25 Most Actively Traded S&P 500 Stocks (ex. Financials) – Including Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)

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In this exercise we have listed the 25 most actively traded stocks (volume) over the last year and ranked them based on The Applied Finance Group's (AFG's) key investment criteria including valuation attractiveness, management quality and expected changes in Economic Margins (what a company earns above its true cost of capital). These companies seem to always garner the most attention from within the investment community, so we decided to add our insights into which of these firms look attractive and worthy of the hype and which you may want to avoid.

AFG’s criteria used in its stock selection process have proven successful at identifying winners and losers in the market including its proprietary measure of corporate performance (Economic Margin), valuation, management quality and earnings quality among other criteria.

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Of the 25 companies listed that are heavily traded, eight stocks appear to be potential buys given their expected improvement in Economic Margins, attractive valuations, and wealth creating management teams. The list includes five stocks in the technology sector and one each in the basic material, consumer services, and health sectors.

Source: EconomicMargin.com

AFG's Valuation Metric – Measures the percent to target (deviation between a stock’s current trading price and its AFG current default target price). To derive the intrinsic value of a firm, AFG uses its proprietary Valuation Model (modified discounted cash flow model).

Economic Margin - A corporate performance measurement that addresses the gaps in GAAP, eliminating distortions caused by accounting policies to measure what a company is truly earning above or below their cost of capital.

Management Quality – Assesses management’s ability to make wealth creating decisions.

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The Applied Finance Group is an independent equity research firm dedicated to helping our clients make better investment decisions. We help our clients take advantage of mispricings in the market, understand the market expectations embedded in stock prices and provide a set of tools designed to save investors time with their daily due diligence activities. For more information on The Applied Finance Group visit www.EconomicMargin.com.

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