Do you want to outsmart financial analyst?

It was one of those days at Stock Card HQ! One of those heated conversations, banging on the table, leaving the room, going for a walk to calm down type of days... What were we talking about?

To answer the question, I have to take you back to a few months ago when Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips from Templeton and Phillips Capital Management published their quarterly letter. Often, their letters exude pessimism about the market and as such make it for a fun and entertaining read. Call us investment nerds, but that's how we spend our weekends. Anyhow, in the latest edition of Lauren and Scott's letter, they argued how institutional investors and fund managers are getting overexcited about a few hundred stocks so much so that a company such as Apple has made its way into 155 ETFs including six value ETFs, five momentum ETFs, and ten growth ETFs. These two masters of stock market criticism argue that while "a growth company like Apple can fall out of favor and become a value, the contrast between value and momentum is too stark." How could Apple be a value, growth, and momentum stock all at once?! 

We picked up the letter from where Scott and Lauren left off, and concluded, if institutional and professional fund managers are overexcited about the big and buzz companies, they must be missing some great companies. And, that's where the heated conversations started... who are they? how do we find them? 
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We went on a hunt... We started from the twenty-one thousand and so stocks we have at our disposal to invest in. We then removed all companies that have signs of operational weakness. After all, we never invest in companies that do not operate as well as the big and buzz. But then we took one step further and sorted out the results by the number of professional and institutional investors.  The results were ... drum roll ...
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Nineteen companies ... nineteen stocks that professional money managers had missed... ​

Say hello to the #OutSmartThePros investment theme: ​

Control4 is the first of nineteen. The company's operations tick like a well-oiled clock. Its software rules every device in your home that connects to the internet. From entertaining to lighting to security, Control4 rules them all. The company operates in the smart home market which is expected to grow by 27% per year in the years to come, and this is one the few that has already started to get a headstart in particular sector. Check out its Stock Card to get to learn how Control4 can help you outsmart the pros.

Just like that, December is annotated as the month to outsmart professional money managers. For every Stock Card Weekly, you will have a few of those nineteens waiting for you in your mailbox.  Don't forget to Send us an email or submit a Stock Card request to add other under the radar stocks that you believe will outsmart the pros.

What has been happening in our neck of the woods?
There is a secret way the team at Stock Card HQ uses its own internal database and we just made it available to you too. When you are looking for any Stock Card, just write the ticker symbol after our website's URL (stockcard.io/ticker) and it will take you directly to that Stock Card. No search is needed, just fast track to validate your thoughts... It's our favorite way of using StockCard.io and now, you know it too...  ​

What has been on your radar?
As always, our community has been busy exploring new companies and stocks. Here is what has been on our radar in the past week. Click on the logo to go to the company's Stock Card:

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