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Add These 4 GARP Stocks to Your Portfolio for Handsome Returns
If you are looking for a profitable portfolio of stocks offering the best of value and growth investing, try the growth at a reasonable price or GARP strategy.
The strategy helps investors gain exposure to undervalued stocks with impressive prospects. Unlike a blend strategy, a portfolio that uses GARP investing is expected to include stocks that offer the best of value and growth investing. Vertiv, Expedia Group, NVIDIA and Ralph Lauren are some GARP stocks that hold promise.
GARP Metrics: Mix of Growth & Value Metrics
The GARP strategy seeks to offer an ideal investment by utilizing the best features of value and growth investing. Investors adopting the GARP approach prefer buying stocks priced below the market or any reasonable target determined by fundamental analysis. These stocks also have solid prospects in terms of cash flow, revenues, earnings per share (EPS) and so on.
Growth Metrics
A strong earnings growth history and impressive earnings prospects are the main concepts that GARP investors borrow from the growth investing strategy. However, instead of super-normal growth rates, pursuing stocks with a more stable and reasonable growth rate is a tactic of GARP investors. Hence, growth rates between 10% and 20% are considered ideal under the GARP strategy.
Another metric that growth and GARP investors consider is return on equity (ROE). GARP investors look for a strong and higher ROE than the industry average to identify superior stocks. Stocks with positive cash flows find precedence under the GARP plan.
Value Metrics
GARP investing prioritizes popular value metrics — the price-to-earnings (P/E) and price-to-book (P/B) ratios. Though this investing style picks stocks with higher P/E ratios than value investors, it avoids companies with extremely high P/E ratios.
Using the GARP principle, we ran a screen to identify stocks that should offer solid returns in the near term.
Here are four stocks from the 11 that made it through the screening process.
Vertiv is benefiting from strong order growth and a robust pipeline, reinforcing its position as a leader in the data center and AI infrastructure market. In the third quarter of 2025, organic orders (excluding foreign exchange) rose 60% year over year and the book-to-bill ratio was roughly 1.4x. Vertiv’s innovative portfolio has been a significant growth driver. It recently introduced OCP-aligned rack, power and cooling solutions. These include the SmartIT OCP rack, PowerIT PDUs, PowerBar Track and CoolChip Fluid Network. They are designed to support high-density, energy-efficient data centers and next-generation AI workloads.
This Zacks Rank #1 company’s rich partner base, which includes Ballard Power Systems, Compass Datacenters, NVIDIA, Oklo, Intel, ZincFive and Tecogen, is noteworthy. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
The stock has surged 61.4% in the year-to-date period. It has a trailing four-quarter earnings surprise of 14.89%, on average. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for VRT’s 2025 earnings has remained steady at $4.11 per share over the past 30 days.
Expedia’s strong brand portfolio, comprising Brand Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, Orbitz, Travelocity, ebookers and Wotif Group, to name a few, offers a full range of travel and advertising services to travelers, suppliers and business partners. The company benefits from a strong platform model that enhances customer insights, strengthens supplier ties and helps grow revenues. Its diverse brand portfolio, spanning major travel services, enables it to target a broad range of global traveler needs, while boosting traffic and bookings. A broad multi-product supply network, including lodging, airlines, rental cars and cruises, positions it well to capture demand in the growing leisure travel space. Strong liquidity, share buybacks, and dividends further highlight the financial resilience of this Zacks Rank #1 company.
This stock has surged 38.7% in the year-to-date period. It has a trailing four-quarter earnings surprise of 4.53%, on average. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for EXPE’s 2025 earnings has moved north by 5.7% to $15.09 per share over the past 30 days.
NVIDIA is benefiting from the strong growth of AI and high-performance accelerated computing. The growing demand for generative AI and large language models using graphics processing units (GPUs) based on NVIDIA’s Hopper and Blackwell architectures is aiding data center revenues. This Zacks Rank #1 company’s networking business, including NVLink and Spectrum-X, is also contributing to growth by enabling faster and more efficient data movement within AI clusters. These add-ons make NVIDIA’s full-stack approach more appealing to enterprises and governments building AI infrastructure.
The continued ramp-up of Ada RTX GPU workstations in the ProViz end market, following the normalization of channel inventory, is acting as a tailwind. Collaborations with more than 320 automakers and tier-one suppliers are likely to advance its presence in the autonomous vehicle space. We expect NVIDIA’s revenues to witness a CAGR of 31% through fiscal 2026-2028.
The stock has returned 36.6% in the year-to-date period. It has a trailing four-quarter earnings surprise of 2.77%, on average. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for NVDA’s fiscal 2026 earnings has moved north by 3.6% to $4.62 per share over the past 30 days.
Ralph Lauren is benefiting from investor confidence in its robust brand equity, successful execution of its strategic transformation and consistent performance across geographies and channels. RL’s strong pricing power, margin expansion, disciplined inventory and real estate management are key growth drivers for the long term.
This Zacks Rank #2 company is gaining from the strategic execution of its “Next Great Chapter: Accelerate Plan” and robust financial performance. The plan focuses on brand elevation, consumer centricity and operational agility. Digital transformation drives growth, with investments in personalization, mobile, omnichannel, and fulfillment enhancing consumer engagement. Retail and wholesale remain key pillars, with flagship stores, premium distribution, and partnerships boosting comparable sales across North America, Europe and Asia in the second quarter of fiscal 2026.
The stock has returned 54.5% in the year-to-date period. It has a trailing four-quarter earnings surprise of 9.82%, on average. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for RL’s fiscal 2026 earnings has moved north by 2.7% to $15.41 per share over the past 30 days.
You can get the remaining stocks on this list by signing up now for a 2-week free trial to the Research Wizard stock picking and backtesting software. You can also create your own strategies and test them first before making investments.
The Research Wizard is a great place to begin. It's easy to use. Everything is in plain language. And it's very intuitive. Start your Research Wizard trial today. And the next time you read an economic report, open up the Research Wizard, plug your finds in and see what gems come out.
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Strong Stocks that Should Be in the News
Many are little publicized and fly under the Wall Street radar. They're virtually unknown to the general public. Yet today's 220 Zacks Rank #1 "Strong Buys" were generated by the stock-picking system that has more than doubled the market from 1988 through 2016. Its average gain has been a stellar +25% per year. See these high-potential stocks free >>.
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Add These 4 GARP Stocks to Your Portfolio for Handsome Returns
If you are looking for a profitable portfolio of stocks offering the best of value and growth investing, try the growth at a reasonable price or GARP strategy.
The strategy helps investors gain exposure to undervalued stocks with impressive prospects. Unlike a blend strategy, a portfolio that uses GARP investing is expected to include stocks that offer the best of value and growth investing. Vertiv, Expedia Group, NVIDIA and Ralph Lauren are some GARP stocks that hold promise.
GARP Metrics: Mix of Growth & Value Metrics
The GARP strategy seeks to offer an ideal investment by utilizing the best features of value and growth investing. Investors adopting the GARP approach prefer buying stocks priced below the market or any reasonable target determined by fundamental analysis. These stocks also have solid prospects in terms of cash flow, revenues, earnings per share (EPS) and so on.
Growth Metrics
A strong earnings growth history and impressive earnings prospects are the main concepts that GARP investors borrow from the growth investing strategy. However, instead of super-normal growth rates, pursuing stocks with a more stable and reasonable growth rate is a tactic of GARP investors. Hence, growth rates between 10% and 20% are considered ideal under the GARP strategy.
Another metric that growth and GARP investors consider is return on equity (ROE). GARP investors look for a strong and higher ROE than the industry average to identify superior stocks. Stocks with positive cash flows find precedence under the GARP plan.
Value Metrics
GARP investing prioritizes popular value metrics — the price-to-earnings (P/E) and price-to-book (P/B) ratios. Though this investing style picks stocks with higher P/E ratios than value investors, it avoids companies with extremely high P/E ratios.
Using the GARP principle, we ran a screen to identify stocks that should offer solid returns in the near term.
Here are four stocks from the 11 that made it through the screening process.
Vertiv is benefiting from strong order growth and a robust pipeline, reinforcing its position as a leader in the data center and AI infrastructure market. In the third quarter of 2025, organic orders (excluding foreign exchange) rose 60% year over year and the book-to-bill ratio was roughly 1.4x. Vertiv’s innovative portfolio has been a significant growth driver. It recently introduced OCP-aligned rack, power and cooling solutions. These include the SmartIT OCP rack, PowerIT PDUs, PowerBar Track and CoolChip Fluid Network. They are designed to support high-density, energy-efficient data centers and next-generation AI workloads.
This Zacks Rank #1 company’s rich partner base, which includes Ballard Power Systems, Compass Datacenters, NVIDIA, Oklo, Intel, ZincFive and Tecogen, is noteworthy. You can see the complete list of today's Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
The stock has surged 61.4% in the year-to-date period. It has a trailing four-quarter earnings surprise of 14.89%, on average. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for VRT’s 2025 earnings has remained steady at $4.11 per share over the past 30 days.
Expedia’s strong brand portfolio, comprising Brand Expedia, Hotels.com, Vrbo, Orbitz, Travelocity, ebookers and Wotif Group, to name a few, offers a full range of travel and advertising services to travelers, suppliers and business partners. The company benefits from a strong platform model that enhances customer insights, strengthens supplier ties and helps grow revenues. Its diverse brand portfolio, spanning major travel services, enables it to target a broad range of global traveler needs, while boosting traffic and bookings. A broad multi-product supply network, including lodging, airlines, rental cars and cruises, positions it well to capture demand in the growing leisure travel space. Strong liquidity, share buybacks, and dividends further highlight the financial resilience of this Zacks Rank #1 company.
This stock has surged 38.7% in the year-to-date period. It has a trailing four-quarter earnings surprise of 4.53%, on average. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for EXPE’s 2025 earnings has moved north by 5.7% to $15.09 per share over the past 30 days.
NVIDIA is benefiting from the strong growth of AI and high-performance accelerated computing. The growing demand for generative AI and large language models using graphics processing units (GPUs) based on NVIDIA’s Hopper and Blackwell architectures is aiding data center revenues. This Zacks Rank #1 company’s networking business, including NVLink and Spectrum-X, is also contributing to growth by enabling faster and more efficient data movement within AI clusters. These add-ons make NVIDIA’s full-stack approach more appealing to enterprises and governments building AI infrastructure.
The continued ramp-up of Ada RTX GPU workstations in the ProViz end market, following the normalization of channel inventory, is acting as a tailwind. Collaborations with more than 320 automakers and tier-one suppliers are likely to advance its presence in the autonomous vehicle space. We expect NVIDIA’s revenues to witness a CAGR of 31% through fiscal 2026-2028.
The stock has returned 36.6% in the year-to-date period. It has a trailing four-quarter earnings surprise of 2.77%, on average. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for NVDA’s fiscal 2026 earnings has moved north by 3.6% to $4.62 per share over the past 30 days.
Ralph Lauren is benefiting from investor confidence in its robust brand equity, successful execution of its strategic transformation and consistent performance across geographies and channels. RL’s strong pricing power, margin expansion, disciplined inventory and real estate management are key growth drivers for the long term.
This Zacks Rank #2 company is gaining from the strategic execution of its “Next Great Chapter: Accelerate Plan” and robust financial performance. The plan focuses on brand elevation, consumer centricity and operational agility. Digital transformation drives growth, with investments in personalization, mobile, omnichannel, and fulfillment enhancing consumer engagement. Retail and wholesale remain key pillars, with flagship stores, premium distribution, and partnerships boosting comparable sales across North America, Europe and Asia in the second quarter of fiscal 2026.
The stock has returned 54.5% in the year-to-date period. It has a trailing four-quarter earnings surprise of 9.82%, on average. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for RL’s fiscal 2026 earnings has moved north by 2.7% to $15.41 per share over the past 30 days.
You can get the remaining stocks on this list by signing up now for a 2-week free trial to the Research Wizard stock picking and backtesting software. You can also create your own strategies and test them first before making investments.
The Research Wizard is a great place to begin. It's easy to use. Everything is in plain language. And it's very intuitive. Start your Research Wizard trial today. And the next time you read an economic report, open up the Research Wizard, plug your finds in and see what gems come out.
Click here to sign up for a free trial of the Research Wizard today.
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About Screen of the Week
Zacks.com created the first and best screening system on the web earning the distinction as the "#1 site for screening stocks" by Money Magazine. But powerful screening tools is just the start. That is why Zacks created the Screen of the Week to highlight profitable stock picking strategies that investors can actively use.
Strong Stocks that Should Be in the News
Many are little publicized and fly under the Wall Street radar. They're virtually unknown to the general public. Yet today's 220 Zacks Rank #1 "Strong Buys" were generated by the stock-picking system that has more than doubled the market from 1988 through 2016. Its average gain has been a stellar +25% per year. See these high-potential stocks free >>.
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Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Inherent in any investment is the potential for loss. This material is being provided for informational purposes only and nothing herein constitutes investment, legal, accounting or tax advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell or hold a security. No recommendation or advice is being given as to whether any investment is suitable for a particular investor. It should not be assumed that any investments in securities, companies, sectors or markets identified and described were or will be profitable. All information is current as of the date of herein and is subject to change without notice. Any views or opinions expressed may not reflect those of the firm as a whole. Zacks Investment Research does not engage in investment banking, market making or asset management activities of any securities. These returns are from hypothetical portfolios consisting of stocks with Zacks Rank = 1 that were rebalanced monthly with zero transaction costs. These are not the returns of actual portfolios of stocks. The S&P 500 is an unmanaged index. Visit https://www.zacks.com/performance for information about the performance numbers displayed in this press release.