Corporate fixed-income investors often find themselves overshadowed by their stock-trading counterparts especially during a crisis.
The global outbreak of Covid-19 last year had equity investors pressing investor-relations teams for finance and strategy updates as they tried to determine how their shares might perform during the pandemic. But they weren’t the only investors worried by the economic shut down.
As corporate bond defaults surged in hard-hit sectors like oil and gas, retail, and restaurants, fixed-income investors were also looking to IR teams to explain how their companies would weather the crisis and pay off loans.
“Equity investors want to know how much the company is going to grow by,” explained Craig Marks, senior director of investor relations at AstraZeneca. “Debt investors want to know if you’re going to pay them back.”
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Bank of America strategist Jill Carey Hall says smaller and cheaper value stocks should continue to outperform.
Carey Hall and her team are highlighting 26 Buy -rated stocks that are inexpensive based on value metrics and should do well as the economy reopens.
She also advises investors to pick carefully and avoid money-losing companies because a historically large portion of smaller firms are unprofitable.
Smaller stocks are staging a furious rally, but Bank of America says they ve been so neglected for so long that there are still some real bargains to be found.