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Glamour Stock
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Glamour stock
A popular stock characterized by high earnings growth rate and a price that rise is faster than the market average in a bull market.

Glamour Stock
A popular stock that is held by a large number of investors, especially institutional investors. A glamour stock usually has a high price and almost always has a high P/E ratio because of the larger than normal demand for it.


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The high-earning glamour stocks have always been in new technology enterprises, starting with canals, then railways through more recently to information technology and now the Internet.
Once-boring manufacturers such as tractor-maker John Deere are now Wall Street's glamour stocks.
Recently, John Rekenthaler of Morningstar, the Chicago-based fund-tracking service, wrote in his column on the concern's Website that "in comparison with the overall stock market, the S&P 500 has become light on the pricey glamour stocks and heavy in the cheap, old-era industries like cyclicals, banks, tobacco.
 
 
 
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