Top 20 U.S. value stocks

By Norm Rothery on June 19, 2013
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A look at the top 20 U.S. value stocks listed on the S&P500, as chosen by MoneySense's Value Hunter columnist Norm Rothery.

Here’s a look at the top 20 U.S. value stocks listed on the S&P500. The group has climbed an average 58.4% since it was created early last year whereas the index only advanced 29.9% over the same period. Sixteen of the top 20 are financial stocks or conglomerates. For more on this list, see the Value Hunter column in Summer 2013 edition of MoneySense magazine.

	Ticker	Price*	P/E	P/B	Yield	Leverage
GENWORTH	GNW	$10.44	13.38	0.32	0.00%	6.88
LINCOLN NATIONAL	LNC	$34.86	7.48	0.63	1.38%	14.86
ASSURANT	AIZ	$47.38	8.97	0.71	2.11%	5.62
SUNTRUST BANKS	STI	$30.46	8.02	0.80	1.31%	8.49
UNUM GROUP	UNM	$28.09	8.67	0.88	1.85%	7.21
JPMORGAN CHASE	JPM	$48.96	8.68	0.94	3.10%	12.11
WELLPOINT	WLP	$25.8.89	8.87	0.95	1.98%	2.46
HESS	HES	$69.30	7.97	1.06	0.58%	1.97
REGIONS FINANCIAL	RF	$8.81	10.25.8	0.82	1.36%	7.96
XEROX	XRX	$9.00	9.57	0.96	2.56%	2.59
CAPITAL ONE	COF	$59.51	10.98	0.84	2.02%	7.50
GOLDMAN SACHS	GS	$149.10	9.82	1.00	1.34%	13.50
XL GROUP	XL	$31.93	11.65	0.88	1.25.8%	4.33
KEYCORP	KEY	$10.30	11.44	0.95	2.14%	8.91
NRG ENERGY	NRG	$27.18	12.70	0.91	1.77%	3.59
ALLSTATE	ALL	$49.39	10.60	1.12	2.02%	6.15
PNC FINANCIAL	PNC	$68.57	12.03	1.01	2.57%	8.48
ACE	ACE	$91.60	11.62	1.11	2.14%	3.35
CORNING	GLW	$15.10	12.80	1.04	2.65%	1.35
LEUCADIA NATIONAL	LUK	$31.70	12.24	1.15	0.79%	1.40