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Small and/or beat-up were the main themes running through Tuesday's stock chatter on CNBC. But don't forget energy and more energy -- and one aerospace giant.
Heartland Value Plus Fund manager Michael Petroff says small-cap stocks can be mighty -- if you screen by value first.
"We focus on margins of safety, companies with little or no debt. We avoid a lot of the dislocations in the debt market. We also focus on dividend-paying companies, [which are] less volatile than the non-dividend payers."
He praised medical-equipment sterilizer firm Steris [STE
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(See Petroff's other small-cap picks)
"Our strategy is to buy companies that are good companies, but really down and out," said John Linehan of T. Rowe Price. "Dell [DELL
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(What is Linehan's third "cheap" large-cap?)
Boeing [BA
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"It's had some weakness because of some supply-chain disruptions, but I think Boeing is this long-run 'hold' you want to have in your portfolio," he told CNBC. Divney also recommended engineering/construction firm McDermott International [MDR
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(Click to read Divney's outlook on financials)



