Goldman Sachs on Monday advised clients to follow a simple investment strategy of buying shares of the companies seeing the biggest increases in earnings estimates from Wall Street analysts.
"One way to think about companies with high positive EPS [earnings per share] revisions is that analysts have consistently underestimated the profit growth potential of these firms," Goldman's chief U.S. equity strategist, David Kostin, wrote in a research note.
Since 2011, companies with positive EPS estimate revisions generated an annual return of 23 percent compared with a gain of 15 percent for the , according to research by the investment bank.
Apart from outperforming the market, these companies also tend to spend those earnings in shareholder-friendly ways.
"Firms with the most consistently positive EPS revisions from 2011 to 2016 bought back more stock and reduced share count by more than the usual S&P 500 company, expanded margins and had more positive sales revisions than the typical firm," said Kostin.
Here are some of the stocks on Goldman's list:
