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Chicago, IL – September 4, 2026 – Stocks in this week’s article are Fortinet FTNT, Brinker International EAT, Lincoln Electric LECO and Lam Research LRCX.
4 GARP Stocks Investors Can Scoop Up for Maximum Returns
If you are looking for a profitable portfolio of stocks offering the best of value and growth investing, you can try the growth at a reasonable price or GARP strategy.
The strategy helps investors gain exposure to undervalued stocks with impressive prospects. Unlike a blend strategy, a portfolio that uses GARP investing is expected to include stocks that offer the best of value and growth investing. Fortinet, Brinker International, Lincoln Electric and Lam Research are some GARP stocks that hold promise.
GARP Metrics: Mix of Growth & Value Metrics
The GARP strategy seeks to offer an ideal investment by utilizing the best features of value and growth investing. Investors adopting the GARP approach prefer buying stocks priced below the market or any reasonable target determined by fundamental analysis. These stocks also have solid prospects in terms of cash flow, revenues, earnings per share (EPS) and so on.
Growth Metrics
A strong earnings growth history and impressive earnings prospects are the main concepts that GARP investors borrow from the growth investing strategy. However, instead of super-normal growth rates, pursuing stocks with a more stable and reasonable growth rate is a tactic of GARP investors. Hence, growth rates between 10% and 20% are considered ideal under the GARP strategy.
Another metric that growth and GARP investors consider is return on equity (ROE). GARP investors look for a strong and higher ROE than the industry average to identify superior stocks. Stocks with positive cash flows find precedence under the GARP plan.
Value Metrics
GARP investing prioritizes popular value metrics, the price-to-earnings (P/E) and price-to-book (P/B) ratios. Though this investing style picks stocks with higher P/E ratios than value investors, it avoids companies with extremely high P/E ratios.
Using the GARP principle, we ran a screen to identify stocks that should offer solid returns in the near term.
Here are four stocks from the 12 that made it through the screening process.
Fortinet‘s investment case rests on a broadening product portfolio and accelerating strategic momentum. The company raised its full-year 2026 revenue growth guidance to 19%, with full-year billings guided between $9.35 billion and $9.55 billion. The July 2026 launch of the FortiGate 1200G with FortiSASE Outpost introduces a convergent SASE Firewall architecture, a newly defined market opportunity addressing hybrid deployment demands.
