| Growth doesn’t always get as much respect as longtime guru-favorite Value, and that may have something to do with hype-oriented rhetoric that often surrounds the former. But we need growth. Unless one can argue for growth, there’s pretty-much no point in being in stocks at all, as opposed to less-risky better yielding bonds. So Growth ETFs should be compelling – except when they aren’t.
Let’s start with the basics of stock pricing, the Dividend Discount Model. It calculates the ideal stock price as D (dividend) divided by the difference between R (required rate of return) and G (the expected growth rate); or P=D/(R-G)...............................................Full Article: Source
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