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          "thesis": "Enterprise value normalises for capital structure, making EBITDA/EV comparable across leveraged and unleveraged businesses. O'Shaughnessy found this factor alone beat the market in 96% of rolling 5-year periods.",
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          "thesis": "Asset-light businesses (tech, healthcare, services) look expensive on book value due to intangible assets and buyback distortion. But they're cheap on earnings, sales, and cash flow. OSAM showed this subset outperforms in 90%+ of periods.",
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          "tagline": "Best value within each sector \u2014 neutralises cross-sector P/E distortion",
          "thesis": "Comparing tech P/E to utility P/E is meaningless. Sector-relative value finds the cheapest names within their own peer group. This surfaces idiosyncratic mispricing rather than sector-level cheapness.",
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          "tagline": "F-Score \u2265 7 with top-half value \u2014 the academic quality screen",
          "thesis": "Joseph Piotroski's 9-point fundamental strength test applied to cheap stocks. Each point tests profitability, leverage, or operating efficiency. A score of 7+ means the business is fundamentally improving.",
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          "thesis": "Long-duration compounders that reinvest at high rates of return. The quality factors here \u2014 ROE > 15%, margins > 10%, D/E < 1.0 \u2014 identify businesses with durable competitive advantages.",
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          "tagline": "Best capital allocation quality \u2014 managers who deploy cash well",
          "thesis": "Not all shareholder yield is created equal. This strategy surfaces companies that fund buybacks internally (not with debt), buy back at attractive valuations, and maintain strong fundamentals.",
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          "thesis": "O'Shaughnessy's growth signal. Companies that have grown earnings every year for 5+ years demonstrate execution consistency. Combined with a value floor, this avoids overpaying for growth.",
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          "thesis": "O'Shaughnessy's growth strategy. Start with consistent earners, filter for reasonable sales multiples (P/S < 1.5), then rank by 12-1 momentum. Growth at a reasonable price with trend confirmation.",
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          "tagline": "Growth at a Reasonable Price \u2014 revenue growth + moderate P/E",
          "thesis": "The balanced approach: find companies growing revenue at 10%+ per year but still trading at reasonable P/E (\u226425). The quality gate ensures we're buying real growth, not accounting tricks.",
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          "tagline": "Momentum 12-1 \u00f7 Volatility \u2014 a Sharpe-like momentum score",
          "thesis": "Raw momentum rewards volatile stocks. Dividing by volatility penalises erratic returns and rewards smooth, consistent trends. This is the Sharpe ratio applied to price momentum.",
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          "tagline": "Strongest 12-1 momentum with controlled risk",
          "thesis": "Pure price trend. Select names with 12-1 momentum \u2265 15% and volatility \u2264 50%. The volatility cap prevents chasing speculative spikes.",
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          "thesis": "Dividends alone miss half the picture. Shareholder yield adds net buybacks. O'Shaughnessy found shareholder yield a better predictor of future returns than dividends alone. Pure ranking by yield \u2014 no quality gate \u2014 as in the original book.",
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          "tagline": "Top dividend and FCF yields for income investors",
          "thesis": "Pure income screen. Dividend yield \u2265 3% backed by FCF yield \u2265 4%. The FCF floor ensures dividends are covered by cash generation, not funded by debt.",
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          "thesis": "Market Leaders: above-average market cap, shares outstanding, cash flow per share, and revenue. Non-utility. This is the quality large-cap universe that feeds Cornerstone Value and other conservative strategies.",
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          "tagline": "O'Shaughnessy micro-caps: $25M\u2013$250M, low P/S, momentum",
          "thesis": "The highest-alpha, highest-risk strategy. Micro-cap stocks are less covered, less liquid, and more volatile \u2014 but the size premium combined with value and momentum has historically produced outsized returns.",
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          "tagline": "Small/micro caps with strong value \u2014 size + value premium",
          "thesis": "The academic double premium: small size + deep value. Higher alpha potential but requires the F-Score quality gate to avoid the elevated bankruptcy risk in small-cap value.",
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          "tagline": "Lowest volatility with positive momentum \u2014 the defensive allocation",
          "thesis": "The low-volatility anomaly: less volatile stocks have historically delivered better risk-adjusted returns than the market. Adding a positive momentum floor avoids catching falling knives.",
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