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# Growth vs value stocks
URL: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary/growth-vs-value-stocks
Last modified: 2026-10-17

Growth vs value is the split between companies priced for profits far in the future, like most technology, and companies priced cheaply on today's profits, like banks and energy. Raise rates and distant cash shrinks more, so [growth falls harder on a hawkish Fed](https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/how-the-fed-moves-markets); it is [the rates line through the sectors](https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/how-us-stock-prices-form), and [the Buffett way](https://mochatrade.com/blog/the-warren-buffett-way-buy-a-great) is the long case for value.

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