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Validea’s guru fundamental report for WALGREENS BOOTS ALLIANCE INC (WBA) shows that it rates highest using the Shareholder Yield Investor model based on Meb Faber’s strategy. This strategy looks for companies returning cash to shareholders via dividends, buybacks, and debt paydown. WBA is a large-cap growth stock in the Retail (Drugs) industry, and the rating using this strategy is 85% based on the firm’s underlying fundamentals and the stock’s valuation. The strategy has some interest in the stock, and the stock meets most of the criteria for the Shareholder Yield Investor model. Meb Faber is the founder of Cambria Investments and his research has covered a wide spectrum of the investment world, including topics like shareholder yield, trend following, global asset allocation, and home country bias. His shareholder yield strategy looks for companies that are focused on creating value for shareholders by returning cash to them in the form of dividends, share buybacks, and debt paydown. Validea is an investment research service that follows the published strategies of investment legends. They offer both stock analysis and model portfolios based on gurus who have outperformed the market over the long-term, including Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, Peter Lynch, and Martin Zweig.



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