On October 7, Lori Calvasina, RBC Capital Markets head of US equity strategy, joined CNBC’s ‘Power Lunch’ to discuss Calvasina’s thoughts on current valuations. Calvasina stated that she went back and looked at her valuation charts, and acknowledged that if one looks at the S&P 500 market cap weighted P/E, the overall valuation actually looks pretty similar to kind of the peaks in the market. However, when she looked at the same chart for the top 10 names in the S&P 500 or the NASDAQ 100, the valuations are at the highs of the last 6 or 7 years, but are not quite back to those tech bubble highs from the 90s. She calculated the NASDAQ number at the peak of the tech bubble to be around 65, while it is around 29 now, indicating big differences. She concluded that one can find data to support the comparisons, but also data to refute them, and the key difference is that the earnings environment is very different today.

Calvasina shared observations and stated that the common theme in the US and the UK was widespread wariness and concern about stock market valuations and jitters on the AI trade. When she tried to pin people down on the exact bother, it appeared to be the speed and the valuation levels of the move. She is having many conversations where people agree that the underlying technology makes sense, but that it’s gonna take time, and that things have gotten a little bit overdone in the short term. She suggested it might simply make more take more time for companies to really see the big productivity impacts.

That being said, we’re here with a list of the 10 best value stocks to invest in now.

Our Methodology

We sifted through the Finviz stock screener to compile a list of the top value stocks with a forward P/E ratio under 15. We then selected the 10 stocks that were the most popular among elite hedge funds and that analysts were bullish on. The stocks are ranked in ascending order of the number of hedge funds that have stakes in them, as of Q2 2025. The hedge fund data was sourced from Insider Monkey’s database.

Note: All data was sourced on October 9.

Why are we interested in the stocks that hedge funds pile into? The reason is simple: our research has shown that we can outperform the market by imitating the top stock picks of the best hedge funds. Our quarterly newsletter’s strategy selects 14 small-cap and large-cap stocks every quarter and has returned 373.4% since May 2014, beating its benchmark by 218 percentage points (see more details here).

10 Best Value Stocks to Invest in Now

10. Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE:SLF)

Forward P/E Ratio as of October 9: 10.60

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 15

Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE:SLF) is one of the best value stocks to invest in now. On October 8, Sun Life Global Investments/SLGI announced a collaboration with Picton Mahoney Asset Management (or simply PICTON Investments). The partnership introduces two new segregated funds, the Sun PICTON Income Fund and the Sun PICTON Balanced Fund, which will be available as investment options under certain series of SLGI’s Guaranteed Investment Fund products.

Sun Life Global Investments is a trade name of SLGI Asset Management Inc., Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, and Sun Life Financial Trust Inc., all of which are members of the Sun Life group of companies. This collaboration is an industry-first, as it marks the first time that PICTON Investments’ funds will be used as underlying investments in segregated funds.

This launch is part of a broader expansion of SLGI’s segregated fund lineup, which also includes six new index-tracking ETF segregated funds for cost-effective investment solutions with competitive Management Expense Ratios/MERs, and two new segregated funds investing in two globally recognized fixed income mandates (the PIMCO Monthly Income Fund and the Sun Life MFS Global Core Plus Bond Fund).

Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE:SLF) is a financial services company that provides asset management, wealth, insurance & health solutions to individual & institutional customers in Canada, the US, the UK, Ireland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Bermuda.

9. Globant (NYSE:GLOB)

Forward P/E Ratio as of October 9: 9.47

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 26

Globant (NYSE:GLOB) is one of the best value stocks to invest in now. On October 6, Globant announced the release of version 2.3 of its proprietary AI platform, Globant Enterprise AI, or GEAI. This release was incorporated just hours after OpenAI’s corresponding announcement, to allow clients to adopt the cutting-edge advancements instantly.

The central feature of GEAI 2.3 is the integration of the Agentic Commerce Protocol/ACP, which is an open standard that OpenAI refers to as Instant Checkout. This protocol enables the platform to build AI Agents with transactional capabilities, moving from purely conversational interfaces to full transactions. ACP facilitates collaboration among AI agents, users, and businesses to complete purchases directly through conversational interfaces, using existing payment systems and fulfillment processes.

The new version builds on Globant’s earlier integrations of the Model Context Protocol/MCP and Agent-to-Agent/A2A communication, which enhanced GEAI’s ability to connect, scale, and adapt AI-powered solutions across complex enterprise ecosystems.

Globant (NYSE:GLOB) provides technology services. The company offers studio products comprising AI Studios Network, Globant GUT Network, Digital Evolution Network, and Enterprise Network.