Returns From This Trio Were Lackluster in 2024. But These 3 Undervalued Stocks Are Among My Highest-Conviction Ideas for 2025

With just three weeks left in the year (as of this writing), the S&P 500 is up nearly 27% in 2024. To illustrate how great this gain is, if someone invested $10,000 and gained 27% annually, they'd have over $100,000 in just 10 years. In short, 2024 was a great year to earn merely "average" stock market returns.But, alas, not all stocks are performing as well as the average for the stock market. This includes shoe company Crocs (CROX -1.08%), sporting goods retailer Academy Sports and Outdoors (ASO 1.90%), a ...