Emerging Markets: The 2026 Value Play?
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Hosts Justin Klein & Luke Guerrero, CFA | Wealth Managers and Investment Advisors
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
With US stocks at record valuations, we will analyze the case for Emerging Markets (EM) as the contrarian "value play" of 2026, driven by a potentially weaker dollar.
Today's Stocks & Topics: Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. (BFAM), Market Wrap, Celestica Inc. (CLS), Micron Technology, Inc. (MU), Dollar General Corporation (DG), Saving for Retirement, “Emerging Markets: The 2026 Value Play?”, Leggett & Platt, Incorporated (LEG), Somnigroup International Inc. (SGI), LTC Properties, Inc. (LTC), Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc. (SBRA), Earnings Season, Global X Copper Miners ETF (COPX), Global Partners LP (GLP), Vanguard Mid-Cap Value Index Fund ETF Shares (VOE), Copper.
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| 0:00.0 | On radio, on YouTube, streaming live on invest talk.com, and for our podcast subscribers, this is InvestTalk. |
| 0:12.6 | Independent thinking, shared success. |
| 0:17.7 | Invest talk is made possible by KPP Financial, a registered investment advisor firm, serving clients throughout the United States. |
| 0:27.2 | Here is KPP Financial Chief Executive Officer, Financial Advisor, Justin Klein. |
| 0:34.9 | Good afternoon, fellow investors, and welcome back to Invest Talk. This is our Tuesday, January 13th, |
| 0:43.8 | 2026 edition of InvestTalk, and we're well into the second full trading day, trading week, |
| 0:51.2 | excuse me, of the new year. And there's a lot of headlines, a lot going on with markets, a lot of cross currents, and |
| 0:58.5 | a rotation that's happening in markets, which we'll dig into here in a little bit. |
| 1:02.7 | And we are about to embark on earnings season. |
| 1:05.2 | Actually, it kicked off today with some bank earnings. |
| 1:08.0 | So we'll dig into that a little bit. |
| 1:09.8 | And most importantly, |
| 1:11.1 | we will be answering your finance and investment questions. We will bring you data in |
| 1:15.6 | perspective so that you can understand market dynamics and how they might affect your portfolio. |
| 1:22.7 | So that's what this hour is designed to do is help you become a better investor. That's our mission every day on |
| 1:30.7 | InvestTalk. Now, we're just available to talk about today's market performance and run down the |
| 1:35.8 | topics we will discuss throughout this hour. But as usual, we'll tackle this first caller question |
| 1:40.9 | now. Hi, Luke and Justin. I was calling to get your take on stock that I've been looking at here for about a month |
| 1:47.2 | now called A Bright Horizon. |
| 1:49.5 | The ticker is BFAM. |
| 1:51.9 | The company provides early education and child care services. |
| 1:56.3 | And I was thinking that with more companies mandated, return to office on a greater scale, |
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