Validea David Dreman Strategy Daily Upgrade Report - 10/21/2025

The following are today's upgrades for Validea's Contrarian Investor model based on the published strategy of David Dreman. This contrarian strategy finds the most unpopular mid- and large-cap stocks in the market and looks for improving fundamentals.

GRUPO AVAL ACCIONES Y VALORES SA - ADR (AVAL) is a mid-cap value stock in the Money Center Banks industry. The rating according to our strategy based on David Dreman changed from 57% to 69% based on the firm’s underlying fundamentals and the stock’s valuation. A score of 80% or above typically indicates that the strategy has some interest in the stock and a score above 90% typically indicates strong interest.

Company Description: Grupo Aval Acciones y Valores SA is a Colombia-based holding company primarily engaged, through its subsidiaries, in the acquisition, purchase and sale of stocks, bonds and other securities of companies active in the financial sector. The Company provides a variety of financial services and products across the Colombian market, ranging from traditional banking services, such as loans and deposits to pension and severance fund management, as well as the provision of legal representation services. The Company owns such subsidiaries as Banco de Bogota SA, Banco Popular SA, among others. Additionally, through its indirect and direct investments in other companies, the Company is present in the activities of investment baking and investments in the real sector, as well as the administrator of pension and severance funds in Colombia.

The following table summarizes whether the stock meets each of this strategy's tests. Not all criteria in the below table receive equal weighting or are independent, but the table provides a brief overview of the strong and weak points of the security in the context of the strategy's criteria. MARKET CAP:PASSEARNINGS TREND:PASSEPS GROWTH RATE IN THE IMMEDIATE PAST AND FUTURE:FAILP/E RATIO:PASSPRICE/CASH FLOW (P/CF) RATIO:PASSPRICE/BOOK (P/B) VALUE:FAILPRICE/DIVIDEND (P/D) RATIO:FAILPAYOUT RATIO:FAILRETURN ON EQUITY:FAILPRE-TAX PROFIT MARGINS:PASSYIELD:FAIL

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About David Dreman: Dreman's Kemper-Dreman High Return Fund was one of the best-performing mutual funds ever, ranking as the best of 255 funds in its peer groups from 1988 to 1998, according to Lipper Analytical Services. At the time Dreman published Contrarian Investment Strategies: The Next Generation, the fund had been ranked number one in more time periods than any of the 3,175 funds in Lipper's database. In addition to managing money, Dreman is also a longtime Forbes magazine columnist.

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