Stock Market Crash: 3 Absurdly Cheap Stocks to Load Up on for the Long Haul

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David Jagielski, The Motley Fool

Wed, Apr 30, 2025, 4:05 AM 6 min read

Entering trading connected Monday, the S&P 500 has declined astir 6% since the commencement of the year. And that's aft recovering precocious -- it was down overmuch much than that successful aboriginal April erstwhile planetary tariffs were archetypal announced. But marque nary mistake, the hazard isn't gone, and portion a full-blown clang has taken a intermission lately, that doesn't mean much of a sell-off isn't coming.

The bully news, however, is that if you're a semipermanent investor, a clang successful the markets tin unfastened up immoderate large buying opportunities. Three stocks that are down implicit 10% this twelvemonth and trading astatine debased net multiples are Pfizer (NYSE: PFE), PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), and Builders FirstSource (NYSE: BLDR). Here's wherefore they whitethorn beryllium worthy loading up connected close now.

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Investors haven't been each that bullish connected Pfizer this twelvemonth -- it's down 13% frankincense acold successful 2025. But it's hard to blasted the marketplace for the deficiency of excitement arsenic the concern is struggling to turn these days, arsenic Pfizer expects its apical enactment this twelvemonth to beryllium astir unchanged from the erstwhile year, and astatine worst, it could decline.

For semipermanent investors, this presents a large accidental to load up connected the healthcare stock. It trades astatine a guardant price-to-earnings (P/E) aggregate of little than 8 (based connected expert expectations), and the institution has been gearing up for much maturation ahead. CEO Albert Bourla has acknowledged that the institution volition look adversity due to the fact that of generics, which could effect successful it losing arsenic overmuch arsenic $18 cardinal successful gross from its apical enactment by the extremity of the decade. But astatine the aforesaid time, done in-house improvement and acquisitions, it plans to adhd $25 billion.

It has acquired aggregate businesses successful caller years, including oncology institution Seagen, successful an effort to bolster its semipermanent prospects. Management expects Seagen could lend up to $10 cardinal successful gross by the extremity of the decennary (up from implicit $3 cardinal past year). Pfizer is besides optimistic astir its mRNA pipeline, projecting that concern to bring successful betwixt $10 cardinal and $15 cardinal by 2030.

Last year, it besides obtained support for a cistron therapy treatment, Beqvez, to dainty adults with mean to terrible hemophilia B (a uncommon bleeding disorder). The cistron therapy marketplace is successful its aboriginal stages but it has the imaginable to beryllium a immense accidental for pharma giants similar Pfizer. Overall, the institution has a wealthiness of assets successful its pipeline with presently much than 100 cause candidates successful objective trials.