A great growth company has earnings growth and revenue growth greater than the market in the long term. This is the type of company that also creates substantial shareholder value if held for a longer period of time. Cindy Starke, portfolio manager of the Value Line Larger Companies Focused Fund,

Large and medium-sized companies have come to dominate many industries in the U.S. economy to a degree that the widely-followed S&P 500 Index has incorporated companies in both market cap segments. With a mixture of qualitative and quantitative work, Jeff Moser, senior portfolio manager of the Wells Fargo Advantage Large

Large companies can be complex and often have several growth drivers not easily understood solely by quantitative analysis. For more than two decades, since the inception of the T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund, Larry Puglia has provided a steady hand in guiding investment process in finding durable growth

Companies with structural advantage in the marketplace are likely to sustain their profitability and growth potential. Yet, investors may occasionally get overconfident in a company as they over-extrapolate short-term trends into the future or they may occasionally lose confidence in structurally advantaged companies for temporary reasons. James Golan and David

If a company is capable of solving problems, it becomes mission critical to its customers, easily generating customer loyalty that translates into sustainable earnings. Elizabeth Jones and her team at the Buffalo Large Cap Fund scour the full spectrum of large caps to find companies of this kind at attractive

Companies with stronger and defensible competitive positions not only are longer in duration and more predictable but they are also more likely to sustain earnings growth. Co-managers Paul Cloonan and Andrew Acheson along with a team of analysts at the Pioneer Fundamental Growth Fund screen the large-cap space for attractively

An accurate evaluation of the market environment and reasonable stock price levels matter just as much as the quality of the company you invest in. Michael J. Vogelzang, portfolio manager of the Nationwide Growth Fund, and his team of analysts at Boston Advisors rely on a proprietary investment approach that

Identifying growth in the large-cap space is rarely challenging, unlike understanding the acceleration of that growth, which can be elusive for many investors. Michael Carmen, portfolio manager of the Hartford Growth Opportunities Fund, and his team of analysts are looking for companies poised to experience revenue acceleration that is not

Companies with fiscal discipline offer unique investment opportunities, but that disciplined use of capital can vary from one company to another. Those that care about shareholders tend to wisely avoid flooding the market with a large number of shares. Michael Kotlarz and his team at the Oppenheimer Capital Appreciation Fund

While large companies are generally well followed by both analysts and investors, there is little evidence that knowing a company well will result in outperforming the market. Douglas Roman and his team of analysts at the PNC Large Cap Growth Fund follow a systematic process in identifying companies with characteristics