3 Underdog Stocks That Could Outperform the Market in the Second Half of 2025

These three stocks are fundamentally sound companies with excellent underlying growth prospects. However, shares in machine vision expert Cognex (NASDAQ: CGNX), advanced materials company Hexcel (NYSE: HXL), and Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) all declined in the first half of 2025. On balance, all three are worth buying, as their issues appear to be near term, and their long-term investment cases remain excellent.It's been a difficult few years for the leading machine vision company, as its main end markets suffered cyclical weakness. Let's put it this way: If you are an automotive company, consumer electronics, or logistics company, and seeing slowing end markets due to relatively high interest rates, then the first thing you will cut is capital spending on new product development and expanding production lines.That's what happened with Cognex over the last couple of years, and it's easily seen in a chart of its revenue over an extended period.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool