"We're seeing growth come ripping back" after roughly a year of investors opting for value, Gordon said. Communications stocks have lagged the rest of the S&P 500 , but a return to growth could make them 2022's "sneaky catch-up plays," Inside Edge Capital Management founder Todd Gordon told CNBC's "Trading Nation" on Wednesday. This quarter's worst-performing sector could make a comeback in the new year, one trader says. "I think one of the sneaky catch-up plays ... is going to be communications next year. His 2022 strategy took the other side of the low interest rate trade, favoring dividend plays, particularly real estate investment trusts involved in industrial and medical office properties.

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