While the large-cap growth performance premium continues, the difference between the mid-cap growth and value styles has narrowed since 12/31/17. The highlighted box is 2017 returns, which was a strong year for large-cap growth and momentum. What needs to … Continued
One of the classic scenes from BraveHeart was when Mel Gibson, playing William Wallace, was standing in the field facing down the English cavalry, and holding back his troops, yells, “Hold!…Hold!…Hold!” waiting until the heavy horses and opposition were nearly … Continued
Here’s the data: Fwd 4-qtr est: $169.25 vs last week’s $169.24 PE ratio: 16.7x PEG ratio: 0.75x SP 500 earnings yield: +5.97% vs last week’s +5.96% Year-over-year growth of fwd estimate: +22.38% vs last week’s +22.27% (Source: Thomson Reuters IBES … Continued
David Aurelio of Thomson Reuters is very helpful in getting good sector information on the Thomson Reuters IBES data on the 11 SP 500 sectors. David has never failed to deliver when asked a question. Recently this blog asked David … Continued
It might be hardly worth mentioning but looking at the data every week, it’s important to distinguish sentiment from reality and for the Energy and Tech sectors there has been a little bit of softening in Q2 and Q3 ’18’s … Continued
The weekly earnings commentary will be out tomorrow, i.e. Saturday, August 4th, 2018. However today, I thought readers would be interested in looking at some “SP 500 Revenue” stats. 1.) Despite being the sector showing the fastest EPS and … Continued
This spreadsheet was posted to this blog in mid-May ’18 as well as late March and mid-February earlier this year to give readers an idea of how full-year 2018 expected growth has tracked by sector. A couple of points: … Continued
The Bespoke Report is – in my opinion – one of the best weekly summaries of market-related, and econ-related and investment-related topics on the Street. Bespoke, founded by Paul Hickey and his team years ago, came out of Laszlo Birinyi’s … Continued
The first look at Q2 ’18 GDP will be Friday morning, July 27th, 2018 and expectations have risen sharply throughout the quarter. Some think Q2 ’18 GDP could hit 4% – 5%, but the prognosticators don’t really provide where the … Continued
Having lunch with a client yesterday in downtown Chicago, the discussion around the market was how today’s SP 500 action is nothing like the 1990’s. Bespoke noted this week that Tech’s market cap weighting within the SP 500 is 26% … Continued