Bespoke – in their weekly Research Report – published every Friday night, had a great graph on what could be a potential bottoming in Emerging Markets the last few weeks. This blog has written previously about Emerging Markets and … Continued
Seasonally, the SP 500 is entering one it’s strongest periods of the calendar year. The SPY’s YTD total return as of Friday, 10/19/18, was about 5%, while the XLF and KRE ETF’s returned -3% and -6% respectively, YTD. Client’s largest … Continued
FCSP500EarningsYield The above link is a new spreadsheet comparing the “4-quarter trailing” SP 500 earnings yield and the “forward 4-quarter” SP 500 earnings yield. Readers have asked about the 4-quarter trailing SP 500 EPS earnings yield, but the time was … Continued
Apple does not report until Thursday, November 1 ’18, but the smartphone giant is the big dog in the Technology sector after the creation of the Communications sector. Per David Aurelio of Refinitiv IBES, Apple’s EPS weight within the Tech … Continued
This summer, the CFA Society of Chicago, in one of their well-attended Vault Series presentations, featured Ted Reilly, the founder of Chicago Media Angels, the Chicago start-up that fills the gap between the artistic moviemaker and investment capital. For some … Continued
Since this blog’s last update on portfolio positioning in early July ’18, the weightings of the positions have changed little in the last three months. With the creation of the Communications sector, Technology’s sector weighting has fallen to 20%, … Continued
What the title of today’s blog doesn’t tell you is that valuation is a slippery slope. Some of the seemingly cheapest stocks in the SP 500 are not really attractive values, but more “value-traps” which like the Siren’s of Greek … Continued
Dr. David Kelly and his team at JP Morgan put together one of the best research and market / economic summaries on the Street (published quarterly) and that is the JP Morgan “Guide to the Market” (GTTM). The above … Continued
The combination of a $4.89 increase in the forward 4-quarter estimate two weeks ago, and then the 4% drop in the SP 500 this week, has produced an usually high S&P 500 earnings yield of 6.27%. Looking at my own … Continued
Great article from Ben Carlson, CFA picked up by Josh Brown of Ritholtz Wealth. In this blog post from a few days ago, here is what I was thinking of when evaluation the Bloomberg Barclays Aggregate (AGG), the bond market’s … Continued