Dr. David Kelly and jos team at JP Morgan publish some of the best research i read each quarter in JP Morgan’s quarterly “Guide to the Market” and within that 75 page summary each quarter is a valuation table … Continued
(This blog post could be classified as – somewhat like the Jerry Seinfeld show – a post about nothing. I’m just thinking out loud about the popularity of indexing and what clients miss in the “index game”.) Strategas Partners, the … Continued
The financial media has made a big deal of Apple’s decline in September ’17, saying it has been the worst selloff in years. Given Apple’s importance to the Tech food chain and it’s massive weight in the SP 500 … Continued
Last week, the continued upward drift in Technology estimates was written about (here), and now this coming week we get Apple’s iPhone 8 announcement / update on Tuesday, and the Oracle’s fiscal Q1 ’18 earnings release on Thursday, September 14th, … Continued
Thomson Reuters data (by the numbers): (Source: “This Week in Earnings” dated 9/1/17): Fwd 4-qtr est: $138.18 P.E ratio: 18(x) PEG ratio: 1.82(x) SP 500 earnings yield: 5.58% vs last week’s 5.67% Year-over-year growth of fwd est: +9.82% vs 9.95% … Continued
In terms of the technicals, the Technology sector is way overbought. The Energy and Telco sectors are way oversold. There are far better technicians than me that you can read every day on Twitter, TheStreet, Seeking Alpha, and the various … Continued
Per Thomson Reuter’s “This Week in Earnings” (by the numbers) as of 7/7/17: Fwd 4-qtr estimate: $139.21 P.E ratio: 17.5(x) PEG ratio: 1.82(x) SP 500 earnings yld: 5.74%, nice increase over last week’s 5.56% Year-over-year growth rate of fwd est: … Continued
Lots of angst around the QQQ’s and the “head-and-shoulders” that looks to be in place (according to some technicians). The June 8th reversal for the semiconductor sector and the QQQ’s was significant. Here is how the Q’s and some key … Continued
95 of the Sp 500 companies have reported Q1 ’17 earnings as of Friday, April 21, ’17 per Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. By the end of this coming week, April 28, ’17, about half the SP 500 will have reported their … Continued
Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S data (by the numbers): Forward 4-quarter estimate: $131.50 vs last week’s $131.95 P.E ratio:17.6(x) PEG ratio: 2.24(x) SP 500 earnings yield: 5.68% Year-over-year growth of the forward estimate: 7.88% vs last week’s 7.71% and still shy of … Continued