Looking at the SP 500 EPS and revenue data in general, the trough in y/y decline in SP 500 EPS and revenue is expected to occur in Q2 ’20. Lots of discussion late last week and early this week … Continued
The two sectors highlighted in heavy black borders are the sectors which are seeing higher estimated earnings growth revisions of late, or at least in the case of the Consumer Discretionary sector, higher estimates growth rates over the last … Continued
The Top 10 weights in the SP 500 which constitute roughly 22% of the SP 500 by market cap as of Friday, November 16th, 2016, and thus a substantial portion of the index. To try and get some reality … Continued
There has been little mystery to what has worked this year, with the Technology sector within the SP 500 up over 30% on the year and large-cap growth returning in the low 20% range, YTD. This year, not so unusually, … Continued
“Damn it – don’t ever trust your instincts” – John Cusack as Martin Blank in the all-time-great “Grosse Pointe Blank” Here is a Marketwatch article written by Mark Hulbert on Amazon. I dont know Mark, but while the article might … Continued
Everyone and their brother is commenting on q2 ’17 SP 500 earnings results, and the numbers so far look good. Revenue “upside surprise” (i.e. the revenue “beat rate”) is north of 60%, probably aided somewhat by the very weak dollar … Continued
CNBC’s Fast Money had Tom Lee on Thursday night, who I think is an outstanding strategist, and while it was a puzzling interview (Tom was positive on all the sector that were the heaviest weights in the SP 500 like … Continued
B.I.G._Tips_-_Nasdaq_100_Epic_Streak (1) With so much investment-related information data, available daily on a plethora of blogs, Twitter, not to mention the mainstream financial media, every week there is just an enormous amount of market-related data to sift through. The above chart … Continued
B_I_G_Tips_-_It_s_About_Time_-_Equities_Overtake_Treasuries (4) This blog has written many times about Bespoke’s quality research and this week Bespoke and Paul Hickey and his staff proved it once again with the above graph. The SP 500’s current bull market is 8 years old, … Continued
Having never owned the Emerging Markets (EM’s) in any form or fashion in the 1990’s and then staying out of the asset class between 2001 – 2007 given all the money that flowed into the asset class after Technology collapsed, … Continued