Many thanks to David Aurelio of Thomson Reuters with helping out on the above table. This blog updates this table at least twice a year. The top 5 weightings in the above spreadsheet were taken from the SPY’s top five … Continued
Every so often, readers are updated on the SP 500’s sector rankings in terms of market cap weight and earnings weight. What surprised me more than Tech’s 25% weighting currently (versus its all-time-high of 33% weighting in March, 2000) … Continued
While big banks kick off the Q3 ’17 earnings season this week, readers can get a leg up by looking at Q4 ’17 estimates and seeing which sectors have seen the highest earnings revisions since July 1, ’17. Per Thomson … 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 spike in the VIX this week, brought out the various market statisticians that talked about “forward returns” around the SP 500 after such a spike, and it portends favorably for the key benchmark. That being said, if the SP … Continued
With the latest earnings update last week, it wasn’t noticed until post-publication, that only two of the eleven sectors of the SP 500, actually had “greater-than-benchmark” expected earnings growth. Here is last weekend’s link. Technology earnings are expected to grow … Continued