Second quarter reports are shaping up surprisingly strong, and are at least partly to thank for the recent string of new market highs. With nearly half of S&P 500 constituents having reported second quarter 2017 results (and using consensus estimates for the remainder) it looks as if overall index earnings grew more than 10% year-on-year,…
The ETF Analyzer, Sector SPDR Edition for July 2017 is ready for download. This monthly publication has succinct one-page reports on each of the 10 Select Sector SPDR ETFs in three easy-to-read sections: Investment Summary, Fundamentals, and Composition. It helps investors: Evaluate the funds based on investment merit using fundamental data and analysis Compare the Sector SPDRs with ease…
We’ve initiated coverage of twelve new equity ETFs, including five actively managed ETFs, four “ESG” funds (short for Environmental, Social and Governance criteria), and one fund-of-funds (Table 1). However, none of those caught our eye as especially noteworthy or attractive. The one that did was the Brand Value ETF (BVAL). As the name suggests, the…
The market’s “Fab Five” technology stocks—Facebook (FB), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Netflix (NFLX) and Google (GOOGL and/or GOOG)—often called by their acronym FAANG, had a bad day on Friday after research notes from Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Asset Management and others warned that these stocks were too expensive. Owning these five stocks, which together accounted for…
The headline number for new money flowing into Exchange Traded Funds moderated in May to about $28 billion, down from about $36 billion in April. However, stripping out the effect of short sales, net long money flows actually increased slightly, to almost $37 billion in May from $34 billion in April. (The unwinding of short…
The ETF Analyzer, Sector SPDR Edition for June 2017 is ready for download. This monthly publication has succinct one-page reports on each of the 10 Select Sector SPDR ETFs in three easy-to-read sections: Investment Summary, Fundamentals, and Composition. It helps investors: Evaluate the funds based on investment merit using fundamental data and analysis Compare the Sector SPDRs with ease on…
The ETF Analyzer, Sector SPDR Edition for May 2017 is ready for download. This monthly publication has succinct one-page reports on each of the 10 Select Sector SPDR ETFs in three easy-to-read sections: Investment Summary, Fundamentals, and Composition. It helps investors: Evaluate the funds based on investment merit using fundamental data and analysis Compare the Sector SPDRs with ease on…
Exchange Traded Funds are the most successful financial product in at least a generation. According to the Investment Company Institute, assets invested in U.S.-listed ETFs grew from $2.4 billion twenty years ago to $2.5 trillion at the end of 2016, a growth rate of nearly 42% per annum. Even measured from 10 years ago, when…
Shares of U.S. Steel (X) are down by about 25% today after reporting dismal quarterly results. But it’s not just direct shareholders who are feeling the pain. There are 69 ETFs that also hold shares of U.S. Steel. Below are the top 10 (based on the prior day’s weights; the weight will be lower tomorrow…
