DHS News and Press, WisdomTree U.S. High Dividend Fund From 07/26/22

Historically, the best time to overweight value stocks has been in the early stages of a recovery, when economic growth is accelerating, and value tends to be cheap. Aside from energy, few sectors or styles have produced positive returns in 2022, but until recently value consistently ...

The Fed is intent on raising interest rates to fight inflation and must balance the risk that creates for economic growth. In an analysis of growth versus value stocks using data since 1927, we found value had achieved greatest outperformance in periods of moderate to high inflation. ...

Equities with dividends >2.5% appear to trade close to their greatest relative discount since the unwind of the tech boom of the late 1990s. In the first six months of 2022, the typical 60/40 portfolio declined by double digits, marking the worst performance for this asset allocati...

Outside of commodities and the U.S. dollar, investors are struggling to generate positive total returns in 2022. Year-to-date, WisdomTree High Dividend strategies outperformed comparable cap-weighted indexes by over 1000 basis points in developed and over 600 basis points in emerging ...

If you think of all the different index providers, each has its own definition of the fundamentals that it believes denote “value.”. If stocks can experience severe reductions in their price-to-book value ratios (another way of saying an increase in book-to-price ratios)...

The bad news for Altria never seems to end, with the FDA now proposing to ban JUUL E-cigarettes, thereby sending the share price plunging. This comes after Altria's flagship reduced-risk product, IQOS, was also banned, and the Biden administration is seeking to reduce nicotine levels ...

Exxon Mobil's stock has nosedived 18% in just the last month. The drop in XOM stock is highly correlated to the 20% drop in the price of oil. Nonetheless, it's all about the future, not the past, when it comes to oil. In the following piece, I do my best to distinguish reality...

Consumer Discretionary is the second-largest sector in the S&P 500 Growth Index, weighing in at 17.2%. But because of Tech’s dominant 44.1% weight in the basket, Consumer Discretionary often gets short shrift in our collective focus. The problem for the sector writ larg...

The dividend factor of the U.S. stock market has been very strong in 2022. Volatility and rising rates send investors toward high free cash flow companies that pay investors quarterly dividends. WisdomTree's High Dividend ETF, DHS, has outperformed the market and its peers YTD. ...

When it rains, it pours: everyone and their aunt is bearish at the same time. Morgan Stanley upgrades Altria stock based on valuation and concerns being priced in. Barclays calls MO stock a "Melting Ice Cube." We believe Altria stock offers a high margin of safety, with expect...