EDOW News and Press, First Trust Dow 30 Equal Weight From 05/31/22

MSCI U.S. Growth has underperformed its Value counterpart by 16% in the first 4 months of 2022 and had a tough end to 2021 as well. The fact that growth traps are more painful than value traps is, in one sense, not really a surprise. Value stocks are already companies that investors d...

Stocks had a ripsnorter of a rally last week and a lot of people are pondering the question in the title over this long weekend. Sentiment is certainly negative right now by several measures. Sentiment surveys (AAII, Investor’s Intelligence, etc.) are universally negative becau...

Honeywell offers investors an attractive dividend yield thanks to post-pandemic underperformance. The company is gaining momentum again as aerospace demand and growth in next-gen technologies are providing strong (expected) future growth. Thanks to a healthy balance sheet, high fr...

The air transportation market is in the process of recovery; we expect air traffic to regain pre-COVID-19 level by 2024. Due to problems with existing aircraft models, Boeing is incurring abnormal costs that are putting pressure on the company's margins. Delays in FAA approvals an...

McDonald’s stock has strong upside based on the company’s ability to outperform competitors in challenging environments, superior distribution network, and more. McDonald’s superior operation enabled the company to not just survive in an extremely challenging envi...

Our rising price problem is, more than anything, a supply problem, and reducing demand is certainly one way to tackle it. But returning to the pre-COVID growth rate doesn’t mean we are headed to recession, that contraction is in our immediate future. US stocks and REITs wer...

Large-cap growth stocks outperformed small-cap value stocks by over 700 basis points (bps) annualized from 2012 to 2021. This stretch of whopping outperformance - a cumulative gain of 508% for large growth versus 211% for small value - stands in stark contrast to the findings of acade...

The rising rate, rising dollar environment continues with the dollar index hitting a 20-year high last week. That rising dollar is having an impact on the rest of the global economy but so far it has been manageable. There are a lot of companies out there that have come public over th...

Value continues to trounce growth stocks within the style asset class across all market caps, and the longer-term returns tell us that growth might continue to lag for some time. It’s impossible to say how long the style “alpha” will be sustained. Growth stocks ha...

Boeing fails to increase Boeing 737 MAX deliveries. Boeing orders continue to showcase demand for the Boeing 737 MAX over the longer term. Deliveries have been disappointing for most of the previous months. For further details see: Boeing: Just Disappointing