EQRR News and Press, ProShares Equities for Rising Rates ETF From 06/23/22

ProShares Equities for Rising Rates ETF (EQRR) - $0.3676. 30-Day SEC Yield of 1.81% as of May. 31. Payable Jun 29; for shareholders of record Jun 23; ex-div Jun 22. For further details see: ProShares Equities for Rising Rates ETF declares quarterly distribution of $0.3676

The year-over-year change in core CPI peaked in March and is coming down, albeit slower than we’d all like to see. The economy is slowing in some areas and inflation is still high but probably peaking. Bond yields are starting to look pretty attractive relative to stock div...

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...

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...

Pioneer Natural Resources reported tremendous YOY growth in terms of every single financial metric. The company benefited from both higher energy prices and production than in the year-ago quarter. The company is unlikely to deliver much in the way of growth over the course of thi...

Valero is improving its business faster than I expected, as it benefits from strong domestic and international demand as well as high margins. Dividend growth investors are in a terrific spot as the company's balance sheet is recovering quickly, leaving room for high dividend growth a...