FOVL News and Press, iShares Focused Value Factor From 06/05/24

2024-06-05 07:59:00 ET Summary 2024 earnings are off to a strong start with a resilient Q1 earnings season which exceeded analyst expectations for the fifth consecutive quarter. The current earnings growth rate of 8.0% surpassed the start-of-quarter estimate of 5.0%. The Magni...

2024-06-03 23:50:00 ET Summary Once again, stocks did not disappoint on Friday as the S&P 500 Index delivered another rare 100 point plus daily range. Based on futures trading, Friday’s range in both the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ 100 indexes was slightly larger than th...

2024-06-03 12:36:00 ET Summary Despite the Salesforce miss and the drop in software stocks last week, the trends in technology sector earnings remain positive. There is nothing about the S&P 500 EPS data that seems to indicate a problem with the US economy, at least as of toda...

2024-05-29 14:05:00 ET Summary Even after today’s decline, the S&P 500 still sits on a year-to-date gain of over 10%, indicating just how strong the first five months of 2024 have been. The Dow has followed a much weaker path, as it’s barely holding on to gains f...

2024-05-28 11:55:00 ET Summary One of the most disappointing aspects of modern day investing is we seem to have all become momentum investors. My dividend discount model predicts that the fair value of the S&P 500 is approximately 5800. The overall S&P 500 can deliver ...

2024-05-28 09:45:00 ET Summary The S&P 500 closed at 5,304.72 on the Friday before 2024's Memorial Holiday weekend. In between May 17 and May 24, the index set a new record-high close of 5,321.41 on May 21. The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow tool's forecast of annualized real GDP gr...

2024-05-27 03:55:00 ET Summary The market has had another week of indecision, trying to make up its mind whether to cheer another blowout earnings quarter by NVIDIA, the darling of one-day options punters, or worry itself into a corner over comments by Fed officials speculating about ...

2024-05-24 20:30:00 ET Summary This week, the S&P 500 closed at 5,304.72, while the close last week was 5,303.27. The forward 4-quarter estimate for the S&P 500 dropped a little this week to $252.61 from last week’s $252.93. The P/E ratio this week is 21x vs. 21...

2024-05-23 02:00:00 ET Summary The price-to-earnings ratio of the Magnificent Seven is not yet at levels seen during the 1999 tech bubble, but historical observations can elude forecast accuracy. The S&P 500 Index today is the most concentrated it's been since the 1950s. A...

2024-05-22 11:05:00 ET Summary If you want to understand why stock prices behave as they do, you need to start with what the expectations for future dividends are doing. We reveal how the expectations of dividend growth through each quarter of 2024 has changed since we started tra...