FPX News and Press, First Trust US Equity Opportunities 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...

Boustead Wavefront has filed proposed terms for a $15 million U.S. IPO. The firm seeks to provide corporate finance advisory and pre-IPO origination services to small and medium-sized Asian firms. BOUW is changing its business focus, isn't licensed yet, and the IPO is highly price...

ParaZero Technologies Ltd. has filed proposed terms for a $16 million U.S. IPO. The firm designs and sells drone parachute recovery systems. The PRZO IPO is highly priced with no revenue traction in a moderately-growing industry. While the IPO may see trading volatility from i...

Ivanhoe Electric has filed to raise an estimated $200 million in U.S. and Canadian IPOs. The firm seeks to mine mineral deposits in the U.S. and overseas while developing its proprietary technologies. IE is still a very small player in terms of mining revenue and is producing sign...

bioAffinity Technologies has filed proposed terms for a $10 million IPO. The firm is developing diagnostics tests, including its lead test for detection of lung cancer. BIAF is still a long way from possible marketing approval for its lead test, so I'm on Hold for the IPO. F...

Onfolio has filed proposed terms to raise $15 million in an IPO of its common stock and warrants. The firm seeks to acquire and operate online content destination websites in specific verticals. EF Hutton is the sole underwriter, and its IPOs have performed in the bottom tier over...

How similar will the next three or five years look from the years that immediately preceded the pandemic? And what are the implications for us as global equity investors? We don’t expect anything like the hyperinflation and stagflation we experienced in the 1970s; our outlook s...

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...

Our macroeconomic forecasting team assesses how the war and latest survey data have altered the economic outlook, policymaking and recession risks. Global growth was dragged lower, principally by steep contractions in Russia and mainland China. Barring the initial COVID-19 outbreak, M...