FTC News and Press, First Trust Large Cap Growth AlphaDEX Fund From 09/20/22

Summary Performance charts can mislead investors because sometimes they include rare one-off gains or losses early in the time series. Analyzing rolling returns lessens the importance of buying just at the right time. This article looks at six-month rolling returns for 73 U.S. ETF...

Summary With inflation at the highest level in decades and volatility continuing to surge, equity investors are questioning their next moves. At the beginning of the year, financial conditions were very loose by any means historically, and we've very rapidly moved from loose finan...

Summary After a brutal six months, during which the Russell 1000 Growth Index fell more than 32%, growth stocks finally found a floor in June before rebounding. September is not over and is rarely kind to investors. A slower economy is, at least on a relative basis, supportive...

Summary The main economic data release for the trading week is the US inflation report. The UK economy is in a precarious position and facing a recession. Chinese President Xi is expected to meet with Russian President Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in U...

The biotech industry for the first half of the year had seen better six-month periods in the past, but the situation appears to have changed beginning in July. From Jan. 1 to June 20, 2022, the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF ( XBI ) and iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology ETF ( IBB ) had...

For a decade, investors chased growth stocks, but now they won't touch them; will a recession and falling rates bring them back? Growth stocks are all about the future, and the CRSP Growth Index contains nothing about valuation. Young growing companies often have negative cash flow an...

Earnings for the S&P 500, according to Howard Silverblatt’s work at S&P, are expected to rise 7.7% in 2022. Growth stocks were grossly overvalued going into that bear market and they took the brunt of the damage. Real estate did well last week with rates falling bac...

First Trust Large Cap Growth AlphaDEX® Fund (FTC) - $0.1291. 30-Day SEC Yield of 0.90% as of May. 31. Payable Jun 30; for shareholders of record Jun 27; ex-div Jun 24. For further details see: First Trust Large Cap Growth AlphaDEX® Fund declares quarterly distributio...

From the November peak to the recent trough, U.S. large cap growth stocks lost more than 30%, a decline on par with the pandemic induced bear market. Growth is still trailing the S&P 500 by roughly 10% and nearly 17% versus comparable value indexes. As economic growth slows, i...

Growth stocks are under acute pressure as rising interest rates change the dynamics that drive equity valuations. Market corrections are always painful, but investors in growth equities have suffered a particularly harsh blow this year. This year’s market correction reflect...