FVAL News and Press, Fidelity Value Factor From 02/09/22

FVAL tracks the Fidelity US Value Factor Index, which is rebalanced biannually. FVAL outperformed a few of its low multiples-focused peers in the past more likely because of growth, not value factor. Just ~33.5% of the holdings have Valuation grades of B- or better. This...

2022 has already started with a sharp reversal away from mega-cap and growth and toward value and high-dividend strategies. The MSCI World gained 7.77% over the quarter: the best quarter of 2021 and the sixth quarter of positive performance since March 2020’s nadir. Researc...

Stocks and bonds sold off in January as markets repriced for a more aggressive pace of central bank tightening and increased pressures on the global earnings recovery. Tech and other pricey high-growth stocks tend to underperform in periods of rising interest rates. Value returns ...

For investors who want to earn a reasonable return without taking excessive risks, diversification still works, and we think you’re going to need more of it this year. The weighing of the high-flyers is not over. Commodities had another good week, and the 1-year return is getti...

Taking into account the Fed comments from last week, recently one of our technical analysts forecasted a correct S&P Index price range of $4,348 to $4,261. The market has since corrected to that level and is now bouncing. The analysis of the broad stock market shows signs of i...

With headlines focused on inflation and the Federal Reserve, rotations between growth and value stocks have become increasingly violent. While skilled market timers may try to get ahead of these moves, a different strategy is to embrace the middle: growth at a reasonable price, known ...

In investing, the big five could more aptly refer to the connected categories of growth, inflation, interest rates, valuations, and style. 2022 is shaping up to be one of slowing toward more normal, healthy rates of economic growth and inflation, thereby paving the way to a sustainabl...

The US rebound from the Q3 slowdown is in full bloom. The economy certainly looks like it is on solid ground right now. So, why in the world are bonds rallying? The 10-year Treasury yield fell 10 basis points on Friday after the payroll report. The movements in bond markets today ...

We think current cost-push inflation is poised to give way to a healthy, regenerative demand-pull environment, replete with moderate economic growth that is beneficial for the value companies in which we invest. History has shown moderate inflation can be good for value stocks. We con...

We noted in our quarterly letter that every brokerage house on the Street was bearish and telling its customers to expect stocks to move into a correction. We also reminded you that one of Reilly’s Rules is that when everyone expects something to happen something else usually does....