FVD News and Press, First Trust VL Dividend From 07/14/22

If you think of all the different index providers, each has its own definition of the fundamentals that it believes denote “value.”. If stocks can experience severe reductions in their price-to-book value ratios (another way of saying an increase in book-to-price ratios)...

FVD implements an equal-weight, dividend-oriented strategy. Utilities, Industrials and Financials are its heaviest sectors. Valuation and quality metrics are close to the S&P 500. It has underperformed the S&P 500 since inception, but beats it this year. This...

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...

Unilever is one of the world’s biggest conglomerates in the consumer goods industry. The company owns a portfolio of more than 400 brands and develops, manufactures and markets products in three main categories, including Food, Home Care and Personal Care. Investors might a...

First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund (FVD) - $0.1701. 30-Day SEC Yield of 1.89% as of May. 31. Payable Jun 30; for shareholders of record Jun 27; ex-div Jun 24. For further details see: First Trust Value Line Dividend Index Fund declares quarterly distribution of $0.1701

Dividend exchange traded funds find themselves hovering near 52-week trading lows as five of the world's six largest dividend funds have touched a one-year trading low at one point earlier this week. The five ETFs which cumulatively manage more than $175B of investor capital are Vanguard Divi...

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...

I've redesigned my monthly dividend ETF report to allow readers to download dozens of metrics for nearly 100 funds. You can quickly sort by key features like fees, AUM, dividend yield, dividend growth, volatility, turnover, returns, and risk-adjusted returns to find the best ETF for y...

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...