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2023-04-11 21:48:16 ET Summary We are in the early stages of a new market cycle characterized by higher volatility, inflation and interest rates and creating conditions where value stocks thrive. New market cycles are characterized by future leaders beginning extremely cheap, and ...

Summary Skewness in asset returns is a perplexing phenomenon and evokes different behavior from investors. Our theory is that skewness tends to move based on investor preferences. Investors in growth stocks may be pursuing lottery-like payouts, especially when such stocks are ...

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...

When the year started, Dow saw a desirable outlook for shareholder returns. Their underlying cash flow performance increased over 50% year-on-year during the first half of 2022, which also saw guidance pushed up. Despite this stronger than expected financial performance, Dow's div...

Historically, the best time to overweight value stocks has been in the early stages of a recovery, when economic growth is accelerating, and value tends to be cheap. Aside from energy, few sectors or styles have produced positive returns in 2022, but until recently value consistently ...

Dow is a diversified chemical company with a global footprint and solid profitability. Management is being disciplined with its cash flow by paying down debt and returning cash to shareholders via share buybacks and dividends. Its beaten down share price makes it a cyclical stock ...

The Fed is intent on raising interest rates to fight inflation and must balance the risk that creates for economic growth. In an analysis of growth versus value stocks using data since 1927, we found value had achieved greatest outperformance in periods of moderate to high inflation. ...

Progressive is a growing and profitable insurance operation. While 2022 may not be the most profitable year ever, the company will survive with a 96% combined ratio target. But the stock trades at high multiples and doesn't offer a clear-cut consistent dividend yield. I think the ...

VLO shares have pulled back sharply in recent months, creating an attractive entry point ahead of Q2 earnings. With domestic and international demand strong for refined products, refiners should continue to experience high margins/spreads so long as China remains on the sidelines. ...

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)...