GBDV News and Press, Global Beta ETF Trust Smart Income 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)...

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...

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...

WBA has a large debt load that could put dividend at risk. Recent attempts to sell Boots seem to have stalled. Price to earnings multiple is low and starting dividend yield is 4.4%. For further details see: Walgreens: High Debt Is Risky But Can Also Act As A Positive Cat...

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...

AT&T shareholders have been somewhat disappointed in the past decade – at least in relative performance. A leaner and better-focused AT&T is well-positioned to deliver asymmetric returns in the next decade to come. A 5x data increase on AT&T networks is expected...

Our rising price problem is, more than anything, a supply problem, and reducing demand is certainly one way to tackle it. But returning to the pre-COVID growth rate doesn’t mean we are headed to recession, that contraction is in our immediate future. US stocks and REITs wer...

LYB has had strong performance momentum lately and is returning a lot of cash to shareholders while also deleveraging that balance sheet. While there is a lot to like about LYB, we want a portfolio of our highest conviction picks. We share why LYB is no longer a high conviction bu...