IUSV News and Press, iShares Core S&P U.S. Value ETF From 06/27/22

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...

VTV is a diversified value ETF scoring well on volatility, valuation, and profitability. Fees are just 0.04%, and the popular ETF has over $80 billion in assets under management. Like most value ETFs, VTV lacks growth potential, and investors should seek to complement it with a s...

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...

iShares Core S&P U.S. Value ETF (IUSV) - $0.3051. 30-Day SEC Yield of 2.04% as of April. 29. Payable Jun 15; for shareholders of record Jun 10; ex-div Jun 09. For further details see: iShares Core S&P U.S. Value ETF declares quarterly distribution of $0.3051

IUSV invests in a collection of stocks considered likely to be "value stocks" per popular pricing metrics: ratios of book value, earnings, and sales to price (per S&P's simple methodology). While the methodology is crude, a simple analysis of the fund's likely forward IRR based on...

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...

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...

Large-cap growth stocks outperformed small-cap value stocks by over 700 basis points (bps) annualized from 2012 to 2021. This stretch of whopping outperformance - a cumulative gain of 508% for large growth versus 211% for small value - stands in stark contrast to the findings of acade...

The rising rate, rising dollar environment continues with the dollar index hitting a 20-year high last week. That rising dollar is having an impact on the rest of the global economy but so far it has been manageable. There are a lot of companies out there that have come public over th...