LVHD News and Press, Legg Mason Low Volatility High Dividend ETF From 09/01/22

Summary LVHD is dominated by the utilities and staples sector. Economic and market conditions look troubling. LVHD’s low beta qualities and cheap valuations make it a useful pick in the current environment. My mission isn't to make money in bull markets. M...

Summary The value rotation story has been hard to miss - it’s a trend that’s been underway since late 2020 and has since continued to gather steam. A theme often heard in the narrative is that value had been floundering relative to growth for a long stretch leading u...

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 ...

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. ...

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)...

Emerson Electric can grow its top line by making acquisitions as well as using share buybacks. Last year, the company announced a deal with Aspen Technologies to focus on the growing industrial software segment. Even when considering a potential recession in the coming quarters, E...

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...

Kimberly-Clark has a fantastic business that has been around for 150 years. It's not going away anytime soon. Inflationary pressures are taking a bite out of Kimberly-Clark's operating profits, and price increases haven't been enough to keep things moving in the right direction. T...

LVHD implements a dividend strategy intended to limit risks. More than 40% of asset value is in two sectors: utilities and consumer staples. Valuation ratios are cheaper than the S&P 500, quality is average. In 6 years of existence, it has underperformed SPY, SPHD, and VIG...

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...