LVHD News and Press, Legg Mason Low Volatility High Dividend ETF 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)...

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...

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...

Colgate’s share of the global toothpaste and manual toothbrush market is a large moat. There is long-term, expected growth in the company's key markets. The current stock price has 35% upside at consensus growth rates. For further details see: Colgate-Palmolive: S...