METV News and Press, Roundhill Ball Metaverse ETF From 04/24/22

The forward 4-quarter estimate rose this week to $234.04 from $233.83 although the forward P/E compressed to 18.2x from last week’s 18.8x. The S&P 500 earnings yield jumped to 5.48% from last week’s 5.32%. Tech and Growth is struggling in 2022, which is perfectly...

Rising interest rates tend to hurt growth stocks, and more specifically tech stocks due to their high price-to-earnings ratios and low dividend payments. The S&P 500 is trading at its cheapest since before the pandemic, with a current P/E ratio of about 25.6. Inflation and sup...

Markets have been exceptionally volatile since mid-November, as investors have digested the impacts of rising inflation, pending US Federal Reserve actions, the potential end of the COVID-19 crisis, and the tragic situation in Ukraine. In our strategy, we tend to emphasize higher-grow...

METV provides exposure to emerging technologies that allow the Metaverse to take form and grow. The fund trades at over 20x earnings in a market with rising interest rates and high inflation, which makes the bullish thesis risky. Long-term investors would be better off holding lon...

Fidelity Investments is the latest asset manager to enter the metaverse space, announcing its launch of the Fidelity Metaverse ETF (FMET). The fund will join an increasingly crowded field that already includes offerings from the likes of ProShares and others. Fidelity’s ETF looks to pr...

The broader equity categories turned in negative results in Q1. U.S. large-cap stocks, as measured by the S&P 500 Index, held up the best at a decline of 4.6%. Bonds performed worse than many of the equity categories, despite typically being viewed as a safe haven investment. In t...

The metaverse and sports betting space are two thematic market areas that have grown exponentially, and now the investment community may have access to two new leveraged exchange traded funds that can compound their positions further. According to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Fil...

Inflation expectations have kept the Federal Reserve center stage as they commenced their interest rate rising cycle in March. The war in Ukraine and Omicron’s spread in China impacted inflation and supply chains differently, but both delay supply chain normalization. Regar...

The titans of Wall Street are nearly unanimous now: the Metaverse is going to be an economic explosion with huge implications for businesses and investors. That’s the only reasonably conclusion this week after Citigroup joined Goldman Sachs on Friday to pin a value on the metaverse of ...

Stock markets fell in the first quarter as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine destabilized the growth outlook, amplified concerns about rising interest rates and unleashed geopolitical risks. While the conflict has created many uncertainties, we believe the impact of persistent infla...