MGC News and Press, Vanguard Mega Cap From 11/11/22

Summary In today's issue of the 1-Minute Market Report, I examine the market bounce since the October low, and highlight the areas of the market that are leading the way higher. On Thursday, for every stock that was down, there were 26 that were up. For the first time since August...

Summary With inflationary pressures and recessionary fears remaining top-of-mind, equity managers see no short-term end to the bumpy ride in markets. One of the key risks cited by equity managers in our third-quarter report is the possibility of inflation remaining stuck at high l...

Summary Performance charts can mislead investors because sometimes they include rare one-off gains or losses early in the time series. Analyzing rolling returns lessens the importance of buying just at the right time. This article looks at six-month rolling returns for 73 U.S. ETF...

Summary The main economic data release for the trading week is the US inflation report. The UK economy is in a precarious position and facing a recession. Chinese President Xi is expected to meet with Russian President Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in U...

Summary MGC is a more focused version of the S&P 500 Index. Its fundamentals and performance history are virtually identical, and it has a competitive 0.07% expense ratio. This article considers MGC's valuation to where it was six months ago, showing an approximate 8% decline ...

The second quarter was dominated by negative market sentiment amid worries over skyrocketing inflation and the risks of a global recession. The broad market selloff over the past few months led almost all markets to finish the second quarter with negative returns in U.S. dollars and l...

Vanguard Mega Cap ETF (MGC) - $0.5123. 30-Day SEC Yield of 1.40% as of June. 21. Payable Jun 28; for shareholders of record Jun 24; ex-div Jun 23. For further details see: Vanguard Mega Cap ETF declares quarterly distribution of $0.5123

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...

XLG owns the top 50 stocks in the S&P 500, making it a solid choice for mega-cap investors. Fees are competitive at 0.20%, and the Index reconstitutes annually in June. XLG is extremely concentrated with 71% in the top 20 holdings, but historically, it's tracked the S&P 500 an...

Beyond the broad S&P benchmark, 45% of NASDAQ 100 stocks are already off more than 50%, which only happened as part of the larger-than-historically-average bear markets of 2000-02 and 2008-09. The last eight times the S&P 500 was down in a calendar year, bonds finished the yea...