OEF News and Press, iShares S&P 100 From 05/31/23

2023-05-31 21:03:00 ET Summary Large-cap U.S. equities have rallied year-to-date by approximately nine percent (as of May 29th) and appear to show resiliency in the face of a potential recession. The outperformance of the ‘Big 8’ group has seen its market cap weight ...

2023-05-20 06:00:00 ET Summary While virtually no global market segment escaped the turmoil of the past year, US large cap equities were dealt a particularly sharp blow. As defensive industries have cycled into favor, the market turmoil has led many investors to seek a defensive s...

2023-05-16 23:35:00 ET Summary 2023 is now continuing that past pattern of growth and large-cap growth relative performance. If you look at the 10 and 15-year annualized returns across all the US equity asset classes, even straight value vs. growth, the returns are not all that ap...

2023-05-04 02:44:00 ET Summary 2023 has smashed all previous U.S. large-cap stock-market extremes including those of 2021 and 2022. Regardless of whether there is a soft landing or not, current valuations especially for the largest U.S. stocks aren't compatible with contracting ec...

2023-04-26 22:55:00 ET Summary After taking a back seat to various flavors of small-cap and value factors earlier in 2023, the large-company growth risk factor is again leading the horse race, based on year-to-date returns for a set of ETF proxies through yesterday’s close (Apr...

2023-04-23 07:41:00 ET Summary The sudden collapse of two US regional banks and the forced acquisition of Credit Suisse in Europe introduced a third dimension to the existing policy dilemma of balancing inflation and growth objectives: financial stability. In the weeks since banki...

2023-04-13 18:51:03 ET Summary The broad stock market has flopped around, but there has been no sustained positive returns for some time. Not even in OEF, a more mega-cap version of the S&P 500. This has to be frustrating for equity investors used to consistent double-digit an...

2023-03-29 03:30:00 ET Summary While US large cap equity indexes have generally fared well over the past five years, the Russell 1000 Invesco Dynamic Multifactor Index [RB1] has posted standout returns. The Russell 1000 Index — an unbiased barometer for the broad US large c...

2023-03-24 14:28:39 ET iShares S&P 100 ETF ( NYSEARCA: OEF ) - $0.6565 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 1.49% as of Feb. 28. Payable Mar 29; for shareholders of record Mar 24; ex-div Mar 23. For further details see: iShares S&P 100 ETF declares quarterly distrib...

2023-03-14 01:25:20 ET Summary I ran one of my regular chart runs, where I scour the 100 largest US stocks to sort out potential buys and sells. As always, this gives me a good sense of what returns may be available in the next 6-12 months and what risk is attached. My bottom ...