OLD News and Press, The Long-Term Care ETF From 07/15/21

Like it or not, capital gain prospects for stocks in U.S. equities markets are all directly comparable with one another, and investors who need those gains need to make comparisons. The comparability comes from big-money transaction pressures by competing “Institutional”...

Healthcare REITs - particularly senior housing and long-term care facilities - have been revived by the early vaccination success. New coronavirus cases have been nearly eradicated in senior living facilities. Senior living facilities were ground zero of the pandemic as the illness ha...

U.S. equity markets finished modestly lower on a choppy week as assurances from the Fed of a "lower-for-longer" policy regime didn't slow the continued march higher in long-term interest rates. Retreating from record closing highs last week, the S&P 500 declined by 1.2% this past ...

The Health and Wellness theme experienced remarkable disruption in 2020. Pandemic-induced lockdowns and social distancing brought the world to a standstill, giving way to the Stay-at-Home Economy. Subscriptions to digital fitness services and at-home fitness equipment soared on the ba...

The Great Financial Crisis resulted in long-term, lasting pain for the real estate sector, but "this time was different" for most REITs due to harsh lessons learned from past crises. Despite early struggles with rent collection, REITs' strong balance sheets and access-to-capital preve...

Overshadowed by concerns about rising interest rates, a frenzy of real estate earnings reports over the last month have provided critical information on the state of the real estate industry. Roughly two-thirds of the 170 equity REITs in our coverage universe beat consensus FFO estima...

We're now at the halfway point of another newsworthy REIT earnings season. Results thus far have generally been better than expected as dividend cuts have given way to dividend boosts. Rents paid, dividends raised: 18 equity REITs have boosted their dividend this year, the majority of...

U.S. equity markets rebounded from their worst week since October as stronger-than-expected corporate earnings reports and recent economic and coronavirus data suggested a sooner-than-feared return to normalcy. Delivering a "perfect week" with gains on all-five trading days, the S&...

The short squeeze frenzy - which sent shockwaves through financial markets and the political establishment - has fizzled out over the last week following a dramatic surge from many troubled businesses. The five heavily-shorted mall REITs have plunged nearly 30% since the peak of the f...

U.S. equity markets posted their worst week since October amid an ongoing "short squeeze saga" that raised questions regarding market stability, overshadowing a strong week of earnings reports and economic data. Impacted by the fallout from the ongoing battle between institutiona...