PFUT News and Press, Putnam Sustainable Future ETF From 06/24/22

Unilever is one of the world’s biggest conglomerates in the consumer goods industry. The company owns a portfolio of more than 400 brands and develops, manufactures and markets products in three main categories, including Food, Home Care and Personal Care. Investors might a...

From the November peak to the recent trough, U.S. large cap growth stocks lost more than 30%, a decline on par with the pandemic induced bear market. Growth is still trailing the S&P 500 by roughly 10% and nearly 17% versus comparable value indexes. As economic growth slows, i...

After the stock price dropped almost 40%, BlackRock is definitely worth a look again. And despite a mediocre performance of the stock market during the first quarter of fiscal 2022, BlackRock performed quite well. Despite the wide economic moat, the looming bear market (and recess...

Growth stocks are under acute pressure as rising interest rates change the dynamics that drive equity valuations. Market corrections are always painful, but investors in growth equities have suffered a particularly harsh blow this year. This year’s market correction reflect...

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...

How similar will the next three or five years look from the years that immediately preceded the pandemic? And what are the implications for us as global equity investors? We don’t expect anything like the hyperinflation and stagflation we experienced in the 1970s; our outlook s...

This is the time for non-discretionary, less cyclical consumer goods. Amidst the global economic hurricane, Unilever is well-positioned as a safe haven for investors. Unilever navigated the first turbulent weeks of the Ukraine war safely and has provided assuring guidance for the ...

Target Corporation lowered its guidance for fiscal 2022 during its latest earnings update on May 18, which saw shares of TGT plummet during normal trading hours. In our view, Target remains a free cash flow generating powerhouse, and management will likely do whatever it takes to pres...

Value continues to trounce growth stocks within the style asset class across all market caps, and the longer-term returns tell us that growth might continue to lag for some time. It’s impossible to say how long the style “alpha” will be sustained. Growth stocks ha...