SCHV News and Press, Schwab U.S. Large-Cap Value From 01/09/23

Summary Avoiding growth last year paid enormous dividends, but I didn’t predict that growth stocks would fall in 2022, just that I couldn’t own them and fulfill our fiduciary duty. Near-term stock market performance is negatively correlated with economic growth. Commod...

Summary Microsoft and Amazon are now part of the S&P 500 Value Index according to the newly constructed Style Indexes. Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil and Chevron are now considered top growth stocks. These are just a few significant changes that impact the SPDR S&P 500 Value ETF. Genera...

Summary 2022 was the first year since 2016 that value investing thoroughly trounced growth investing. Growth had a nice spurt off the lows in June and October ’22 but the higher 10-year Treasury yield is acting like a wet blanket for growth stocks. I continue to think that no...

Summary VLUE tracks the MSCI USA Enhanced Value Index, selecting 150 Large-Cap U.S. securities based on price-book, price-earnings, and enterprise value-operating cash flow ratios. Launched in April 2013, VLUE has amassed $7.6 billion in assets management and has a reasonable 0.15% expe...

Summary I scanned my U.S. Equity ETF Database for large-cap funds with average volatility, low fees, and high quality. I found 33 ETFs you can consider to be core holdings. This article summarizes selected fundamental metrics for all ETFs, highlighting the best ones to own based on dive...

Summary Inflation continues to moderate, not only here, but also in Europe. Despite the negative economic reports and the reaction to the Fed rate hike, the US Dollar barely budged for the week. Value yet again outperformed Growth in the last week, this time by a spread of almost 1%...

Summary Avoiding envy, and its associated pitfalls, is one of the simple secrets to a successful investment portfolio. Value once again outperformed Growth in the last week. After closing below the 200-day moving average for two weeks running, the US Dollar seems firmly entrenched i...

Summary There’s a growing valuation discount between our portfolios and their respective indices. Today, one can purchase a higher-quality portfolio for a discounted price relative to the index. This creates an attractive entry point for our actively managed small- to mid-cap...

Summary They may be far fewer in number than they used to be but traditional value investors are still out there, harnessing the power of “the force” in markets. Investors still interested in “thinking” their way to wealth (rather than giving in to the ...

Summary These are unprecedented times when every asset class except for certain commodities seems to be volatile and the associated market moves can also be difficult to understand. For this purpose, a divergence chart built from the share prices of SCHV and SCHG helps to show tha...