TDIV News and Press, First Trust NASDAQ Technology Dividend Index Fund From 05/22/20

Markets have settled and recovered from the initial shock of the coronavirus spread and the response of governments around the US and the world to lock down the economy. But while the major US indices have approached, if not quite matched, the fabled v-shaped recovery, there are still plenty o...

The Technology sector ranks eighth out of the 11 sectors as detailed in our Q2'20 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. Last quarter , the Technology sector ranked eighth. It gets our Neutral rating, which is based on an aggregation of ratings of the 456 stocks in the Technolog...

I have recently written about Vanguard's Small-Cap Value ETF ( VBR ), after noticing the fund's underperformance over the past couple of years at least. In my analysis, I isolated the ETF's small cap and value factors and concluded that: value has been a drag on returns for a multi-year ...

Co-produced with Trapping Value In total, 3.38 million people filed for unemployment benefits last week. The numbers were so off the charts that we likely will have to exclude this period when we want to look at this data in the future. While people were shocked at the magnitude of tho...

Introduction As the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on the global economy, I am in search of industries, sectors, and companies that are being thrown out like the baby with the bathwater. Undoubtedly, many solid companies with good prospects of weathering this viral storm are being sold...

The Technology sector ranks eighth out of the 11 sectors as detailed in our Q'20 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. Last quarter , the Technology sector ranked sixth. It gets our Neutral rating, which is based on an aggregation of ratings of the 458 stocks in the Technology ...

With markets achieving overall 10% gains from 2018-2019 and top performing big tech contributing to most market gains in the last 40 years, big tech companies in China and the U.S. - Alibaba ( BABA ), Tencent ( TCEHY ), JD.com ( JD ), Apple ( AAPL ), Microsoft ( MSFT ), Google ( GOOG ) and...

By Rahim Shad, Senior Analyst "If you build it, they will come," was a line immortalized in the movie "Field of Dreams." It is also a fitting mantra for telecommunications companies in 2020, as they launch new initiatives that they hope will turn into leading businesses in the future. ...

Reflections on 2019 This past year was defined by both extreme fear and extreme greed. Beginning the year in the wake of a ~20% correction in stocks, fear dominated the investment community. Widespread proclamations from prominent investors that a new bear market was upon us could be heard...

The Technology sector ranks sixth out of the 11 sectors as detailed in our Q4'19 Sector Ratings for ETFs and Mutual Funds report. Last quarter , the Technology sector ranked ninth. It gets our Neutral rating, which is based on an aggregation of ratings of the 456 stocks in the Technology se...