VSMV News and Press, VictoryShares US Multi-Factor Minimum Volatility ETF From 09/16/22

Summary With inflation at the highest level in decades and volatility continuing to surge, equity investors are questioning their next moves. At the beginning of the year, financial conditions were very loose by any means historically, and we've very rapidly moved from loose finan...

Summary The main economic data release for the trading week is the US inflation report. The UK economy is in a precarious position and facing a recession. Chinese President Xi is expected to meet with Russian President Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in U...

Summary The strategic case holds that factors may help from both a return perspective and as a source of diversification. The recent performance turn will likely convince more investors that subpar factor performance in recent years was cyclical, not structural. Higher-quality...

Summary The value rotation story has been hard to miss - it’s a trend that’s been underway since late 2020 and has since continued to gather steam. A theme often heard in the narrative is that value had been floundering relative to growth for a long stretch leading u...

Summary There are many reasons for investors to consider minimum volatility in today’s market. Not only may the time be right in this moment, we believe there is also a case for a long-term strategic allocation to minimum volatility. I explore my answers to three common...

Historically, the best time to overweight value stocks has been in the early stages of a recovery, when economic growth is accelerating, and value tends to be cheap. Aside from energy, few sectors or styles have produced positive returns in 2022, but until recently value consistently ...

The Fed is intent on raising interest rates to fight inflation and must balance the risk that creates for economic growth. In an analysis of growth versus value stocks using data since 1927, we found value had achieved greatest outperformance in periods of moderate to high inflation. ...

First quarter results were a huge disappointment as cost pressures reduced operating income as well as earnings per share. Over the long run, Target should be able to fight inflation and the company is also rather recession-proof. And after losing almost 50% of its previous value,...

In our last article, we rated TGT as hold, due to its overvaluation. Since then, its stock price has fallen by about 27%, making the stock much more attractive. In our opinion, the potential negative impacts of the macroeconomic headwinds are already priced in. The safe, sustainab...

If you think of all the different index providers, each has its own definition of the fundamentals that it believes denote “value.”. If stocks can experience severe reductions in their price-to-book value ratios (another way of saying an increase in book-to-price ratios)...