WBIG News and Press, WBI BullBear Yield 1000 From 07/14/22

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)...

The bad news for Altria never seems to end, with the FDA now proposing to ban JUUL E-cigarettes, thereby sending the share price plunging. This comes after Altria's flagship reduced-risk product, IQOS, was also banned, and the Biden administration is seeking to reduce nicotine levels ...

When it rains, it pours: everyone and their aunt is bearish at the same time. Morgan Stanley upgrades Altria stock based on valuation and concerns being priced in. Barclays calls MO stock a "Melting Ice Cube." We believe Altria stock offers a high margin of safety, with expect...

Earnings for the S&P 500, according to Howard Silverblatt’s work at S&P, are expected to rise 7.7% in 2022. Growth stocks were grossly overvalued going into that bear market and they took the brunt of the damage. Real estate did well last week with rates falling bac...

The 2022 bear market is the 2nd worst start to the year in history and is starting to take its toll on even the world's best defensive blue-chips. Altria recently plunged 17% over the same risk factors that investors have known about for years. The company's fundamental growth out...

The year-over-year change in core CPI peaked in March and is coming down, albeit slower than we’d all like to see. The economy is slowing in some areas and inflation is still high but probably peaking. Bond yields are starting to look pretty attractive relative to stock div...

Morgan Stanley downgrades Altria and trims price target to $50. Upcoming dividend increase looks juicy. Pricing power and inelasticity are overlooked factors in an already suppressed stock. For further details see: Altria: What The Recent Downgrade Means

Brewer Molson Coors has been battling volume declines for years in its mainstream beer offerings, while debt has also been an issue. With brewers naturally exhibiting significant fixed cost leverage, volume declines pose a real threat to cash flow, while inflation could also pose some...

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...