XNTK News and Press, SPDR NYSE Technology From 05/16/22

The true dichotomy in 2022’s stock market is that S&P 500 forward estimates continue to be revised higher while the S&P 500 sinks lower. The forward 4-quarter estimate rose this past week to $235.25 vs last week’s $234.44 and the 12/31/21 estimate of $216.14. ...

Tech is under pressure but it's not being singled out by investors. Larger technology stocks faring better than smaller tech firms. TD Asset Management's Vitali Mossounov explains why this isn't a replay of the dot-com crash. For further details see: Inside The Tech Rout...

We compared Broadcom and Marvell’s semiconductor business across logic and analog semiconductors and determined that Marvell edges out Broadcom with a superior ASICs and processor technology. Further, we compared their analog business and determined that Broadcom has a superior...

Grab is the largest SPAC that went public last year, with a market cap of around $40 billion. The stock hit an all-time high last November at $17 and has been plummeting since. The company is trying to build a Super App by launching more products beyond ride sharing. There are...

In January, the bubble indicator showed that the US equity market as a whole was at the edge of a bubble but not in an extreme bubble. The earnings growth discounted in stocks is still a bit high. While the reversal has been significant, discounting of future earnings remains some...

The stagflation scenario got a little more traction last week with the release of a negative Q1 GDP print on Thursday and hints of more inflation on Friday. April was a really rotten month with everything down but the general commodity indexes. Investing is mostly an exercise in s...

The forward 4-quarter estimate rose this week to $234.04 from $233.83 although the forward P/E compressed to 18.2x from last week’s 18.8x. The S&P 500 earnings yield jumped to 5.48% from last week’s 5.32%. Tech and Growth is struggling in 2022, which is perfectly...

Rising interest rates tend to hurt growth stocks, and more specifically tech stocks due to their high price-to-earnings ratios and low dividend payments. The S&P 500 is trading at its cheapest since before the pandemic, with a current P/E ratio of about 25.6. Inflation and sup...

Markets have been exceptionally volatile since mid-November, as investors have digested the impacts of rising inflation, pending US Federal Reserve actions, the potential end of the COVID-19 crisis, and the tragic situation in Ukraine. In our strategy, we tend to emphasize higher-grow...

The broader equity categories turned in negative results in Q1. U.S. large-cap stocks, as measured by the S&P 500 Index, held up the best at a decline of 4.6%. Bonds performed worse than many of the equity categories, despite typically being viewed as a safe haven investment. In t...