Uncertainty since mid-July in the broad market has put a lot of pressure on stocks in a lot of industries – and if the analysts are to be believed, sectors that are the most exposed to trade pressures and sensitive to the cyclical nature of economic ebb and flow, like Technology and Industrials are at […]
Read MoreWhile the entire market has seen a pretty solid overall performance year to date, the energy sector has underperformed, with mostly flat performance year to date. Over the past year, the sector has been even more disappointing, having declined by about -23.5% year to date as measured by the S&P 500 Energy Sector SPDR ETF […]
Read MoreTrade tensions, which have persisted for well over a year, have worked to amp up market tension at different periods throughout the year. The prospect for trade compromise helped the market rally strongly from the beginning of this year until mid-July, when the Fed’s more modest-than-expected interest rate cut, along with the cold reality that […]
Read MoreOne of the hallmarks of the market’s upward trend this year (even factoring in the market volatility and pull back since late July from the latest all-time high) has been the strength of the U.S. economy. Even as trade uncertainty continues to keep investors and analysts on edge, concerns about interest rate policy persist, and […]
Read MoreThere are a lot of ways to look at a company and evaluate them for fundamental strength. Traditional metrics, including many of the ones that I rely on for the stocks that I analyze, measure everything from sales and earnings growth to how much productivity the company realizes per employee. You can break down the […]
Read MoreAs trade concerns have introduced volatility back into the market, industrial and technology stocks in particular have been battered the worst. It is true that many of the companies in these sectors have been referring to tariffs and trade among headwinds to their latest earnings results. That is among the reasons that the Industrial sector, […]
Read MoreThe energy sector is one of the most cyclical sectors of the economy, primarily because of its reliance on oil. Oil prices are often highly volatile depending any number of factors, ranging from geopolitics to weather phenomenon to simply supply and demand. A good example of that volatility was seen in the latter part of […]
Read MoreIn the latter part of June, I wrote about Westrock Company (WRK), a stock in the Materials sector that had dropped to the extreme low end of its historical range and is in a long-term downward trend that dates back to January of 2018. At the time, there were enough holes in the company’s fundamental […]
Read MoreCisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) is one of the most recognizable and established companies in the Technology sector. With a market cap of nearly $200 billion, they are also one of the largest, if not THE largest player in the Networking & Communications segment. They are, without question, the standard that all other networking businesses are […]
Read MoreAs trade tensions have restored volatility to the market, sectors like Industrials and Technology appear to be on the bleeding edge of risk exposure. That’s because the longer tariffs remain in place – and both the U.S. and China keep drawing their own respective hard lines in the sand about trade – the more the […]
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