…companies have been substantial, although it has leveled off some as oil prices seem to have stopped falling. The combination of these effects makes me think that the drop in…
…in mid-to-late 2011 when the Fed was preparing Operation Twist in between the second and third round of quantitative easing. Yields stayed on the floor for about two years and…
…S&P 500 is expensive at 33.3, but -94.0 means that earnings are negative. If you exclude the companies that are losing money, the PE ratio on ARK is 62.9, compared…
…large cap stocks didn’t fare as well, gained 11.19 percent, an underperformance of -2.49 percent. Using these indexes, the value momentum combination earned 12.38 percent, an underperformance of -1.31 percent….
…almost $94 per share, valuing the company at $231.4 billion. That’s an amazing public offering since the company was only founded 15 years ago and is now worth more than…
…add up the value of all the companies in the index and divide the largest company by the total value, the largest company is worth four percent. Even though these…
…be coming up in the headlines in the coming days. Perhaps we avoid another brouhaha and politicians come to their senses and do what needs to be done. We have…
…reinsurance. In a sense, reinsurance is insurance for insurance companies. A normal insurance company might be able to insure 100,000 in Florida and have a good system for pricing the…
…manifestation for the additional risk that value stocks represent. On average, though, the distressed companies right themselves thanks to action by company management. Some companies go under, like Borders Bookstores,…
…out an ‘optimal’ portfolio. That’s considered quantitative, but it doesn’t require a lot of computing power – after all, it was developed in the 1950s before computers were really on…
