Our last blog discussed safe harbors amidst the current storm of market volatility. The idea presented was to investigate the strong buy stocks with the lowest betas. This week we home in on a sector that is typically low volatility and low growth. Currently we find fairly competitive earnings growth in this sector. We look … Read more
Taking Stock of the Utilities Sector First: Happy New Year to all ValuEngine readers, subscribers, clients, customers, and partners! The recent market pull back may have some investors scrambling to re-allocate their investments to reduce some risk. The utilities sector has historically been a focus for investors looking to lower volatility. In this blog we … Read more
What Can We Learn from Sector ETFs? My last blog focused on the 3rd quarter rotation from large cap-weighted growth ETFs to index ETFs that were more value-oriented, equally weighted and/or mid- and small-cap focused. Sector ETFs are often used for rotation strategies in addition to being vehicles for long-term investment. There are 132 sector … Read more