Sectors
Reality Check: What’s Really Wrong With Homebuilder Stocks?
After yet-another disappointing building permits and housing starts update on Tuesday of this week, we were inundated with yet-another salvo of news commentaries stating the obvious…. with headlines such as Home Builders Continue to Struggle…”, and “Housing Starts Still Weak”. Fair enough.
The most amusingly-obvious (yet also irritating) story came from U.S. News & World Report [...]
New Sector Leader, Old Leaders Still Near the Head of the Pack
It was a wild week last week on the sector front, with some new contestants starting to jockey for leaedership roles (and some of them are even making progress to that end).
Utilities and telecom are still out on front, though utilities stocks eased back a bit later in the week, allowing telecom to move ahead [...]
Sector, Style Groups Leave No Ambiguity - Clear Leaders Emerging
For the second week in a row we saw materials and industrial stocks lead the way, with transportation stocks (thanks to stellar results from a few railroad and trucking names) not far behind. At the bottom of the pile was healthcare - again - with gold just one notch above the bottom rung.
While a rally [...]
Investment-Worthy Trend: Road and Rail Proves All It Needs To
Are you one of the folks who thinks the economy is slowing down? Not that there’s not some evidence to that end, but to be fair, there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary. One such piece of evidence is railroad freight activity in the United States (as well as in Canada).
In June, the total rail [...]
Nowhere to Hide at Sector Level, Though Some Industries Offered Some Shelter
Guess where the only place to hide last week was? No surprise here…. gold stocks continued their march. Once again though, gold is now going higher simply because it’s going higher - and that’s a rug waiting to be pulled out form underneath it. Energy was the big loser all week long, but the big [...]
(Almost) Nowhere to Hide - Sector, Industry Trends Alarming
Sector Performance
There was nowhere to hide last week - all the sectors and groups were down. The ‘least bad’ was gold and technology, while basic materials and transportation took the biggest hits.
Sector Rank
Industry Performance
There were a few safe havens for those who drilled down into industry-level data. Healthcare and food did particularly well, which makes [...]
Wake Up and Smell the Leaders - Style, Sector Biases Remain Unchanged
You can slice it however you want to - it’s not going to change the fact that small caps have been, and continue to be, the market’s best thing going. That’s not to say they’re bulletproof from another pullback, because they’re not. They have been the first and best to recover from the May implosion [...]
Sector, Industry Trends Revealing Opportunities Again
Gold stocks were back on top last week, though the arena remains highly-speculative (i.e. risky) at this point - little consideration is being given to gold’s fundamentals, utility, and liquidity at these prices. The disparity among the other sectors, however, is revealing a few opportunities (both long and short).
Sector Performance
The fact that we saw some [...]
Small Cap Insurance Brokers Got It Goin’ On
They may not be the outright leaders for any timeframe, but they’re finishing in the top 20 for all timeframes. Like NASCAR, that sort of consistent strength is how you win the series, even without winning the race. Yeah, well, that’s precisely what I see the small cap insurance brokers doing right now…. doling out [...]
Q1’s Mismatched Earnings Results: Opportunity in Disparity
Think the market makes sense? In some ways it does; in a lot of ways it doesn’t. That’s not a complaint - just a reality we as investors have to acknowledge if we’re to have any hope at beating the market.
This idea surfaced again as the Q1 earnings data and numbers were being crunched on [...]
