Quality stocks are on sale—but not all “quality” is created equal.
Barron’s recently highlighted the opportunity, but definitions matter.
Many legacy quality ETFs rely on narrow screens like ROE and earnings stability. That’s a solid start, but often incomplete @AstoriaAdvisors
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@EricBalchunas@alphaarchitect@choffstein@cullenroche Key Benefits
- Investors capitalized on growth potential.
- Indexes benefited from strategic buying and selling.
This process contributed to the small cap premium, rewarding investors who identified and invested in emerging companies.
@EricBalchunas@alphaarchitect@choffstein@cullenroche How It Worked
1. Small cap indexes bought low on promising small companies.
2. As these companies grew, they graduated to mid-cap indexes, selling high.
3. Mid-cap indexes then bought low from small-cap indexes and sold high to large-cap indexes.
Key theme in our latest Quarterly… Stay with High Quality as more evidence of slowing topline growth is underway; investors will continue to pay up for growth. Importantly, High Quality can get more expensive here.
Event risk is being priced into UK markets. The price or valuation of low volatility stocks in the UK are selling several standard deviations above normal. This suggests investors are willing to pay for protection at any price. (trying to avoid using the term “Brexit”part 1 of 2)
#powertrip Mr. Webber observes, for instance, that bottled water—billions of gallons of it are sold every year in the U.S.—is at least 1,000 times as energy-intensive as water from the tap and offers few if any benefits.#energyefficiency#energy