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At the Money: Stock Picking vs. Value InvestingĀ 

The Big Picture

Dividends come from earnings, and so those are sort of anchors to valuation. It’s where tech bubble in 2000 is the classic example. Barry Ritholtz : He had a very famous Wall Street Journal piece In, like, late night fourteenth 2000. Present value of future cash flows, any asset is present value of future cash flows.

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Bull Market Signposts: What Happens Before S&P 500 Peaks?

The Big Picture

She observes it is less about the things investors tend to focus on — “technical analysis, geopolitics, behavioral finance and even skirt hemline trends” — and more about specific measures she tracks in sentiment, valuation, macro-economic areas. The table above shows the major market peaks going back to 1990.

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10 Thursday AM Reads

The Big Picture

Nvidia is not the first giant tech company to trade at a rich valuation. Irrelevant Investor ) see also ā€œNo matter how you cut it, youā€™ve got to own Ciscoā€ (2000) 23 years ago, Fortune magazineā€™s cover story about networking gear maker Cisco was published. We canā€™t compare things to the future, so we look to the past.

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Valideaā€™s Top 10 Russell 2000 Stocks ā€“ August 2024

Validea

This has made finding fundamentally sound stocks trading at reasonable valuations much easier in the small-cap space than in the S&P 500. Here are the current top 10 Russell 2000 stocks.

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Round Trip

The Big Picture

but the giveback off the highs was substantial: S&P 500 was down ~23%, Russell 2000 was off 27%, and the Nasdaq 100 came down 32%. But we wonā€™t know how big a losing trade it might be until early 2024, when we see the updated valuations. Blame whatever you want ā€“ Too far, too fast? End of ZIRP? Too rapid rate increases? ā€“

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There is Still Value in the Russell 2000 After Its Recent Surge: Here are 5 Top Rated Stocks

Validea

After lagging the S&P 500 for much of 2024, the Russell 2000 small cap index has staged an impressive rally in recent weeks. As smaller companies catch up to their large cap counterparts, investors may be wondering which Russell 2000 stocks look most attractive. over 10 years Manageable debt levels Projected 10-year return of 16.8%

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Theyā€™ve Ruled Out Tail Risk

Advisor Perspectives

from the most speculative level of valuations in U.S. history – exceeding even the 1929 and 2000 extremes, based on the valuation measures we find best-correlated with actual subsequent market returns in cycles across history. As of Friday, December 16, the S&P 500 Index is down -19.7%