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Market Commentary: Checking In on Market Fundamentals

Carson Wealth

Pockets of attractive valuations exist despite above-average valuations in some high-profile areas of the market. gain, but not a bad number by any means. The measure is at 80.7%, exactly where it was a year ago and higher than at any point between July 2001 and February 2020. Following the huge 11.2% median return.

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Equity Beat: Don't Wait for Earnings to Trough

Brown Advisory

at year-end can largely explain the compression in valuation, especially for higher multiple equities, primarily during the first half of the year. Dot-com hangover/9-11 October 2000 December 2001 -16.5% 9/21/2001 12/31/2001 52 18.9% at the beginning of the year to 16.6x by year-end. to nearly 3.9%

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Market Commentary: Stocks in the Middle of Some Amazing Streaks While Job Growth Perks Up

Carson Wealth

Strong Job Numbers Are Good News for the Economy and Markets There’s been valid concern that employment conditions are deteriorating, ever so slowly. That’s higher than anything we saw between 2001 and 2019 (when it peaked at 80.4%). The unemployment rate has increased from a low of 3.4% in April 2023 to 4.3% in July of this year.

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Small Caps: The Big Picture

Brown Advisory

As a result of this success, approximately half of companies in the Russell 2000 ® Growth Index (R2G) by weight, and more than half by number of stocks mades zero earnings (Exhibit 2). Note: 2001-2021 period is annualized. Concentration in Biotech and Tech. Biotech and technology have established tremendous dominance in the R2G.

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Small Caps: The Big Picture

Brown Advisory

As a result of this success, approximately half of companies in the Russell 2000 ® Growth Index (R2G) by weight, and more than half by number of stocks mades zero earnings (Exhibit 2). Note: 2001-2021 period is annualized. Exhibit 2: Nonearners as percentage weight and percentage of number of stocks in R2G. Source: FactSet.

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This Present is Accounted For: An Overview of Low-Basis Gifting Strategies

Brown Advisory

Further, estate taxes in many states have been outright eliminated in the 21st century; before 2001, all 50 states had an estate tax, but today, there are only 12 (plus an additional six with various forms of inheritance taxes). There are other ways to generate valuation discounts through indirect gifting strategies.

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March Madness: Final Four Investing Bracket 2023 

Dear Mr. Market

In other words, these investments (or “teams”) are ranked and seeded on a number of factors but one of the main drivers is how hot they recently performed within the past few months or recent year. IBM loses to QCOM based on valuation. times and return on equity (ROE) of 9%.