US Companies with good social media sentiment have seen their shares outperform the rest of the market by 56% in the 23 months leading up to last November
The inverse holds true for companies which are subject to negative sentiment
As with anything in the social media world, the universe of shares subject to positive and negative sentiment varies rapidlyIn highlighting which […]
After closing 2014 at a then-all-time-high of 1,848, the stock market (represented by the S&P 500) has been on a bit of a wild ride since the beginning of the year.It climbed to its now all-time high of 1,850 on Jan. 15, then tumbled all the way to 1,737 on Feb. 5.Turmoil in the emerging markets had market watchers everywhere […]
Every quarter, JP Morgan Funds’ David Kelly produces a fantastic presentation on the markets and the economy. And in recent quarters, he has included this chart on S&P 500 inflection points.It tracks the S&P 500 since the 1990s as it made its way through two bubble and two crashes.The third and current rally in this chart always seemed more reasonable […]
There’s always some pain to endure.Perhaps there’s no better encapsulation of that market maxim than this chart from J.P. Morgan Asset Management’s Paul Quinsee.It shows S&P 500 intra-year declines versus calendar year returns. The bar represents year-end returns since 1980, while the little purple dot shows how low the market went each year.What you find is that investors must […]
Deutsche BankStocks have soared a staggering 26% this year, far outpacing earnings growth.
And when stock returns outpace earnings growth, then the price-earnings (PE) multiple is expanding.”Year to date, 75% of the S&P return has come from its PE expanding to 16.5x from 13.7x trailing EPS at 2012 end,” wrote Deutsche Bank’s David Bianco in a recent note to clients.Forecasting what […]
Investopedia explains ‘Stock Market’
The stock market lets investors participate in the financial achievements of the companies whose shares they hold. When companies are profitable, stock market investors make money through the dividends the companies pay out […]
