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non-farm payrolls and “ U-2,” or the overall unemployment rate (not the band): While employment has risen steadily and unemployment has fallen likewise, neither has recovered their level from prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Richmond Federal Reserve Bank forecasts further declines in the headline U-2 number, especially following the recent passage of the $1.9 trillion fiscal stimulus package: When looking at employment and payroll numbers, it is helpful to distinguish between the household and establishment survey numbers. The household number is calculated by surveying 60,000 families about their employment status, and any individual with more than one job is only counted once. This data is the source for the reported unemployment rate number in the chart above.
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.[1] In investing, this describes investors’ preference for dividends (the bird in the hand) relative to future price appreciation (two in the bush). While this preference is undeniable, the impact of dividends on company valuation represents a fault line between a traditional finance view and a behavioral finance view of markets: From a traditional finance standpoint—where all investors are rational and markets efficient—the relevance of dividends on firm valuation can be tenuous because investors should be indifferent between dividends and capital gains. A behavioral finance perspective gives license to the impact of dividends on firm value because investors may prefer firms that pay dividends, assigning value to a steady payout and thus increasing the value of these companies.
By Jeremy Schwartz, CFA, Global Head of Research; Kara Marciscano, CFA, Senior Research Analyst In 2006, WisdomTree launched its first family of fundamentally weighted Indexes, challenging the market capitalization-weight status quo. Allocating weights based on dividends or earnings challenged the efficient market hypothesis by suggesting that rebalancing to fundamentals could enhance returns. Our fundamentally weighted alternative helps manage valuation risk inherent to cap-weighted strategies that give stocks with higher multiples higher weights and allow those stocks to run without rebalancing on relative value. We weight our Domestic Core Equity Indexes by earnings because we believe it can lower the price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios—a key metric for guiding risk and returns expectations.
By Jeremy Schwartz, CFA, Global Head of Research; Kara Marciscano, CFA, Senior Research Analyst Technology experts at Bessemer Venture Partners have released a new report detailing why the FAANG stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google), that so aptly portrayed technology market leadership over the last decade, are facing a potential trend change. The FAANGs benefited from the dual macro trends of the last two decades relating to the Internet and mobile adoption. FAANG stocks outperformed major market indexes, like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 Indexes, by a significant margin, of at least 14% annualized since 2010.[1] Byron Deeter and Mary D’Onofrio believe the FAANG stocks’ best growth years are behind them, raising serious questions about the future of the group’s premier status.
Break on through to the other side Break on through to the other side, yeah… (From “Break on Through (to the Other Side)” by The Doors, 1967) I was on yet another conference call the other day, and the “icebreaker” question was, “What have you learned about yourself this year?” I am not the most introspective of people, so the question knocked me back for a second. But after giving it some thought, my response was, “It was a year of confirmation. After seeing myself every day on videoconference calls, I confirmed that I have the perfect face for radio. But, more importantly, I confirmed that I am an optimist. If the spectrum is measured from Grinch to Pangloss, I definitely am on the Panglossian side of the scale.” It is hard to imagine making it through 2020 with a pessimistic attitude.
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