by David Wagner | Feb 1, 2024 | Blog, Market Updates
January ‘24 Market Recap → Good Start, Bad Breadth: Despite the S&P 500 rally, the equal-weighted S&P 500 fell 0.7% as breadth narrowed to just 34% (% of stocks ahead of S&P 500), a bottom 3rd percentile in history. The “Nifty 50” gained 3.0%,...
by David Wagner | Jan 19, 2024 | Blog, Market Updates
S&P 500 Earnings Preview – Q4 2023 It’s common knowledge that if the market endures two (2) consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, it is considered a recession (most of the time, not every time—as we learned last year). Well, the market had been in an...
by David Wagner | Jan 3, 2024 | Blog, Market Updates
December ’23 Market Recap: Investors enjoyed broad-based relief in the fourth quarter. After rising sharply in Q2 and Q3, rates peaked in the fourth quarter fueled by Powell’s pivot at the December FOMC meeting. Similarly, oil prices peaked in late September and...
by David Wagner | Dec 12, 2023 | Blog, Macro Updates
Quick CPI Inflation Thoughts: Simply put, the last mile of bringing inflation back down to the Fed’s long-term target will be difficult – most likely due to the continued strength in the job market, i.e., Friday’s NFP is a prime example. I think J. Powell will take...
by David Wagner | Dec 5, 2023 | Equity Case Studies, Equity Research, Research Reports
In today’s report, we’ll be covering Chemed Corporation (“CHE”) – in our opinion, one of the last, great remaining publicly traded conglomerate companies. Conglomerates were in vogue for the majority of the 20th century. They came about because most of the mergers in...
