The combined market caps of the six tech giants – Facebook(FB), Aaple(AAPL), Netflix(NFLX), Microsoft(MSFT), Amazon(AMZN) and Alphabet(GOOG) – are bigger than the equity market caps of many countries. In fact, according to a chart published by RAFI Indices last month, only two countries have market caps that are higher than that of the FANMAG’s market …
The following chart shows the importance of diversification. There is no repeatable pattern from year over year. For instance, emerging market stocks were the best performers in 2017 with a return of over 37%. But the following year they were the worst performers with a negative return of over 14%. Click to enlarge Source: Russell …
The healthcare industry is one of the largest industries in the US employing millions of workers. Due to the fragmented nature of the industry and regulatory burden, employment in the industry is artificially high. It is not uncommon for a hospital system to have hundreds of workers just in the billing department whose only job …
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I came the below chart from the latest Census data showing the largest, second largest and third largest race or ethnic group in each state of the country. In a handful of states minorities are the majority in terms of population size. For example, in California the largest ethnic group is not White, but rather …
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Dividends are an important part of total returns on an equity investments. Though dividend yields and dividend growth rate may seem small in many cases, the power of compounding over the long-term tend to boost total returns significantly. In this post, let’s take a look at four charts that demonstrate the importance of dividends. 1.Total …
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