Intra-year drawdowns in the S&P 500 are common in the S&P 500 or any other index. The same can be said of any individual stock as well. Though S&P has had intra-year declines of an average of 13.4% since 1948 the annual price returns have been positive in 51 of the past 70 years. Click …
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The returns of the S&P 500 Index often published by the media and others is the price return. However for investors the correct return that matters for the index is the returns including dividends reinvested. This is because S&P 500 firms pay dividends and most long-term investors reinvest them. Currently the dividend yield on the …
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The Aerospace and Defense sector is one of the hottest sectors in the US equity market. Stocks in this sector have rewarded investors with stable and consistent growth in the past few years. A basket of stocks in the S&P index for this sector has outperformed the S&P in terms of total returns (capital returns+dividend returns) …
Dividend stocks have declined lately due to rising yields on US treasuries. As income investors can earn higher yields from treasuries income focused equity sectors like utilities, REITs and consumer staples have been less attractive. However a recent note at LeggMason says that investors can hold both treasuries and stocks to take advantage of both …
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The US equity market has performed well in the past few years easily beating foreign developed markets especially developed Europe. Some investors may wonder if this is the right time to move out of domestic stocks and buy international stocks. For example, major European markets are flat or in the red so far this year. …
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