Dividend Yield Factor Offers Port In Equity Storm This Year

Jun. 08, 2022 12:45 PM ET, , , , , , , , , , , ,
James Picerno
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Summary

  • The broad market via SPDR S&P 500 is down more than 12% this year.
  • Growth stocks generally are having a tough time in 2022 to no small degree due to the reversal of fortunes of tech shares.
  • Monitoring the ebb and flow of equity factor momentum overall via a set of moving averages suggests that the cycle is close to a near-complete reversal following the broad upside bias that still prevailed at the start of 2022.

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It's been a rough year to date for US stocks overall, but within the equity factor space, the modest rise for shares with relatively high dividend payouts is a conspicuous counterpoint.

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James Picerno
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James Picerno is the director of analytics at The Milwaukee Co., a wealth manager that is the adviser to The Brinsmere Funds, a pair of global asset allocation ETFs. He also edits CapitalSpectator.com and The US Business Cycle Research Report (CapitalSpectator.com/premium-research). He is the author of three books, including "Quantitative Investment Portfolio Analytics In R: An Introduction To R For Modeling Portfolio Risk and Return." Previously he was a financial journalist at Bloomberg and before that at Dow Jones.

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