Tim Smith has 20+ years of experience in the financial services industry, both as a writer and as a trader. The S&P 500 added 3.9% in the second quarter, driven by AI-themed stocks, though six out of ...

Casey Murphy has fanned his passion for finance through years of writing about active trading, technical analysis, market commentary, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), commodities, futures, options, and ...

Timing matters, and it matters greatly. I have spent the last 35 years trading, researching, and constructing algorithms to identify and leverage the value across fundamental, technical, and ...

A small p-value often means the observed data effect is statistically significant. Set a significance level to compare with the p-value to validate investment hypotheses. Utilizing p-values in Excel ...

When evaluating a company, investors mostly look at a stock’s price-to-earnings (P/E) or price-to-sales (P/S) ratio. While P/E is the ratio of annual earnings to stock price, P/S reflects the amount ...

More than a year ago, I wrote an article titled "The One Chart That Keeps Me Up At Night." The article was about the (updated) chart below, which displays the long-term purchasing power of the U.S.

The trailing-twelve-months (TTM) PEBV ratio for the S&P 500 did not change much from 6/30/23 to 8/15/23. This report is an abridged version of S&P 500 & Sectors: Price-to-Economic Book Value Ratio is ...

Value stocks beat growth stocks in January after significantly underperforming in 2024. Growth stocks have outperformed in the long term, but on a monthly basis, value and growth are almost evenly ...