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 ...

The S&P 500 Growth and S&P 500 Value indexes are celebrating their 20th birthdays. The two were launched on September 25, 2000. How have they fared since then? To answer that, I’ll begin with the ...

The S&P 500 is highly concentrated in the Mag 7, making diversification beyond Big Tech increasingly attractive for long-term investors. While AI-driven Big Tech dominance has crushed equal-weight ...

From market cap to ETF weightings, these visuals show how much the Magnificent 7 shape today’s market. Meagan is a former Series 7 financial advisor and current writer focused on blending ...

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 ...

Even before the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, a scary chart parallel had emerged between the S&P 500 SPX currently and the index’s behavior in early 2000 — just before the dot-com bubble ...

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 ...

The above message seems so obvious with the data presented in the chart – so obvious to be almost irrefutable. Two little facts further strengthen its creditability. First, the above correlation is ...

Small-cap value stocks historically outperform the overall market and are currently trading at a great value. The Vanguard S&P 600 Value ETF is highly concentrated in high-quality small-cap value ...