SeanShot Introduction I have good news! Bloomberg reported that commercial real estate debt is making a comeback. Investors have bought close to $25 billion of new commercial mortgage-backed securities so far this year. That’s 170% more compared to the same period in 2023. Last year, CMBS issuance suffered from the bankruptcies of smaller regional banks,…
Paper Boat Creative Quant Investment research and stock picks come from many places, but not all resources are created equal. Computer-driven strategies – the power of quantitative analysis and collecting and analyzing numerical data in a fraction of the time – offer investors the opportunity to instantly evaluate stocks to help avoid companies with poor…
jetcityimage The stock market doesn’t work the way it used to, and 3M Company (NYSE:MMM) is my latest evidence. It is also why, as the title of this article states, I firmly believe that rating a stock buy, sell or hold, while helpful in some ways, is easily misinterpreted. Back when I was an investment…
Monty Rakusen/DigitalVision via Getty Images Thungela Resources Limited (OTCPK:TNGRF) is a South African coal mining company with an alternative listing in the United States. We’ve covered the stock extensively over the past few years, delivering opinions on its prospects throughout the economic cycle. Today’s article provides an updated outlook on Thungela’s prospects. We last covered…
champpixs After the bell on Thursday, we received fourth quarter results from streaming platform Roku, Inc. (NASDAQ:ROKU). While the company handily beat revenue estimates for Q4 and issued decent sales guidance for the current quarter, shares tumbled as investors worried about the company’s competition in the near term. At this point, Roku has certainly set…
SRT101/iStock via Getty Images At the beginning of 1Q24, the Energy, Consumer Non-cyclicals, and Financials sectors each earn an Attractive-or-better rating. Our sector ratings are based on a normalized aggregation of our ratings for each stock in a given sector. Our stock ratings are based on five criteria that assess a company’s business fundamentals and…
S&P Global Ratings senior analyst Lapo Guadagnuolo believes that the growth of stablecoins does not mean that they are immune to risk factors. The S&P Global Ratings introduced a stability assessment for stablecoins on Tuesday. According to S&P Global, the idea is to determine how truly “stable” the coins are in maintaining their pegs to…
hapabapa Sharp market moves over the past week have all been about interest rates (or more specifically, the hope that they won’t rise again). In light of waning interest rate fears, however, investors still have to be incredibly cognizant of valuations – which can’t sit too high when risk-free yields are still hovering around 5%….
Justin Sullivan Amid extreme market volatility especially in small and mid-cap stocks over the past month, one thing rings true: investors have to be willing to constantly update their theses as different companies respond differently to macroeconomic conditions, and as valuations change. Being a committed bull or bear is only workable as long as our…
jetcityimage It has been a tough year fundamentally for Wayfair (NYSE:W), the online furniture company that experienced its biggest heyday during the pandemic when people were rushing out of cities and eager to fill new homes. Wayfair stock remains up more than 60% year to date, but is well off highs as the markets digest…
SeanShot Research Summary Have you ever wanted to rate the ratings agencies themselves? I sure did.. so today I will be covering one of the major ones right here on Seeking Alpha! This is my first coverage of Moody’s (NYSE:MCO), a stock in the financials sector, subsector of financial exchanges & data. Some of the…
5./15 WEST Amid a market that continues to be skittish over interest rates and the probability of the current recession extending throughout 2024 and beyond, it has been increasingly difficult to justify investing in stocks, particularly growth stocks with no profits, when risk-free cash is yielding such a generous amount. Part of remaining invested, however,…
WANAN YOSSINGKUM/iStock via Getty Images Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) ratings should reflect the risks that such factors pose to a company’s financial performance and how well-equipped that company is to manage those risks. Such ratings may assess carbon emissions (E), health and safety in the workplace (S), and executive compensation structures (G), among other…
sankai Are ratings upgrades too late? A few months can be an eternity in the stock market, especially today when business conditions move extremely quickly. Many analysts and investors were leaving Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) out in the cold at the opening of 2023. Some even predicted a share price in the $60 per share range when…
Moody’s is watching the banking sector and has already cut its ratings on several institutions because of ongoing economic headwinds. Bond credit rating platform Moody’s Investors Service has reduced its ratings of several banks in the US. In addition to the cut in these ratings, Moody’s also put several banks under review for possible rating…
In reaction to the Fitch Ratings downgrade, the JPMorgan CEO said that “it doesn’t really matter that much.” JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) CEO Jamie Dimon has reacted to the Fitch Ratings downgrade of the United States’ long-term credit rating. Credit rating agency Fitch Ratings recently downgraded the US long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating from AAA to AA+….
MicroStockHub/iStock via Getty Images In 3Q23, the Large Cap Value, All Cap Value, and All Cap Blend styles earn attractive-or-better rating. Our style ratings are based on the normalized aggregation of our fund ratings for every ETF and mutual fund in each style. Our fund ratings are based on aggregations of the ratings of the…