Sentences with phrase «stocks over the recent past»

The performance of technology stocks over the recent past has been striking: In 2017, for example, the information technology sector of the S&P 500 posted a 38 % return, while the broader S&P 500 Index gained 22 % (Source: Bloomberg data).

Not exact matches

«Panera has been the singular best performing restaurant stock over the past 20 years,» said founder and CEO Ron Shaich in a recent interview with Fortune.

In recent months, I've emphasized that despite prospects for a prolonged recession which I would expect to keep the stock market in a very wide trading range (probably for the bulk of 2009), long - term investors should not overlook the sea - change in valuations and security durations we've observed over the past 15 months.

Yet on the whole, given their positive experience both with receiving more income than they could get from the fixed - income sector in recent years and the potential for capital appreciation over the long haul, dividend stocks and the ETFs that own them have demonstrated their long - term value to the investors who've gravitated toward them during the low - rate environment of the past decade.

London Stock Exchange — May 17, 2016 Regus plc has seen substantial growth in recent years, resulting in its positioning at the higher end of the FTSE 250 and exceptional returns to shareholders over each of the past five years.

The recent Greek crisis and Chinese stock market crash has injected high volatility back into the financial markets and dragged down the broader averages over the past week or so.

More recently, Tepper has been a big buyer of tech titans including Alphabet, Alibaba and Facebook — all stocks in which he increased his position over the past quarter, according to the most recent Appaloosa regulatory filing.

A recent Bank of America / Merrill Lynch report mostly corroborates this thesis, with value stocks outpacing growth stocks over the past 90 years, but growth stocks handily outperforming value stocks since the end of the Great Recession.

The demand for vending machines to stock healthier snacks has grown considerably in recent months — a recent Mintel report shows that sales of potato crisps have declined to # 1.34 billion in 2015 while sales of popcorn are popping, rising by 169 per cent over the past five years to reach an estimated # 129 million in 2015.

But considering today's low interest rates and relatively rich stock valuations, I'd say it would be foolish to count on returns anything like those of the recent past or, for that matter, even the roughly 10 % annual gains for stocks and 5 % for bonds over the past 90 or so years.

Although the fund owns companies across the health care sector, including insurers and equipment makers, a pharmaceutical - heavy portfolio — about 60 % of Health Care's assets are invested in pharmaceutical and biotech firms — held the fund back over the past year as those stocks came under fire during the recent U.S. presidential campaign.

Although there have been a few glimmers of hope in recent economic news, including an increase in mortgage applications, an increase in retail sales, some positive cash flows and even profits by some of the larger banks, more clarity from the President about his stimulus package, and a rise in the stock market over the past week, so far nothing has turned positive for the trucking industry, and other than seasonal increases coming into the spring, likely won't for some time.

Over the past two years, OxygenOS» closeness to Stock Android hasn't been incredibly consistent, with recent Oreo - based builds for the OnePlus 3 / 3T and OnePlus 5 slightly distancing themselves from plain - Jane AOSP Android.