Hearing about any given day or week's less
than stellar stock market performance may have you feeling like your investments are doomed, but that isn't necessarily true.
After reporting less
than stellar stock returns, Barnes & Noble is seriously considering spinning off, or even selling its expensive, but popular Nook business to allow the Nook to ramp up its competition with Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPad.
Not exact matches
Adami noted Visa is trading at close to 26 times forward earnings, which makes it expensive enough that anything less
than stellar reports «get the
stock whacked.»
Consider that despite the
stellar performance of gold mining
stocks this year that have been, by far, the strongest performing asset class of 2016 (along with silver mining
stocks), and that even with the massive growth in market cap of PM
stocks during H1 2016, the total market cap of all the mining
stocks that comprise the HUI Gold Bugs index, as of 2 August 2016, is still barely larger
than 1/3 the market cap of Facebook and Amazon.
Stocks have a less -
than -
stellar reputation in the month of June, as the S&P 500 often notches slightly negative returns in the sixth month of the year.
Even after a year that saw major
stock market indexes simply tread water, equities are by many accounts considered expensive, challenged by rising interest rates and a less -
than -
stellar outlook for corporate earnings.
In November Western Union announced earnings that were less
than stellar and the market in my opinion overreacted giving the
stock a 33 % haircut overnight, take a look!
And I've got just the ticket — that fund I mentioned earlier, which is throwing off a gaudy 7.4 % dividend now, trades at a nice discount (more on that below) and has delivered a
stellar return with much less volatility
than common
stocks.
Small - cap value
stocks have historically delivered
stellar long - term returns while being less volatile
than smaller
stocks without the value designation.