One of the most difficult problems for fundamental value investors is reconcliling value and momemtum. Welcome back to Reflections on Investing with the Cornell Capital Group. As we sit here now, the first half of the year is over, and the stock market has been far stronger than anyone expected. And that leads to a problem
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Download Memo as PDF Stock Market Review for the First Half Year The market performance in the first half of 2023 was a surprise, to say the least. Whereas the year began with concerns about an impending recession, the market shrugged off those fears and moved dramatically upward as shown in chart below. The first half
Download PDF Science advances one funeral at time – Max PlanckThe same can be said of the equity risk premium. Using fundamental valuation analysis to assess the level of the stock market, as measured for instance by the S&P 500 index, requires two inputs – forecasts of future cash flows and a discount rate. The
Download PDF Updated March, 6th 2024 In this article, we assume that AI, which we recognize has many different forms, will be a major economic success in that it will lead to greater productivity and rising GDP in the United States. The question for investors is how will it affect stock prices? That depends on whether
Presently just five US tech companies account for nearly 25% of the S&P 500 market cap. We discuss resurgence of big US tech and what it means for investors. Hello and welcome to Reflections on Investing with the Cornell Capital Group. This is Shaun Cornell, and I’m joined by Professor Bradford Cornell and Andrew Cornell. Today,
Prof. Bradford Cornell explains how fundamental valuation analysis can potentially uncover market inefficiencies. As an example, Prof. Cornell revisits our publication “Valuing the Automotive Business” from November 2021. Hello, welcome back to reflections on investing with the Cornell Capital Group. Today we’re going to return to two themes that have resonated throughout our series of
Download Memo as PDF During the first quarter the story of both the fixed income and stock market revolved around the ongoing evolution of the yield curve. To review, the yield curve plots the yield on Treasury securities as a function of their maturity. The graph below plots the yield curves at the start of
When interest rates were near zero it was easy for companies to borrow and for investors to overlook debt. But as interest rates increase, the amount of debt held by a business can become a significant refinancing risk for the company and investment risk for investors. Hello and welcome back to Reflections on Investing with
How can an option trade make 4000% in one day? Tesla stock has been highly volatile and one of the drivers of this volatility is the unusually large volume of options trading. Are large proportion of Tesla option contracts are traded on the day of expiration (zero DTE) and just out of the money. This
While 2020/2021 were great years for our High Fliers, in 2022 the party ended and many of those companies like Peloton, Wayfair and Carvana came crashing down. In the first month of 2023 however we are seeing signs that the worst may be over for the High Fliers. For many of these companies January of 2023
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