value investing

4 Things to Understand about Your Portfolio’s Margin of Safety

2 Comments / Asset Allocation, Bonds, Commodities, ETF, Fox Feed, Investor Behavior & Psychology, NASDAQ Feed, Partner Feeds, Portfolio Management, Precious Metals, Retirement Planning, U.S. Stock Market, Yahoo Feed / By Ronald Delegge

Does your portfolio have a margin of safety? I ask that question because the total U.S. stock market (NYSEARCA:SCHB) has been rocky over the past few weeks and now has a year-to-date (YTD) loss of -1.23%. And since most investor underperform the stock market and the index ETFs tied to it, it’s fair to assume …

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Stock Prices Are Cheap! Valuation Geeks Get it Wrong Again

1 Comment / Asset Allocation, Dividend Income, Federal Reserve, Financial Planning, Fox Feed, Fundamental Analysis, Global Economy, Industry Sectors, Investor Behavior & Psychology, NASDAQ Feed, Partner Feeds, Portfolio Management, Retirement Planning, Sentiment Analysis, U.S. Stock Market, Valuation, Yahoo Feed / By Ronald Delegge

“Stocks are cheap by historical standards” is the latest fiction being promoted by valuation geeks. Is it true? Meb Faber, proprietor of the Cambria Global Value ETF (NYSEARCA:GVAL), and a valuation guru tweeted the 5-year CAPE ratio for the usually frothy technology sector (NYSEARCA:XLK) is just 22 today compared to an elevated 96 at the height …

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