Value investors like buying what looks cheap. Momentum investors prefer owning what is already working. At first glance, those approaches seem almost contradictory. A deeply discounted stock may have terrible momentum because investors continue selling […]
Most equity portfolios are built around familiar categories: technology stocks, financial companies, healthcare businesses, large caps, or perhaps different geographic markets. Factor investing looks at stocks from another angle. Instead of asking only what industry […]
The strongest stock in the market is not always the one with the biggest one-day gain. A stock can jump 15% after an earnings announcement and then spend the next three months going nowhere. Meanwhile, […]