Group Report
Time For A Transportation Turnaround?
We examine the recent strength in the Dow Jones Transportation Index and its underlying industries: Airlines, Railroads, Air Freight & Logistics, and Trucking.
Highlighted Attractive Groups
We examine the factor category strength behind Auto Parts & Equipment, Household Durables, and Paper Packaging. Each of these groups has rated Attractive or High Neutral for two consecutive months.
Highlighted Attractive Groups
We examine the factor category strength behind Apparel Retail, Life Sciences Tools & Services, and Technology Hardware Storage & Peripherals.
Housing Theme Framed Among Top GS Scores
Attractive-rated groups include Building Products, Homebuilding, and Household Durables—these three groups possess similar industry drivers and thus exhibit highly-correlated stock returns.
Highlighted Attractive Groups
We examine the factor category strength behind Food Retail & Distributors, Homebuilding, and Water Utilities.
A Theme Develops Among “Unsexy” Tech; Semi Equipment Purchased
The semiconductor industry is a theme among our most highly-rated groups. Currently both the Semiconductors group (design and manufacture semiconductors) as well as its suppliers, Semiconductor Equipment, rate Attractive.
Highlighted Attractive Groups
We examine the factor category strength behind Commodity Chemicals, Hypermarkets & Super Centers, and Semiconductor Equipment.
Electronic Manufacturing Services: Attractive
The EMS group (from the Info Tech sector) now ranks as the third highest of 115 industries.
Specialty Chemicals & Gases Soars To Attractive
In conjunction with Materials’ solid rise in our sector rankings, we purchased Specialty Chemicals & Gases in the Select Industries Portfolio.
Building Products Group = Attractive
We recently purchased the Building Products group in our Select Industries Portfolio. Strong trends in existing U.S. home sales and the remodeling market, coupled with slow but steady growth in new construction, should bode well for future Building Products group performance.
Insurance Theme Intact Among Top GS Scores
Group Selection (GS) Score strength among insurance-related industry groups has been a long-running theme within our quantitative framework.
Bottom-Fishing In Energy: Beware Of Bankruptcy Risks
New developments have lifted sentiment toward oil and Energy names, but we caution bottom-fishers to be mindful of risks. The fundamentals in the oil patch do not yet support strong oil prices going forward.
Purchased Specialized Finance: GS Score Surges
We see solid prospects for potential industry growth; consolidation and a full-blown industry evolution have resulted in group constituents having more in common than ever before.
Homebuilding Group Downgraded And Sold
What initially looked promising fell apart fairly quickly
Revenge Of The Gamers
Despite the already strong performance over the last three years, this group has recession proof attributes, positive industry trends, and widespread areas of potential growth.
Financials Strengthen; Regional Banks Purchased
Financials rose in December to rank #1 among sectors for the first time since the start of the financial crisis. In-line with our quantitative disciplines, we added a new Financials group to the Select Industries Portfolio: Regional Banks.
Construction & Engineering: “Unloved” Opportunity?
After nearly six years, the Industrials sector has reclaimed a top three spot among the GS Score’s Broad Sector Composite rankings—six of the sector’s 18 groups rank Attractive and two are in High Neutral. Construction & Engineering, an Industrials sector group, offers diversity in several ways—from the nature of its underlying businesses, and through areas of strength supporting the GS Score factor categories.
Update On Electronic Payment Thematic Group
When we introduced this thematic equity group in September 2012, we projected that it was poised to deliver above average returns. These companies have enjoyed many advantages atypical of most other industries, and performance-wise, this group did not disappoint. A large subset of the theme, Data Processing & Outsourced Services, is rated Attractive by our GS Scores, and has been a portfolio holding for 50 months.
Return Of The Tech? New Group Purchased
Over the past three months the Tech sector has strengthened in our work, as it’s risen back to the #3 position. In line with our disciplines, we increased the Select Industries Portfolio’s Tech exposure via the addition of a new, high-ranking group: Technology Distributors.
Purchased Advertising: Global/Digital Prospects Appealing
Advertising has been in the top rankings of our Group Selection (GS) model for several months.
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