ARKF Dividend vs. XLF Dividend: To Pay or Be Paid
Bloomberg’s Lu Wang wrote a piece on the 7th noting that “....risk-taking traders roared back to life….where frenzied selling eventually gives way to a bounce whose size defies logical expectations.”
Speculators in Stock Markets: The Price of Quick Profits
Bloomberg’s Lu Wang wrote a piece on the 7th noting that “....risk-taking traders roared back to life….where frenzied selling eventually gives way to a bounce whose size defies logical expectations.”
SNAP Price Predictions: Are you an Investor or Speculator?
The chart shows the performance of social media company SNAP over the last three years • Since the stock’s most recent peak on August 31, 2021, it has stalled, falling -31% in a +2% tape...
The Costliest Stocks: A Lifetime Earnings Analysis
This piece is based on academic research done in-part by KCR’s expert in behavioral finance. Bhojraj & Co-Authors Provide Compelling Proof that “Price is What You Pay, Value is What You Get”
Are Cleantech Stocks a Short?
This week’s “Chart for the Curious” follows up on our CFTC from last week and our piece on Andrei Shleifer’s legendary book on Behavioral Finance. In those pieces, we discussed how investors piled into Gold after the GFC implosion, which ended up being precisely the wrong time to do so.
Investor’s Long Term Stock Forecasts: A Perfect Path to Poverty?
This week’s “Chart for the Curious” offers less optical intrigue and requires more “Curiosity” than our normal Friday missives. The piece reads more like our typical Quick Takes. Having ...
Andrei Shleifer’s Inefficient Markets: An Introduction to Behavioral Finance — KCR’s Key Lessons from a Legend in the Field
Many Academics believe in Market Inefficiency In 2000 Andrei Shleifer published “Inefficient Markets.” The book brings together some of the best research in Behavioral Finance. Dr. Shleifer’s “Acknowledgements” section ...
Best Stocks for a Recession: A Simple Solution
Investing in a Recession: A Stunning Chart to Help You Stick to Your Financial Plan This post is designed to update our Chart for the Curious from January of ...
Stocks Analysts Loathe & Love
The chart below takes all the stocks in the S&P 500 and breaks them into five groups The first group on the left are the stocks analysts loathe (the ...
Staples Stocks are a Buy Today UPDATE
What You Need Has Never Been Cheaper vs. What You Want: This piece updates our last post on investing in staples The chart below shows the market cap of ...
Debt to EBITDA Ratios: The Spiral Higher Continues
The Wicked Winds of High Leverage, Low Rates & Weak Covenants In our Chart for the Curious (CFTC) last week, we showed that levels of risky debt had hit ...
Debt to EBITDA is Out of Control: The Next GFC?
US Corporate Debt: The Next Crisis? Post the implosion of banks in the Great Financial Crisis the Federal Reserve stated that non-financial firms with debt/EBITDA >6x were a cause ...


