Investors are increasingly looking at allocating assets based on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations, and this theme has the potential to become a big trend in the 2020s. While there are a few ESG…
Chinese consumer staples are a defensive sector and the most important determinant of their relative performance is their negative correlation with the broad domestic market EPS. The trend in staples relative earnings closely…
Overweight Last week Costco reported its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings, which came in beating expectations. These results are good news for our S&P hypermarkets overweight call as Costco accounts for nearly 50% of the index. We…
Overweight Yesterday, Walmart delivered an upbeat profit report that propelled the S&P hypermarkets index to fresh multi-year relative performance highs. More gains are in store in coming months as this safe haven index…
Overweight Household products stocks are in a V-shaped recovery since the early-2018 market peak and these safe haven stocks have more upside in times of tumult (middle panel) despite their pricey valuations (bottom panel…