Lion? Lamb? March's best stocks, strategies into April

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Not your typical March as the month came 'in like a lamb, and out like a lion.' No, we aren’tdiscussing precipitation in March, but the precipitous equity market behavior for the U.S stock market on ...

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TerenceD
2021-04-05
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That’s ??
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2021-04-05
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Please reply to my comment.. Thanks
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2021-04-04
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Steamed liao
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  NIce
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2021-04-03
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Thanks for the insights. Gonna research more about the recommended stocks
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2021-04-03
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No, we aren’tdiscussing precipitation in March, but the precipitous equity market behavior for the U.S stock market on the precipice of all-time highs and what that means for the top stocks moving into April.\nThe inverse of the ancient meteorological proverb aptly describes this past month’shedge fund blowup, a once-in-a generationcanal blockageof worldwide trade, aFed pivot, a treasurymarket selloff, historicelectric vehicleandmarijuana legislation, SPAC-mania, the 1-year anniversary of the pandemic-fueled market selloff and a 6% monthly trough to peak move in the S&P 500(NYSEARCA:SPY). That led high beta names to lag in the latter half. But what strategy or selection of stocks would have served you best for the month?\n\n\nHigh beta stocks lagged more stable names toward month-end\n\nThe exogenous events described above can throw a wrench into any defined strategy, whether you’re a value or growth investor, play momentum, sentiment, technicals or earnings revisions, or just buy what you know. What explicit strategy would have told you to be long Hartford Financial(NYSE:HIG), Nucor(NYSE:NUE)or Kansas City Southern(NYSE:KSU), and either short or unexposed to Penn National, Discovery Inc.(NASDAQ:DISCA)and Viacom(NASDAQ:VIAC), the respective winners and losers in the S&P 500 in March?\nThe answer for the above six is insider trading, which we do not condone for obvious reasons.M&A(twice), aboveconsensus earnings,political uncertaintyandhedge fund implosionsdictated the above fortunes and misfortunes.\nBut to outperform the broader market, the answer this month was value investing. So much so, thatone fascinating aspect of Marchwas how the standard “value stocks” started to screen as “momentum” – those stocks that have registered the strongest performance over the past 12 months. Value, in fact, has been so strong, that the last time they screened as momentum was more than 5 years ago.\n\n\n\nAnd it’s not just March. Value is the best performing factor strategy this year, up nearly 20%. It narrowly beat the performance of the highest levered stocks – those with the highest ratio of debt/total assets – curious bedfellows.\nValue itself is not a monolith. It comes in varying forms. For March, a strategy whereby you long stocks in the highest quartile for Ebitda/Enterprise ratios and short those in the lowest quartile returned more than 9%.  However, that same strategy in March of last year was the 3rd-worst performing among the 30 factors covered by S&P Global, which could mean some old-fashion mean reversion could have been at play after years of underperformance in the value category.\n\n\nSource: S&P Global\n\nWe looked at some specific stocks that performed well, just using the Seeking Alphascreener paired with our proprietary Quant ratings, which happen to have atrack record of outperformancesince inception in 2010. We screened for stocks in the U.S., with more than $500 million market cap, a value rating of A or greater that screened with a bullish or very bullish quant rating.\n\n\n\nThe top 5 performing names in March that screened in the above criteria at the beginning of March registered more than 15% returns in the month, led by TimkenSteel(NYSE:TMST)at 40%, Amneal Pharma(NYSE:AMRX), Resideo Technologies(NYSE:REZI), Super Micro Computer(NASDAQ:SMCI)and Jabil(NYSE:JBL). That compares to the S&P ‘s 4.26% return.\n\n\n\nOf note, 3 of the 12 highest performing names were homebuilders, though their ratings weren’t lifted to a bullish rating until a third of the month had passed. One, Green Brick(NASDAQ:GRBK), was featured among the best value picks by Seeking Alpha's head of quantitative strategies, Steven Cress, in his September discussionabout how many value names screened better than mega-cap tech, like Microsoft(NASDAQ:MSFT)and Apple(NASDAQ:AAPL).\nBeyond picking individual stocks, allocating to ETFs that focused on this strategy would have yielded an approximate 6.3% return, outperforming the S&P 500(SP500)by 200bps. The largest value ETFs, found viaSA’s ETF screener,include Vanguard Value ETF(NYSEARCA:VTV), iShares S&P 500 value ETF(NYSEARCA:IVE)  and SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 value ETF(NYSEARCA:SPYV), with performance across the instruments of 6.3% during March. That compared with the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO)up 2.75% on the month.\n\n\nAnother value ETF, the iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF(NYSEARCA:IWD), lagged at 4.9%. Hamstringing its performance was likely the higher concentration in tech, which was impacted by the aforementioned treasury selloff this month. Higher interest rates hit growth names particularly hard. Compared to VTV, which boasts 3x more of a concentration in financials than in tech, IWD is nearer to 2x. The tech-heavy Nasdaq composite rose just 0.4% in March. The Invesco QQQ ETF(NASDAQ:QQQ), which tracks large cap tech, was down 1.6% on the month.\n\nThe Future\n\nAnd how does that set up for April? Something to consider is seasonality --not surprising given the beginning of earnings season in just two weeks, which may set the tone. It is also bullish: Since 1928, April is the second-best month of average returns of the year, BofA analysts wrote this week.\nAnd on a shorter-term horizon, there is seasonality intra-month. The analysts also surfaced research that the first 10 days of each month typically outperform the last 10. That pattern for January-March has already held. But for April more broadly, LPL Financial’s Ryan Detrick highlighted that in the last 15 years, the S&P 500 has closed higher in 14 of those 15 Aprils.\nThat isn’t to say that value specifically will outperform, but it speaks broadly to market and portfolio performance. Morgan Stanley in a late March note remarked that “violent rotations” left many portfolios “gored” this year despite the fact that the rotations themselves were “fundamentally triggered.” They upgraded Consumer Staples names as part of that note to account for their expectations that inflation, personal income and GDP rates of growth will slow in the quarter/quarter and year/year comparisons to come.\nIf you believe, like JP Morgan analysts, that the trends for value will remain intact and that the risks for a pullback are low, it may be worth screening some stocks to determine the best opportunity for your portfolio.\nWhen we conducted an analysis with the highest quant rating using the above screen criteria (expanded to include names outside the U.S.) the stocks appear to your humble author to be bets on a global recovery. Shipowner Danaos Corp.(NYSE:DAC), Resolute Forest Products(NYSE:RFP), TimkenSteel (TMST), publisher Gannett Co.(NYSE:GCI)and Barclays PLC(NYSE:BCS). 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But BofA, in discussing the prospects for further stimulus, advised owning GDP-sensitive cyclical stocks, that are strong on value, and benefit from higher capital expenditures.\nStay tuned next month for another look at the best stocks and strategies. 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