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Summary: An industrials expert mentioned to us last week that it finally felt like COVID had worked its way through the system and that it has become a better stock picking environment. We look at three approaches for assessing the stock picking environment–including company-specific risk, valuation dispersion, and pairwise correlations–for each of the industries within

A big part of investing in equities is understanding and predicting future changes to the perceptions of growth and rates and how that impacts what investors are willing to pay–multiples. How investors sequence these perception changes determines the market direction. This past week there were two major data points, including NVDA’s earnings and Jackson Hole.

In case you missed it, below is a digest of the most clicked on notes and videos that we published this month – a week early in deference to investors taking advantage of the last bit of summer.  If you have any questions on these or other topics related to the current environment for investors,

To read Trivariate’s recent note on AI click here.

The market has not had a single month of down 2.5% or more this year, but August is on track to end that streak. Only the energy sector is up month-to-date. Investors have been asking whether this is the start of a more material pullback. Media pundits have posited that it is “classic” August /

When writing their 2023 year ahead outlooks last November, none of the largest four equity firms previewed AI as an important factor for US equity investing.  Hence, when NVDA reported the largest organic increase in forecasted revenue growth of any mega cap. stock ever, with the median estimate increasing from 10% growth to 64% growth

Summary: For the industrials sector, we see macro activity softening, recent over-earning, and high inventories, married with high earnings expectations, valuation that is not compelling and optimistic rhetoric. This makes the overall risk reward below average for this sector relative to out sectors in our judgment. We think industrials have done better than expected over

The consumer discretionary stocks have outperformed the market year to date and are up in absolute terms in five of the last six quarters.  As we wrote in an in-depth review of the US consumer this past week, the performance of the consumer sector is a function of investors anticipating a dovish Fed, as typically

To read Trivariate’s recent note on the consumer discretionary sector click here.

To read Trivariate’s recent Level Set on the expectations click here.