Research

Industrials – A Level Set of Trivariate’s Views

Summary: We have developed a proprietary quantitative model to predict subsequent stock returns for all Industrials stocks that are not: (1) hyper growth, (2) high dividend yielding, (3) cheap for a reason, and (4) in the lowest quality quartile of our substance model we label “junk.” The model consists of seven signals that are intentionally

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Is Quality Even A Thing For Value Investors?

In our two recent notes on growth investing, we concluded that low “growth beta”, high quality growth stocks outperform, and avoiding the fastest growing growth stocks is prudent. Given the positive feedback we received on our growth quality framework, we decided to investigate quality investing in the value universe in today’s research. Less than 10%

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Industrials – A Level Set of Trivariate’s Views

Summary: There’s Been a Substantial Valuation Correction in Machinery and Electrical Equipment Within Industrials, we have been recommending that investors short electrical equipment and machinery. The combination of high inventory-to-sales and high valuation vs. history were the pillars of our negative stance. Over the last two months though, we have seen 33% price-to-forward earnings and

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Level Set – The Un-Inverted Playbook

The 2-year US government bond has been offering a higher yield than the 10-year bond for 19 months now, and it stands to reason that at some point it will “un-invert.” It has been compelling to buy the shorter duration bonds relative to the 10-year yield for a while. Moreover, it seems risky to us

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Analyzing IPOs

The last two years we have seen the fewest back-to-back years for initial public offerings of greater than $1 billion since 2008 and 2009.  2021 was a record year driven largely by SPACs, and also correlated to the highest nominal GDP in the US in nearly a half century.  Tighter financial conditions, concerns about an

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