So far in 2008
What a time to be finalising the website...
While the market has been pretty ugly all year, the performance of the rating system
had been holding up ok until the precipitous drop of the past month or two.
The constant stream of particularly bad news lately has hit all stocks hard.
I'll be posting a full summary of the ratings system's performance in the next
couple of days. On a preliminary glance it seems the most conservative and predictable
value stocks with low debt have held up best.
'Growth Rates' and 'Momentum' have been
the worst performing subfactors within the system...
Stock valuations predicated on continuing economic prosperity
and steady earnings growth have been destroyed.
While everything has been sold off heavily, buyers have favoured
defensive, value stocks - those with little to no growth but solid
financial positions and an expectation of profitability during recesion.
More detail on this to come...
tags: bear market, growth stocks, value stocks
posted: October 15, 2008
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