by Gary Gordon | Oct 8, 2020
Small businesses are barely hanging on. Nearly 50% of them are on their way to visiting the small town of Schitt’s Creek. For example, a Lending Tree survey shows 43% of small companies have seen revenue drop by half or more. Half! Meanwhile, 6% have exited the stage...
by Gary Gordon | Oct 6, 2020
The mainstream financial media narrative? Trump or Biden would be great for the stock market. Biden would be great for stocks because direct government stimulus should power consumers until the economy heals on its own. On the flip side, Trump would be great for...
by Gary Gordon | Oct 2, 2020
The current price-to-sales (P/S) ratio for the S&P 500 is 2.4. That is higher than it was at the peak of the 2000 stock bubble. I decided to screen large-cap U.S. companies for outrageous P/S valuations — those that jumped the 15x revenue barrier. According...
by Gary Gordon | Sep 30, 2020
Household equity exposure has rarely been as high as it is today. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Historically, the higher household stock exposure is, the lower the 10-year forward returns tend to be. In fact, the 25% demarcation heading into the 2000 stock...
by Gary Gordon | Sep 24, 2020
Is taking on more and more debt at lower and lower interest rates a good thing? Well, it does not seem to be helping the bulk of public companies on the U.S. stock exchanges. Consider the premier benchmark for small stocks, the Russell 2000. Their very existence may...
