VPMCX counts information technology, healthcare, and industrials as its core invested sectors. These three sectors make up a combined 80% of the portfolio.
Wall Street (SPY) analysts are the most upbeat about Chubb (CB). It received “buy” ratings from 19 analysts among the 26 analysts that are covering the stock.
The yield on the benchmark ten-year Treasury note stood at 1.97% on March 15, a day before the March policy statement. The next day, it fell just 3 basis points.
Brown & Brown (BRO) has a market cap of $4.4 billion. After the earnings report in 3Q15, it fell by 0.19% to close at $31.26 per share as October 19, 2015.
Analyst recommendations The insurance sector constitutes 18.22% of the Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLF), and 427 Wall Street analysts cover the 22 insurance stocks in the XLF ETF. Most research brokerages have a positive outlook on insurance stocks given the possibility of a rate hike later in the year. Of these 427 analysts, 197 […]
The iShares MSCI USA Minimum Volatility ETF (USMV) and PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Portfolio (SPLV) are two smart beta ETFs that include only those stocks from the S&P 500 index (SPY) that have low volatility.
