Factor Update, April 5, 2025

Sound bite for Twitter is: Dividend Growth Consumer. Results of stock price testing is that the stock price is probably cheap. Debt Ratios are very good. The Dividend Payout Ratios (DPR) are good. The current dividend yield is low with dividend growth good. See my spreadsheet on Richelieu Hardware Ltd. Is it a good company…

Research firm IDC predicts the global datasphere will grow to 175 zettabytes in 2025, from 33 ZB in 2018. On some estimates, it would take 1.8 billion years to download that amount of data at current internet speeds. An expanding global datasphere is another boon for cloud-computing providers that store information. It also explains why…

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By Lawrence G. McMillan $SPX has risen for eight days in a row and is off to a positive start today, which would make it nine. This type of action has been accompanied by buy signals from breadth, equity-only put-call ratios, and MVB — not to mention short-term buy signals such as “$VIX crossover” and…