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22 Jul 2025

World's Most Valuable Defense Companies

Source: Global Statistics

21 Jul 2025

10 Years ago, JPMorgan had a lower market cap than Wells Fargo.

Today, its market cap of $800 billion is higher than its 3 largest competitors (BofA, Wells Fargo, Citigroup) combined. Too big to fail? We're way past that. Source: Charlie Bilello

21 Jul 2025

⚠️ Global fund managers are under invested in US stocks:

▶️ Professional investors have remained UNDERWEIGHT US equities versus global stocks for the 5th consecutive month. 👉 Meanwhile, the MSCI World Ex. USA index is up 17% year-to-date, beating the S&P 500 gain of 7%. Source: Global Markets Investor, BofA

21 Jul 2025

The SP500's CAPE Ratio is about to cross above 38 for the 3rd time in history, now higher than 98% of historical valuations. $SPX

Source: Charlie Bilello

18 Jul 2025

$10,000 invested in Netflix at its IPO in May 2002 is worth over $10 million today. $NFLX

Source: Charlie Bilello

18 Jul 2025

Berkshire Hathaway is now underperforming the S&P 500 by almost 23 percentage points since Warren Buffett announced his retirement 📉📉

Source: Barchart

18 Jul 2025

S&P 500 earnings have recently seen multiple sharp upward revisions.

This comes after 15 consecutive weeks of downside earnings revisions fueled by tariff fears. Overall, it seems that US corporations are actually coming out on the other side of these fears stronger. This is a tailwind for the stock market. Source: Bravos research

18 Jul 2025

Dow Jones Industrials forms a Golden Cross for the first time since November 2023 🚨

The last one sent prices soaring 29% over the next 13 months 📈📈📈 Source: Barchart

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