U.S. stocks staged a strong comeback to start the week as falling oil prices, surging bitcoin prices and renewed enthusiasm for artificial intelligence (AI) lifted investor sentiment. Technology stocks rallied ahead of an expected dinner b…
A Record ETF Year Takes Shape as Inflows Near $1.5 Trillion
ETF Investing Tools Investors added a whopping $91.9 billion to US-listed ETFs during the week ending Friday, Sept. 18. Year-to-date inflows now stand at around $1.47 trillion, just shy of the $1.49 trillion that flowed into ETFs during al…
S&P 500 investors may want to rethink their favorite ETF
Investors whose portfolios are built around an S&P 500 index fund may have more riding on just 10 stocks than they realize. Those 10 names now control a share of the index that would have been unrecognizable a decade ago, VanEck reported i…
Prediction: This ETF Will Beat the SPY Through 2027 (Not the QQQ!)
Quick Read This momentum-based ETF has been consistently outperforming the SPY. It has even outperformed many AI ETFs in the past few years. It is likely to keep outperforming the SPY going forward, especially if the market keeps rallying.…
Is This the Smartest ETF to Buy and Hold in 2026? Here's What History Suggests.
If you are looking for an exchange-traded fund (ETF) to buy and hold for the long term, the best thing to do is look at history. While we all know that past performance is no guarantee of future results, ETFs that have a long track record…
This 2 ETF Portfolio Historically Outperforms the S&P 500 With Less Volatility
Building a portfolio that can produce better returns than the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) with less volatility is the exact thing that dozens of fund managers get paid huge sums of money to do. Unfortunately, most of them fall short of that…
Prediction: This ETF Could Set You Up for Life if You Buy It Today
The S&P 500 is up a solid 13% year-to-date, but this large-cap exchange-traded fund (ETF) blows it away with a 30% year-to-date total return. For the Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF (NYSEMKT: SPMO), it is all about momentum. The Invesco Momen…
9 stocks to ride the industrial sector’s blazing rally
These stocks, and others, in the S&P 500 industrial sector have shown strong price momentum, while the companies are expected to increase sales at rapid paces through 2028, at least. - MarketWatch illustration/iStockphoto Believe it or not…
Investors should secure a chair before the music stops, BTIG says
[Business people playing musical chairs in field] Martin Barraud U.S. equities are increasingly trading like a game of “factor musical chairs,” and BTIG technical strategist Jonathan Krinsky says investors should be prepared for the point…
[Dynamic visualization of financial data with a candlestick chart of the stock market and bright graphic elements] Maximusnd/iStock via Getty Images High-beta momentum (SPMO [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/SPMO]) is starting to resemble p…
Wall Street Sees Little Threat to Micron From China’s Memory Giant
Micron Technology, Inc.(NASDAQ:MU) stock gained by more than 3% during Monday's premarket session as risk appetite improves alongside a firm overnight tape. Nasdaq futures are up 1.57% while S&P 500 futures have gained 0.93%. The broader m…
This 1 Momentum ETF Is Still Beating the S&P 500 With Lower Drawdowns
Quick Read During COVID, during the spring 2025 drawdown, and the 2022 selloff, this ETF either stayed in line or outperformed And when the market recovered, it went on to deliver terrific gains SPMO is now sitting on a significant lead ov…
Momentum ETFs were living up to their names in early afternoon trading. The Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF, the Invesco Dorsey Wright Momentum ETF, and the iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF were gaining steam, while smaller stocks continu…
Forget SPY. Its Momentum Cousin Is Crushing the Index With 26% Returns This Year, for Only 0.13%
Quick Read SPMO has surged 26% year to date versus SPY's 10%, and over 10 years it has more than doubled SPY's 247% total return. SPMO's 100-stock concentration and semi-annual rebalancing can cause sharp lag during leadership shifts and c…
Oppenheimer’s ‘best of the best’ momentum list: NVDA, LRCX and more
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Wedgewood Partners, an investment management company, released its first-quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Wedgewood Composite delivered a net return of 9.4% in the second quarter compared to 15.2%…
Accelerated Growth in Google Search and Cloud Strengthens Alphabet’s (GOOG) Rally
Wedgewood Partners, an investment management company, released its first-quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. Wedgewood Composite delivered a net return of 9.4% in the second quarter compared to 15.2%…
Schadenfreude is a beast—and momentum investors are on the receiving end now. Momentum, the practice of buying the market’s best-performing stocks based on the premise they will stay the best performers, is a wonderful investing strategy w…
Photo by ArtsyBee on Pixabay Companies across this momentum fund are signaling stronger earnings ahead. Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF (SPMO) has already delivered a +36.9% return over the past year, but what its largest holdings are signali…
Why the stock market’s red-hot momentum trade might be headed for a violent unwind this month
The U.S. stock market may see explosive moves beneath the S&P 500 index's surface in July. - MarketWatch/iStockphoto U.S. stocks are set up for potentially dramatic rotations beneath the S&P 500 index's surface, with rumblings already unde…
Capitalizing on the Squeeze: What Micron Tells Us About Bottlenecks
This article was originally published on ETFTrends.com. At VettaFi, we've been talking a lot about bottlenecks as a concept. Some of the brightest equity market opportunities for capital growth are tied to bottlenecks in a supply chain-con…
The S&P 500 has delivered a strong performance so far in 2026 despite the Iran war. Robust technology and energy earnings, the ongoing artificial intelligence (AI) boom, and still-resilient global and U.S. economic growth have supported th…
Apple Just Delivered Its $75 Per Share AI Moment at WWDC. Wall Street Says the Stock Could Hit $440 by Year-End.
Quick Read Dan Ives puts $75 to $100 per share in AI value on AAPL, while Morgan Stanley sees upside to $440 by year-end. Apple's 18-month exclusion from momentum ETFs like MTUM and SPMO ended, adding a positioning catalyst alongside accel…
The Dow Wobbles as Wall Street Chases Chips, Other Momentum Stocks
Wall Street can’t shake its love of chasing momentum stocks. The Nasdaq rallied 1.3% on Monday, while the S&P 500 gained 0.7%. The Dow was moving in and out of positive territory. It was recently up 45 points, or 0. Continue Reading
Quick Read SPMO returned 523% over ten years versus the market's 248%, but only twice-yearly reconstitution means it rides yesterday's winners through any regime change. XSD's violent June 5 selloff dragged SPMO down 6%, which was double S…
The Market’s Hottest Stocks Are Losing Steam. Here’s Where Money Is Going Next.
Instead of rushing for the exits, investors appeared to have rotated into more defensive areas of the market, such as lower-volatility stocks. Continue Reading
Why a Wealth Manager Made a $3 Million Bet on a 6.4% Yielding Senior Loan ETF
Concorde Asset Management disclosed a new position in the First Trust Senior Loan Fund(NASDAQ:FTSL) on June 1, 2026, acquiring 73,167 shares in an estimated $3.31 million trade based on quarterly average pricing. What happened According to…
Why a Wealth Manager Made a $3 Million Bet on a 6.4% Yielding Senior Loan ETF
Key Points Concorde Asset Management initiated an FTSL stake of 73,167 shares last quarter. The quarter-end position value increased by $3.28 million as a result of the move. The deal size represented roughly 1.6% of Concorde’s 13F reporta…
The Stock Market May Soon Regret the End of Earnings Season
Stocks are entering a limbo period—the gap between the end of one earnings season and the beginning of the next. They’ll need other catalysts to keep rising. Continue Reading
The Most-Compared ETFs Right Now — And What They Reveal
balance Every month, tens of thousands of investors come to ETF.com not to read about ETFs—but to compare them head to head. The ETF Comparison Tool lets users stack any two (or three) funds side by side across costs, performance, holdings…
The Dow Is Leading. Wall Street Is Selling Winners and Buying Losers.
A momentum reversal was taking hold early on Wednesday. The Dow was up 380 points, or 0.5%, while the S&P 500 was down 0.1%. The Nasdaq was down 0.2%. The Dow’s success was riding on a rally in value stocks, especially consumer staples. Co…
This Is the Only ETF That Gets You More Gains With Less Risk
Quick Read Invesco S&P 500 Momentum ETF (SPMO) has returned 457% over ten years versus the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) at 262%, driven by its mechanical rule of holding the top 100 S&P 500 stocks by 12-month momentum and rebalancing twice…
These alternative index strategies are beating the S&P 500 after the stock market’s new highs
Since March 30, when the S&P 500 hit its low for the year, investors have been pouring money into exchange-traded funds tracking the S&P 500 Pure Growth and Momentum indexes. - Getty Images How quickly are you as an investor getting used t…