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Value Stocks Could Hit the Comeback Trail

“Already, some small cap value stocks are outperforming the broader category of small caps,” observes Sheaff Brock Managing Partner Dave Gilreath. There are various indications, Gilreath adds, that the long period in which growth stocks dominated the stock market may be moving towards an end. Growth vs. value With both growth and value stocks, there is an expectation that, over time, they will outperform the overall market, but the two types of stock don't tend to do that at the same [...]

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Real Estate in Recovery Mode Plus

Portfolio Manager JR Humphreys ends every presentation with a reminder that real estate is an asset class that “has everything to offer,” including the potential for both rising dividend yields and capital appreciation. Inflation? Real estate investments serve as a hedge, Humphreys explains—as the cost to replace structures rises, the value of existing buildings goes up. Portfolio Manager JR Humphreys ends every presentation with a reminder that real estate is an asset class that “has everything to offer,” including the [...]

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REIT Investing in the Wake of the Pandemic

“REITs and real estate owners have played an important role across the country throughout the pandemic,” writes Matthew Bechard, Editor-in-Chief of REIT Magazine, predicting that “REITs and the 516,000 properties they own and operate will play a key role in bringing America back together.” JR Humphreys, portfolio manager of the Sheaff Brock Real Estate Income & Growth Strategy, definitely agrees. There were certainly areas of real estate which were negatively, even severely, impacted by the pandemic, Humphreys admits, naming: shopping [...]

REIT Investing and the New Tax Law | Sheaff Brock

New Tax Law May Favor REIT Investors

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is set to deliver significant tax savings over the next decade, which might well help an already healthy economy, says JR Humphreys, portfolio manager of the Sheaff Brock Real Estate Income & Growth strategy. Here’s why, Humphreys continues: One of the central features of the tax bill is a 20% deduction on pass-through income. By law, REITs must distribute at least 90% of their income. And, since the REITs themselves do not pay tax [...]

REITs | Bricks in the Wall of Worry? | Sheaff Brock

Real Estate Investment Trust Valuations—Bricks in the Wall of Worry?

The “Wall of Worry,” an informal expression used in financial jargon since the 1950s, refers to a market uptrend that occurs when there is significant uncertainly about stock price sustainability. But what about REITS? Are these stock/real estate hybrids bricks in the “Wall” as well? “Long before investors fell in love with Facebook and Amazon.com or even the hot stocks of past generations such as utilities and railroads, real estate inspired dreams of wealth,” writes John Coumarianos. “Some financial advisers and pundits helped [...]

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Preferred Stock—Expect the Question; Consider the Answer

The unrelenting search for reliable investment income is an important theme in retired clients’ investment plans, and preferred securities certainly share the limelight. What’s more, given the current buzz about the new tax law, it’s hard to ignore the fact that certain features of the law can favor investing in preferred stock, potentially increasing the demand for high-income investment vehicles. The question: As you’re discussing this very topic at the tennis club, expect the question: Interest rates are on the rise. By [...]

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Managing Interest Rate Risk in a Preferred Stock Portfolio

If I invest in preferred stock for the income just when interest rates are rising, won’t I be setting myself up for losing money? “Not necessarily,” contends JR Humphreys CFA, CAIA, Senior Portfolio Manager at Sheaff Brock Investment Advisors. Humphreys explains that, “increasing interest rates is usually the result of an improving economy that could lead to credit rating upgrades for the preferred equity, resulting in a higher price.” Many investors have the perception that preferred securities are highly interest-rate [...]

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Will Higher Interest Rates Huff and Puff Your House Down?

Ever since (think back approximately a year-and-a-half) rates began their slow upward movement, income investors have experienced a certain degree of worry about the “big bad wolf” blowing down their carefully constructed investment “abodes.” Thankfully, as Sheaff Brock senior portfolio manager JR Humphreys, CFA, CAIA explains, if you’ve “built” for the longer term (planning a longer holding period), there may be little reason for concern. In fact, Humphreys pointed out in an October interview with our SheaffBriefs editor, since December [...]

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Do Rising Interest Rates Put Investors Behind the Curve? It Ain’t Necessarily So.

Rates are rising. They will likely keep rising; accept that and adjust, is the message astute investors should be receiving. Rates are rising. They will likely keep rising; accept that and adjust, is the message astute investors should be receiving. When we compare the rates on U.S. Treasury bonds now to those of one year ago, Sheaff Brock Managing Director Dave Gilreath observes, at every maturity, rates are higher now by 60 to 95 basis points. Actually, he adds, U.S. 10-year [...]

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REITs in a Rising Interest Rate Environment

Concerned that, as soon as interest rates start moving in an upward direction, any real estate-related investments you have will be slated to take a “hit”? ’Tain’t necessarily so, according to Alfred Galli in Seeking Alpha. He concludes that “on an historical basis, there is no strong correlation between rates and prices (of real estate).” Michael Orzano of S&P Dow Jones Indices admits there’s growing concern today about how REITs will perform “when interest rates ultimately rise from their [...]