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Ally Financial an undervalued stock setting up for a bounceI don't love banking stocks right now because they have so much bad debt on the books, but Ally Financial looks good for at least a short-to-mid-term play. With a P/E of 7.62 and a valuation rating of 94/100 from S&P Global Market Intelligence, Ally looks very attractively valued. It beat estimates and raised guidance on its last earnings report, its earnings grew 10% last quarter vs. the same quarter the previous year. With a 2% dividend yield, Ally offers decent quarterly cash return as well as good growth potential. Best of all, Ally is sitting on a support and looks ready for a bounce from $30 per share. This is definitely my pick of the day. For more market news, stock analysis, and educational videos for traders, check out my YouTube channel, "Wall Street Petting Zoo."
NYSE:ALLYLong
by ChristopherCarrollSmith
Has Metcalfe's Law Stopped Working for Bitcoin?Metcalfe's Law has been successfully used to value a variety of network effect technologies and businesses, including Facebook and Tencent. Applying Metcalfe's Law to Bitcoin , using "Daily Active Addresses" (DAA) as the "n" value, yields interesting results. Historically, Bitcoin has tracked the Metcalfe Law Fair Price reasonably well. A number of studies have been performed over recent years which validate this and have used various derivations of Metcalfe’s Law. Note: this indicator sticks to the original Metcalf’s Law. Prior to 2018, every time Bitcoin was above the Metcalfe’s Law fair price (calculated using a default “A” of 0.5 here), a bubble had formed, and price quickly reverted back down to the mean. Nonetheless, since February 2018, Metcalfe's Law Fair Price has remained below the actual Bitcoin price, suggesting Bitcoin is currently overvalued. There may be a few reasons for this: 1. Possibility A: Bitcoin may still be extremely overvalued. Since the December 2017 peak, Bitcoin has only reverted to the Metcalfe’s Law Fair Price briefly during the December 2018 bottom. If this case is true, there could be further to fall unless DAA numbers pick up to fill the gap. 2. Possibility B: The introduction of side-chains, private transactions and the Lightning Network may have fundamentally altered the effectiveness of using DAA to value Bitcoin . As more daily transactions are completed off-chain, or on large platforms/exchanges which use fewer addresses, the relative number and growth of DAA may be misrepresented and artificially low. In this case, DAA as it is reported today is no longer useful in assessing the fair value of Bitcoin with Metcalfe’s Law and this Indicator is effectively useless. 3. Possibility C: Neither of the above are true. We are just in an anomalous period in which price and Metcalfe’s Law Fair Price have deviated from the mean for an extended period (and will meet again in the future, potentially at a higher price). 4. Possibility D: Metcalfe’s Law doesn’t really work for Bitcoin . I am inclined to believe Possibilities “C” and “D” are unlikely. Given the way Bitcoin infrastructure is being developed and used in 2019, Possibility “B” seems the most likely, as this case is supported by the fact that a number of other metrics indicate that Bitcoin is currently on the lower side of “fair value” (including Dynamic Range NVT Signal). If Possibility “B” is false, or the impact of private network address usage is negligible, the Bitcoin network may not in a healthy state, with DAA values basically flat for the last 3 years. Regardless, Possibility “A” remains a candidate. Only time will tell. It will be interesting to check back on this indicator in 12-24 months time. Hopefully this indicator has been proven redundant by then.
BNC:BLX
by capriole_charles
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When to Buy Stocks - S&P 500 Dividend Yield CurveBefore start reading on; this chart is inverted. More on that later Interpretation According to Mike Maloney, the S&P 500 dividend yield curve is the second best way to measure a stocks value (after the Shiller S&P500 PE Ratio -made a post on this, go check it out). The ratio indicates how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price. In other words, it measures how much "bang for your buck" you are getting from dividends. In the absence of any capital gains, the dividend yield is effectively the return on investment for a stock. The lower the dividend yield, the less you get for your investment and hence the more overvalued a stock. The historic S&P 500 Dividend Yields were deducted by Robert Shiller and published in his book Irrational Exuberance. Why is the chart inverted? Two reasons 1. This allows you to see, bubbles are up instead of down, and undervalued is down instead of up 2. The higher the yield the more undervalued the stock is, the lower the yield the more overvalued the stock is Areas of S&P 500 Dividend Yield Curve Stocks are undervalued: 1% - 4% Stocks are undervalued: 4% - 5% Stocks are fair value: 4% - 6% Stocks are undervalued: 6% + Keeping an eye on... The alarming thing when looking at this chart is it has only once ever been this high and that was at the beginning of the millennia and this chart goes all the way back to 1872. As of the time of this writing it is at 1.94. The highest it’s ever been is 1.11. This goes to show the size of the bubble we are currently is. Note: This "indicator" is used to find the best time to purchase stocks, not to pick or find the market top/bottom How to “rebalance the dividend yield curve” Going back to Mike Maloney and his analysis...to bring down this dividend yield he sees two ways the market can seek equilibrium. 1. The market goes sideways for a decade while we have raging inflation that will balance this out and then bring dividend yields and PE’s ratios back into line 2. It crashes, the markets go down The currency supply collapses, therefore this has to be a deflationary collapse, this cant be an inflation in what they call an invisible crash. Note that the source of the material here is from 2011 Source: www.youtube.com (58:22)
MShort
by Muncher