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Tracking Next Gen Factors across Economic Regimes
Why does index methodology matter when evaluating the next generation of factor solutions? S&P DJI’s Elizabeth Bebb and Xtrackers’ Sturmius Schneider explore the metrics powering the next generation of S&P 500 factor indices and how these new tools are helping inform market participants applying factors strategically and tactically.
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Integrating Dividend and GARP Index Strategies in the Australian Market
The S&P/ASX 200 High Dividend Index measures a selection of high-dividend-yielding stocks, while the S&P/ASX 200 GARP Index (GARP standing for growth at a reasonable price) measures the performance of the top growth stocks with high quality and value composite scores selected from the respective underlying index universe. In this blog, we will explore how…
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Introducing the S&P 500 GARP 100 Index
The S&P 500® GARP 100 Index, launched on Nov. 24, 2024, sits at the intersection of value and growth strategies. Its objective is to identify 100 constituents from the S&P 500 that exhibit strong growth while maintaining reasonable valuations and high quality attributes. Methodology The index employs a two-step selection process. First, it identifies the…
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The S&P 500 GARP Index: Strong Fundamental Performance Amid a Steep Valuation Discount
GARP (growth at a reasonable price) has long been a staple investment strategy, but it was popularized by investing legend Peter Lynch after the Magellan Fund posted a remarkable average annual return of 29.2% from 1977 to 1990.1 As the name implies, it’s a strategy that seeks to strike a balance of tracking stocks with…
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Understanding GARP Strategies
How is a GARP strategy different from a traditional growth or value strategy? S&P DJI’s Jason Ye sits down with Andrew Geoghegan from Ausbiz to unpack the growth at a reasonable price approach and explore its relevance to market participants in Australia.
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Balancing Growth and Value in the Mid-Cap and Small-Cap Spaces: The S&P MidCap 400 GARP and S&P SmallCap 600 GARP Indices
Launched in February 2019, the S&P 500® GARP Index was the first transparent benchmark tracking growth companies that are identified as being higher quality with lower valuations. Given the success of this index, we launched the S&P MidCap 400® GARP Index and S&P SmallCap 600® GARP Index to expand the available toolkit. Since their launches…
The S&P GARP Index Series Expands to Include S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600 Versions
The S&P 500® GARP (Growth at a Reasonable Price) Index was launched in February 2019 to strike a balance between pure growth and pure valuation. Due to its popularity among market participants, this index series has recently been expanded to include the S&P MidCap 400® GARP Index and the S&P SmallCap 600 GARP® Index. The…
S&P 500 GARP Index: Growth at a Reasonable Price Anyone?
While growth stocks have the potential to grow at a rate significantly above the market, they have faltered during 2022 on the back of high inflation and rising interest rates. For market participants toying with the idea of when and how to get back in, the S&P 500® GARP (Growth at a Reasonable Price) Index…
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The Case for The S&P 500 GARP Index
The S&P 500® GARP (Growth at a Reasonable Price) Index just had its second anniversary since its launch in February 2019. During the latter half of this time, the world experienced the worst global pandemic in a century. Equities entered a swift V-shaped bear market and rebound. In this blog, we review the index’s performance,…
Using GARP Strategies for Indices Part IV – Factor Exposures, Sector Composition, and Performance Attribution
In this blog, the fourth in our introduction to Growth at a Reasonable Price (GARP) strategies, we cover factor exposures, sector composition, and performance attribution. Targeted Factor Exposures Exhibit 1 shows the active exposures (in percentages) of the S&P 500® GARP Index to the five factors used in GARP strategies: three-year sales per share (SPS)…
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