A decline in fundamentals, along with an increasingly competitive industry, lead us to close this position and remove it from our Focus List – Long Model Portfolio.
Pension underfunding remains dangerously high for many firms, and some companies use unusual assumptions for expected return on plan assets to mislead investors.
Since our original Danger Zone report and being added to our Focus List – Short Model Portfolio, this stock has significantly outperformed as a short position.
Our Robo-Analyst has been named a finalist for two of WealthManagement.com’s 2018 Industry Awards: “Technology Providers: Innovation New Applications” and “Industry Research Providers”.
Leveraging our Robo-Analyst technology, which analyzes the holdings of all 7,908 ETFs and mutual funds under coverage, we found this ETF with high quality holdings that should appeal to sophisticated value investors.
The valuation alone is not enough to justify keeping this position open given the large improvement in the firm’s fundamentals led by a new management team.