Valens Equity Weekly Insights and Inflections for May 15, 2019
Most Compelling Long Ideas
COF, CRUS, CVS, FSLR, GRMN
Most Compelling ECF™ Inflections
JPM, GPK, MA, EBAY, WMT
Company Specific Highlights & Insights:
AMN, DISC.A, DVA, FSLR, GILD, IBM, ITW, LRCX, NI, PTC, SCCO, SLB, SNA, THRM
Aggregate ECF™ Trend Analysis:
Management confidence levels appear to be gaining positive momentum, particularly in the last several months; breaking off their stationary trend for two years. The ratio has consistently remained above 2016-2017 levels, pointing to management teams growing more confident about investing. In particular, this has been signified by a sustained rise in highly confident markers, as opposed to a decline in management concern, pointing to renewed optimism.