Attractiveness Rankings Fall for Autos, Aerospace and Transportation Sectors

Weekly Sector RotationJuly 13, 2022Attractiveness Rankings Fall for Autos, Aerospace and Transportation Sectors Attractiveness rankings for the autos, aerospace, and transportation sectors have fallen due to lower scores across all the core Polaris metrics (valuation, technical and catalytic properties). While higher catalytic scores helped the utilities sector to break into the top 5 groups. We also note that improvement in valuation, technical […]

Africa’s Present & Future Telecom/Electronics Revolution

Africa Connection | Christina Surowiec | June 10, 2022 In the U.S. and other First World locations, breathless encomiums to magical possibilities now realized thanks to the smartphone have a ring of hyperbole. In Africa, where landline systems were neither extensive nor reliable, life transformations wrought by mobile telephony are far harder to exaggerate. The […]

Volatile Catalytic Scores Drive Changes in Sector Rankings

Brian T. Hannon, CFAFounder, Director of Quantitative Equity ResearchQubit Research, LLCBrian Hannon began his career in the chemicals industry at the Dupont Company where he held various positions in research & development, project management, and corporate finance. While in R&D, he was awarded a patent for his role in the development of a reverse osmosis […]

Cheap Stocks Can Get Cheaper

Brian T. Hannon, CFAFounder, Director of Quantitative Equity ResearchQubit Research, LLCBrian Hannon began his career in the chemicals industry at the Dupont Company where he held various positions in research & development, project management, and corporate finance. While in R&D, he was awarded a patent for his role in the development of a reverse osmosis […]

Model Performance Update

The Polaris stock-selection guidance system, is based on an innovative multi-factor model where the focus is on performance. The model utilizes proprietary metrics and includes a machine learning algorithm that performs investor behavior pattern recognition. The objective is to provide portfolio managers and analysts with independent, unbiased insight that leads to benchmark outperformance.As a means […]

Defensively-Oriented and Commodity Exposed Sector Rankings Remain Most Improved

Brian T. Hannon, CFAFounder, Director of Quantitative Equity ResearchQubit Research, LLCBrian Hannon began his career in the chemicals industry at the Dupont Company where he held various positions in research & development, project management, and corporate finance. While in R&D, he was awarded a patent for his role in the development of a reverse osmosis […]

Attractiveness Rankings Improve for the Construction and Technology Sectors

Brian T. Hannon, CFAFounder, Director of Quantitative Equity ResearchQubit Research, LLCBrian Hannon began his career in the chemicals industry at the Dupont Company where he held various positions in research & development, project management, and corporate finance. While in R&D, he was awarded a patent for his role in the development of a reverse osmosis […]

Earnings Release Preview

In the Earnings Release Preview we provide detailed analytics for each of the companies in the Polaris core universe that are expected to report earnings NEXT week. This report provides portfolio managers and analysts with our proprietary rankings for each stock in advance of their upcoming report date. See the table below for a list of the Top-20 most […]

Construction Sector Falls from Top Ranking

With an academic background in engineering and economics, Brian Hannon began his career in the chemicals industry at the Dupont Company where he held various positions in research & development, project management, and corporate finance. An early indication of his innovative nature occurred while in R&D; as Brian was awarded a patent for his role […]

Attractiveness Rankings for the Transportation and Autos Sectors Fall

Brian T. Hannon, CFAFounder, Director of Quantitative Equity ResearchQubit Research, LLCBrian Hannon began his career in the chemicals industry at the Dupont Company where he held various positions in research & development, project management, and corporate finance. While in R&D, he was awarded a patent for his role in the development of a reverse osmosis […]