August 2017: The Stock Market Bull Continues to Prevail
The Stock Market Bull stands tall after another triumphant month.
By Larry C. Paxton
Despite concerns over N Korea’s missile tests, a terrorist attack in Barcelona, Spain, a controversial rally in Charlottesville, VA, Hurricane Harvey attacking southeast Texas, continued lack of meaningful legislation from Congress, and the world still getting adjusted to a very different style US President, The PBR1000 and other stocks continued to climb in August.
Maybe it’s just one of those “It’s the economy, stupid!” that justifies the rise. Modest/moderate economic growth continues and cautious optimism about the future keeps pushing it along.
As a result investing opinions are still scattered all over the place. This inconsistency should be good news for everyone, because now you can be the expert! If you are wrong, it’s no big deal, you are in a large group. But if you are right, you will be a hero and hopefully have a much higher value portfolio to confirm that. Remember to give The PBR1000 credit!
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Here are the August summaries on the major US stock market exchanges:
Number of Trading Days: 23
Number of Gain(+)/Loss(-) Days: DJIA 15+/8-; NASDAQ 11+/12-; SPX 14+/9-.
Record Days: DJIA 5, NASDAQ 1, SPX 1
Longest Gain Streak(Consecutive Days): DJIA 10(07/25-08/07/17), NASDAQ 4(08/28-31/17), SPX 5(08/25-31/17)
Longest Loss Streak(Consecutive Days): DJIA 3(08/08-10/17), NASDAQ 3(08/08-10/17), SPX 3(08/08-10/17)
Big Swing Up Days(>1.00%): 3, 08/14/17(NASDAQ +1.34%, S&P500 +1.00%): Geopolitical issues ebb(N Korea); 08/22/17(NASDAQ +1.36%): Day after President Trump speech on Afghanistan; 08/30/17(NASDAQ +1.05%): GDP revised up to 3%, ADP Jobs Report
Big Swing Down Days(<-1.00%): 2, 08/10/17(NASDAQ -2.13%, S&P500 -1.45%): N Korea missile test; 08/17/17(DJIA -1.24%, NASDAQ -1.94%, S&P500 -1.54%): Barcelona terrorist attack; Charlottesville, NC, rally and death followed by controversial response by President Trump.
The following are Top 5 partial tables excerpts from The PBR1000 August Snapshots. The price for stocks is for the close of trading on August 31, Month % Chg is compared to July 31, YTD % Chg is compared to December 31, 2016, and the 20 Months % Chg is compared to December 31, 2015. The PBR Rank is by annual revenues.
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Table 1(S11): The PBR1000 Top 5 Month Stock Price % Gainers
Table 1 Summary: The range was +60% to -78%. 431 out of 1,002 stocks were up 0% or more. The average was a loss of 0.65%, the median was a loss of 0.97%.
| Company | PBR Rank |
Symbol | Price 08/31/17 |
Mo % Chg |
YTD % Chg |
20 Mos % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Triple-S Mgmt |
676 | GTS | 24.71 | +60 | +19 | +3 |
| Hertz Global |
297 | HTZ | 21.74 | +59 | +1 | n/a |
| Calumet Specialty |
584 | CLMT | 8.00 | +54 | +100 | -60 |
| Manitowoc |
905 | MTW | 8.23 | +44 | +38 | -46 |
| Systemax |
899 | SYX | 24.44 | +35 | +179 | +184 |
Table 2(S12): The PBR1000 Top 5 Year-To-Date Stock Price % Gainers
Table 2 Summary: The range was +309% to -86%. 583 out of 1,002 stocks were up 0% or more. The average was a gain of 9.4%, the median was a gain of 4.6%.
| Company | PBR Rank |
Symbol | Price 08/31/17 |
Mo % Chg |
YTD % Chg |
20 Mos % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weight Watchers |
986 | WTW | 46.81 | +31 | +309 | +105 |
| Systemax |
899 | SYX | 24.44 | +35 | +179 | +184 |
| Scientific Games |
689 | SGMS | 35.20 | -5 | +151 | +292 |
| Vertex Pharma |
893 | VRTX | 160.54 | +6 | +118 | +28 |
| NRG Energy | 220 | NRG | 24.91 | +1 | +103 | +112 |
Table 3(S13): The PBR1000 Top 5 20 Months Stock Price % Gainers
Table 3 Summary: The range was +429% to -96%. 707 out of 998 stocks were up 0% or more. The average was a gain of 22.4%. The median was a gain of 20.1%.
| Company | PBR Rank |
Symbol | Price 08/31/17 |
Mo % Chg |
YTD % Chg |
20 Mos % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tronox | 819 | TROX | 20.69 | +7 | +101 | +429 |
| Cleveland-Cliffs |
816 | CLF | 8.36 | +8 | -1 | +429 |
| NVIDIA | 363 | NVDA |
169.44 | +4 | +59 | +414 |
| AMD | 523 | AMD | 13.00 | -4 | +15 | +353 |
| Scientific Games |
689 | SGMS | 35.20 | -5 | +151 | +292 |
Table 4(S15): The PBR1000 Top 5 Market Capitalization
Table 4 Summary: The range was $847.10 billion to $0.01 billion. The average is $23.9 billion, median is $7.2 billion, out of 1,002 companies.
| Company | PBR Rank |
Symbol | Market Cap($B) 08/31/17 |
Mo % Chg |
YTD % Chg |
20 Mos % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple |
4 | AAPL | 847.10 | +3 | +26 | +32 |
| Alphabet |
27 | GOOG | 650.89 | +3 | +21 | +24 |
| Microsoft |
28 | MSFT | 575.90 | +5 | +16 | +26 |
| 95 | FB | 499.43 | +12 | +48 | +66 | |
| Amazon | 12 | AMZN | 471.06 | +3 | +33 | +50 |
| The PBR1000 |
23,907.85 | -0 | +9 | +19 |
Table 5: The PBR1000 Index & Selected Stock Exchanges/Commodities
| Company | Price 08/31/17 |
Mo % Chg |
YTD % Chg |
20 Mos % Chg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The PBR1000 | 80,896.35 | -0.7 | +9.4 | +22.4 |
| DJIA | 21,948.10 | +0.3 | +11.1 | +26.0 |
| NASDAQ | 6,428.66 | +1.3 | +19.4 | +28.4 |
| S&P500 | 2,471.65 | +0.1 | +10.4 | +20.9 |
| GOLD | 1,326.50 | +4.2 | +15.2 | +25.1 |
| SILVER | 17.65 | +5.1 | +10.4 | +27.9 |
| OIL | 47.09 | -6.1 | -12.3 | +27.1 |
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