February 04, 2008 at 3:00 pm by Tom Lydon
Some analysts are liking the looks of financial and homebuilder focused exchange traded funds (ETFs) these days.
While the financial industry in particular continues to get negative press, advisors and analysts are saying that the two sectors are "a screaming buy." The Financial Select Sector SPDR (XLF) has been in turnaround mode since ending 2007 down 19.2%. Since Jan. 22, it’s up 13.2%. The iShares Dow Jones U.S. Home Construction (ITB) is up 25.3% since the same date.
Last year, all of the financial sector ETFs fell by double digitals, and Morningstar analyst Sonya Morris feels they’re trading 25% below what they’re worth. Many analysts feel that once the subprime crisis passes, the funds could take off.
Meanwhile, Zack Miller for Blogging Stocks isn’t completely convinced that we’ve hit the bottom.
What do you think?
Tags: Financial, Real Estate
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February 4th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Plenty more pain to come. People continue to think this is related to subprime, but this is really an unwinding of credit to the all consumers. Any spikes in unemployment or inflation will send these headed back down. They were oversold recently, but this cat doesn’t have much bounce left.
February 4th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Also, when you hand select the timeframes like this (Jan 22nd), you can create whatever percentages fit your argument.