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Ariel Investments' Mellody Hobson: I call women's sports 'the small caps of sports'
CNBC Television· 2025-08-07 12:12
Investment Opportunity in Women's Sports - Aerial Investments launched Project Level, an investment vehicle focused on women's sports [1] - Women's sports are considered the "small caps" of sports, presenting a significant valuation difference compared to major leagues, creating investment opportunities [1][2] - Data indicates staggering growth in women's sports across various areas, including attendance, participation, and sponsorship [3] Market Trends and Comparisons - High school volleyball has 479,000 girls participating, exceeding boys' participation in soccer or baseball [4] - Investing in volleyball is compared to early investments in the NBA 30 years ago [5] - The current state of women's sports is likened to the NFL 30 years ago, with potential for accelerated growth due to leveraging existing men's sports infrastructure [6] - NFL teams in 1995 sold for almost $200 million each and are now worth $7-8 billion, highlighting the potential for value appreciation in sports investments [6] Future Growth Factors - Women's sports are expected to benefit from double-digit growth correlated to media rights, particularly in streaming [7] - New streaming platforms needing content present opportunities for women's sports [7]
Ariel Investments' Mellody Hobson: AI has been like 'rocket fuel' in this market
CNBC Television· 2025-08-07 10:48
Today's top story, President Trump's reciprocal tariffs taking effect at midnight. Investors continue to talk about the potential impact on inflation and the broader markets. Here's what famed value investor Melody Hobson Hod Hobson, excuse me, told Andrew in Aspen.I think the market has walked a lot off and I think that that's in the hopes of this all uh being rational at some point and taking care of itself. And I think AI has obviously been like rocket fuel in this market and that's helped a lot. Do you ...
Small caps in the U.S. are trading at the cheapest valuation relative to large caps since 2000.
Yahoo Finance· 2025-08-04 12:01
If anyone's watching the show and those two stocks have an outsized impact on your portfolio, I encourage you to diversify. I look at small caps in the US trading at the the cheapest valuation relative to large cap caps since 2000, since June of 2000. And if you look at the 25 years since then, small caps have actually outperformed large caps even with Microsoft and Apple and Meta and everyone else driving them higher.Valuation is not a perfect timing tool. Um, but it does tend to work longer term. And righ ...
Morgan Stanley's Mike Wilson: The earnings story looks pretty good in 2026
CNBC Television· 2025-07-31 13:23
All right, let's bring in Mike Wilson. He is chief chief investment officer and chief US equity strategist for Morgan Stanley. And and Mike, just on these points, you're not worried about inflation, at least in regards to what it means for the markets. >> Well, that's right. And I mean, we're just going through all these numbers. It's like, you know, alphabet soup, all these different measures of inflation. And so what we do as equity strategists and investors is we look at earnings. Earnings, you know, tel ...
Markets are getting overly complacent, so it may be time to take profits, strategist argues
Yahoo Finance· 2025-07-26 14:00
Another close here, David. Another close. Green all over the screen.Uh, David, I was just talking to Lou about this. Look ahead. We just keep kind of melting up here.David, what are your expectations. You know, unfortunately, I think the market right now is probably getting a little bit overextended. When I look at our valuations, the market overall is trading at about a 2 to 3% premium to a composite of our fair values.Yeah, we cover over 700 stocks that trade on US exchanges. So, we compare our intrinsic ...
Market breadth is coming back. Here's what it means for investors
CNBC Television· 2025-07-23 19:07
Joining us now on set is Alli McCartney. She's managing director of UBS Private Wealth Management. You know what's so funny about market sentiment is literally yesterday it was like healthcare's dead.Yeah. Forget just forget it. You know, and and then today look at thermo look at some of these results and suddenly and now I feel like I've missed the trade.It's been one day, right. So that's where this market is, right. You have institutions that are pretty much resigned to staying where they are, seem to ha ...
Fundsnetwork Goldman - Small Caps After The Storm
Fidelity Investments· 2025-06-30 17:36
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Johnson: Russell 2000 likely to hit a new high before mid-October
CNBC Television· 2025-06-25 11:29
So Craig, right now we were just talking about this uh S&P very close to a new all-time high, the NASDAQ 100 hitting a new closing high. And in this environment, you're actually raising uh your recommendation for equity exposure just just a very slight amount from 97% to 98%. But generally, when stocks are at record highs, uh valuations are elevated, people are looking to possibly move away from stocks.Why are you getting more bullish. You know, Frank, when you when we think about all the negativity that we ...