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Big Tech PE Ratios, Mortgage Rates, Market Neutral Funds | What’s Trending on YCharts?

With every edition of What’s Trending on YCharts?, we reveal the stocks, funds, and economic data that generated the most traffic each month on YCharts. Are any of these names or data points on your radar?

In May 2022, YCharts pageview data showed that falling P/E ratios for big tech stocks, the 30 Year Mortgage Rate, and “market neutral” funds have been catching the market’s attention.

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Most Popular Company Pages

These stock data pages had the most unique pageviews in May 2022.

May 2022 “Most Popular” Company Pages

1. Apple (AAPL)

2. Amazon (AMZN)

3. Apple PE Ratio

4. Tesla PE Ratio

5. Amazon PE Ratio

6. Tesla (TSLA)

7. NVIDIA (NVDA)

8. Microsoft (MSFT)

9. Alphabet PE Ratio

10. Meta Platforms (FB)

Although downward price momentum is mostly to blame, price-to-earnings (P/E) ratios are on the decline, representing a reduction of heightened equity valuations. For some of the biggest public companies around, like Apple, Tesla and Amazon, P/E ratios peaked in late 2021 but have fallen considerably this year.

At what prices do these companies become cheap enough to trigger meaningful buying?

tech stock PE ratio AAPL AMZN TSLA GOOG FB

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Hottest Mutual Fund & ETF Pages

These mutual fund and ETF pages had the largest month-over-month unique pageview growth in May 2022, as compared to April 2022.

May 2022 “Hottest” Fund Pages

1. Vanguard Market Neutral Fund Investor Shares (VMNFX)

2. Fidelity® Natural Resources Fund (FNARX) Holdings

3. Global X NASDAQ 100 Covered Call ETF (QYLD) Dividend Yield

4. Fidelity® Select Semiconductors (FSELX) Holdings

5. Fidelity® Select Energy (FSENX) Holdings

6. Blackrock Liquidity FedFund Cash Mgmt (BFFXX)

7. Catalyst/Millburn Hedge Strategy I (MBXIX)

8. Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)

9. Schwab Value Advantage Money Fund (SWVXX)

10. Transamerica Capital Growth A (IALAX)

This chart is a great illustration of “market neutral” funds and their potential benefits relative to the S&P 500. While Beta for Vanguard’s Market Neutral Fund Investor Shares (VMNFX) has always fluctuated around 0.00, its Alpha has lifted considerably during the S&P’s pullback in 2022. There’s certainly a time and place for market neutrality—we’re living through one such time right now—but VMNFX, and market neutral funds like it, pale over the long run compared to an index ETF such as SPY.

market neutral fund chart VMNFX

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Most Popular Econ Data Pages

These economic data pages had the most unique pageviews in May 2022.

May 2022 “Most Popular” Econ Data Pages

1. 10 Year Treasury Rate

2. US Inflation Rate

3. US Retail Gas Price

4. CBOE Equity Put/Call Ratio

5. S&P 500 PE Ratio

6. 30 Year Mortgage Rate

7. 5 Year Treasury Rate

8. 10-2 Year Treasury Yield Spread

9. 3 Month Treasury Bill Rate

10. 1 Year Treasury Rate

Despite clocking in at an all-time low of 2.65%, then a decade-high of 5.3% in the span of just nine months, the 30-Year Mortgage Rate most recently sat at 5.1%—still 268 basis points below its long-term average of 7.78%. This chart illustrates just how much the housing (and lending) market has evolved since sky-high rates of the 1980s. It also shows us just how much mortgage rates can swing year-over-year.

30 year mortgage rate chart

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