Articles authored by Carson Research
Carson Investment Research’s Outlook ’23: The Edge of Normal
At long last, The Carson Investment Research team is proud to officially release our 2023 Market and Economic Outlook, aptly titled Outlook ’23: The Edge of Normal. You can download the whitepaper here: As you are all painfully aware, 2022 wasn’t pretty for investors – it was the first year to ever see both stocks …
Earnings Preview: Waiting is the Hardest Part
“The waiting is the hardest part. Every day you see one more card.” -Tom Petty Note: Individual equities discussed within are examples to show earning season trends and sector performance; They should not be viewed as buy/sell/hold recommendations. “The Waiting” was the lead single from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Hard Promises album in 1981 …
Silver Linings Playbook: M&A Edition
By Brett Carson, Director of Equity Research 2022 was a rough year for investors. Stocks had their worst performance in many years, and shareholders are left wondering what is next. However, amidst all the uncertainty with inflation, rising interest rates, geopolitical tensions, supply chain bottlenecks, and volatile capital markets, there were important buyers that saw …
China Emerges from zero-COVID: What’s Next?
Happy new year! We’ve officially turned the page to 2023 and hope you and yours had a wonderful holiday season. As we closed out 2022, there were numerous major news topics, but one that picked up steam towards the year’s end was China’s assumed reopening after nearly three years of heavy restrictions. There were nationwide …
Silver Linings Playbook – Homebuilders Edition
The recent headlines in the housing market are downright ugly. Mortgage rates have more than doubled in 2022 and sit near 20-year highs, existing home sales continue the longest streak of declines on record, and last week the CEO of a luxury home furnishings retailer compared this housing market to 2008/2009, even using the “C” …