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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Lennar managed to exceed analyst expectations in terms of revenue as well as earnings.</li><li>The last quarter proved to be successful as the company maintained its focus on production, cash flow, and inventory management.</li><li>Additionally, Lennar diligently managed its operating costs, keeping SG&A at significant lows while maintaining a sharp focus on cash flow and bottom-line results.</li></ul>

Lennar managed to exceed analyst expectations in terms of revenue as well as earnings.The last quarter proved to be successful as the company maintained its focus on production, cash flow, and inventory management.Additionally, Lennar diligently managed its operating costs, keeping SG&A at significant lows while maintaining a sharp focus on cash flow and bottom-line results.

Lennar Corporation: 4 Strategic Factor Responsible For Its Growth! – Financial Forecasts

High Quality Stock Setups, Weekly Stock Bull Finder

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High Quality Stock Setups

Finding high potential stock setups on quality companies

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>The ITB US Home Construction ETF is now up 33% YTD and represents one of the biggest market surprises for me so far in 2023.</li>
<li>This group has flashed relative strength vs. the S&amp;P 500 since December 2022 and continues to one of the top performing groups.</li>
<li>After undergoing correction in 2022, the homebuilders sector has tons of weekly charts breaking out of long and healthy weekly bases in strong uptrends</li>
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The ITB US Home Construction ETF is now up 33% YTD and represents one of the biggest market surprises for me so far in 2023.
This group has flashed relative strength vs. the S&amp;P 500 since December 2022 and continues to one of the top performing groups.
After undergoing correction in 2022, the homebuilders sector has tons of weekly charts breaking out of long and healthy weekly bases in strong uptrends


<ul><li>To mix it up this week, I am going to journal out the top chart patterns I generally look for when scanning and reviewing charts.</li><li>This post will also include some examples of price action that I typically look for, coupled with fundamental research, which has yielded the best entries and results over the years.</li><li>For starters, I focus on weekly charts to eliminate the noise of the hourly and daily charts which allows for confirming whether the name is in a strong uptrend (defined as above both rising 10WK/40WK moving averages).</li></ul>

To mix it up this week, I am going to journal out the top chart patterns I generally look for when scanning and reviewing charts.This post will also include some examples of price action that I typically look for, coupled with fundamental research, which has yielded the best entries and results over the years.For starters, I focus on weekly charts to eliminate the noise of the hourly and daily charts which allows for confirming whether the name is in a strong uptrend (defined as above both rising 10WK/40WK moving averages).

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>We still recommend a tactical overweight to defensives (Staples, Utilities, Healthcare, and gold miners) as the SPX tests our 4165-4200 resistance range, and also resistance from the prior 1.5-month uptrend.</li>
<li>As we await Wednesdays FOMC announcement, the DJIA and Nasdaq Composite are testing 1-year resistances at 34,280 and 12,300, the DXY appears to be inflecting higher, and breadth remains weak.</li>
<li>While we still see a reach to 4300-4325 as possible, we believe playing for more upside is akin to picking up pennies in front of a steamroller.</li>
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We still recommend a tactical overweight to defensives (Staples, Utilities, Healthcare, and gold miners) as the SPX tests our 4165-4200 resistance range, and also resistance from the prior 1.5-month uptrend.
As we await Wednesdays FOMC announcement, the DJIA and Nasdaq Composite are testing 1-year resistances at 34,280 and 12,300, the DXY appears to be inflecting higher, and breadth remains weak.
While we still see a reach to 4300-4325 as possible, we believe playing for more upside is akin to picking up pennies in front of a steamroller.


S&P 500 Testing 4165-4200, DJIA Testing 34,280, Nasdaq Composite Testing 12,300; Stay Defensive

Credit

<ul><li>Lennar Corporation is one of the largest homebuilders and home finance service providers in the U.S.</li><li>The company has had a decent financial performance off-late and has strengthened its positioning for changing market conditions.</li><li>Both new and existing home market sales and sales prices are significantly down, and given commercial underwriting and lending restrictions, new rental properties are also being restricted.</li></ul>

Lennar Corporation is one of the largest homebuilders and home finance service providers in the U.S.The company has had a decent financial performance off-late and has strengthened its positioning for changing market conditions.Both new and existing home market sales and sales prices are significantly down, and given commercial underwriting and lending restrictions, new rental properties are also being restricted.

Lennar Corporation: Detailed Credit Analysis & Financial Strength Evaluation Report

United States

Lennar Corporation constructs and sells single-family attached and detached homes, and to a lesser extent multi-level buildings as well as buys and sells residential land. The Company also provides mortgage financing, title insurance, closing services and other financial services.

Lennar Corp A (LEN US)

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Weekly Stock Bullfinder - Week of 6/5

To mix it up this week, I am going to journal out the top chart patterns I generally look for when scanning and reviewing charts.

Weekly Stock Bull Finder

S&P 500 Testing 4165-4200, DJIA Testing 34,280, Nasdaq Composite Testing 12,300; Stay Defensive

$SPX testing our 4165-4200 resistance range, $DJI testing 34,280 1-yr resistance, Nasdaq Comp $COMPQ testing critical 12,300 resistance. All while...

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Lennar Corporation: Detailed Credit Analysis & Financial Strength Evaluation Report

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