Top 10 Supermarket Stocks To Own Right Now

Top 10 Supermarket Stocks To Own Right Now: iShares MSCI Ireland Capped ETF (EIRL)

iShares MSCI Ireland Capped ETF, formerly iShares MSCI Ireland Capped Investable Market Index Fund (the Fund), seeks investment results that correspond generally to the price and yield performance of the MSCI Ireland Investable Market 25/50 Index (the Index). The Index is a free-float adjusted market capitalization-weighted index designed to measure the performance of equity securities in the top 99% by market capitalization of equity securities listed on the stock exchanges in Ireland. BlackRock Fund Advisors (BFA) serves as the investment advisor of the Fund. BFA is a subsidiary of BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Charles Sizemore]

  How does an investment manager reconcile all of the various prognostications he hears on a daily basis?Simple—ignore them.—Meb Faber, Global ValueIf you've never heard of Cambria Investment Management's Meb Faber, then you have some serious catching up to do. I consider Faber one of the most innovative strategists in the business today, and I found his research on shareholder yield to be compelling enough to make the Cambria Shareholder Yield ETF (SYLD) a core, long-term holding in multiple ETF portfolios I manage. (For readers unfamiliar with the term, "shareholder yield" is a holistic measure of shareholder friendliness that includes dividends paid, shares repurchased, and debt repaid.)Faber's latest book, Global Value: How to Spot Bubbles, Avoid Market Crashes, and Earn Big Returns in the Stock Market, provides the research underpinnings for Cambria's latest ETF offering, the Cambria Global Value ETF (GVAL).Faber is a "quant" who ignores the news of the day and instead focuses on the raw numbers. At its core, Global Value is a roadmap for implementing the value investing concepts originally espoused ! by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd in their 1934 classic Security Analysis in a systematic, quantitative manner.Specifically, Faber uses the cyclically-adjusted price/earnings ratio ("CAPE"), a metric popularized by Yale economist Robert Shiller, as a valuation tool to rank countries. In Faber's model, an investor buys the stocks of the cheapest countries as ranked by the CAPE.The CAPE divides the current market price by the average of annual earnings across the economic cycle, with 10 years being the most popular time interval.Why? Because using a single year's earnings can massively skew the results based on where you are in the economic cycle. As an example, a collapse in earnings in 2008-2009 would have made the S&P 500 look expensive had you used a simple P/E calculation with 2008 earnings numbers, even thou gh the market had los

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