The escalating military conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran is creating significant disruptions across global financial markets, with immediate impacts on equities, commodities, currencies, and safe-haven assets.
In light of this, JP Morgan’s trading desk named consumer, airlines and cruise lines stocks as “conflict laggards”. Below is a list ranked according to Seeking Alpha’s Quant Ratings, with all featured stocks carrying a Strong Sell designation.
Lucid Group (LCID) and Duolingo (DUOL) share the lowest ratings on the list, each with a Quant Rating of 1.04. Sweetgreen (SG) and Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM) follow closely behind. The list spans multiple sectors, including automobile manufacturers, education services, restaurants and household appliances.
Seeking Alpha’s Quant Ratings system evaluates stocks based on their relative performance across critical quantitative measures, including valuation, growth, stock momentum and profitability. Ratings are given on a scale from 1 to 5, with any rating of 3.5 or above considered bullish and any rating of 2.5 or below considered bearish.
Here is the list:
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Lucid Group (LCID), Quant Rating: 1.04
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Duolingo (DUOL), Quant Rating: 1.04
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Sweetgreen (SG), Quant Rating: 1.18
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Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM), Quant Rating: 1.25
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RH (RH), Quant Rating: 1.28
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First Watch Restaurant Group (FWRG), Quant Rating: 1.29
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Portillo’s (PTLO), Quant Rating: 1.31
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Helen of Troy (HELE), Quant Rating: 1.34
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Sabre (SABR), Quant Rating: 1.35
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Kodiak AI (KDK), Quant Rating: 1.35
Airline ETF: (JETS)
Consumer Discretionary ETFs: (XLY), (VCR), (FXD), (FDIS), (RSPD), and (RXI)