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New york--(business wire)--vaneck announced today the 2023 annual distributions per share for its vaneck® equity exchange-traded funds.

To be clear, that headline doesn't imply junk stocks or those with dubious traits, but rather shares of waste management companies. Indeed, that's an overlooked segment of the market, but one with opportunity for value investors and those looking for leverage to sustainability.

EVX is an ETF that tracks the performance of companies with operations in environmental services. Growing awareness of environmental sustainability provides new opportunities for this fund.

EVX is an ETF targeting a defensive corner of the market, namely environmental services players principally from the industrials and materials sectors. EVX has slightly outperformed IVV this year, with alpha also delivered since its inception in 2006.

The manufacturing sector continues to be plagued by supply chain problems while demand is weakening. A post-pandemic reshuffle is in the making, with demand weakening and supply becoming less disrupted.

In recent weeks, recession speculation has intensified, and as a result, more analysts and experts are offering up equity and exchange traded fund ideas that could prove durable if economic contraction sets in. Predictably, many equity-based, recession-buffering ideas are defensive.

Landfill management and trash hauling aren't glamorous endeavors, and as such, investors often gloss over opportunities in this space. Think about all the thematic exchange traded funds on the market today.

3 Waste Services Stocks in Long-Term Bull Trends

In the essence of keeping it real, second-quarter earnings will probably be ugly for many sectors and industries because the U.S. economy crawled to a standstill for all of April and a significant portion of May.Now, another wave of coronavirus cases is sweeping across the country, hammering some large, economically important states, such as California and Texas. With just days left in the quarter, there's not much time for analysts to further pare earnings estimates. However, there are some sources of strength among exchange-traded funds."Although the vast majority of ETFs--both domestic and internationally-focused funds--continue to see earnings forecasts decline as a result of the shutdown-induced recession, there are a few bright areas," said the ETF Research Center (ETFRC) in a recent note...

We are still in an overall bull market and many stocks that smart money investors were piling into surged through the end of November. Among them, Facebook and Microsoft ranked among the top 3 picks and these stocks gained 54% and 51% respectively. Hedge funds' top 3 stock picks returned 41.7% this year and beat […]