3 ETFs Well-Positioned to Benefit From Labor Day Weekend Travel

Labor Day travel is heating up despite higher gas prices. Here are three ETFs positioned to benefit from strong holiday travel demand.

Zacks Investment Research • Sep 4, 2026

Q2 2026 U.S. Retail Preview: Broadline Retail Drives Growth

The U.S. consumer remains resilient enough to support earnings growth, but that resilience is increasingly concentrated. The LSEG U.S. Retail and Restaurant Q2 earnings index, which tracks changes in the growth rate of earnings within the sector, is expected to show a 67.0% growth over last year's levels. Of the 185 retailers tracked by LSEG, the Broadline Retail sector, representing a wide variety of consumer goods, is headed for the highest earnings growth rate in the second quarter, recording a 231.1% surge over last year's level.

Seeking Alpha • Aug 17, 2026

Why Investors Shouldn't Count Out Consumer Stocks

Consumer spending has held up well despite economic headwinds. The state of inflation and the labor market will be key to watch.

Seeking Alpha • Jul 9, 2026

Mid-Year 2026 U.S. Retail/Restaurant Outlook

The LSEG Retail/Restaurant Index reported Q1 2026 earnings growth of 27.2%. Retail earnings in the first quarter of 2026 received a significant boost from a historic tax refund season, reinforcing consumer spending at a time when the labor market remained resilient. Q2 2026 earnings are currently expected to mark the weakest growth rate of the year, with consensus forecasts calling for a gradual improvement during the second half of the year.

Seeking Alpha • Jul 7, 2026

ETFs to Consider as Consumer Sentiment Improves in July

Consumer sentiment hits a five-month high in July. XLY, VCR, PEZ and RTH ETFs stand to benefit from the upbeat outlook.

Zacks Investment Research • Jul 21, 2025

PEZ: Momentum Factor Not Enough For Volatile Consumer Cyclical Stocks

PEZ follows a proprietary strategy to identify at least 30 U.S. Consumer Cyclical stocks with strong intermediate and long-term price momentum. Its expense ratio is 0.60%. The ETF's long-term track record and current fundamentals highly suggest that the momentum factor alone is insufficient for investing in this sector. Though PEZ's components currently have an excellent 24% estimated earnings growth rate, it's also extremely risky based on its beta, P/E, and quality characteristics.

Seeking Alpha • Jul 8, 2025

Selected ETFs To Watch In 2025

Following on last week's top 10 list, this week's blog focuses on ETFs related to the stocks in the list. For this week, we then screened for ETFs that contained each stock that were also rated 5 (Strong Buy), focusing on the ETF that held the stock in the greatest percentage, then traveling down the lists of ETFs that held it until we found one rated 5. This resulted in a list of Strong Buy 5 rated ETFs that held at least one Strong Buy 5 rated stock as a major holding.

Seeking Alpha • Feb 1, 2025

Best-Performing ETF Areas of Past Week

Wall Street was upbeat last week on Fed rate cut hopes.

Zacks Investment Research • Aug 27, 2024

U.S. Retail Earnings Update - August 13, 2024

To date, 145 of the 199 companies in our Retail/Restaurant Index have reported their EPS results for Q2 2024, representing 73% of the index. The blended revenue growth estimate for the 199 companies in this index is 3.5% for Q2 2024. Home Depot reported better-than-expected Q2 earnings and revenue.

Seeking Alpha • Aug 14, 2024

5 Best Investing Areas of Q4 & Their Top ETFs

Wall Street is ending the fourth quarter on a sweet note. After a Downbeat October 2023, stocks surged in November and December on the hopes of Fed rate cuts in 2024.

Zacks Investment Research • Dec 28, 2023