Over the past three months, the market has begun to focus more on fundamentals in North America. The four factors with the R-squared to the market have been three-month change in EPS and Sales and 1-month changed in EPS and sales (see table below).
Of all the knowledge leader industries, the Home Furnishing groups has the the highest change in one-month and three-month EPS. This group, however, is beginning to look a bit rich at 10x price to intangible-adjusted cash flow.