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Is The Stock Market Overvalued?
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Markets are breaking records. Public equities are outperforming. And individual investors are driving it all. It’s officially the rise of the retail investor.
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To investors,
It seems like every day someone is sounding the alarm that the US stock market is overvalued. The most recent example was Apollo’s Torsten Slok who shared this chart that takes the S&P 500’s trend from 2023 to today and overlays it with the trend from 1996 to the dot com bust in 2000.
Does the two trends look visually the same? Absolutely. Does that mean history will repeat? No one knows, so we have to dig deeper into the data.
Another area of concern comes from Wisdom Tree’s Jeff Weniger who points out “The S&P 100 now has 27.2% of its total value in stocks that have a P/E of at least 50. There is only one company that has a P/E below 10.”
Is that a crazy data point? Absolutely. Think about it…more than 1 out of every 4 companies in the S&P 100 have a P/E above 50 and 2 out of every 3 companies have a P/E ratio above 30.
Not exactly normal.
But there are positive parts of the market that are not normal too. For example, Mike Zaccardi shows this graph from Wei Li at Blackrock, which highlights that the Mag 7 has actually become cheaper so far this year.
That isn’t supposed to happen in a bubble! And it definitely is not supposed to happen when the Mag 7 is driving so much of the S&P 500 return or when China, Japan, UK, US, and emerging markets are all getting more expensive on a valuation basis.
Remember, big tech is destroying small caps in performance year-to-date.
So what is driving this ridiculous growth? Well, there are many factors but retail investors are a big part of the story. Goldman says these individual self-directed investors are now buying more that $3 billion of tech stocks on a daily basis, which is the highest measurement in history.
Before you mock and ridicule the retail investor, remember they were buying the dip in April and May when Wall Street was predicting doom and gloom. Retail made a killing in the historic market recovery that happened in the last few months, so they aren’t exactly idiots.
And if you needed further proof of retail invest
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