Sentences with phrase «low equity market valuations»

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Should listings become scarce, their valuations would climb, lowering the cost of capital raised on equity markets and attracting more companies back into the public sphere.

To the extent that lower Treasury yields are even weakly associated with higher equity valuations, recognize that this effect is also expressed over time as lower subsequent stock market returns.

Indeed, in the past, U.S. equity markets have been more resilient to tightening monetary conditions if valuations were flat or lower over the preceding 12 months.

When valuations move from elevated levels to historical lows over the span of several market cycles, the result is a «secular bear market» and headlines about the permanent death of equities.

Now, as many investors worry about a global growth slowdown, rising rates and higher volatility in U.S. equity markets, dividend growers offer potential opportunities due to their healthy balance sheets, as well as better valuations, and lower volatility.

A weaker U.S. dollar, too, has helped in recent months, as have lower, attractive valuations relative to developed - market equities.

Putting aside the performance of bonds during the bear market beginning in 1980 (both because the starting yields on Treasuries were so high but also because the bear market was relatively mild as the decline began from relatively low levels of valuation), what's interesting about the above chart is how dependably bonds protected a portfolio during equity bear markets.

We favor emerging market (EM) equities, given structural reforms, improving profitability and low valuations.

This chart shows the median (because it is less sensitive to outliers) and upper + lower quartiles of emerging market equity valuations across countries.

One of my favorite Twitter follows @LadyFOHF shared the below scatter chart from Morgan Stanley that attempted to map areas of the global market that were both cheap (valuation ranks at the lower end of its 10 - year history) and defensive (a low or negative correlation to global equities).

Stock markets are tumbling int he wake of the decision but given the recent strength in equities, in the face of the rising interest rate expectations, we don't expect a serious move lower after the decision, despite the valuation concerns.

The basis for this positioning was our view that international equities stood to benefit from a longer runway for economic growth, stronger corporate earnings, and lower valuations relative to the U.S. market.

One of the great anomalies of investing: The historical long - term outperformance of certain smart beta or factor - based strategies relative to the broader equity market (think choosing stocks based on their valuations, momentum, low volatility or quality metrics such as profitability).

Now, as many investors worry about a global growth slowdown, rising rates and higher volatility in U.S. equity markets, dividend growers offer potential opportunities due to their healthy balance sheets, as well as better valuations, and lower volatility.

Portfolio Manager Mark DeVaul discusses the strength of the U.S. consumer and shares his thoughts on current market valuations, explaining why he remains optimistic about U.S. equities in the current low interest rate environment.

Lower rates do not always and everywhere imply higher equity valuations — see Japan over the past 25 years — two bear markets of 60 % each in a ZIRP environment.

And I still prefer European equities: In my opinion, lower corporate margins, cheaper valuations, Europe's position (vs. the US) in the economic cycle, and the ECB's huge & still untapped firepower (vs. that of the Fed), all present a superior risk - reward proposition — in terms of market upside, and in terms of potential restructuring and M&A.

Moreover, the US stock market has also been on a multi-year run, which is inducing asset managers to speculate on the sustainability of current valuations across US capital markets.1 If a lower dividend yield is associated with expensive equities, then a lower bond yield should indicate expensive Treasuries.

Putting aside the performance of bonds during the bear market beginning in 1980 (both because the starting yields on Treasuries were so high but also because the bear market was relatively mild as the decline began from relatively low levels of valuation), what's interesting about the above chart is how dependably bonds protected a portfolio during equity bear markets.

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The outcome is so binary, in hindsight an equity valuation will be far too low, or high... I often notice that the market / investors can ignore debt for long periods of time — i.e. they value a company almost exactly like its debt free peer.

In my opinion, to justify current equity valuations and experience further gains, stock investors need perpetually low interest rates and a stable bond market.

When market valuations are high the value investor should lower risk by decreasing portfolio allocation to equities.

When market valuations are low the value investor should take advantage of the improved probability of higher prices by increasing portfolio allocation to equities.

• Looking at individual markets again, we see that the most attractive markets are generally the crisis - ridden European equity markets and in particular Greece which currently has such low valuations that real returns over the next five years could come close to 100 %.

Meanwhile, David looks at the lower interest rate component without specifically considering the high stock market valuation component (his capital market expectations are described in Appendix 1, and his stock returns are not related to past stock returns), and he concludes that declining equity glidepaths are best.