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As we move into 2024, it looks like expectations have been reset, with most forecasters now expecting the economy to glide in for a soft landing and interest rates to decline, and while that may seem like good news, it will represent a challenge for equity market investors.
Beta & Risk 1. Equity RiskPremiums 2. I also have implied equity riskpremiums (forward-looking and dynamic estimate of what investors are pricing stocks to earn in the future) for the S&P 500 going back annually to 1960 and monthly to 2008, and equity riskpremiums for countries. Buybacks 2.
The premium that investors demand over and above the risk free rate is the equity riskpremium , and practitioners in finance have wrestled with how best to estimate that number, since it is not easily observable (unlike the expected return on a bond which manifests as a current market interest rate).
In my last three posts, I looked at the macro (equity riskpremiums, default spreads, risk free rates) and micro (company risk measures) that feed into the expected returns we demand on investments, and argued that these expected returns become hurdle rates for businesses, in the form of costs of equity and capital.
As we start 2024, the interest rate prognosticators who misread the bond markets so badly in 2023 are back to making their 2024 forecasts, and they show no evidence of having learned any lessons from the last year.
Price of Risk The drop in stock and bond prices in the third quarter of 2023 can partly be attributed to rising interest rates, but how much of that drop is due to the price of risk changing? below the actual index level of 4288, making it close to fairly valued. below the index value of 4288, confirming my base case conclusion.
When valuing or analyzing a company, I find myself looking for and using macro data (riskpremiums, default spreads, tax rates) and industry-level data on profitability, risk and leverage. I do report on a few market-wide data items especially on riskpremiums for both equity and debt. Debt breakdown 2.
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Finally, my starting cost of capital of 10.15% reflects the reality that the riskfree rate and equity riskpremiums have risen over 2022, and my ending number of 9% is an indication that I expect Tesla to become less risky over time.
In short, if you don't like betas and have disdain for modern portfolio theory, your choice should not be to abandon risk measurement all together, but to come up with an alternative risk measure that is more in sync with your view of the world.
After the 2008 market crisis, I resolved that I would be far more organized in my assessments and updating of equity riskpremiums, in the United States and abroad, as I looked at the damage that can be inflicted on intrinsic value by significant shifts in riskpremiums, i.e., my definition of a crisis.
In my last post , I noted that the US has extended its dominance of global equities in recent years, increasing its share of market capitalization from 42% in at the start of 2023 to 44% at the start of 2024 to 49% at the start of 2025.
In the language of risk, they are demanding higher prices for risk, translating into higher riskpremiums. Those equity riskpremiums did not get back to pre-2008 levels until almost 15 years later. trillion) were close in percentage terms to the losses in the rest of the market.
Thus, as you peruse my historical data on implied equity riskpremiums or PE ratios for the S&P 500 over time, you may be tempted to compute averages and use them in your investment strategies, or use my industry averages for debt ratios and pricing multiples as the target for every company in the peer group, but you should hold back.
In the first five posts, I have looked at the macro numbers that drive global markets, from interest rates to riskpremiums, but it is not my preferred habitat. The second set of inputs are prices of risk, in both the equity and debt markets, with the former measured by equity riskpremiums , and the latter by default spreads.
We started 2024 with the consensus wisdom that rates would drop during the year, driven by expectations of rate cuts from the Fed. In this post, I will begin by looking at movements in treasury rates, across maturities, during 2024, and the resultant shifts in yield curves.
A little over a year later, in September 2024, that question about AI seemed to have been answered in the affirmative, for most investors, and I posted again after Nvidia had a disappointing earnings report , arguing that it reflected a healthy scaling down of expectations.
With the peso stabilized, inflation reached 117% in December 2024, down from 292% from the years high in April, and the use of the dollar is expected to increase, including for day-to-day transactions. This may allow the country to reduce the riskpremium attached to its international borrowing. However, there are pros and cons.
14] Investment Company Institute, 2024 Investment Company Fact Book , at 22-23. [15] 17] See [link] (showing the United States has among the lowest equity riskpremiums in the world); Luzi Hail and Christian Leuz, International Differences in the Cost of Equity Capital: Do Legal Institutions and Securities Regulation Matter?,
NYU Business School Professor Damoradans widely used valuation data, for example, currently shows the United States as having among the lowest equity riskpremiums in the world. [3] capital markets have grown ever larger over time, currently representing over $62 trillion in equity market capitalization up $11 trillion in 2024 alone.
In this post, I will expand my analysis of data in 2024, which has a been mostly US-centric in the first four of my posts, and use that data to take you on my version of the Disney ride, but on this trip, I have no choice but to face the world as is, with all of the chaos it includes, with tariffs and trade wars looming.
Measuring the Debt Burden With that tradeoff in place, we are ready to examine how it played out in 2024, by looking at how much companies around the world borrowed to fund their operations. to3.5%) during the year.
Thus, my estimates of equity riskpremiums, updated every month, are not designed to make big statements about markets but more to get inputs I need to value companies. Not only does the world tilt more authoritarian than democratic in 2024, the trend line indicates that the world is becoming less democratic over time.
Global Finance: What surprised you in 2024? There are certain sectors that we think are offering better risk/reward. So, credit spreads have gotten so tight and so compressed that there’s not much of a cyclical riskpremium. In investment grade bonds, we’re now at spreads of 80 basis points.
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