Uncertain Valuations Cool Real Estate M&A Activity
Wealth Management
JUNE 12, 2023
After a surge of mergers and acquisitions in the real estate space in 2022, the pace of deals has slowed amid disruptions in property pricing.
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Wealth Management
JUNE 12, 2023
After a surge of mergers and acquisitions in the real estate space in 2022, the pace of deals has slowed amid disruptions in property pricing.
Wealth Management
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Multiple publications look at the impact of rising interest rates on various aspects of the commercial real estate business, including debt availability and office valuations. Apartment evictions are back on a grand scale as federal emergency measures have run out, reports Bisnow.
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The Big Picture
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Dividends come from earnings, and so those are sort of anchors to valuation. Jeremy Schwartz : And basically said that there’s huge Tech stocks, triple-digit PEs, you can never justify the valuations no matter what the growth rates are. Present value of future cash flows, any asset is present value of future cash flows.
Nerd's Eye View
JUNE 27, 2023
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Advisor Perspectives
JANUARY 6, 2023
Our monthly market valuation updates have long had the same conclusion: US stock indexes are significantly overvalued, which suggests cautious expectations on investment returns. As of December 30, 2022, it was at 3.88%. On August 4, 2020, the 10-year Treasury yield hit its all-time low of 0.52%.
The Big Picture
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She observes it is less about the things investors tend to focus on — “technical analysis, geopolitics, behavioral finance and even skirt hemline trends” — and more about specific measures she tracks in sentiment, valuation, macro-economic areas. The table above shows the major market peaks going back to 1990.
Carson Wealth
JULY 27, 2022
Valuations Could Move to a More Normal Range . The decline in the equity market pushed valuations down to levels in line with the period between 2015 and 2020. While uncertainty is a bigger challenge to markets, valuations could rise if other factors move in the right direction. . Q3 2022’s Five Big Risks.
Validea
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The Big Picture
JUNE 2, 2023
Fair Value : Valuation of equities is one of those things that seems to confuse so many. Earnings are a fact, analysts’ earnings estimates are an opinion. If a company’s earnings are above or below consensus, it was the analysts who got it wrong and not vice versa.
Abnormal Returns
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wsj.com) The periodic table of commodity returns for 2022. allstarcharts.com) Why 2022 was an unusually bad year for the 60/40 portfolio. institutionalinvestor.com) Startup valuations trended down in the second half of 2022. in December 2022. (tker.co) Commodities Why orange juice prices are soaring.
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Sentiment from corporate leaders that have reported so far has been cautious, as is to be expected, which has led to a reduction in the 2022 consensus estimate for S&P earnings per share by about 0.8% [Figure 3] since June quarter-end companies began reporting in mid-July. That forecast is still about $3 below the consensus estimate.
Advisor Perspectives
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
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Mish Talk
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Nerd's Eye View
JANUARY 3, 2024
Since the Fed started raising rates in March 2022, job growth has steadily slowed; continuing claims for unemployment hit a 2-year high; the average work week is getting shorter; and job openings, 'quit rates', and wage growth for job switchers have all been falling.
Advisor Perspectives
DECEMBER 19, 2022
However, the outlook is more balanced given that equity valuations are much lower and bond yields much higher. The economic tea leaves suggest that 2023 could be another challenging year for both stocks and bonds.
Mish Talk
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
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Advisor Perspectives
JANUARY 3, 2023
Quick take: Based on the December S&P 500 average of daily closes, the Crestmont P/E is 115% above its arithmetic mean and at the 97th percentile of this fourteen-plus-decade monthly metric.
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It is a financial ratio used for valuation: a higher PE ratio means that investors are paying more for each unit of net income, so the stock is more expensive compared to one with lower PE ratio. It is also a major component used to calculate the price-to-earnings valuation ratio. All index data from FactSet.
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Mish Talk
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Chief Futurist On September 7, 2022, Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management named its first “ chief futurist ", Brett Winton. ARK is predicting the valuation of Tesla will exceed the entire US real GDP by the early 2030s. What a hoot. What About Tesla? Tesla TSLA weekly chart courtesy of StockCharts.Com, annotations by Mish.
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