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Financial Market Round-Up – Jul’23

Truemind Capital

The recent rally in the market has made the valuations more expensive compared to historical standards. However, heightened valuations do not provide comfort in replicating higher returns of the past in the medium term. Valuations across all sectors do not offer any margin of safety.

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Four Hard Investing Lessons From 2022 With Silver Linings

Validea

But investors may still want to consider layering in various other asset classes to help protect from this unexpected risk in the future. While some of that outperformance was due to improving fundamentals and earnings, most of it the returns came from the valuation investors assigned to these stocks. Source: [link]. Tool: [link].

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Markets surge despite continued uncertainty

Nationwide Financial

This either sets the stage for upward revisions as pessimism eases or suggests the S&P 500 has gotten ahead of itself, with a valuation of 18x forward earnings. Pessimists argue about still elevated inflation, tightening financial conditions, the risk to earnings estimates, and rising valuations. The rig count in the U.S.

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Private Credit Outshines Many High-Valuation Stocks, Bonds

Brown Advisory

Private Credit Outshines Many High-Valuation Stocks, Bonds. With interest rates at record lows and many publicly traded bonds and stocks approaching historically high valuations, private credit has become increasingly attractive to investors because of its total return prospects, steady income and role in diversification.

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Looking at the Rise of Money Losing Companies

Validea

Two weeks ago, I wrote an article where I looked at the valuation of the median stock and how it has changed over time. 12/31/2014 2.3% 12/31/2014 46.0% And with intangible assets rising in the economy, standard earnings calculations are becoming less and less accurate. By Jack Forehand, CFA, CFP® ( @practicalquant ) —.

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March Madness: Final Four Investing Bracket 2024

Dear Mr. Market

We break down and assign each of the four “regions” with an asset class and then pick teams (stocks) that we think have the best chance at doing well relative to others. That said, it loses early in round one simply due to us believing it’s close to full valuation and due for a breather.

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One of The Great Bubbles of Financial History

The Irrelevant Investor

2012- Jeremy Grantham Warns 2013 Will Be A Dangerous Year For Stocks 2013- Much of everything else is once again brutally overpriced 2014- Big stock bubble will end badly in 2016 2015- GMO founder Grantham says markets ‘ripe for major decline’ in 2016 Okay, you get the point. In Waiting For The Last Dance, Grantham sites the usual suspects.