TGIF – The Worst First Half in 50 Years is Finally Over
Down 21%.
That’s where we have left off the first half of the year and that is actually worse than the first half of 2008 or 2009 or 2000 or 1987 or any other crappy year you can remember since Nixon. Of course it’s human nature to extrapolate and imagine we will go down another 40% but we discussed how unlikely that would be last week, when the market was a bit lower than it is now and it’s still unlikely – but you can’t stop people from panicking – so it is possible, just not likely.
When the World was shut down from Covid our economy was down 25% ($5Tn) and that 25% was made up for in stimulus – so it didn’t LOOK like we were down 25% – BUT WE STILL WERE. Now we have no stimulus but we are not shut down so reality is somewhere BETWEEN -25% and almost certainly not 100% which means 21% off the top is probably the bottom of the likely range.
Of course, Corporate Profits do not completely correlate with GDP and Inflation throws a wrench in the works as well but, more importantly, the market was giving excessive multiples to earnings, which means the indexes are likely to over-corrrect BUT that also means that we can pick individual stocks that are getting dragged down with the indexes for no good reason.
Micron (MU) for example, is down 5% last night after beating on earnings but lowering guidance. HOWEVER, the lowered guidance is for making $7.50 per share in 2023 and $8.65 per share in 2024 yet the stock is falling from $55 to $52.50 this morning because the algos that run the market only hear “lower guidance” and don’t stop and do the math that it’s being lowered to what is effectively a p/e of 7.
Micron is a debt-free company with a $60Bn market cap that will make over $20Bn (33%) in the next two years. If it were a start-up, people would be throwing money at it. Instead it is trading like they are going bankrupt. As I said, you can’t stop traders from panicking – it’s their default setting so we don’t pick a bottom – we just INVEST in MU on the way down, improving our position and accumulating…
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your wrong–when you have the worst in 50 years it means it is all going to fall apart as it did after 1970’72–you must be too young,dum to remember that…