The stock market is driven by two key variables: the earnings estimates of industry analysts and the valuation multiple that investors are will to pay for those expectations. These QuickTakes monitor the latest developments relevant to stock investors.
The air continued to come out of stock valuation multiples this past week. It has mostly been coming out of the S&P 500 Growth index’s MegaCap-8—i.e., Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Netflix, Nvidia, and Tesla. Consider the following:…
“Ugly” is the only way to describe today’s stock market selloff. The S&P 500 is down 13.5% ytd since it set a record high on January 3. So it’s still in correction territory. It dropped 3.6% today, but that was after a 3.0% jump the day before.…
While industry analysts are still raising their earnings estimates for this year and next year, investors continue to take the air out of valuation multiples.…