Four Pillars of Today's Market
1. Liquidity
- The money supply has grown by 25% since March
- Stock usually go up in an environment like that
- When I say usually I mean 11 out of 10 times
- The Combination of fiscal and Monterey stimulus is like nothing we’ve ever seen
- Its worked, and worked well
2. Fed Action
- Interest rates are low and staying there for a long time
- The Fed & Treasury have back stopped the debt of most of the S&P 500
- Beyond stabilizing capital markets they have almost eliminated bankruptcy risk
- these factors combined will create much higher earnings multiples
3. The “Real Economy” is doing great (in context)
- This has recovered much quicker than even the rosiest of expectations
- We’ve recovered over 40% of jobs lost in just 3 months
- Survey Data exploding to the upside
- ISM Non-manufacturing survey sub component for new orders hit all time high
4. Earnings are surprising to upside
- Analysts are always too bullish
- In every quarter in both bear/bull markets Analysts estimates come down
- Somehow in this quarter forward estimates are increasing; up 2.4%
- Q1 2021 estimates are for up 13% YoY growth
- 2021 maybe best year of earnings growth ever