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GMO Quarterly Review: "U.S. Small Cap Stocks Are Now As Expensive As We Have Ever Seen Them"
From GMO's latest quarterly review:
From a strategic perspective, the current overpriced environment makes asset allocation decisions neither simple nor comfortable. Having established that we are once again in a world of narrow risk premiums, it is not hard to look back at history and pinpoint times where current valuations led to steep falls in prices. The problem, of course, is that we can also find previous episodes where markets continued to rally, albeit still delivering poor longer-term returns. This stark choice is made even more bleak by the dearth of safe assets offering reasonable returns to hold while sitting out the ongoing stock market levitation. As a result, we are forced to hold more equities than we would prefer at these absolute valuations for the simple reason that we could be in for a long sideways grind where growth eventually closes the valuation gap. In that scenario, real equity returns will likely be meager, but at least positive. One group that we refuse to hold, however, is global small cap stocks and, in particular, U.S. small caps. On our data, U.S. small cap stocks are now as expensive as we have ever seen them. Perhaps more surprising still is the deafening silence about this distinctly frothy group. Although the S&P 500 price index is still some way below its all-time high, U.S. small caps are within spitting distance of theirs: a high that was last reached with a booming global economy, strong employment, and a debt-driven consumption binge in full swing.
All this and much more in the full thing:
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Dont BTF small cap D.
Come on silver!!!
Give me a dip to $45 'cause you're going to $60 after that without looking back.
BTFD on silver not small cap crap.
And they weren't in 09? News?
And what exactly bumped the market up so much in the last 20 mins??
Bernank's finger?
would you believe: ...short covering...?
the usual combination of hopium and fraud with a dash or larceny tossed in for flavor.
just imagine how expensive those small caps will be when the $DXY breaks below 70...which at the current pace should be sometime next week.
but then again...everything will be far more expensive...
What ever happened to Nic Lenoir? Is he under a bridge these days?
Chairsatan 2000, bitchez. There is no other explanation. I wonder when it surpasses its all time high, any day now, if CNBC will carry on about it hitting "new records" and "Bubble" speak, etc.
I suppose we shouldn't hold our breath, eh?
In hyperinflation, small cap should outperform. No cash to discount. High debt to equity ratios. High beta. This is in fact the area you want to hold.
Ahh... debt is king... yeah...
You can hold them all you like, Im not sitting on the pile of high explosive stock markets myself, PM's, guns ammo etc for me.
you are one of the best market timers i have ever read. and i'm being serious when i say that.
What's the point of buying a gun if you ain't gonna shoot it? And I'm serious.
get your affairs in order, write a short note, and go point it at some cops? & i'm not serious.
Go pro bono w your defense too.
What's the point of buying gold if you plan to sell it?
You building a gold-plated coffin?
Everyone sells . . .eventually.
yes clearly small cap companies should most easily be able the deal with astronomically rising costs? Really?
"In hyperinflation, small cap should outperform. No cash to discount. High debt to equity ratios. High beta. This is in fact the area you want to hold."
This is total bollocks. In hyperinflation, small caps get screwed by the big guys delaying payment or asking for quicker settlement of bills. Add to this, banks deny credit to smaller firms. Please look at real examples of hyperinflation to see what happens, rather than going with the theories of corporate finance...
Look at this disgusting fraud, DOW almost breaking over 13,000, while the country wallows in the mire....cant anyone stop these maniacs? I guess at the end its all the same as before, millions, or billions this time, must die to protect the vast riches of a very few.
The leeches will just laugh at the piles of bodies of starving poor and pensioners
did you catch that nifty little hat trick just after the bell? /ES spiked for a 4 point gain to a new HOD while Silver got shanked to a new LOD. Nothing to see here people...move along...
Its beyond fraud more like genocide now Dog... i still love silver for some reason though
and we will know Monday if the "rumor of another margin rate increase in silver" is true. My question is "does the head of the CFTC actually know how much silver is in the vaults?" and my follow up question to all of you is "if you have tons of silver do you raise margin rates or keep them at say 10%" and in the obverse "if you have onces silver do you raise margin rates to 100% or just 90?"
Sour grapes. He bet a mountain of large cap crap. Fucking loser. I don't give a shit how "elegant" he thinks he writes either.
The public knows that large caps are run by criminals like Immelt and Dimon and that the big cap game is rigged for the insiders. Huge bailouts for the inner circle thank you. No transparancy from these scumbags that nearly brought down modern society.
value is relative. expensive compared to what? surely not against gold/silver/oil.
TZA
just wait until June, that is going to take off like a rocket.
RWN is one of my top picks for when Bernanke stops the printing presses in June, even if it is temporary, these stocks are going to crater.
The new yield curve. Large Cap/vs Small Cap!!!!
Micro cap/ vs nano cap.
Want you to love me one day
I know I'm a peasant dressed as a princess
That doesn't mean you have to take my clothes away.