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JPMorgan Reveals That Stocks Are More Expensive Now Than At Their 2007 Peak
As we warned was likely to happen back in February of 2013 (given the typical trajectory of earnings expectations through a year), JP Morgan has confirmed that the S&P 500 is now more expensive on a forward P/E basis than it was at its peak in October 2007. So, despite the self-referential bias of each and every talking head asset-gatherer on mainstream media's denial, stocks do not offer value here... no matter how many TINAs or BTFATHs you hear...
At 15.4x NTM earnings, the S&P 500 is now 0.2x turns more expensive than at its peak in October 2007
Furthermore, on a Price-to-Book, Price-to-Cash-Flow, and Price-to-Sales basis, the S&P 500 is also well above its average valuation levels...
Still think we can grow into more multiple expansion... then you better hope for an unprecedented rise in confidence...
So, are stocks cheap?
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ya think? duh!
"Expensive" is a relative term. If your REAL cost basis is ZERO as it is for Ben and Janet, they are no more expensive now than at any other time. A point not well understood.
Millions of Americans have lost their unemployment benifits.....one would assume that will free up more time for them to buy equities.
... or shop for healthcare.
Or take out loans they will never be able to pay back.
Billionaires quitely dump US Stocks...
http://www.moneynews.com/MKTNews/billionaires-dump-economist-stock/2012/...
Everything is cheap when you are using fake money.
you are the expert
+1 Lol... Fonestar is to bitcoin what DcFusor is to the Chevy Dolt.
Are you speaking of Bitcoin? I would say Bitcoin is some of the most honest and most real money available. It's limited in supply, requires energy to produce and is not controlled by any single entity.
blah blah blah
Good point Dogbreath.
He's right you know.
If BitCoin is so limited in supply how exactly did it come to exist out of nothing? What's to stop a million BTC clones from coming and saturating the digital currency markets? I like BitCoin fine, but for what it is, not for what it isn't, and it isn't gold.
The fact that JPM is now calling out the market as the farce that it is means they are posturing. The inevitable crash is coming, and they will be able to say that they tried to warn us, they have our best interests at heart, and we should give them more money because they are so benevolent.
TINA? This Is Not 'appening?
TINA's got a big ole butt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84LUpG6ieis
It took them this long to come to this realization about valuations ? Then Gold must be really really expensive based on their "fundamentals" ??
Chinese slowly discover there's something out there better then buying all the overpriced Kalifornia houses:
China embraces 'Breaking Bad'? Three tons of crystal meth seized in villagehttp://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2014/01/03/22159681-china-embraces-br...
OK boys do we have all our shorts locked in? Release the Kraken!
Is silver cheaper JPM???? Tell me u Fuckers...
Valuations....LOl....that's almost as funny as technicals.
Indeed, an asset's only valuation is what someone is willing to pay for it and the Fed's proxies will buy equities at any price.
It is different this time. Seriously, with the Fed in hook, line and soon enough sinker it actually is different.
Not saying they can prevent another panic, but they can start buying equities, REIT's, corporate debt etc. right out in the open. The true buyer of last resort. While doing so assures the mother of all crashes, it also assures that the 'market' can, and probably will, go higher.....if not from here, then from a lower point after a correction.
I agree 100%. It's been my contention that we will eventually get to the point where the fed is buying anything it can get it's grubby mits on, just like Japan. That's is why when people say there is collateral left for the fed to buy, I have to challenge that statement. There is plenty of crappy collateral for the fed to purchase. After all their cost basis for printing money is zero.
And therein lies the permanent damage right Doc? The more the FED buys, the higher prices go, the more diluted real collaterall becomes. I posted a few days ago that Keynesians don't believe that the Cantillon effect (He who spends it first spends it best) is relevant in Fisher's languishing "v" environment. But it is totally relevant in the context of available collateral. For if money printed out of thin air isn't worth anything, given ZIRP, then neither is the price effect on available collateral. The exchange value of available collateral hasn't changed, only its nominal price!
The fact that Fisher's "v" is dormant does not make the Cantillon effect any less significant, rather it just speaks to the level of poverty (debt) the majority of people and government find themselves. The longer this dislocation of capital continues to be used for primarily unproductive (speculative) purposes, the greater the deleterious effects that will be realized when there is no productive capital left to be found. The illusion of free money demarcated by 0% interest rates manifests itself in the greater permanent and very real damage of universal unaffordability for anything (collateral) of real value. I reiterate what James Grant said earlier in December -"The FED can change what things look like, but the FED can never change what things are."
Let me condense this for you.
Central Banks destroy the VALUE of currency. People no longer know what a dollar's "worth" is nor a Yen nor a Euro (or Turkish Lira, Venezuelan Bolivar...) As a side benefit to the banksters they also try to destroy the value of asset classes like precious metals. Unfortunately for the CBers 2 billion people in Asia have learned about how this game is played over the centuries and are dropping paper money for gold and silver.
Exactly. But... since there is no free lunch, where does the purchasing power of the newly printed money come from? From you and me and anyone who holds cash or cash equivalents, through currency debasement.
Your future kids are happily chipping in too.
I would add your grandkids, and several more generations down the line.
Zactly.
Sorry to be a pain gentlemen but do you mean that the primary dealers will be buying?
As differentiated from the federal reserve banks buying equities directly?
Just wondering.
The primary dealers are buying now, the fed will be in the future. It's inevitable. Technically the fed can't right now, but that doesn't mean anything in an environment where corruption rules.
technically the FED can't bai out foreign owned banks nor support the Euro but then, what's a currency swap for anyway?
Chigorin vs Steinitz, 1892
32. Bd6-b4??
They are fucking themselves. No way this ends good.
Ben inflates the P, not the E
edit: All they have to do is increase their expectations of Forward Earnings...
exactly, legalized accounting fraud takes care of the E
The plan from the central bankers going forward is to stay high all the time to keep reality off their mind. The tops have no end. Starfleet Captain Alexander is lonely.
With Prop Trading getting neutered, these kind of reports no confuse me as to the accuracy
Not to worry, TWTR is still cheap.
Both numbers in the P/E calculation are currently bullshit so the only thing to do is sit on the sidelines with your popcorn.
That is one big KA- that we are seeing right now. Can't wait for the fireworks when it finally goes BOOM!
Even the 15 year averages on the comp table include inflated valuations. So this is saying equities are overvalued relative to bubble valuations.
it all depends on how much corporations can borrow so they can buy back shares ...
Home Depot, Darling of the DOW, earned 5.838 billion in 2005, and traded at a high of $44
Home Depot, Darling of the DOW, earned 5.330 billion(est) in 2013 and traded at a high of $82.57 last week.
When will then actually start earning MORE money?
Edit:
Current profit per share -total debt per share 2005: 1.46
Current profit per share -total debt per share 2013: -6.78
Go fuck yourself JPM - fucking rodents
Yes but the rodent wears presidential cufflinks and IS RICHER THAN YOU!
LOL, "JPM Rodents" Shot through the heart and your to blame, you give Rats a bad name.
LET'S PLAY A GAME! It's called Identify the Bubble!
Which of those stock market bubbles in that first chart is NOT considered by Wall St to be a bubble today?
Hint: It's the BIGGEST one!
Hint #2: It's the CURRENT one!
And take note: The last three stock market declines dropped to about the level of 600. AT current prices, that represents a 2/3rds decline for stocks. Imagine the impact on all those retirement accounts!
Student loans
I really think that bubble is on a short timer. If I were a student debtor I would not work. Instead, I'd collect handouts from government, and get my payments set up to $0/mo because of lack of income after basic living expenses.
Regardless, most people won't be able to repay their loans, including too many people I know. What a pity so many of them don't realize it.
I'm shocked! SHOCKED I tell you!
Meanwhile; the one day bear market is over and we have resumed our parabolic trajectory upwards, BTFATH bitches!
STFP..EOM
I never found equities to be very expensive in 2007 actually. I found monetary policy to be coercive at best...downright criminal at worst. If there was no housing bubble why invert the yield curve for 18 months? In any case "it had the desired effect" of blowing up all of Wall Street and bursting probably the biggest debt speculation in history...but Wall Street is not "business" or a "p/e" actually...but just that...a business. I think understanding this goes a long way towards understanding why the recovery in equities has been so strong...first off replacing Greenspan with someone who had an understanding of how serious a problem Wall Street is to business and then instituting policies that insulated the economy to the greatest extent possible from "the wildings" that threatened a business and consumer recovery. Wince industry was already working on numerous projects "in house" to take advantage of dramatic changes in the global business landscape (shift to natural gas as the primary fuel, solar tech as an energy driver, three dimensional printing and rapid prototyping as a revolutionary new production system, the build out of a cloud computing space, continued revolutionary product launches like the I-phone, the Model S, Space X, plus changes in consumer taste with the Obama election) and I think you have a powerful and far more "understandable" reason for why business has done spectacularly well under this monetary regime. In short there really weren't a lot of forced asset sales as the dollar tanked and banking simply became nothing more than cash hoarding and front running the Fed and the middle class was utterly obliterated.. normally this would be catastrophic but instead the cost of capital dramatically declined, bond issuance dramatically soared, the comparative advantage of many industries was greatly enhanced and this has now expanded into the economy as a whole as "something approximating a recovery" has taken hold. I agree these policies been a catastrophe for funding Government with no less than the ACA being a spectacular casualty. But this hasn't impinged "business" per se other than the fact that consumers have been decimated...and continue to be...in this so called recovery. it is more than ironic of course...a truly grand failure of public policy...as this is all occurring in the midst of one of the biggest economic booms in US history. to say the status quo has failed is an understatement.
18 month?
Are you sure? To me it looked more like 3-4 month.
Good memory Vet.
The inverted yield curve was in effect for prolonged period of time.
Typically the curve would only need to approach inversion to cause a Market reaction.
Now that the "stocks" and "cov-lite loans" buckets are full, where does the money go next?
Out of your pocket and into theirs?
Where is the biggest hole? Central Banks...they will be reclaiming all that money eventually.
What product is JPM selling that we have to put our money into other than equities?
Time to Anounce the "Un-Taper".. Auto sales miss by a mile.
As expected, Chrysler is blaming the snow and ice.
Chrysler; that icon of American durability, reliability and ingenuity??
Fiat buys rest of Chrysler from UAW; no IPOhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/01/01/fiat-chrysler-uaw-st...
(Fiat; that icon of Italian durability, reliability and ingenuity?)
GMs and Chryslers soon Obama cars. Ride to use your food stamps in style while talking on your Obama phone in your new Obama car.
1 day snowstorm foils their whole quarter of sales....riiiiiight.
What happens when the cash for clunkers program takes cars that are a few months old?
Any kindergarten class could have pointed out this FED scam.
And businesses raise prices to boost prices.
Inflation could be 50% but the government will only report 1 or 2%.
Welcome to Uncle Scam's place. Only thing that matters anymore are stocks. It's where the money and effort is being plced. No more production, just boost stock prices.
Damn it I knew it I knew it! Now what?
keep buying of course, fuck valuation!
in a few years after we go up another 50% or so you can think about taking off some longs.
look at the tape action, there are an assload of buyers out there, we are not even close to making a top.
not.even.close
Nobody could have seen this coming.
This is only after a bad day yesterday.
Spineless pricks.
In 1936 UK house price average was £500, now it is £176,000
Average salary 1936 £197, now about £27,000
The "value" comments I'm seeing at work are: "Stocks aren't cheap on an absolute basis, but they are relative to bonds." Of course, if bonds are expensive...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/10548104/IMF-paper-wa...
Keep withdrawing my friends.
The P/E ratio uses both P and E. "FED-SCAM-R-US" prints more money and then P and E both got up nearly the same time. The major banks (GS, JPM, BA) are first to use the money and should be able drive fundamentals to look real sexy (super model sexy) but eventually more and more is needed. For other smaller stocks, the P/E ratio should stay the same given similar valuations and the stock market goes up as well. But the rest of us viewed as scum are not part of this party.
Am I seeing this correctly?
Recessions have been outlawed. As are down markets. If this gets worse, Bernanke will be placating soon.
Yesterday J.P.Morgan Investment mailout recommended I buy their European equity basket fund with a low maintanance and transaction fee. My spider sense says somehow they have a conflict of interest.
In my blog in August 2013 I called for prices of the S&P meet or exceed $1800 Then on the first quarter of this year to have a more than significant pull back possibly to 1200 and perhaps more. I believe if that happens a State of Emergency might prevail. That will carry unknown but, possibly extreme measures of the Federal Gov't.
This at the same time that Precious Metals (at least the paper kind) have never been more oversold.
Whatev's, just keep accumulating ounces at low prices and forget the daytime drama.
Why do I always go 100% long the day before these notes come out !?!?!?!?!?
Why do I always go 100% long the day before these notes come out !?!?!?!?!?