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According To Goldman, This Will Be The Biggest Buyer Of Stocks In 2016

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If you said just more of the same, with corporate management teams buying back their own stock in near record quantities (boosting their own stock-linked compensation in the process) and serving as the biggest marginal buyer in the market, then give yourself a pat on the back.

Here is Goldman's David Kostin confirming just that.

We expect corporations will continue to be the largest source of demand for stocks, with net purchases by US companies totaling $450 billion, equal to about 2% of public equity cap. We forecast equity inflows from equity-related ETFs ($225 billion), equity mutual funds ($200 billion), life insurance ($50 billion), and foreign investors ($25 billion). We forecast net outflows from households ($25 billion) and pensions ($150 billion).

 

Goldman forecasts $225 billion of aggregate net demand for US equities in 2016. Goldman also calculates that its estimate of gross equity demand of $775 billion will be reduced by $500 billion of international equity purchases by US investors and $50 billion of credit investments resulting in net demand for domestic stocks of $225 billion.

Some more details:

Corporations will be the largest source of equity demand next year, purchasing $450 billion of US equity through buybacks and cash M&A (net of share issuance). Outside of the Great Recession, corporates have been the primary source of US equity demand (see Exhibit 1). We expect this trend will continue as managements direct cash toward share repurchases and M&A during 2016 given low (albeit increasing) interest rates, modest GDP growth, and a flat domestic equity market. For details on our 2016 cash use forecasts see S&P 500 cash spending trends: Investing vs. returning capital (November 6, 2015).

 

 

Exhibit 1 highlights the equity inflows and outflows from each holder within the US market. Exhibits 2 and 3 show the supply and demand of US equities. For example, if a company repurchases shares it reduces the supply of US equities (Exhibits 2 and 3) but it would appear as a positive inflow into US equities (Exhibit 1) given that a US stock is being purchased. ETFs are both equity issuers and holders. Our 2016 total net US equity flow forecast of $225 billion excludes US investor purchases of foreign equities. However, we include foreign stocks in our net issuance tables as US investor purchases of foreign stocks alter the supply of equities within the US market.

 

Foreign investor demand will drop as a result of the rising USD.

We expect foreign investor demand will fall to $25 billion in 2016 given our forecast of a strengthening US dollar and lower expected equity returns in the US compared with global markets (measured in local currency terms). History suggests that foreign purchases of US stocks are reduced during periods of a strengthening US dollar. We forecast a 6% rise in the trade-weighted dollar during the next 12 months. Monetary easing in Europe and Japan compared with a tightening regime in the US suggest foreign stock returns will be higher than domestic stocks when measured in local currency terms.

There will be no "Great Rotation"

We believe rising interest rates in the US will have a limited impact on overall asset allocation between equities and bonds. As interest rates rise and bond prices fall, investors will experience a reduction in their bond allocation relative to equities. Although a rebalance may occur at the margin, a major exodus from bonds to equities is unlikely. In actual practice, only three investor categories – mutual funds, households, and pension funds – have the ability to shift asset allocation. Other large owners of fixed income assets such as the Federal Reserve and other foreign central banks do not have the latitude to shift holdings from bonds to stocks.

Finally, this is who owns US stocks and bonds:

Households, mutual funds, and retirement funds collectively own 68% of the US equity market but only 34% of the US fixed income market. A 5% asset allocation shift of these investors from bonds to stocks would represent $660 billion. Assuming such a shift occurs during a three-year period, the annual demand for equities would total $220 billion, or about 0.6% of the existing equity market. The potential incremental annual demand for stocks would be roughly one half of our total annual forecast for buybacks and M&A by corporations.

 

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Wed, 12/09/2015 - 15:16 | 6900606 HedgeAccordingly
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Moar Corp buybacks! The new QE ...
Goldman: Dividends, Buybacks To Be Up 7% to $1 Trillion In 2016

http://hedgeaccordingly.com/2015/11/goldman-dividends-buybacks-to-be-up-...

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 15:25 | 6900655 LowerSlowerDela...
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Another reason that interest rates need to go to normal levels, not zero.  "Free money" encourages mal-investment such as stock buy-backs.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 16:15 | 6900859 JRobby
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The FED has asked CORPS. to do their part. And has lent them money (through it's collusion with its members) at super low rates to do so.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:28 | 6901204 surf@jm
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Well, thats probably another reason the FED won`t raise rates.......it would hinder companies from borrowing to the hilt to buy their stocks back.....

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 15:18 | 6900625 Glass Seagull
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Quantitative performance-pay boosting!

 

"Excuse me, Mr. Treasurer, this is Mr. CEO, could you please buy 2,000,000 shares today?  I've got some stock I need to liquidate on the close."

 

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 15:19 | 6900631 buzzsaw99
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We forecast net outflows from households ($25 billion) and pensions ($150 billion)...

this is the only ongoing bright spot imo.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 15:24 | 6900650 madbraz
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or:

(D) $2 trillion outflow from households

 

if you guessed (D) you know what to do next year

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 15:25 | 6900656 aliki
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i expected to see a picture of janet yellen, stan fischer, and kevin henry when i openned this page

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 15:39 | 6900702 venturen
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Yes...the snake gets bigger as it eats itself! Right?

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 15:39 | 6900703 Manipuflation
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God damned it now what am I supposed to get my brother for Christmas?  That game can't be shipped to the U.S.?  Why?

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Really-Nasty-Bankers-Game/dp/B00FDP2N3O

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 15:49 | 6900734 Soul Glow
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Corporations biggest buybacks occured at the heighth of the stock prices, if that tells us anything.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 15:59 | 6900779 Janet Shalom Be...
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Do you think Obama will pardon me and Ben if this fiasco crashes and burns during his presidency?

If I end-up in prison, it would at worst be Club Fed where I can play bingo and shuffleboard all day, so, what do I have to lose.

 

Moar QE dammit!!!

and please more security,  there are men on my front lawn with pitch forks and torches.  

 

 

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 16:49 | 6901014 CClarity
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As the boomers keep retiring (and pension funds need to pay OUT pensions rather than have incoming assets - and the boomers start selling assets to support their retirement - those that have assets), who will buy the assets they sell?  Not the millenials who can't afford to move out of their parent's homes or to pay down their college debts.  Gonna get ugly.  Massive demographic that K. Henry won't be able to stem the tide of imho,

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 16:53 | 6901036 Baronneke
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I wonder what kind of derivatives Goldman Sucks has, and......what it's total exposure is.   Maybe, just maybe, they loose a hell of a lotta money when the stockmarket goes down the drain.

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:22 | 6901171 surf@jm
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"According To Goldman, This Will Be The Biggest Buyer Of Stocks In 2016".......Who`s that?......Taxpayers?.......The FED?......The plunge protection team?..........

Wed, 12/09/2015 - 17:25 | 6901187 Baronneke
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Corporations buying back their own shares.

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