The amount of financial illiteracy on this website makes me so sick.
For the love of god, if you think that the S&P/Nasdaq today represents a generational buying opportunity, please read this.
Let's take a step back and decompose stock returns.
Stock returns are the sum of dividend yield and price appreciation.
Dividend yield has historically been between 1% and 2% every year (excluding 2008), so there is not much debate here.
Price appreciation is the result of (i) earnings (EPS) growth and (ii) change in price to earnings (also called valuation/multiples).
(i) EPS have compounded at ~6% for decades. Some people argue that AI will change the growth algorithm, but let's keep this aside as this is not what is driving the narrative.
(ii) Change in multiple: this is essential to understand. If you buy stocks at a very expensive multiple, it will be really hard to make money, unless your earnings really grow quickly.
Today, people who are screaming "buy the S&P because it is only trading at 20x forward earnings" are honestly financially illiterate. Plain and simple.
They only look at the last 5 years, which has seen extremely elevated multiples, and think that buying at these levels is buying at a cheap valuation.
Do you remember when Apollo posted that image saying the next 10 years' returns will be 0% and everyone talked about it for 2 days?
Well, let's revisit that image with what has happened since.
The S&P has contracted modestly, and the forward multiple is 20.5x today, vs 22.5x in December.
What does this mean if we look at historical performance?
That the expected return when buying the S&P at this valuation is 2% per year for the next decade. Read that again.
The expected return when buying the S&P at this valuation is 2% per year for the next decade!
Does this seem to you like a generational opportunity?
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