@EricBalchunas I think they have to show that they’re willing to sell something so the credit rating agencies give them a better rating. Also, this headline is insane.
Value Factor valuation ratio, aka the ratio between the cheapest and the more expensive stocks, remains below averages. Cheap quintile in SPX trades around 13% the valuations of expensive.
Some S&P 500 valuation charts...
TLDR; SPX valuations aren't as crazy as they look at first glance
Big diff between market cap weighted and equal weight valuations (forward P/E). Ratio close to highest in this data. EW valuations are right around medians (compared to itself)
Same deal with margins. Forward profit margins highest since 2000. 67 months in our 316-month sample traded at higher valuations. However, those periods carried a median forward margin of just 12%, 340 bps below today.
Loading up on tech isn’t the only path to big gains. Value companies, too, stand a chance of trouncing the market
A portfolio of value, momentum, + upward EPS revisions returned 3,471% since 2000, more than 8 times the S&P 500
Analysis by @PythonTrader
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April 2026 ended up being the 5th strongest month for the S&P 500 in the last 35 years ... with most other instances happening after crises (April 2020, April 2009)
And the momentum typically continues, forward 3-6 month returns after the top 10 months outperform the baseline (average of all overlapping x-month returns since 1990)
In our latest episode of Inside Active, @PythonTrader and I spoke with @BlackRock's Jeff Shen about the evolution of systematic active equity and how advances in data, AI and machine learning are reshaping alpha generation.
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