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Top 8 Wall Street Stocks Driving the Bull Market Boom

 
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Investors need new acronyms. FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google) and all the other versions matched for a certain period, but 2023 extended the market lead to seven, maybe eight companies that control it, and they seem to be dancing to a different tune than the rest.

 

These stocks are responsible for moving from a bear market to a bull market tentatively. And their rise comes alongside significant changes in market behavior, especially in regards to interest rates. Stocks at high valuations no longer seem to care what the Federal Reserve does.

 

Quality Stocks Shine

 

Most, though not all, of this year's big winners are huge cash-generating companies with strong balance sheets -- the definition of "quality" companies in Wall Street parlance. While the recession that many predict has not yet happened, the combination between the risk of a recession and the bank panic that began in March makes quality stocks attractive.

 

Artificial Intelligence

 

Nvidia is already benefiting from the latest round of AI, and others are all set to benefit, thanks to their heavy investments in the field or because their cloud services are powered by artificial intelligence. I think too much of that is priced into the valuations, but it certainly helped this year.

 

Interest Rate Fears Ease

 

They may not have reached the top, but they are almost certainly close to there. Stocks that crashed last year due to rising interest rates and bond yields are becoming less sensitive as the threat of further big interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve is removed.

 

Taken together, those tailwinds have boosted the largest stocks in the S&P 500 and the Russell 50 and helped them beat the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies by more than 20% this year, better than any five-month period since the index was created In 2002 until the corona virus.

 

What Can Go Wrong

 

The usual mistake is to pay too much; Companies that Everyone agrees are great are more likely to be overpriced. Hence my opposition to Nvidia, the biggest beneficiary of AI. She'll probably really be a big winner, but everyone already knows that.

 

The second mistake is that friendships may not be what you think. Meta has done well this year, but its expected sales per share are still lower than at the beginning of last year, which is not a typical characteristic of a growth company. Tesla's earnings and sales expectations have fallen sharply this year, though that hasn't stopped the company's stock from soaring to a multiple of 54 times expected earnings.

 

The third mistake is that known risks are not priced correctly. In the case of the large technology stocks, the risk is of a new attack by antitrust regulators, because they have lost their popularity with the public and with politicians. It's unpredictable and hard to price, but could be very significant - as, for example, when antitrust regulators in the US and UK try to prevent Microsoft from acquiring game maker Activision Blizzard.

 
 

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