Here's the S&P 500 stocks that bought back the most shares in Q4 2023
1 Apple $AAPL: $22.7B 2 Google $GOOGL: $16.2B 3 Raytheon $RTX: $10.3B 4 General Motors $GM: $10B 5 Broadcom $AVGO: $8.3B 6 Facebook $META: $8.2B 7 Exxon Mobil $XOM: $4.7B 8 Microsoft $MSFT: $4b 9 Visa $V: $3.8B 10 Comcast $CMCSA $3.5B source : StockMKTNewz
Remember when unprofitable tech was all the rage in 2021?
It never really recovered. All the money went into the Mag7 stocks instead, and to a lesser extent profitable NASDAQ companies. Chart: TS Lombard thru Markets & Mayhem
Brilliant chart by the wonderful folks at Longview Economics showing the Top 10 stocks as a share of global market cap (%).
Source: Longview Economics
S&P 500 Tech Profit Margins versus the rest.
Source: Eugene Ng, Goldman Sachs
$SPX/GDP, the 'Buffet' indicator, is back near the 2021 highs
Source: Swordfishvegetable
Why has the sp500 been moving higher despite rate cuts expectations being revised downward?
It is as simple as EPS 12 month estimates have soared. Up another 2% the past 12 months. Source: Ryan Detrick
Active managers had less than 25% exposure to equities in late October when the S&P 500 was at 4,100.
Today their equity exposure has jumped to 104% (leveraged long) with the S&P 500 above 5,100. This is their highest exposure since November 2021. Source: Charlie Bilello
Believe it or not oil is outperforming the NASDAQ this year
Source: Bloomberg
