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
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
European Stocks are on track for their 8th consecutive green week which would be their longest winning streak since 2022
source : barchart
Who are Europe's GRANOLAS?
Novo Nordisk $NVO LVMH $LVMUY ASML $ASML Nestlé $NSRGY L'Oréal $LRLCY SAP $SAP Roche $RHHBY AstraZeneca $AZN Novartis $NVS Sanofi $SNY GSK $GSK Source: App Economy Insights
Stock Bubble mentions in the media are at 2-year highs but still well short of the meme-stock mania period in early 2021
source : bloomberg, barchart
A tale of 2 markets
Source: The Economist, Bloomberg
