2020 saw a huge turnaround within the S&P 500 index after the vaccine news broke on 11/9/20.

Stocks that fared the worst through 11/9/20 saw the largest increases post-vax (on average, through year-end).

Sector attributions below 👇

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Tech/Cons. Dis/Comm. made up all the returns until 11/6 with Financials/Energy dragging.

Post-vax news, Financials was the biggest contributor, though Tech was still #2.

Energy continued to dragged!

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Big reason for Tech continuing to shine post-vax was $AAPL - the top contributor to S&P 500 returns pre- & post 11/9/20.

But large shifts below.

Pre-vax, #2-5 was $AMZN $MSFT $GOOG $NVDA & all others had net negative contribution.

Post-vax, #2-5 was $DIS $JPM $BAC $BRK.

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Extending the thread to look at return distributions against fundamental metrics.

Gives another perspective to the post-vax momentum reversal posted on top of this thread.

Chart shows 2020 returns for S&P 500 companies by sales growth:

>20% y/y: +44%
<-20% y/y: -21%

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But again, we see a huge reversal post-vax news on 11/6.

Companies with the the worst sales growth had the best returns on average from 11/6 through year-end.

Reversing what we saw prior to that.

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Similar story if you sort by forward P/E ratios.

1st chart:
Stocks with the highest P/Es significantly outperformed those on the other end of the spectrum (incl. those with -ve eps).

2nd chart:
Shows big shift post-vax, when stocks with no eps estimates or P/E < 10 surged.

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Post-vax reversal existed even across market cap.

1st chart:
Larger stocks vastly outperformed over the entire year.

2nd chart:
Smaller firms < $25 billion cap (~ 50% of index) surged on average post-vaccine news, reversing their pre-vax losses on average.

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27 Nov 20
The 2020 stock market recovery should not be surprising given the V-shaped recovery in corporate profits, which are now higher than they were at the end of 2019 (h/t @lhamtil).

Thread on what drove this, using sectoral balances & Levy-Kalecki 👇

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Levy-Kalecki profit equation recap:

Corporate Profits =
Investment
+ Dividends
- Household Saving
- Government Saving
+ Current Account Surplus

Business investment & current account surpluses are profit sources.

Household & government savings subtract from profits.

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I used BEA's NIPA tables to compare corporate profits (collected directly) vs calculation using the profit equation.

Not a perfect match as the first chart shows.

But you get an exact match by subtracting a discrepancy term (from BEA) to account for data collection errors.

3/
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25 Nov 20
Disposable income fell 0.7% in October but still remains 2% above pre-crisis trend.

Employee compensation growth slowed to +0.7%, & remains 4% below trend.

Proprietors' income rose +1.2% in October (due to CARES Act assistance to farmers) and now 5% above trend.

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So far disposable income has remained above trend, in sharp contrast to what happened in 2008-2009.

Question is whether that continues, especially if fiscal aid is not coming.

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Personal consumption also slowing

Oct: 0.5%
Sep: 1.2%
Aug: 1.2%
Jul: 1.5%
Jun: 6.5%

Slowdown not surprising but PC is still 4% below pre-crisis trend. At current growth rate, it'll take 3 yrs to catch up to prior trend.

Services is 7% below trend (4.5 yrs to catch up!).

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24 Aug 20
On the topic of the stock market vs the real economy, there's lot of information once you disaggregate the "stock market", as @NathanTankus pointed out.

Here's avg YTD returns for S&P 500 companies disaggregated by sales growth

Sales >20% y/y: +23% ytd
Sales <-20% y/y: -24%

1/
Another simple disaggregation is by market cap.

Again, a wide dispersion, which wasn't the case back in February.

Avg. YTD returns for Market Cap > $200 Bil
As of 2/19: +8%
As of 8/21: +19%

Avg. YTD returns for Market Cap < $25 Bil
As of 2/19: +0.5%
As of 8/21: -14%

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Here's the distribution of YTD returns of S&P 500 companies, as of 8/21/20 compared to 2/19/20.

Percent of companies with YTD returns < -25% -
As of 2/19: 0%
As of 8/21: 25%

Percent of companies with YTD returns > 10% -
As of 2/19: 2%
As of 8/21: 13%

3/
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13 Mar 20
This is the 10th bear market for the S&P 500 (price index) since 1950.

Few notes on the nine previous ones 👇

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1956-1957 Bear Market: -21.5%

Start: Aug 6 1956
Bottom: Oct 22 1957
Recovery: Sep 24 1958

- 15 months to bottom
- 11 months for recovery

Amid the "Eisenhower Recession" of 1957-'58 that lasted 8 months

2/
1961-1962 Bear Market: -28%

Start: Dec 13 1961
Bottom: Jun 26 1962
Recovery: Sep 3 1963

- 7 months to bottom
- 14 months for recovery

Amid Flash Crash of 1961-'62: The "Kennedy Slide".

Market came close to the bottom again during the Cuban Missile Crisis in Oct 1962.

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12 Mar 20
Stocks plunged again, but are we close to the end?

Suffice to say I have no idea.

It hasn't paid to be alarmist over the past 10 years i.e. every drawdown was a "buy the dip" opportunity.

But it is useful to look at the other side of the coin: Bear markets.

Thread 👇

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Large sustained bear markets, like 2007-2009 or 2000-2002, don't go down in straight lines.

Very frequently, there are reversals, with sharp gains.

Which makes it look like the worst is over.

Then markets fall again, and the cycle repeats. Until final capitulation.

2/
2007-2009 bear market:

S&P 500 fell -57% from its peak in Oct '07 & lasted 17 months.

Yet it didn't become an "official" bear market (-20% drop) until Jul '08.

Until then, there were 3 periods with gains of more than 5% from lows. Including a 12% gain from Mar-May '08.

3/
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5 Feb 20
Thread on sectoral balances that make up the Levy-Kalecki corporate profit equation, & implications for the US economy today.

Corporate Profits =
Investment
+ Dividends
- Household Saving
- Government Saving
+ Current Account Surplus

Charts & useful links coming up 👇

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In short, business investment & a current account surplus are profit sources.

Household & government savings subtract from profits.

@RomanchukBrian has a really good primer on the profit equation here:

bondeconomics.com/2018/06/primer…

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Here's a link to a great discussion on the benefits of the sectoral financial balance approach, between @teasri and @DavidBeckworth on the Macro Musings podcast

macromusings.libsyn.com/srinivas-thiru…

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