When you combine +20% earnings growth with a flat market, the multiple compresses. The problem is earnings fall in slowdowns. If those potential negative catalysts end up coming true, stocks will falter because they trade on future estimates, not trailing earnings.
The bad news: The determining factor for how stocks do in the next year is how much estimates fall. In the past few days, the answer is a lot. From November 1st to November 5th Q4 estimates fell from 14.29% growth to 12.95% growth and Q1 estimates fell from 8.39% growth to 7.81% growth.
3rd Greatest PE Decline & How S&P 500 Free Cash Flows Are Spent…
Submitted November 06, 2018 at 10:43PM by AlexPitti https://ift.tt/2Dud2C6
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