Our valuation work for the S&P 500 has long assumed moderation of profit growth to about 8 percent from 20 percent and a rise in core inflation.
Ours is an economy that is solid at its core.
Such a 'flu shot' is now widely expected and would be unlikely to unsettle investors beyond a transitory period.
The basic conclusion is that 1999-2000 will bring further gains in corporate profits, mild-mannered inflation and a generally favorable outcome for equity prices. Increasing confidence that the economic expansion will continue through our newly-extended forecast horizon encourages a modest upward revision in stock price targets.
The global backdrop in 1999 will continue to offer impediments, but we expect Supertanker America to stay its course of moderate economic and profit growth.
The global backdrop in 1999 will continue to offer impediments, but we expect Supertanker America to stay its course of moderate economic and profit growth. A supertanker is not necessarily fast or colorful, but it is steady and reliable and hard to push off course.
The primary assumption is that economic and profit growth will resume by midyear.
The principal conclusion is that we expect profit growth to continue through our new forecast horizon.
We are currently advising a moderate overweight, with an emphasis on oil services and a small number of integrated producers.
We believe that the backdrop for investments in technology is favorable.
We don't think so, and continue to assume long-term earnings growth of 7 percent-to-8 percent in our valuation model.
We expect 1999 and 2000 to be years of ongoing profit expansion, with better aggregate gains than 1998, which was disappointing.
We expect 2001 to be yet another year of profit expansion, albeit at a slower pace.
We expect profit growth to decelerate in the second half of 2004.
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