New York - December 12, 2022 ~ The team at Infrastructure Capital Advisors has completed our 2023 Market Outlook analysis based on current and expected future market and economic conditions.
2023 Market Outlook:
We believe that the stock and bond markets have found a bottom and 2023 will be a strong year for stocks and bonds, with gains of more than 10%. Our target on the S&P is 4,500, which represents 18.5x estimated 2024 earnings of $245. There will be ongoing headwinds from misguided Fed policy and sluggish growth. Consequently, we project that value and income stocks will outperform again in 2023 with the Dow outperforming the S&P and Nasdaq. We expect the 10-year treasury to end 2023 in the 3% area as inflation declines.
We expect inflation to decline rapidly in 2023 as we approach the anniversary of the energy price shock. There is at least a 5% bleed-through of energy price shocks to Core PCE.
Certain sectors are more impacted with most crops having a 40% energy component.
Inflation is already well-contained as shelter accounted for over 100% of October core inflation and both housing prices and rents are currently declining (Case Shiller down 2% and rents down 1% over the last two months). The CPI shelter estimate has enormous lags due to outdated survey methodology that is only updated every 6 months.
The Fed continues to make major policy errors as it relies on lagging indicators such as CPI and the labor market to predict inflation vs. leading indicators such as the money supply and energy/commodity prices.
We expect the Fed to capitulate on their hawkish “entrenched” theory of inflation sometime during the first 6 months of 2023 just as they capitulated on their “transitory” theory of inflation in late 2021.
The Fed capitulation will produce a major stock and bond market rally and we expect both stocks and bonds to be up over 10% in 2023.
Since the balance sheet started to shrink the Fed has offset a significant amount of the roll-off through open market operations, lessening the impact of QT. The Fed has over $2.5 trillion of an overnight reverse repo that can be used to offset QT, while still shrinking the balance sheet. We expect that dynamic to continue in 2023.
The additional 100bp of Fed tightening is unlikely to have a large impact as long rates already reflect that level of increase.
InfraCap Predictions vs Reality for 2022
2022 Outlook Published 12/31/21:
The end of QE in 2022 is very likely to increase the equity risk premium for risky, unprofitable companies from as low as 20% to as high as 30-40%, causing continued pressure on stock prices for these companies.
The Dow trading at 18.5x 2022 EPS is likely to outperform the S&P trading at 21x with a material component of companies trading at ultra-high multiples (Tesla at 125x 2022) or losing money.
Treasury rates are not significant for high-risk, unprofitable or ultra-high multiple stocks as the equity risk premium is over 90% of the driver of valuation vs. less than 10% for the treasury component.
Cryptocurrencies are likely to remain under pressure as the Fed reduces its liquidity injections.
Defensive dividend stocks such as preferred stocks, utilities, REITs, and telecom services companies are likely to outperform.
2022 Actual Outcome as of 12/12/22
The Dow is down 4.62%, the S&P 14.53%, the Nasdaq 27.70% and Bitcoin 63.08%
We expect that there will be slow GDP growth in 2023 due to Fed tightening but no significant recession as the US economy is very resilient due to tailwinds from the end of the Pandemic and the 80% energy cost advantage the US has over the rest of the world. In addition, both housing and autos, which usually crash during a Fed tightening cycle, are insulated from large layoffs due to Pandemic-related shortages of inventory.
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