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Investors are ignoring two major risks to stocks, warns fund manager

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November 21, 2019
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Is the stock market really going to melt down if the elusive phase one China-U.S. trade deal goes kaput?

Global equities have been bouncing around alongside a handful of trade headlines. The latest news is that Beijing is inviting U.S. officials back for more talks. That may vie with news that a bill in support of democracy in Hong Kong, which has irritated China, now heads to President Donald Trump for a signature.

Our call of the day from Mike Shell, founder of investment firm Shell Capital Management, tells MarketWatch that investors are ignoring two risks right now—the “high valuation and age of this bull market and the risks it poses for the long run.”

The market “doesn’t have to fall just because it has been trending up for over a decade, but the valuation and expected return from this starting point are pretty simple,” he says.

For example, the current dividend yield—annual dividend payment to shareholders—is less than 2%, while the price/earnings (P/E) ratio for companies—a way of valuing a stock’s worth—is 30. And earnings growth is below that of decades earlier, Shell says.

“The long-term expected return is a summation of these, so when we add it up, it is maybe 4-5% from this starting point,” the manager of the Asymmetry Global Tactical fund says. “That is half the 10% historical return investors are told to expect, which is the average since 1924 commonly seen on a broker’s wall.”

So in 1924, the dividend yield was 5% and the P/E was 10, which allowed for a lot of expansion, and earnings growth was higher than we’ve seen recently, he says.

Shell is also wary of a possible downswing for stocks and an end to calmer market volatility than we’ve been seeing.

Periods of low volatility are often followed by volatility expansions https://t.co/VC95wPWHJ3 pic.twitter.com/JnhUj6kUsy

— Mike Shell 🛡⚔️🇺🇸 (@MikeWShell) November 16, 2019

The chart

If investors are jazzed about record highs for stocks, it isn’t manifesting itself via margin debt—the money an investor borrows to invest in stocks












SPX, -0.26%










 . So says our chart from Jesse Felder of the Felder Report blog.






“This suggests that investor risk appetites, after soaring to a euphoric extreme in 2018, are simply not supportive of stock prices in a broad sense in 2019,” says Felder. He adds that in the past 20 years, outside of 2016, margin debt falling from such lofty levels has “coincided with a major peak in stocks.”

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