Sunday, June 29, 2025

Analyst Calendar: Preparation for 2026 - Weekly Blog # 895

 

 

Mike Lipper’s Monday Morning Musings

 

Analyst Calendar: Preparation for 2026

 

Editors: Frank Harrison 1997-2018, Hylton Phillips-Page 2018

                             

 

 

Analysts should attempt to get ahead of the stock market. Starting next Tuesday, we are entering the second half of 2025. Using the performance of Large-Cap US Diversified Mutual Funds as a broad indicator of the experience of US investors, the first quarter of 2025 was relatively strong, but April’s second half was weak. Perhaps it was due to concerns about taxes, tariffs, and international turmoil. The Market slumped into June, then recovered through the final four weeks of the quarter, bringing average performance back to mid-single digit gains, with half in the last week, despite a 9% decline in the value of the dollar. Not a great foundation for the continuation of two 20% gaining years.

 

Starting next week, analysts will quietly begin gathering their thoughts on preparing forecasts for the next calendar year. For the most part they will not have the benefit of the proclaimed or quietly guided company estimates. The estimate for 2026 will be more difficult than prior years. Not only will there be comparisons of two 20% plus years, but it is also unclear what taxes, tariffs, and the value of the US dollar are likely to be. There are two other quandaries that should be addressed. We have entered a period where there is a shortage of necessary talent at companies. For tech companies there is a struggle to find AI personnel at prices approaching Wall Street levels. Industrial and service companies have approximately 400,000 open positions, despite many announcing plans to lay-off workers. To some degree, this speaks to the quality of present workers and their attitudes.

 

Another concern is the level of IPOs threatening private equity portfolios with unattractive opportunities to sell some of their holdings. These sales are necessary to raise sufficient cash to pay the dividends expected by present holders and retail buyers. Private markets could contract quickly, constricting private securities firms. An investment trend is normally near the end of its popularity when it becomes dependent on retail buyers.

 

The answers to these questions may not be determined in the third quarter. Even though the fourth quarter is the second highest selling period of the year, it may not provide quick answers for marketing forces expected to produce results.

 

It is possible the market may be saved through efforts in the unofficial “fifth quarter”, which can deliver either surprisingly good numbers or poor ones, setting up a splurge in the first quarter of 2026. These will rely on the increasingly popular “adjusted” sales and earnings per share numbers created through skilled accounting approaches. These are often approved by the firms’ accountants and are not objected to by the regulators.

 

The problem with this exercise is that it makes the following year more difficult for analysts and investors to understand the base for the real earnings power of the company next year.

 

Buyers be thoughtful.

 

 

 

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Sunday, June 22, 2025

Inconclusive Week Hiding a Big Problem - Weekly Blog # 894

  

 

Mike Lipper’s Monday Morning Musings

 

Inconclusive Week Hiding a Big Problem

 

Editors: Frank Harrison 1997-2018, Hylton Phillips-Page 2018

                             

 

 

4 Day Summer Week

Two days of limited stock price gains and losses, with more stocks falling than rising. Market chatter was focused almost exclusively on the Israel-Iran war, with no Fed interest rate change. As usual from a long-term investor’s standpoint no attention is being paid to the continued destruction of the fundamental case for long-term investing. (Not surprisingly, this week’s American Association of Individual Investors’ (AAII) sample survey showed a shrinking six-month outlook for the “bulls” and an expanding negative view of the “Bears”.)

 

We have probably measured human productivity in business and non-profit organizations, including in academia and health care, since the beginning of human activity. Top-down, it has been declining for some time. To find the wasteful culprit accountants assigned organizational revenues and profits to various individuals. This was easy to do for front-line workers and senior management, but the middle of every organization was left out.

 

Left out were the human supervisors, often labeled foremen or middle management. In a period where top-line growth has slowed toward population growth, there is increased concern about human productivity levels. Since the swollen middle was not directly considered revenue or profit makers, their percentage of the workforce shrunk. As a society we are now paying the price for this lack of understanding of this value creation.

 

In far too many cases the supervisory class were the main purveyors of organizational culture, responsible for producing customer-oriented quality. There are hardly any organizations which have not experienced a decline in quality from the users’ point of view.

 

We are about to pay a higher price for this hollowing-out process as new activist management, particularly from the Washington quality culture, becomes a reality. This is especially true as thruput per person becomes the mantra and “AI” and other statistical measures are being implemented. With new activist leaders in Washington, I am worried many government and academic services will decline and to some not add value.

 

As fellow consumers, please share with me any services you receive from organizations that have improved recently.

 

 

Note: At this point we doubt the bombing of the nuclear sites in Iran will change much long term.

 

 

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Sunday, June 15, 2025

We may think we manage time, but time manages us - Weekly Blog # 893

 

 

 

Mike Lipper’s Monday Morning Musings

 

We may think we manage time,

but time manages us

 

Editors: Frank Harrison 1997-2018, Hylton Phillips-Page 2018

 

 

 

Recognition

When asked for investment advice the most appropriate response is, what is the expected pay-off time? That should be followed by what critical actions are expected during the “work-out” period? The answers to these questions will show both the humility and arrogance of the expectation of success.

 

The plain truth is, we collectively don’t know what the future will bring. The future course of events will be dictated by natural elements, what others do to us, and what we do to ourselves. (Today being Fathers’ Day, it is wise to include the impact of the entire heritage of our thinking and be thankful for it.)

 

The best way I have found to come up with usable answers is to rely on what I’ve learned at the racetrack, which is to assign odds to various logical outcomes. The purpose of the exercise is not the numbers, but a way to rank the various opportunities, remembering that I can be wrong.

 

The real benefit of the exercise is when I am proved wrong. What order of possibilities would have been better? This may include the theoretical Charley Munger and Warren Buffett box, labeled too hard to predict. (The other two boxes were yes and no.)

 

Applying the Approach

Starting with a deep depression, the most extreme example being the falling stock prices between 1929 and 1942. During those years there were periods of rallies and declines, but the extremes were not broken. Prior to that period there was extreme growth of corporate and farm debt. There was an increase in the belief that central governments could materially alter the course of the general economy. Also, during that period an activist political force tried to change the laws and regulations beyond their authority.

 

I have frequently reminded subscribers of the quote that history does not repeat itself but often rhymes. Using the methodology of assigning odds to a potential depression, I suggest there is at least a 40% chance current conditions are predictive of an oncoming depression.

 

Other Problems

  • The World Bank has cut its prediction of global growth from 2.8% to 1.4%.
  • Moody’s has warned that selling private asset funds to retail clients introduces new risks to private asset managers, including “reputation loss, heightened regulatory scrutiny and higher costs.”
  • Robert Gates, former Director of the CIA, Secretary of State, and a former independent Director of Fidelity Funds, wrote “The US can rise to the Chinese challenge” and needs to.
  • At least 170 large public companies expect to announce job cuts in June. These companies announcing job cuts do not include private companies, which employ much of the US work force.

 

While I perceive a more than average number of problems related to investing in US equities over the next few years, I remain bullish about investing in US equities. Our geographic position, the dollar size of our commercial and financial markets, and our eventual ability to surmount our problems, all support continued stock investments in the US for long-term retirement investment accounts.

 

What do you think?

 

 

 

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Sunday, June 8, 2025

Selective Readings of Data - Weekly Blog # 892

 

 

 

Mike Lipper’s Monday Morning Musings

 

Selective Readings of Data

 

Editors: Frank Harrison 1997-2018, Hylton Phillips-Page 2018

                             

 

 

Assumption

I assume as a careful reader of these musing one cannot avoid the “happy talk” produced by most of the media. For balance, as a public service for my blog readers, I’ll focus on data and other information supporting the other side.

 

Long-Term

Jaime Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, was recently quoted as follows: “If we are not the pre-eminent military and pre-eminent economy in 40 years, we will not be the reserve currency…” He is pleading with you to develop four views that he considers critical to a sound investment philosophy. They are the importance of military standing, economic position, having a forty-year view (the bulk of institutional and individual money is invested for long periods), and the significance of being the sole reserve currency.) I will be happy to discuss your views on these questions.

 

Others’ Views Focused on the Short-Term

Recently, 17 well-known investment advisors made estimates of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index 2025 closing price. Nine estimates were higher and eight lower. The lowest was JP Morgan Chase, 13% below Friday’s close. (Of all the various stock market indices, I believe the S&P 500 Index is the best to gage the level of the market. On Friday it only gained one tenth of 1%, showing the stickiness of the movement.) Morgan Stanley is expecting the US dollar to drop 9% over the next year.

 

Unfavorable Conditions

Retail investors of all sizes are being told to invest in private investment vehicles, including private equity. These investments represent some 30% of the M&A market. History suggests the public buyers come into many trends last.

 

Currently, there are 7.5 million unfilled job openings. Employers can’t find suitable workers. I believe many potential employees lack sufficient motivation, discipline, and/or integrity for these jobs. This is leading to a low growth rate in labor productivity.

 

The employees themselves are one reason for these conditions at commercial, government, and nonprofit institutions. Due to the slow growth of our society there are pressures at all levels of management to improve labor productivity. Managers strive for efficiency, defined as output divided by input. The simple way to do that is to assign generated revenue to each worker. This is relatively easy to do for line employees, by leaving out the supervisors. The next step is to reduce the number of supervisors. This creates efficiency. However, supervisors create most of the worksite culture, which leads to product and service quality.

 

In just about every sector of modern life we are experiencing a decline in the quality of the products or services we receive. However, as a result of employers not hiring more experienced quality supervisors, this has led to customer dissatisfaction, lower customer/client loyalty, lower sales, and fewer recommendations. Employers should be hired for effectiveness, which would reduce costly mistakes and improve relationships.

 

Two World Realties

As long as we have politicians and their advocates chanting happy talk about the economy while employers cut back on hiring, we are going to experience a dichotomy in the investment world. We can hope for the best but should be prepared for the worst.

 

The Form Does Work

As many subscribers already know, I count my former time at the New York racetracks as a critical learning experience. Consequently, the running of the Belmont Stakes, which was run early Saturday evening, is very important to me. The race is now one quarter mile shorter than the traditional 1½ miles, which means its long history of winning times is no longer relevant to racing analysts (handicappers).  From a betting/investment standpoint, the job of the analyst is to evaluate the odds of a particular horse winning vs the odds posted on the tote boards. These odds are derived from the amount of money invested on each horse, including taxes and fees paid to the track. The smaller the odds, the more popular the payoff selection on the winning horse. In many ways this is similar to the most popular investments in the marketplace. It is important to remember that the most popular bets, called favorites, win a minority of the time. But they do win more often than the less popular bets.

 

The first three horses crossing the finish line at the Belmont Stakes were the same three horses finishing in that order at the Kentucky Derby. Thus, the history of these horses proves to be a good predictor. Can stock buyers count on a similar phenomenon in picking stock investments? It is occasionally possible, but not all the time.

 

If using lessons learned at the racetrack seems a bit odd, think about Ruth and I attending a New Jersey symphony concert on Sunday afternoon. This featured two great classical performers, Xian Zhang, conductor and Conrad Tao, pianist. They impressively played Sergei Rachmaninoff’s second piano concerto. This piece was a breakthrough work marking Rachmaninoff emerging from a three-year depression. The length of the depression could be a useful guide to an investment depression, unless the government lengthens the period of the depression, as FDR did in 1937.

 

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Sunday, June 1, 2025

No One Knows: Searching for Clues - Weekly Blog # 891

 

 

 

Mike Lipper’s Monday Morning Musings

 

No One Knows: Searching for Clues

 

Editors: Frank Harrison 1997-2018, Hylton Phillips-Page 2018

                             

 

 

President Trump

Judging by the frequency of changes emerging from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Mar Lago, and Bedminster NJ, even Mr. Trump doesn’t know what will happen. Furthermore, one gets the feeling that what he wants appears to change over time. While he can wait a bit, people with portfolio responsibilities often cannot. In addition to many of the same concerns facing the President, we must deal with the impact of the unknowns on our clients and on our own fears. In an attempt to provide some soothing ideas using our somewhat unique search for clues, I stand ready to attempt to apply these concepts to your individual concerns. Below are my brief thoughts on trying to evolve an overall investment strategy.

 

May Meeting of the Federal Reserve Board

Under Powell, members of the Board really cogitate about the long-term outlook. Part of the reason for their current cautious attitude in terms of interest rate changes is a period of potential stagflation, which would be difficult for the Board to manage. It would be difficult for investors to properly position their portfolios and still be in position at the correct time for a subsequent expansion.

 

There are at least two very current clues that such a period is now possible, with after tariff expenses paid by the supply chain and/or the retail buyer. For the week, both the Big Board and NASDAQ had more prices closing down than rising. Also, this week’s sample survey of the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) had the six-month bullish view of 32.9% dropping below the bearish projection of 41.9%. The prior week the two readings were 37.7% and 36.7%, respectively. The Fed is very concerned about inflation expectations.

 

Historical Clues

Recorded history is replete with partial descriptions of cyclical behavior, both human and natural. Though recessions are not identical, they are similar in many cases and can be roughly divided between climate and man-made. Man-made events are largely caused by excessive debts and insufficient reserves, which can be broken down into two categories, cyclical price problems and the less frequent and more serious structural problems.

 

As with most problems, the people experiencing them don’t recognize what is really happening to them until later. Concerning what we are now experiencing, a couple of columns published this weekend in The Financial Times may be instructive.

  • One article noted that US private equity has 12,000 investments in their portfolios. If they could sell 1500 of them each year, it would take eight years to totally liquidate them all. As many private equity vehicles have been sold to retail customers as income-producing investments, the periodic sale of their investments is critical in supporting sales in the portfolio. A problem suffered by many mutual funds.
  • Gillian Tett, in her column discussing current tariff concerns, noted that “Trump’s bark is often worse than his bite. The courts also sometimes rein him in, as seen this week. FDR, another activist President, had similar problems with the courts’ actions.

 

Taiwan

Until this week I was not overtly concerned about a successful amphibious landing of Chinese forces in Taiwan. As a former US Marine Combat Cargo Officer on an Amphibious Personnel Attack (APA) ship responsible for landing Marines on an unfriendly beach, I thought landing on a defended beach in Taiwan would be difficult.

 

To the best of my knowledge, the Chinese did not have a significant amphibious effort. This week I learned they have ships similar to what I was on over 60 years ago. In addition, the Chinese have significant troop-carrying helicopters capable of deploying Special Forces on the island to attack defending forces on the beach. Certainly by 2027 the Communists will be equipped to make a successful attack. Perhaps the only real defense of Taiwan is the threat that the US could use nuclear bombs to destroy the TSMC facilities. Let’s hope it does not come to that.

 

Current Reactions

Mutual Fund investors are concerned about the current outlook. Last week I noted that both Asian and European fund returns were recently competitively better. Year-to-date through May 29th, peer-group leadership has rotated to small-cap, mid-cap, Healthcare, and Natural Resources sector leadership.

 

Portfolio Management

Position changes should be a little at a time. Exposure to winners that have become very large should be tailored. Companies reporting disappointing results should be examined to identify if timing was a problem, or a reaction to excessive withdrawals, political issues within the organization, or bad judgement. One should be humble in making decisions.

 

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Sunday, May 25, 2025

“Straws in the Wind”: Predictions? - Weekly Blog # 890

 

 

 

Mike Lipper’s Monday Morning Musings

 

“Straws in the Wind”: Predictions?

 

Editors: Frank Harrison 1997-2018, Hylton Phillips-Page 2018

 

                   

 

Predictions

Ever since humans have thought about the future, they’ve looked for clues about what the future might hold. Since very few stocks can be purchased and converted back into cash immediately with a profit on the first transaction day, equity investors are essentially betting on one or more perceived futures. All we can do is guess what may happen.

 

Since regulators frown on future predictions, particularly those that guarantee future events, investors and analysts scan both the past and views of the future to guess what may happen. The following are brief thoughts which may help subscribers think about the future.

 

From the Past

In 1934, the US Congress passed the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act giving the President (FDR) the ability to negotiate reciprocal trade reductions. (FDR, with the help of his “Harvard Brain Trust”, was authorized to accomplish this mission. While they proposed tactics from the left, the current President may draw his approaches from the right. Both could be labeled “activists”.)

 

Today, the History Channel showed a two-hour program devoted to The Crash, The Depression, and FDR's actions. It was well produced, simplistic, and narrow, but the key facts seem to be accurate.

  1. FDR's 1932 Presidential election had surprising support from Republican leaders J.P. Morgan Jr. and DuPont, the leader of GM.
  2. FDR blamed the Crash and subsequent Depression on Wall Street and Banks.
  3. FDR turned on them, which changed the way the economy worked.
  4. The economy was not in condition to fight WWII at the beginning of the war.

 

As we have been told "History does not repeat itself, but rhymes." In general, there are two types of recessions, cyclical and structural. The latter takes longer.

 

2025

A year ago, very few analysts and perceptive investors would have guessed which four mutual fund peer groups would now be leading the year-to-date race. They are Precious Metals Funds +42.95%, Latin American Funds +24.50%, Commoditized Precious Metals Funds +22.60%, and European Region Funds +20.61%. The first and third are clearly based on gold, but the gap between the two appears to be unusually wide. Latin American and European funds having similar performance also seems unusual.  From an overall point of view these results suggest we have entered a new phase or cycle, with the probability that last year’s leaders won’t lead again for a while.

 

There now appears to be a need to fill manufacturing jobs on an overall basis. This is distressing for two reasons. The first is that hirers can’t find the right people who want to work in their plants. The second is that the new factories this administration is counting on will have difficulty reaching the productivity and profitability levels the optimistic people in DC expect.

 

The London Stock Exchange regularly publishes I/B/E/S estimates of S&P 500 quarterly earnings. For the quarter we are in, their earnings per share prediction is that we will gain +5.8%, while growing net income +4.3%. The +5.8% is disappointing, but the +4.3% shows how much the market needs buybacks. Moving to economic analysis from securities analysis, the low gains in net income will not generate sufficient cash to pay for capital expansion and the introduction of new products and services.

 

The weekly American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) sample survey has recently turned slightly bullish, quite a jump in three weeks. The latest week bullish/bearish readings are 37.7% and 36.7%, compared to 29.4% and 51.5% three weeks ago. Two comments are appropriate. First, this time-series has a good long-term record, although it has been wrong at turning points. Second, individual investors should not be traders who get caught up in short-term volatility.

 

2026

Venture Capital funds are having difficulty raising capital from investors and lenders. I suspect this is also true for the broader universe of private capital funds. Investors in small and mid-cap equity funds have become used to private capital funds buying their maturing holdings.

 

One commentator wrote that Warren Buffett’s Berkshire (*) sold bank stocks and has not sold any of its positions in Apple (*), Coke, and American Express (*) in its latest report. These stocks are price leaders and should therefore do relatively well in periods of stagflation.

(*) Positions held in client and personal accounts.

 

Question: What will make you transact this year?

 

 

 

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Sunday, May 18, 2025

After Relief Rally, 3rd Strike or Out? - Weekly Blog # 889

 

 

 

Mike Lipper’s Monday Morning Musings

 

After Relief Rally, 3rd Strike or Out?

 

Editors: Frank Harrison 1997-2018, Hylton Phillips-Page 2018



 

Preparing for Rough Seas Ahead

We had a “Relief Rally” up to the close of the US stock market on Friday. Although most stocks rose, there was a change in leadership. Many of the best performers were the kind of stocks an institutional equity player adds to a portfolio to soften declining performance in a down-market phase. The leaders did not have the characteristics of stocks leading a brand-new Bull market. Everything changed late Friday, with Moody’s* announcing the lowering of its credit rating on US Treasuries from AAA to AA1.

* Moody’s stock is held in client and personal accounts.

 

Not a total Surprise

In a May 8-13 Reuters survey, 54% of bond strategists were concerned about the “safe haven” status of US Treasuries, a critical benchmark for pricing global capital markets. In April the same survey had 47% concerned. This was not the first group of worriers.

 

Consumer confidence in May fell to the second lowest reading on record. Regarding Moody’s US Treasuries downgrade, S&P downgraded the US Treasury credit rating in 2011, as did Fitch in 2023. Thus, the move by Moody’s is the third downgrade or strike. The next critical question is the nature and length of the expected decline.

 

Moody’s Answer

According to Moody’s statement, US credit “retains exceptional credit strengths such as size, resilience and dynamism of its economy and role of US dollar as global reserve currency.” Not surprisingly, the US government’s view is that Moody’s is looking backwards.

 

Expecting this retort, Moody’s focused on expectations for the future. They expect the Federal Deficit to reach 9% of the US economy in 2035, up from 6.4% in 2025. Furthermore, they expect government revenues to remain broadly flat, adjusted globally from negative. (To me this sounds like stagflation, with both tax rates and inflation rising.)

 

My Call

Odds are, we’ve struck out and ended the inning, but not the game. The absence of a structural recession/depression may keep an expansion in the low to middle gains. Portfolios with over 10% in longer than 10-year Treasuries should cut them in half.

 

How do you call it?

 

 

 

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