Tech Stocks Got Creamed in the First Half. The Rest of 2022 Could Be Worse

Barrons2022-07-02

If you have turned to this column for words of encouragement about the tech outlook for the second half, I apologize in advance. You've come to the wrong place. Things almost certainly are going to ...

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blessed_1
2022-07-03
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2022-07-03
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2022-07-02
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2022-07-02
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Zaperano
2022-07-02
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Obvious more dips in the coming few months dueto Marco economics. Stop-loss & shorts r your friends for now.
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2022-07-02
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That translates to a 10% drop in Micron's overall sales outlook.In short, economic conditions have eroded far more sharply than companies and analysts expected. The implication is that earnings reports this time around won't be great, and guidance will be terrible. The only question is how much stocks already reflect the worsening conditions. While that's hard to say, I would note that the Street had widely anticipated weak guidance from Micron, and the company still managed to surprise to the downside, and the stock sold off.Some analysts are rushing to get ahead of the story. J.P. Morgan analyst Doug Anmuth, for instance, last week cut estimates and price targets on 26 internet stocks. Anmuth notes that inflation hit a 40-year high in May, fuel costs are up 45% since early February, and credit-card data show slowing consumer spending.Anmuth made the biggest cuts on online advertising and e-commerce plays. He notes that ad spending is \"highly correlated\" with gross domestic product, and that ad agencies have trimmed their 2022 forecasts for ad spending. Anmuth points out that during the 2008-09 recession, digital channels were just 12% of overall ad spending; they were 67% in 2021, \"making online spend now far more exposed to broader macro trends.\"The outlook is no brighter in the enterprise arena. Evercore ISI analyst Amit Daryanani asserted in a research note this past week that in a recession, the hardware and software stocks he tracks could be vulnerable to declines of 30% to 40%, based on how they fared in the 2008-09 downturn. He sees risks of substantial losses for a host of high-profile stocks, including Apple, Cisco Systems (CSCO), HP Inc. (HPQ), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Arista Networks (ANET), and Akamai Technologies (AKAM).And what about semiconductors? Won't recent shortages and huge backlogs protect them? Well, no, says BofA Global Research analyst Vivek Arya. This past week, he trimmed his forecast for global 2022 chip sales growth to 9.5%, from 13%. For 2023, his new forecast calls for a 1% decline, rather than the 7% growth he'd previously projected.\"Semi downturns happen every three to four years, and we could be due for another one,\" Arya writes, arguing that tighter global monetary policy, geopolitical turmoil, and consumer weakness are likely to pressure chip demand through 2023. He sees risk that softness in consumer sectors like PCs, 5G phones, and gaming video cards could spread into the data center and enterprise markets.On the other hand, he notes that chip stocks tend to bottom six to 12 months before fundamentals -- and that the group could begin to perform better in the third quarter. He advises playing three structural trends: the growth of cloud computing, the opportunity in electric and autonomous vehicles, and the growth in capital spending to expand chip-making capacity.Arya has a point. 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