Companies are now issuing more stock than they did at top of the internet bubble and here’s why that matters

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Companies are now issuing more stock than they did at top of the internet bubble and here’s why that matters

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Record stock issuance is not necessarily bearish if it is accompanied by high levels of buybacks or M&A activity MarketWatch photo illustration/iStockphoto Stock market bulls are needlessly ...

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·2021-09-09
Yes.. Stocks Going up up up..
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That means that non-financial corporations on balance are retiring more shares than they are issuing.\n\n\n\nThe recent chart plots the Federal Reserve data. Notice that the last time there was positive net issuance was in early 2009, at the bottom of the bear market that accompanied the Global Financial Crisis. These two series came close to being in balance during the economic lockdown a year ago, but that was short lived and net issuance is now back solidly in negative territory.\nIs it a good sign for equities that net issuance is negative? Perhaps, according to a 2018 study in the Financial Analysts Journal entitled “Net Buybacks and the Seven Dwarfs.” The authors of that study found that net issuance explains the bulk of the difference in different countries’ stock returns over the last several decades.\n\nNote carefully that the authors didn’t investigate whether net issuance has any explanatory power for the short term. To help fill in that gap, I measured the correlation between net issuance and the S&P 500’s subsequent total real return. I focused on issuance over periods as short as the trailing quarter to as long as the trailing three years, and on the S&P 500’s subsequent return over periods as short as one quarter and as long as three years. My database covered all years since 1988.\n\nI came up empty in my search for statistically significant correlations, regardless of the length of the periods measured.\nThe conclusion I draw: It would be going too far to interpret recent net issuance trends as outright bullish for the stock market’s prospects. But the bulls at least can take some solace in knowing that the share issuance data are not screaming that a bubble is about to burst.\nLet me hasten to add that the stock market may nevertheless be forming a bubble. Net issuance is not the only indicator out there, needless to say. 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