That pretty obvious insight is borne out in this chart showing how, with a three-quarter lag, corporate earnings have more or less tracked stock prices. That’s another way of saying, the stock market has done a pretty good job of discounting future earnings.
It can’t last forever, can it? Levkovich is sticking with his 4,000 year-end price target for the S&P 500 — which means he thinks the market may drop by 10%. And he has a specific month in mind when it might, if not fall apart, at least get ropey. “The paucity of immediate catalysts for a pullback is cited regularly, although we worry about higher taxes, cost pressures eating into profitability, tapering and more persistent inflation all coalescing in September ,” he said.
Activision Blizzard ATVI, +2.63% rallied 7% in after-hours trade as the video-games maker, beset by allegations of employee harassment, beat earnings estimates. Dating website operator Match MTCH, -0.43% missed earnings estimates, as it said key markets in India, South Korea, Brazil and Japan are further behind the COVID recovery curve.
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