{"id":7168,"date":"2022-02-03T10:24:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T09:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estably.com\/market-commentary-winners-of-the-pandemic-are-correcting\/"},"modified":"2023-10-16T10:54:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T09:54:18","slug":"market-commentary-winners-of-the-pandemic-are-correcting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estably.com\/en\/market-commentary-winners-of-the-pandemic-are-correcting\/","title":{"rendered":"Market commentary: Winners of the pandemic are correcting"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Market commentary: Winners of the pandemic are correcting<\/b><\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIn the last two years (since April 2020), the stock markets have\u00a0almost exclusively risen<\/strong>. There have been no notable setbacks, and the U.S. market in particular – the world’s largest and most important stock market – has performed\u00a0better than average<\/strong>. Our portfolios also achieved impressive returns (even considering the pandemic).\r\n\r\nHowever, the performance of stock market indices and securities portfolios is\u00a0never linear.\u00a0<\/strong>Good and bad phases alternate in an unpredictable way.\r\n\r\nAfter this long positive phase, we are now in a temporarily worse phase. How long this will last and when a phase change will occur cannot be determined and is always known only in retrospect. What is clear, however, is that\u00a0negative phases are usually of shorter duration<\/strong>\u00a0than positive ones, but for psychological reasons they are perceived as much more intense and painful.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Pandemic-winners are fluctuating<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe greatest fluctuation is currently apparent in companies whose business models are driven by\u00a0digitization<\/strong>. The pandemic has fundamentally given these companies\u00a0enormous tailwind<\/strong>. In the last two years, capital has flowed\u00a0disproportionately to these obvious winners<\/strong>. The market paid little attention to fundamental valuations. This trend has been reversed since October 2021 and is now taking on panic-like proportions. Analogous to the euphoria on the way up, there is now also only limited differentiation in the correction phase with regard to the quality and long-term opportunities of the companies concerned.\r\n\r\nHowever, since our portfolios include some companies that can be counted among the winners of the pandemic, we are not spared from the current setback, but\u00a0temporarily affected even to a greater extent than an index<\/strong>. However, we consider our companies to be very\u00a0attractively valued\u00a0<\/strong>compared to their long-term potential and compared to other companies in this sector.\r\n\r\nWe expect the fundamental results of the companies to play a bigger role again in the course of the year. We believe we are very\u00a0well positioned for this phase<\/strong>. Our long-term expectations for the companies have not changed in recent days and weeks, and we anticipate\u00a0unchanged long-term value growth potential\u00a0<\/strong>for our companies, even if share prices in some cases paint a completely contrary picture. When share prices fall, our return expectations increase over the duration of our investment horizon.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Setbacks during the year are completely normal<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Rising interest rates are no threat to our technology companies<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tMarket commentary: Winners of the pandemic are correcting\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t
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In the last two years (since April 2020), the stock markets have almost exclusively risen. There have been no notable setbacks, and the U.S. market in particular.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tRead more \t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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