domandandosi se siano ancora a buon mercato o se invece le quotazioni attuali non scontino già
i (notevoli) tassi di crescita previsti per il futuro prossimo. Il problema è sempre il solito:
if everyone can see the growth, strong returns will be history.
Secondo Mackintosh è possibile che i mercati scontino già pienamente le buone previsioni di
crescita futura:
Price to book value and price to sales are already higher than in developed markets and the gap has widened since March last year.
The trailing price to earnings ratio - how much is paid for a dollar of profit -
is catching up to doveloped markets, but remains slightly behind. Bulls suggest
this means that emerging markets are cheap; political risk, many suggest, is higher in
the West than in Asia or Latin America. (...) Sure political risk is lower in the developing
world as it was, but still much higher than in developed democracies.
This risk discount could be trumped by strong enough earnings growth. Developing economies
are surging, which investors hope will feed through into higher profits.
Ma proprio qui potrebbe essere nascosta la trappola:
Unfortunately, research suggests countries with stronger economic growth do not necessarily
produce better returns.
Ora il commentatore inglese conclude la sua breve analisi con un esempio tratto dall'analisi
di Dimson, Staunton e Marsh della London Business School che studiano i rendimenti dei mercati azionari
dal 1900 seguendoli fino ad oggi. Beh ... provate a indovinare che paese per mettere in guardia dalla
possibilità di deludenti rendimenti dai mercati a dispetto di una buona crescita economica, almeno se
confrontata con quella USA...
...US shares returned about three times as much each year after inflation as Italian shares (!), even though Italian gross domestic product per person grew far faster.
Non contento rincara la dose:
British equities returned much more than shares from faster-growing economies such as Japan or France. Strong capital flows suggest investors believe emerging market growth will deliver for them. They should be cautious.
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