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Boeing Is Now a Conviction Buy, Says Goldman Sachs

Despite continued woes, the aerospace giant should do well in a post-virus world, when plane deliveries resume and the 737 Max is flying, the bank contends.
By Sarah Min


Sure, troubles may continue to plague aerospace company Boeing, which was already dealing with a grounded line of 737 Max airplanes before the pandemic halted air travel, but that hasn’t stopped Goldman Sachs from putting the stock on its conviction buy list. 

The investment banker added Boeing and defense contractor Raytheon’s stocks to its list of best investment ideas, according to an analyst note this week. Researchers took defense stocks Lockheed Martin and L3Harris Technologies off, though they clarified that both remain exceptionally positioned in their market sector. 

But the investment bank saw more upside in Boeing. “We believe it is a particularly unique time in history to invest in aerospace stocks,” analysts wrote. 

Boeing stock has risen from its recent lows, analysts noted, though it is still lagging broader indexes such as the S&P 500. The stock price jumped to $230 in June, up from $95 in May. It’s since hovered in the $160 to $180 range as investors continue to watch recovery in air travel. Year to date, the stock is down 53%.

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That provides an “attractive entry point” for investors who may want to buy into the stock as economies reopen and air travel recovers, Goldman said. Analysts are eyeing recent news that the 737 Max airline will return to service after clearing recent safety checks. It was grounded in March 2019 after two crashes less than five months apart killed nearly 350 passengers.  

Analysts also think that while the market is currently oversupplied, the balance will right itself by 2024 as global air travel recovers and airlines replace accelerated retirements. 

“Both of those have the potential to see more meaningful progress in the next few months compared to the last few months,” they wrote.

Still, investors were not impressed. Since Sunday, Boeing stock price is down almost 10% to about $147 per share in Thursday morning trading.

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Nasdaq 100 Is Just Halfway Through Its Plunge, Says Morgan Stanley

The firm’s Michael Wilson sees a further reckoning for the home of the biggest tech names.
By Larry Light


The Nasdaq, and stocks in general, bounced back Tuesday, a welcome interruption to a late-summer downdraft. But Morgan Stanley thinks the tech-laden index’s elite Nasdaq 100 has more to fall—and indeed is only halfway to its trough.

A slide for ever-ascending tech hotshots has been anticipated for a while on Wall Street. And, over the past three weeks, it has actually come to pass. “This is what happens when stocks get so extended—corrections can be much bigger when remaining in an uptrend,” Michael Wilson, the firm’s head US equity strategist, wrote in a client note.

The exchange-traded fund (ETF) that tracks the Nasdaq 100, the Invesco QQQ Trust, is down 10.2% this month, as of Tuesday’s close. That’s after its 1.8% blip up yesterday.

To be sure, year to date, the QQQ still is ahead dauntingly, by 26%. That’s compared with 3% for the S&P 500, which has been led by the big tech names, although the broad-market index has many more stocks that have zero to do with technology. But what’s significant is that this month the Nasdaq 100 has done worse than the S&P 500: down 8.7%, versus 6% for the S&P.

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Gravity, Wilson believes, will prevail at last for tech stocks. Friday’s QQQ fall was the steepest since 2000, he said.

Over-exuberance for tech stocks still has a way to go, according to Wilson, who last month said the Nasdaq 100 was headed for a fall. There remains too much bullish sentiment surrounding the tech darlings, in his estimation.

Evidence: Open interest on call options, which are bullish because their investors are betting on stocks rising, is large for the likes of Facebook and Apple.

Furthermore, new public offerings for sexy tech stocks have been successful despite the recent drawdown. Snowflake, the cloud computing services provider, doubled in its first day last week.

Added proof of overweening optimism for tech stocks is the continued commitment of hedge funds to them, Wilson wrote. The hedgies’ inclination, he indicated, is they “are letting it ride,” expecting more upside.

In September thus far, the six top tech stocks—that is, the FAANGs (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google parent Alphabet) plus Microsoft—have slumped at a double-digit rate, ranging from Amazon’s 11.4% drop to Apple’s 17% tumble.

But these tech giants, all members in good standing of the Nasdaq 100, still have enormous market caps. Three of them are well over $1 trillion, led by Apple, the world’s most valuable company, at almost $2 trillion.

What’s more, they have stayed hugely expensive, far more than the market’s historic price/earnings (P/E) ratio of around 15. The cheapest is Facebook at a 31 P/E and the most costly is Amazon at 119.

The market is rewarding their dizzying growth. Look at Netflix, the smallest of this sextet in market cap terms, with $216 billion. In the year’s first half, ending June 30, the streaming service amassed $1.4 billion in earnings, up 81% from the comparable 2019 period. The stock now changes hands for a lofty 82 P/E.

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