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{{ formattedDuration }} to watch by  RBC Global Equity teamJ.Richardson Nov 8, 2024

A broadening out of performance across the market.

Reflecting on the past month, Jeremy Richardson explores;

  1. Shifts in the market context, encouraging more outperforming stocks

  2. Goldilocks conditions as margin and revenue growths balance out

  3. Developments in the world of AI

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Bonjour, je m’appelle Jeremy Richardson et je fais partie de l’équipe Actions mondiales RBC. Je vous présente aujourd’hui une nouvelle mise à jour.

Je voulais vous informer de ce que nous avons observé sur les marchés boursiers mondiaux, et d’un changement dans le contexte du marché. Vous vous souvenez peut-être qu’au deuxième trimestre, le rendement des actions mondiales était largement attribuable à une poignée de grandes sociétés, ce qui signifiait que beaucoup de petites et moyennes entreprises étaient laissées pour compte.

Eh bien, au cours du troisième trimestre, et il semble que ce soit également le cas au quatrième trimestre, nous avons constaté un élargissement du rendement sur l’ensemble du marché, stimulé peut-être par les bonnes conditions économiques ; les actions des sociétés à petite et à moyenne capitalisation commencent maintenant à participer, et c’est là une bonne chose pour les investisseurs, car si, en tant que sélectionneur de titres, vous essayez de constituer un portefeuille avec des actions produisant de meilleurs rendements, il est généralement plus utile qu’un plus grand nombre de titres obtiennent des résultats supérieurs.

Il s’agit donc d’une évolution encourageante, à mon avis, en ce qui concerne l’élargissement du contexte du marché. La raison de ce changement, je pense, est que le marché est devenu plus rassurant maintenant que les taux d’intérêt commencent à baisser, en particulier aux États-Unis, et que les conditions économiques resteront en quelque sorte globalement favorables. Si les conditions actuelles sont presque idéales pour les investisseurs, c’est très utile. En effet, si l’on se souvient des périodes de publication des résultats du premier et du deuxième trimestre, on s’est inquiété du fait que les résultats positifs obtenus à l’époque étaient davantage liés aux marges qu’aux revenus. Et bien sûr, on ne peut pas augmenter les marges indéfiniment si l’on ne peut pas aussi accroître les revenus.

Donc, si nous sommes maintenant confrontés à une situation où il n’y a pas d’atterrissage, vous savez, l’économie peut continuer à évoluer dans une direction favorable, alors cela signifie peut-être que les perspectives pour les revenus et les marges vont s’améliorer, et ce scénario profitera surtout aux entreprises qui jusqu’à présent ont été laissées pour compte. C’est donc une évolution encourageante. Cependant, nous ne devons pas perdre de vue ce qui se passe au sein de certaines de ces grandes sociétés, car la vie n’est pas figée.

Par exemple, ces dernières semaines, il y a eu des développements très intéressants dans le monde de l’IA, où de nouveaux grands modèles de langage permettent de résoudre des problèmes de façon inédite. En tant que particuliers, lorsque nous avons un problème à résoudre, notre instinct nous pousse à essayer de trouver la meilleure méthode pour le résoudre avant d’exécuter cette méthode. Jusqu’à présent, les grands modèles de langage n’ont fait que recourir à la force brute pour résoudre les problèmes. Or, en adoptant des méthodes de raisonnement plus humanistes, en essayant d’abord de déterminer la méthode la plus efficace, puis en l’appliquant, nous obtenons des résultats beaucoup plus riches avec les tout derniers grands modèles de langage.

La raison pour laquelle cela est important est que, à ce jour, il y a eu des doutes sur le niveau d’investissement et la durabilité de cet investissement dans l’intelligence artificielle, ainsi que sur le niveau des dépenses en immobilisations, et sur ce que cela signifierait pour la demande de puces à semi-conducteurs et de tous les autres éléments de matériel qui soutiennent cette technologie. Si la frontière efficace des grands modèles de langage de l’intelligence artificielle progresse, les investissements devraient augmenter et les revenus d’une grande partie du marché devraient s’en trouver soutenus, en particulier en ce qui concerne les sociétés de semi-conducteurs et les autres fabricants de matériel.

J’espère que vous avez aimé ma présentation. J’ai hâte de vous retrouver bientôt.

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