The S & P 500 could decline by 10% by the end of the year to correct for a recent rise in valuation multiples, according to hedge fund manager Dan Niles.
@CL.1 YTD line How to play it Niles, whose fund holds a concentrated portfolio of between 20-40 stocks, also revealed that he was short Apple and long Amazon .
According to the hedge fund manager, Apple's valuation at 30x P/E has been made unsustainable after the iPhone-maker reported three consecutive quarters of declining revenues and net profits.
That's terrific if you own it, but that's not a game I want to play counting on multiple expansion offsetting earnings going down," Niles added.
And that's with the backdrop where I'm concerned about this [multiple expansion]," Niles added.
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Federal, The Labor Department, department's Bureau of Labor Statistics, Apple, Meta
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