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The market's K shaped recovery isn't a bug, it's a feature
The K-shaped divergence between AI and non-AI stocks is a long-term structural feature driven by capital flows, not a temporary mispricing.
- The broader economy remains bleak outside of AI investment optimism.
- Past market winners with depressed prices are unlikely to mean-revert.
- Current valuations reflect long-term fiscal and monetary trends, not temporary errors.
I keep seeing people justify the craziness as simply a weird bifurcation of AI stocks being "overhyped" and non-AI stocks being underhyped.
While relatively, their delta in performance may be momentarily widened, this is less an error and more an indication of future capital flows.
Don't be caught thinking that the market owes your stocks anything, they don't. If anything we're learning that the economy is fairly bleak outside the optimism for AI investment hence why we have such multiples today.
I say that because a lot of people seem to think this market will correct itself, when that is the wrong way to look at the market. Hell, look at consumer recovery since the GFC. It's largely been K shaped. That hasn't been a short term error, that's a long term trend tied to fiscal and monetary policy.
So don't think because you own a winner of a prior market at a "depressed" price that said price must revert back. Rather, simply, you just own a winner of a prior market.