Tom Lee
Head of Research, Fundstrat Global Advisors. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Tom Lee is the co-founder and Head of Research at Fundstrat Global Advisors and Chief Investment Officer at Fundstrat Capital. He previously served as Chief Equity Strategist at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. from 2007 to 2014.
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Tom Lee: AI Drives Market Narrative, Not Fundamentals
“But that's different in my opinion than AI is driving the stock market. Like it's driving the narrative, but it's not necessarily driving the market.”
Lee: The AI Market Bubble Will Eventually Burst
“The bubble bursts in AI. And I think that's going to happen for sure.”
Lee: AI Sectors Will Peak Simultaneously One-Third Into the Cycle
“Everything's gonna peak at the same time, probably one third into the cycle, but then in that period of consolidation and shakeout, then one or two industries truly pull away and capture the value again.”
Lee: Nvidia's 30x Earnings Valuation Is Reasonable Compared to 1990s Toyota
“You know, NVIDIA is not crazy today, you know, because it's 30 times earnings, which is not a premium. I mean, Toyota traded at 40 times earnings for years in the nineties just making cars, and NVIDIA is not making a car. You know, they're making a really diff…”
Lee: Tether Is the World's Third Most Profitable Financial Institution
“And so Tether, from a net income basis, makes more money than most financial institutions. I think it's, would be the third most profitable financial institution in the world.”
Tom Lee: AI Innovation Is Only Happening in the US and China
“Really, there are, there's only two places where AI innovation's taking place, is the United States and China.”
Lee: Narrative drives stocks more than earnings over the intermediate term
“So I think that in like a very simplistic sense, narrative drives stocks more than earnings do over the intermediate term.”
Tom Lee: Stock valuation reflects customer trust rather than pure earnings
“I believe Tesla and Palantir and stocks like HIMSS are proof that money, money is not how you measure the value of a stock. Because if money is, is determined as the earnings per share, the value of a company isn't just The amount of money that it represents. …”
Lee: Banks cannot internally transfer funds due to OFAC and FinCEN
“In fact, if you're a global bank, so take Barclays or JP Morgan, and you have money in, let's say Japan, and you want to move it to the US, you have to use an external intermediary to move the money. Banks can't internally transfer the money because it violate…”
Lee: Dot-Com Recession Would Have Been Mild Without 9/11
“The reason we had a bigger recession after that was because of nine 11, but it really would have been a mild recession.”
Lee: Federal Reserve Liquidity Is a Myth for Stock Market Recoveries
“The Fed liquidity is a myth. You don't need Fed liquidity for stocks to recover.”
Lee: Investors should sell the war buildup and buy the invasion
“When it comes to war, you sell the buildup into war, but you buy the invasion. Right. Or they say you buy when the guns fire, you know what I mean? And, but that's true. So we were advising our clients that you sell the buildup, but you buy the invasions.”
Lee: Tariffs cannot curb Chinese economic power as supply chains relocate
“And if anyone tries to use tariffs to harm China from gaining economic power, we know it can't work because it's supply chains can move.”
Lee: Only China, US, Japan, and Germany will build humanoid robots
“Yeah, it's gonna only be three, maybe four countries. It's China, USA, Japan, and Germany.”
Lee: Western robots will see wider adoption over safety concerns
“I would say over time there is going to be concern about the ethical safety of a robot, and that's why I think a Western developed robot will be more widely adopted than a non-US one.”
Lee: Netflix should be considered an AI winner
“One name you probably didn't mention but should be considered an AI winner is Netflix.”
Lee: Thematic investing drives market performance more than macro or stock-picking
“Thematic investing explained performance better than macro and stock picking. So meaning, it's better to identify the things driving the market and own the strongest stocks”
Tom Lee: Much of Tech CapEx Is Maintenance, Not AI
“Not a hundred percent of tech spend is AI. A lot of it is maintenance CapEx and expansion CapEx and, you know, the catch up for spending that's been deferred because of COVID, et cetera.”
Lee: S&P 500 earnings grew despite major post-2020 macroeconomic shocks
“Four of four of those events should have caused a lot of companies to fail or earnings to decline. S&P earnings grew that entire period.”
Lee: S&P 500 revenue depends primarily on manufacturing supply chains
“Well, you know, it's, we part, something to keep in mind is the S&P. 500 is a lot more sensitive to the manufacturing economy. So even though, like we say, the U.S. Is a services economy, and most of what we do is like services, actually most of how S&P makes …”
Lee: Waterfall stock market declines almost always produce V-shaped recoveries without recessions
“Almost every waterfall decline is a V-shaped bounce unless there's a recession. So that's why we got so keyed up on this high-yield market, because if we fall, but we don't have a recession, that just means you, everyone just panicked. They did a fire-ready ai…”
Lee: Apple may lag early AI before taking market lead
“Apple might Do what they did in, oh, two and seven. They weren't cutting edge and making the first mobile phone, but they, in 2007, after the bubble burst, introduced the iPhone, and so, maybe they'll wait for AI valuations to come down, or the, you know, the …”
Lee: Stablecoins Hold Twice as Much US Government Debt as Germany
“So you realize that stablecoins collectively are the 12th largest holder of US treasuries. They, like, they own twice as much as Germany, for instance.”
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