One of the big surprises of 2023 was the resurgence of US growth stocks. The tech-heavy S&P 500 Growth Index outpaced its counterpart Value Index by 7.82 percentage points last year, including dividends, after trailing it badly in 2022. That’s not supposed to happen during a surge in interest rates.

At least not according to a popular theory that rising rates are bad for stocks — and particularly bad for growth stocks. The idea is that stock prices reflect the present value of future earnings, a calculation that relies in part on interest rates to discount future earnings to the present. As the math goes, the higher the interest rate, the lower the present value of future earnings, and vice versa.

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History Bodes Ill for Growth Stocks After Big 2023 Rally

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02.01.2024

One of the big surprises of 2023 was the resurgence of US growth stocks. The tech-heavy S&P 500 Growth Index outpaced its counterpart Value Index by 7.82 percentage points last........

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