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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Joining us now Mike Wilson.

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Speaker 3: He's chief US equity strategist at Morgan Stanley and exceptionally

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Speaker 3: well timed here with a really smart Sunday note, a

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Speaker 3: bit of go on, Alpha over beta. Explain the Greek letters,

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Speaker 3: Mike Wilson to us, What is alpha?

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Speaker 2: What is beta? And why does alpha winy?

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Tom, Yeah, I think most of your listeners

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Speaker 1: understand this. Beta is sort of your market level risk,

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Speaker 1: where you just own the index and an alpha would

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Speaker 1: be your stockpicking. It's that simple. And you know what's

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Speaker 1: happened in the last three months is that the the

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Speaker 1: index itself has gone sideways and and but there's been

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Speaker 1: great opportunity under the surface. And that's really the job

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Speaker 1: of most investors is to pick stocks and try.

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Speaker 2: To beat people.

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Speaker 1: So it's it's a good it's a good outcome if

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Speaker 1: it can sustain for active managers. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: people say, oh, stockpicking market, it doesn't mean it's easy,

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Speaker 1: but I mean it does feel like what we're dealing.

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Speaker 3: With kids kills me, he puts at the end of

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Speaker 3: his notepall enjoy your Sunday. Come on Mike's Sunday Mike,

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Speaker 3: I'm looking at the Bloomberg launch pad and I got

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Speaker 3: a one ninety nine on the ten year real yield.

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Speaker 3: My idiot ambiguity meter is that's a slowing economy. When

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Speaker 3: you look at Seth Carpenter and companies work, do you

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Speaker 3: away from double digit earnings growth?

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, remember the economy is not always the

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Speaker 1: I would say, really three years is an economy that

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Speaker 1: terms of GDP. But then when you look at earnings

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Speaker 1: growth in the last several years, it's been pretty lousy

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Speaker 1: for most companies until recently recently we've seen a pickup.

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Speaker 1: More companies are starting to grow again. And I attribute

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Speaker 1: it has kept interest rates higher than they would be normally,

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Speaker 1: so real interest rates at two percent is actually quite high, Tom,

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Speaker 1: think the FED right now is sort of in a

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Speaker 1: you know, tighter place than they probably want to be.

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Speaker 1: They would like to cut rates, but they can't because

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Speaker 1: inflation now is picking its head up again, so they're

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Speaker 1: on hold. They're not going to raise rates in our view,

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Speaker 1: but we're trying to find that equilibrium now, like how

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Speaker 1: big should the government be? How you how can we

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Speaker 4: what companies are actually saying on their conference calls. What's

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Speaker 4: top of mind for corporate America, And I guess, not surprisingly,

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Speaker 4: one of those key issues is tariffs. How did terriffs

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Speaker 4: Paul Mike, We're gonna get We're gonna hear from Nvidia

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Speaker 4: Wednesday after the close, since one of the last big

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Speaker 4: big companies reporting earnings in this in this cycle. Here,

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Speaker 4: what did you take away from this quarterly's earnings cycle?

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Speaker 3: Mike Wilson, to get back to your idea that ELFA

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Speaker 3: is the way this works, and let's just generalize that

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Speaker 2: What is the Mike Wilson process?

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Speaker 2: Is it securities research, Graham, Dot and Coddle bottom bottom up?

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Speaker 3: Is it a cell side concept of looking at what's

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Speaker 2: Or is it more factor.

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Speaker 3: Based where you're looking at different items and trying to

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Speaker 3: figure out, like say, well, more momentum or something else win.

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Speaker 1: That's a great question, Tom, and it has changed over time.

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Speaker 1: most institutional investors now putting ourselves as advising them use

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Speaker 3: Bottle that for all of you worldwide, whatever your sophistication.

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Speaker 3: What Mike Wilson just said there and Paul Sweden and

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Speaker 3: I lived this of where three years became eighteen months

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Speaker 3: The short term ism now and how can you prosper

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Speaker 3: by pushing against that? Is Mike Wilson alluded to there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of it, I think coincident with the

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Speaker 1: So it's been consistent really since November. Financials mainly the

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Speaker 4: Mike, I'm guessing from your clients you get an evaluation

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Speaker 4: question or two every day. Boy, this market seems expensive.

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Speaker 4: How do you respond generally?

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Speaker 1: You know, we don't get many questions on valuation anymore.

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Speaker 1: I think people have given up on that metric. That

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Speaker 1: degree that it has historically. So I'm not sure what's

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Speaker 1: in vogue again, but it's it's not an important factor

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Speaker 4: Told to us about breath of the market, Mike, A

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Speaker 4: How do you think about breath or lack of breath

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Speaker 1: Well, it gets back to quality. So and I would

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Speaker 1: And what's going on is the same thing that's going

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Speaker 1: but in other places of the world there fer them.

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Speaker 1: Why the crowding is even more so. So it's just

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Speaker 3: Mike Wilson very quickly here talk about enthusiasm. I mean

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Speaker 3: Michigan State taking up Michigan and basketball. That was like

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Speaker 3: Big Ten classic, wasn't it?

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Speaker 1: Well classic for if you're not a Michigan fan.

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Speaker 2: But they can still come back.

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Speaker 1: The Big Ten is always competitive time. As I like

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean they're in second place. Mission, I mean

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Speaker 3: they have the two teams up top.

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Speaker 2: Of Big Ten. Is important? Why is USC in the

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Speaker 2: Big Ten? Does Mike Wilson understand? Please?

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Speaker 4: Hell the kids from Los Angeles that come all the

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Speaker 4: way to Piscataway, New Jersey to play basketball, Oregon, it's in.

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Speaker 2: The Big Ten. Mike Wilson, this is Unamerican. I hope

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Speaker 2: Michigan takes every victory from the way pushes those Westerners

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Speaker 2: out of it. Mister Wilson is with Morgan Stanley. Thank

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Speaker 2: you so much, Mike Wilson.