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> higher interest rates will eat into these multiples Unless the potential for higher future interest rates were not baked into the quoted multiple. Interest r
by gen220 5y ago
> higher interest rates will eat into these multiples
Unless the potential for higher future interest rates were not baked into the quoted multiple. Interest rates are just one factor among many that go into a price. And they are among the most predictable.
The biggest factor contributing to tech companies’ higher multiples is that every year they have come up with a new way to print money (especially AMZN and AAPL) for a decade running.
To assign a lower P/E is, fundamentally, to discount that track record. Not that it’s a bad bet, but it doesn’t have much to do with interest rates, IMO.