Is this the reason why US profit margins remain so high?
One of the eternal frustrations of long-term investors with the US stock markets is that the profit margins of US companies seem to have a case of Alzheimer’s: they forget that profit margins are supposed to be mean-reverting. In theory, and in fact for many decades also in practice, profit margins were a main driver for the cyclicality of equity return…
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