Bill Nygren: The best opportunities are in the European stock markets

Bill Nygren and colleagues from Oakmark Funds give their assessment of the current stock market and reflect on developments in 2022 and 2023.

While the markets tend to focus on macroeconomic themes, often those themes do not apply broadly or do not reflect the corporate fundamentals of specific stocks. European natural gas prices didn’t prove to be a crisis and interest rates didn’t impact the big picture as much as had been predicted, so focusing on the past two years’ short-term blips wasn’t a productive approach for long-term investors.

Overall, international markets are trading at a significant discount; we believe the strongest opportunity is in Europe, where the fundamentals of select multi-nationals remain underappreciated.

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