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Could The S&P 500 Gain 30% This Year?

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Could The S&P 500 Gain 30% This Year? Stocks have been on a tear this year. We're still a couple of weeks away from the halfway mark, and already the Dow is up 7.4%, the S&P 500 is up 9.6%, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq is up 14.1%…
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  • AMD could grow by 35% a year for the next 3-5 years because of AI demand

    60% confidence
  • The AI market is faster than anything we've seen before

    60% confidence
  • Stocks in the top 50% of Zacks Ranked Industries outperform those in the bottom 50% by a factor of 2 to 1

    60% confidence
  • AI will revolutionize every industry, from healthcare to transportation

    60% confidence
  • The AI data center market could grow to $1 trillion by 2030

    60% confidence
  • We are at the beginning of a new computing era

    60% confidence
  • We will see 5 years in a row of double-digit market gains, analogous to 1995-1999; 2026 is year 4, 2027 is year 5

    60% confidence
  • Geopolitical conflicts and events usually only have a short-term impact on markets and markets usually bounce back fast

    60% confidence
  • The S&P 500 could gain 30% or more in 2026, driven by AI boom, productivity growth, and strong earnings

    60% confidence
  • The AI-driven bull market still has another year or two to run

    60% confidence
  • The current AI bull market is comparable to the late 1990s tech boom

    60% confidence
  • We are on the cusp of a small-cap renaissance driven by rate cuts and 100% immediate capex expensing

    60% confidence
  • Nonfarm business productivity rose at a 2.8% annual rate in Q4 2025, above the 1.9% expectation; Q3 2025 revised to 5.2% from 4.9%

    60% confidence
  • Half of a stock's price movement can be attributed to the group/industry it is in

    60% confidence
  • Q2 2026 EPS growth is forecast at 21.8%, Q3 at 19.2%, Q4 at 21.1%

    60% confidence
  • Demand for AI is insatiable

    60% confidence
  • AI is the most powerful technology force of our time

    60% confidence

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S&P 500 Index Fund · eps21.1 percent_yoy_growth_forecast
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Enterprise finance software vendors—BlackLine, OneStream, Numero AI, and Oracle—are racing to embed autonomous AI agents into core financial operations (close, consolidation, reporting), backed by consolidation M&A (Numero-Royu, BlackLine-WiseLayer), fresh leadership hires, and survey data showing nearly a quarter of CFOs plan to boost AI spending over 50%. Adoption momentum is strong even as at least one bellwether (Oracle) sees its stock lag year-to-date, suggesting the market hasn't yet fully priced in the shift from AI-as-feature to AI-as-agent in finance.
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Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC
Two significantly different EPS values (10.21 vs 2.68 USD_per_share) are reported for Morgan Stanley on the same observation date (2025-12-31). Fact A specifies FY 2025, while Fact B's 'N/A' fiscal period is ambiguous. If both represent FY 2025 annual EPS, these values directly conflict. The magnitude of the difference (3.8x) is too large to attribute to rounding or minor calculation variations. The missing fiscal period in Fact B raises data quality concerns, but same-date observation + same attribute should reference the same period.
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