Pulling Off the Band-Aid, Going Overweight Small Cap
By Lori Calvasina
Published July 25, 2022 | 8 min listen
Today in the podcast, we update our outlook for the S&P 500 and several key positioning trades. The big things you need to know: First, we’ve made another cut to our YE 2022 S&P 500 price target to 4,200 from 4,700 and have lowered our S&P 500 EPS forecasts to $214 for 2022 and $212 for 2023. Second, looking into the back half of the year, the midterm election could be a positive catalyst for stocks and help stocks find a bottom, if one hasn’t been established already. (3) In terms of positioning, we continue to prefer US equities over non-US equities and Growth over Value. Meanwhile, our conviction level on Small Caps has strengthened and we are now going overweight Small Cap.
Lori Calvasina
Managing Director & Head of U.S. Equity Strategy, RBC Capital Markets
Lori Calvasina joined RBC Capital Markets as Head of U.S. Equity Strategy in 2017 as a Managing Director. Having spent nearly two decades as an equity strategist at major investment banks, Lori is an expert on the US stock market, and regularly represents RBC in the financial media on Bloomberg and CNBC. Prior to joining RBC, Lori was a senior equity strategist at Credit Suisse from 2010 to 2017, covering Small/Mid Cap Strategy from 2010-2014 and both Small/Mid Cap and US Equity Strategy from 2015-2017. She spent the first ten years of her career at Citi in a variety of roles including lead Small/Mid Cap Strategist from 2007-2010. In both 2008 and 2009 Lori was ranked #2 in the Small Companies category in the Institutional Investor All America Research team poll. Lori is a graduate of the University of Virginia and its selective Government & Foreign Affairs’ Honors Program. In 2019, she was named to Crains New York’s list of Notable Women in Finance.
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