With each report announcing further success in the endeavors of developing an effective vaccine for SRAS-CoV-2 (previously termed Covid-19) infection, the level of anxiety amongst the stock market traders and investors is rising disproportionately. Most of them appear anxious to find the best trade for the “normalization”. The fact that in past two years, the returns on investment for most of the investors and traders have been sub optimal, is further fuelling the anxiety. Most of them appear to believe that first mover will make extra ordinary gains, while the slow movers will miss this once in a decade opportunity.
Recent discussion with market participants in India, US and
Singapore, indicates that they are exploring a variety of ideas that could give
extra ordinary return in next one year. Some of the common ideas include
technology, healthcare and reflation. Logistics also appears to be fast
emerging as one of the favored ideas.
The following are the arguments I have heard from market
participants in support of their favorite ideas:
Healthcare: The outbreak of pandemic has drawn attention
of global community towards the lacunae present in the global healthcare
system. A significant added emphasis shall be given to preventive healthcare;
and building of capacities to handle subsequent outbreak of novel viruses. The
endeavor to develop vaccine for SARS-CoV-2 pandemic shall provide new dynamics
to the collaborative research in the field of pharmaceutical. And of course,
the vaccine for novel corona virus does hold material profit opportunity for
developers in next many years.
In view of these, the healthcare sector as a whole present
material business and investment opportunity for next many years. Personal
hygiene, nutrition, supplements, testing, vaccination, medical equipment (for
new capacity building as well as upgrade of existing facilities) are some
specific opportunities that are being talked about by investors.
Traders are however more interested in “the vaccine” for
SARS-CoV-2 that will give immediate revenue to the developers and distributors.
I am inclined towards the investing opportunity in the
healthcare sector, but I am not sure about the trading opportunity. In my view,
pandemic is a highly sensitive political issue globally. Profiteering from
vaccine will be difficult. In Indian context for example, the government has
already indicated free vaccine shots for citizens. This means that the
procurement of vaccine will be on government tender basis. Making extra
ordinary profit in such a scenario will be difficult in my view.
Technology: The pandemic has definitely changed the way
we live, work, and travel. Much of these changes may stay. Changes in
technology platforms to incorporate the new digital protocols, consolidation of
businesses and integration of processes, working from remote locations, need
for higher security of data and IPR, in addition to the ongoing shift towards
AI and digital, has created tremendous investing opportunity in technology
sector.
Again, I am inclined towards investing opportunity in the
technology sector, especially IT services; but given the fact that most of the
low hanging fruits have already been plucked, I am not sure about the trading
opportunities.
I have already written about my views on the so called reflation
trade (see Hyperinflation
- Highly improbable and Rush
to gold as safeguard from hyperinflation could be quixotic
Logistics is a tricky area. I need to explore this a bit more. I
shall share my thoughts on this in some later post.
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