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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 03, 2023
Emerging market stocks were laggards in the past decade

Global Economy

Reuters
28 December, 2019, 02:00 pm
Last modified: 28 December, 2019, 03:14 pm

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Emerging market stocks were laggards in the past decade

MSCI’s index of emerging market stocks has risen just 15% since the start of 2010 while the MSCI World index delivered a massive 104% return in that period

Reuters
28 December, 2019, 02:00 pm
Last modified: 28 December, 2019, 03:14 pm
 Visitors look at a stock quotation board at Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo Japan, October 11, 2018/ Reuters
Visitors look at a stock quotation board at Tokyo Stock Exchange in Tokyo Japan, October 11, 2018/ Reuters

Despite a strong start to this decade in 2010, emerging market stocks underperformed developed market peers and were weighed down by events such as the Chinese market sell-off, debt crises in Turkey and Argentina and the Sino-US trade war.

MSCI's index of emerging market stocks has risen just 15% since the start of 2010, while the MSCI World index delivered a massive 104% return in that period.

Thailand, Philippines and Taiwan led emerging markets, with gains of more than 50% each over the past decade, while Greece, Turkey and the Czech Republic bottomed the list with negative returns.

The period from 2010 to this December also saw turbulent foreign portfolio flows into emerging markets as overseas investors balked during periodic swings in risk appetite, including a period of rising US interest rates as major central banks began to unwind their crisis-era stimulus.

Graphic: EM valuations country wise

Graphic: EM GDP growth

Despite the volatility, share prices broadly kept pace with earnings growth.

The MSCI EM index's forward 12-month price-to-earnings ratio was at 11.8 at the end of November, compared with its 10-year average of 10.9. Its lowest was 8.5 in October 2011, and the high was 13.09 in January 2018.

Graphic: MSCI EM P/E ratio

China and Poland saw the biggest drop in their P/E ratios in the past decade, making them cheaper. Thailand saw the biggest rise in the valuation ratio.

Russia and Czech Republic lead the dividend yields league table, while India had the lowest yield. Russia's dividend yield rose to 6.8% at the end of November, compared with 1.6% at the start of 2010. Chile's dividend yield also rose to 3.6% from 1.3% in that period.

Graphic: EM change in corporate debt

Graphic: EM dividend yield

EM firms' profits slowed after they posted solid growth of 40% in 2010, according to a Reuters analysis of 4402 firms, due to a combination of factors such as a fall in commodity prices, slowing demand for tech products and the US-China trade dispute.

The analysis showed that EM firms' profit growth lagged those of developed market firms for the most part of the decade

China, Mexico and Thai firms had the highest median profit growth of 10% or more for the past 10 years, while Hungary, Egypt and Turkey had negative median growth.

Graphic: MSCI EM index vs World index

Graphic: MSCI Emerging Markets country indices performance in this decade

Graphic: EM vs DM profit growth

Yet, emerging market firms also cut down their debt levels and slowed their expansion plans due to falling demand for their exports.

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