This level of disparity was witnessed two times before: in 1970 and 2000. Shortly after reaching these highs, the tech sector took a drop (along with the rest of the market) and went on to significantly underperform for a decade afterward in both cases.
When bond discount rates are structurally increased, equity valuations become progressively more prominent for institutional investors. This becomes particularly relevant when fundamental growth, as highlighted by economic indicators, becomes stagnant. When investors realize that these highly-overvalued stocks are ultimately valued at massive multiples, their valuations are at a major risk.
In the weeks since the Survey was published, the U.S. stock market has seen a flight to broad-market funds by institutionals and money market funds by major investors. In both cases, tech stocks continually edged upwards and somewhat subsided in some measure, albeit with an upward trend. The most widely-read indicator is the earnings beaten which, however, comes with a caveat: analysts’ consensus on target earnings tended to be somewhat generous. When these heavily-discounted expectations were beaten, some market participants read this to mean outperformance. In reality, the hurdles were set too low.
Even in the week that has passed, Big Tech was the prime mover for the S&P 500 despite momentum continuing to dwindle: