THE WEAK DOLLAR FAVORS COMPANIES WITH HIGH FOREIGN EXPOSURE

The following is a guest contribution from Value Expectations:

In a recent Article by John Tamny, Forbes: To Fix The Global Economy, Fix The Dollar, the effects of a weakening dollar on the U.S. Economy were nicely summarized “When money loses value, it’s the equivalent of governments raising the rate at which we pay income taxes. But with taxes, we can at least see how much the government is removing from each paycheck.”

A weakling dollar will likely be followed with higher inflation.   Although there are some who believe that a weaker dollar will strengthen our exports, the reality is that companies will be spending more to produce their goods and investors will require higher nominal pre-tax rates of return. Furthermore, an increase in the overall cost of capital for equities will result in less business expansion as companies must pay more to source their funds.

So how do investors deal with a sluggish economy and declining dollar? As the U.S. economy faces many headwinds with a declining dollar, we recommend high quality, well managed, attractively-priced businesses with high foreign exposure.   Companies with a significant overseas exposure will likely benefit from currency appreciation against the dollar making sales in those currencies especially valuable.
Using AFG’s proprietary research we thought we would provide you a solid list of well managed businesses, in the S&P 500 that also have over 50% in foreign sales.

Using AFG’s proprietary research we thought we would provide you a solid list of well managed businesses, in the S&P 500 that also have over 50% in foreign sales.

Source: Value Expectations