Satrix style tracker Q2 2020

What worked and what didn’t in Q2 2020?

| 10 August 2020

Factor performance review at a glance

Debt to Equity (100%) and Price-to-Book (86.0%) deliver stellar returns
Volatility continued into the second quarter of 2020 with the market bouncing back from its lows in March. This lead to factor spreads experiencing even more distorted dispersion numbers than Q1. Price Momentum (-58.8%) and Return on Equity (-51.4%) which were very good performing factors in the sell-off, got hit hard in the second quarter. However, Earnings Revisions (-4.6%) managed to subdue the Momentum factor in general. Debt to Equity (100%) and Price-to-Book (86.0%) delivered stellar returns as these value and geared stocks surged from their bottom. Dividend Yield (-2.3%) was marginally negative over the quarter. Over a one-year period it was only Price to Book and Debt to Equity that were the only two factors to deliver a positive return spread over one year.

Key events that impacted performance in Q2 2020

Extreme volatility continued into the quarter, but this time markets experienced one of the fastest recoveries from the global stock market crash. For the quarter, the MSCI World Index (19.4%), MSCI Emerging Markets Index (18.1%) and MSCI USA Index (21.6%) in net US dollar all gave substantial positive returns. For the full quarter, the South African rand appreciated by 2.4% to the US dollar, closing at R17.38 to the greenback, R21.52 to the pound and R19.54 to the euro. In spite of the market’s bouncing back, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) committee mentioned that the economic contraction and slow recovery of the economy would keep inflation below the middle of their target range. In their meeting in May, the committee continued to cut the repo rate by 0.5% to 3.75%, the lowest level in its history.

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