Bill Smead Predictions

Founder, CIO, Smead Capital Management

Track Bill Smead's public market predictions and forecast accuracy. Each prediction is recorded from the date it was published to its estimated deadline, then graded correct or wrong based on the outcome.

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Bill Smead S&P 500 The S&P 500 will fail to make money over the next 10 years, as historical valuation metrics signal no chance of the index doing well
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[31:40] the index has as much chance of making money in the next 10 years statistically as the man on the moon. If you go back and look at every time that the index is in the situation it is now, and then look 10 years later, it it it 72 to 82, 99 to09, you lost money. You lost money counting dividends in the index for 10 years. the chance of the index making money over the next 10 years statistically from historical mathematical Schiller cape GDP to stock market value the Buffett indicator I don't care which indicator you they're all telling you the same thing there's no chance for the S&P 500 to do well

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The David Lin Report 2026-06-05 2036-06-05 pending
Bill Smead AI Stocks AI stocks are poised to decline approximately 85%, similar to what happened to Amazon stock after Jeff Bezos was named Time Person of the Year in 1999
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[12:10] the nine people that created AI were named the time person of the year around December 27th just passed and guess what's ready to happen to them? The same thing that happened to Bezos stock. Now was Bezos hugely successful? Yes. Did anybody that buy it before it and own it while it went down 85% did any of them stick around? The answer is no.

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The David Lin Report 2026-06-05 2028-06-05 pending
Bill Smead Oil Oil will not return to $60 per barrel even if a deal is reached with Iran
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[21:08] the people that think if we settle up with Iran that the price of oil is going to go back to 60 bucks a barrel, they are they are either drinking the wrong thing or smoking the wrong thing.

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The David Lin Report 2026-06-05 2027-06-05 pending
Bill Smead Oil Oil prices will settle in the $80 to $100 per barrel range for an extended period
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[25:14] I actually think it's probably preferable for the the oil companies for it to settle in at 80 to 100 bucks a barrel for an extended period of time

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The David Lin Report 2026-06-05 2027-06-05 pending
Bill Smead Oil Global oil and gas demand will rise modestly each year driven by world population growth
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[26:38] the demand for oil and gas is is is going to probably rise a little bit each year with the population of the world going up

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The David Lin Report 2026-06-05 2031-06-05 pending
Bill Smead Energy Sector Energy stocks (Apache, Oxy, Suncor) are undervalued and will deliver strong free cash flow over the next year at current or higher oil prices
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[22:45] Well, they're very undervalued compared to 90. The market is pricing him at 70 and and President Trump still has dreams of 60. So, so uh uh we ran numbers 6 8 weeks ago and just said okay if a year from now what's if at the price of oil what would the free cash flow be for Apache or what would the free cash flow be for Oxy or what would the free cash flow be for Senovas etc and the the numbers are really outstanding and it it means there's really good value in the stocks here even though they've run up at $70 $20 a barrel.

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The David Lin Report 2026-06-05 2027-06-05 pending
Bill Smead US Housing Market Homebuilder stocks (Lennar, D.R. Horton, NVR) have a bright future driven by structural housing undersupply relative to population
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[38:39] So we like the home builders. It's you have to buy the home builders when there's no hope. Right. That there's lots of people that don't have a home, but there's no hope. And that means you're getting low prices... we own LAR, we own Horton, and we own NVR. And and and and we we we think they have a bright future.

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The David Lin Report 2026-06-05 2031-06-05 pending
Bill Smead Interest Rates Interest rates will settle at levels closer to the 40-year historical average, forcing stocks to be repriced lower
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[3:12] we're now at the process of going back to normality uh which is interest rates that settle into something closer to the average of the last 40 years and stocks having to be repriced against that more typical interest rate.

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The David Lin Report 2026-06-05 2028-06-05 pending
Bill Smead Energy Sector Consolidation in the energy sector will accelerate, with major oil companies likely acquiring smaller producers like Apache and Oxy
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[24:01] the next thing you're going to start seeing the consolidation in the industry right there. We own Apache and Oxy and we don't understand. We We're glad they haven't been bought out yet, but we don't understand why some of the big people aren't buying them because you've got to make sure you've got all the oil you're going to need to provide for the next 10 to 20 years.

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The David Lin Report 2026-06-05 2028-06-05 pending