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The Future of Corporate Profits

February 26, 2006

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This diagram displays the future of corporate profits.

Profit margins are probably the most mean-reverting series in finance, and if profit margins do not mean-revert, then something has gone badly wrong with capitalism. If high profits do not attract competition, there is something wrong with the system and it is not functioning properly.
Jeremy Grantham

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