Last year, Turkish stocks and TUR tumbled following a failed coup. Turkish markets plummeted on concerns of the implications of the ensuing political turbulence after a failed coup d’etat attempt from the military branch.
In August, Turkey’s central bank lowered interest rates by 25 basis points to 8.75% and said it stands ready to provide liquidity to the country’s banks, if needed, an important factor considering TUR’s weight to financial services stocks is almost 44%, or more than triple the ETF’s second-largest sector allocation.
Importantly, Turkish stocks are not expensive and that could open the door for more upside.
“In equities, the market recovered in January, but price/earnings ratios and price/book ratios are still 10% and 20% below historical averages, respectively, in a context where emerging market equities are trading in line with long-term valuations. Turkey is a cheap market with relatively high earnings-per-share growth. Investors cut Turkey overweight in July [after the attempted coup]and did not add back. We remain overweight Turkish equities,” according to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch note seen in Barron’s.
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