{"id":5586,"date":"2026-09-29T14:06:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=5586"},"modified":"2026-09-29T14:06:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T14:06:05","slug":"83-of-cfos-say-u-s-stocks-are-overvalued-even-as-optimism-about-their-companies-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vaultinsider.top\/?p=5586","title":{"rendered":"\u00a083% of CFOs say U.S. stocks are overvalued, even as optimism about their companies rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GettyImages-1286815180.jpg?w=2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Good morning. CFOs are feeling better about their own companies even as they become more cautious about markets and the broader economy. And concern is growing about the technology they\u2019re racing to deploy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deloitte\u2019s Q3 2026 CFO Signals survey, which polled 200 North American finance chiefs at companies with at least $1 billion in revenue, found that the CFO Confidence Score climbed to 6.1 from 5.9 last quarter, moving back into \u201chigh\u201d territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ninety percent of respondents said they were more optimistic about their companies\u2019 financial prospects, even as risk appetite cooled slightly, with 53% saying now is a good time to take greater risks, down from 59% in Q2. But Ed Hardy, U.S. financial services leader at Deloitte, noted that CFOs\u2019 views on the relative attractiveness of debt and equity financing changed little.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More striking to Hardy was the gap between how CFOs view their own businesses and how they view the broader market. There was a sharp increase in the share of CFOs who believe U.S. equity markets are overvalued: 83%, compared with 49% in Q2. Despite that, equity attractiveness remained flat in Q3, while debt attractiveness increased four percentage points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf they feel it\u2019s overvalued, buying might not be the most objective thing to do,\u201d Hardy told me, adding that elevated valuations are prompting finance chiefs to \u201csearch for the highest use of capital,\u201d which is a dynamic he connects to rising investment in AI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI and technology are also becoming a growing source of both opportunity and risk. Technology deployment, including generative AI, was among CFOs\u2019 leading internal concerns, while cybersecurity topped the external-risk list at 50%. Hardy said the two are closely linked. \u201cAI probably starts to increase your already heightened concern around cyber,\u201d he said, pointing to the growing use of open platforms and third-party models.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, CFOs\u2019 12-month outlook for the North American economy slipped slightly but remained generally steady compared with Q2. Inflation, supply chain disruption and the economy itself ranked among their leading external concerns, trailing cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Survey data collection started Aug. 24 and wrapped Sept. 8, before the Federal Reserve\u2019s Sept. 16 rate decision, leaving open how CFO sentiment might shift in the next quarter. \u201cYou always wonder whether it\u2019s embedded into the psyche of where they think the market\u2019s going,\u201d Hardy said. He added that he\u2019ll be watching closely to see whether economic and geopolitical uncertainty eases into 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Looking ahead to 2027, Hardy said he expects CFOs to keep pushing AI \u201cbeyond experiment into really grounded applications,\u201d while wrestling with governance, shifting token-based pricing models and how to measure real benefits. \u201cThe CFO role is increasing in being a convener across the enterprise,\u201d he said, as finance takes on broader oversight of AI\u2019s costs and outcomes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sheryl<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Estrada<\/strong><br \/>Sheryl.Estrada@fortune.com<\/p>\n<h3>Leaderboard<\/h3>\n<p><b>Jennifer Hays<\/b> was appointed CFO of Gunnison Copper Corp., effective Oct. 12, the mining company known for its flagship Gunnison Copper Project and Johnson Camp Mine in Arizona announced. She succeeds Fabio Rocha, who has served as interim CFO and will be promoted to senior director of accounting and reporting. Hays brings roughly 20 years of finance experience across the U.S. defense industrial base and government contracting. She most recently served as CFO of PacSci EMC, a defense and space company within Ralliant Corp. Before that, Hays spent about 17 years at Intel Corp. in senior finance roles.<\/p>\n<p><b>Ivica Maric<\/b> will succeed Yves M\u00fcller as CFO and chief operating officer of Hugo Boss AG. M\u00fcller is leaving the managing board for personal reasons, stepping down at his own request effective Oct. 1. He has served as CFO since December 2017 and added the COO title in May 2022, during which time he helped lead the company&#8217;s CLAIM 5 growth strategy. Maric, a Hugo Boss veteran since 2005, most recently served as executive vice president of business operations and will assume both roles upon M\u00fcller&#8217;s departure.<\/p>\n<h3>Big Deal<\/h3>\n<p>A new Gallup and Microsoft survey of 37 countries finds that positive feelings about AI outweigh negative ones in 34 of them, even though a median of 57% of adults globally have never used the technology.<\/p>\n<p>Optimism runs highest in China, where 93% expect AI to mostly help their country, and Vietnam, at 91%, while its lowest in Bangladesh (34%), Egypt (35%) and the U.S. (36%). Notably, wealthy Western nations\u2014including the U.S., Netherlands and Canada\u2014combine some of the highest AI usage rates with the highest levels of worry, with 74% of U.S. adults aware of AI saying it makes them feel worried, more than any other country surveyed.<\/p>\n<p>But that anxiety fades with familiarity: across nearly every country, daily AI users report significantly less worry and more trust in the technology&#8217;s accuracy than infrequent or non-users, suggesting adoption and comfort with AI are closely linked, even if Gallup notes the survey can&#8217;t determine which drives the other.<\/p>\n<h3>Going deeper<\/h3>\n<p>The Fortune AIQ 75 list was released this morning. The list ranks Fortune 500 companies generating significant, measurable impact from AI adoption.The ranking draws on ServiceNow&#8217;s Enterprise AI Maturity Index, an annual framework that benchmarks how prepared organizations are to adopt and scale AI across the public and private sectors, from governance and data foundations to automation and workflows.<\/p>\n<p>To ground the list in comparable, real-world evidence, <em>Fortune<\/em> partnered with Enterprise Technology Research to evaluate how Fortune 500 companies are actually deploying AI, and how technology leaders value those investments relative to industry peers.<\/p>\n<p>View the complete list here.<\/p>\n<h3>Overheard<\/h3>\n<p><b>&#8220;These days most of my time goes on one thing: persuading people who have technical skill to point it at something that matters. It\u2019s the conversation I wish I\u2019d had earlier in my career.&#8221;<\/b><b\/><\/p>\n<p>\u2014Alex Stephany, CEO and co-founder of Beam, a company focused on AI for human services, writes in a <i>Fortune <\/i>opinion piece about his search for purpose at work.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#CFOs #U.S #stocks #overvalued #optimism #companies #rises<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. 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