For a much more academic and thorough method of utilizing the CAPE Ratio I refer you to Wes Gray and Jack Vogel's more recent work on this particular subject in their paper entitled On The Performance of Cyclically
Adjusted Valuation Measures.
Not exact matches
Moderate interest rates were associated with a whole range of subsequent returns over the following decade, and we know that those outcomes were 90 % correlated with the level of
valuations at the beginning of those periods (on reliable
measures such as market cap / GDP, price / revenue, Tobin's Q, the margin -
adjusted Shiller P / E, and others we've presented over time - see Ockham's Razor and the Market Cycle).
At Berkshire Hathaway's recent annual shareholders meeting, an investor asked Buffett about the relevance of two popular
measures of stock market value: 1) market cap - to - GDP, which Buffett once heralded as «probably the best single
measure of where
valuations stand at any given moment» and 2) the cyclically -
adjusted price - earnings ratio (CAPE), which was made famous by Nobel prize winner Robert Shiller and was seen as accurately predicting the dot - com bubble and the housing bubble.
These
measures include the S&P 500 price / revenue ratio, the Margin -
Adjusted CAPE (our more reliable variant of Robert Shiller's cyclically - adjusted P / E), and MarketCap / GVA — the ratio of nonfinancial market capitalization to corporate gross value - added, including estimated foreign revenues — which is easily the most reliable valuation measure we've ever created or tested, among scores of alter
Adjusted CAPE (our more reliable variant of Robert Shiller's cyclically -
adjusted P / E), and MarketCap / GVA — the ratio of nonfinancial market capitalization to corporate gross value - added, including estimated foreign revenues — which is easily the most reliable valuation measure we've ever created or tested, among scores of alter
adjusted P / E), and MarketCap / GVA — the ratio of nonfinancial market capitalization to corporate gross value - added, including estimated foreign revenues — which is easily the most reliable
valuation measure we've ever created or tested, among scores of alternatives.
Longer - term
valuation measures — notably cyclically
adjusted earnings (CAPE)-- are even more elevated and suggest low - to mid-single digit returns over the next five years.
In the early 1920s, stock market
valuation was comparatively low, as
measured by the inflation -
adjusted present value of future dividends.
This is true whether you
measure S&P 500
valuation by the cyclically -
adjusted price - to - earnings ratio, the market - capitalization - to - GDP ratio, the price - to - book - value ratio, the average dividend yield, or most other
valuation metrics.
Valuation measures like Yale professor Robert Shiller's Cyclically
Adjusted P / E Ratio (CAPE) also warn that stocks are a bit pricey, which only heightens investors» concerns.
A leading academic, Robert Shiller of Yale, has, however created a metric to
measure the relative
valuation of the market — the CAPE — cyclically
adjusted price earnings ratio.