Generally you see P / E
expansion during bull markets and P / E contraction during bear markets.
Not exact matches
, San - Lin Chung, Chi - Hsiou Hung and Chung - Ying Yeh examine the predictive power of investor sentiment for different kinds of stocks
during bull (low - volatility,
expansion) and bear (high - volatility, recession) equity
market regimes.
This idea that you are — if you buy only cheap stocks — entitled to getting one and only one multiple
expansion «bump» to your returns is something buy and hold investors need drilled into their heads
during the last stages of a
bull market.
The
expansion of P / Es
during the 1982 - 2000
bull market was responsible for 75 % of
market gains; The present contractionary P / E cycle is partly responsible for the lowering the P / E of most stocks.