Relative valuation refers to the process of determining the value of something by comparing it to similar things. It involves analyzing and comparing the financial data or characteristics of one asset, company, or investment to similar assets, companies, or investments to determine its worth. This method helps assess whether something is overvalued, undervalued, or fairly valued in relation to other similar things.
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I understand his valuation arguments, but he needs to get more sophisticated, and look at
relative valuations of stocks to bonds.
After thinking about these ideas, I went to the internet and began searching for a way to
measure relative valuations and get some historical context.
So, when you are looking
at relative valuations, always compare like - for - like and look at valuations of stocks that operate in the same economic sector.
Finally, the book value can become negative as a result of a long series of negative earnings, making the P / B ratio useless
for relative valuation purposes.
Earnings growth, a key component in the absolute valuation models we have described, is also an important consideration in
relative valuation models.
If a manager has performed badly and the manager's assets are at an exceptionally
cheap relative valuation, investors should seriously consider topping up, rather than firing the manager.
As with factors,
starting relative valuation is negatively correlated with subsequent relative performance, with overwhelming consistency and impressive statistical significance.
My view is this: it will be difficult for the general public, and even institutional investors to warm up to insurance stocks to the degree that they
make relative valuations unreasonable.
For the low - volatility index we measure performance and
relative valuation by comparing the low - volatility portfolio with the cap - weighted stock market.
Thus, what matters are
relative valuations across assets rather than putting too much emphasis on historical valuations that belonged to a very different economic environment.
Does an in - depth valuation process that covers both discounted cash - flow valuation analysis and
relative valuation analysis meet your objectives?
In real markets, individual investors are allowed to invest directly in individual shares, which allows them to directly
influence relative valuations inside the equity space.
It turns out that, although for most factors
relative valuation plays out slowly over a number of years, valuation is a pretty good short - term predictor for momentum performance.
All of these results reflect our method of
calculating relative valuation and relative return forecasts, as described in the published methodology for each of these strategies.
This continues until the gravitational effects of
relative valuations gets too great — the cash flows of the hot stocks do not justify the valuations.
Emerging markets stocks have seen declines
in relative valuations over the last year, and are well below historical norms.
A number of structural reasons — for example, different accounting conventions — can explain why a particular valuation ratio indicates different
relative valuation levels from one market to another.
On the valuation front, the historical evidence does support a preference for investing in countries with
lower relative valuations.
Thus, what matters are
relative valuations across assets rather than putting too much emphasis on historical valuations that belonged to a very different economic environment.
We measure performance and
relative valuation by comparing the value portfolio relative to the growth portfolio.
Ex-Fed Chairman Greenspan's favorite way of measuring
relative valuation between Stocks and Bond is the Earnings - Yield to Bond - Yield ratio.
A second shortcoming of
relative valuation metrics is the benchmark that is used, typically the metric's long - term historical average.
While ZLB is one of the best single low - vol picks according to our panelists, ETF Insight's Yves Rebetez cautions that «
relative valuations versus traditional market cap could be a concern, and could erode their efficacy going forward.»
You can
use relative valuation or absolute valuation approach (dividend discount model, discounted cash flow (DCF) model etc).
At 13 times forward earnings, Apple already suffers from the lowest
relative valuations within the cohort, and is even lower than the greater S&P 500's multiple of 17 times, so any multiple expansion would be welcomed.
Damodaran shows in an unpublished study of 550 equity research reports that EM, along with Price / Earnings and Price / Sales, were the most common
relative valuation multiples used.