On the measures we find most tightly correlated with actual
subsequent market returns across history, the S&P 500 is now between 150 % and 170 % above valuation norms that have been approached or breached over the completion of every market cycle in history, including the most recent one.
Not exact matches
MarketCap / GVA is better correlated with actual
subsequent S&P 500 total
returns than price / forward earnings, the Fed Model, the Shiller P / E, price / book, price / dividend, Tobin's Q,
market capitalization to GDP, price / revenue and every other valuation ratio we've developed or examined in
market cycles
across history.
We find that in
market cycles
across history, this new measure is better correlated (92 %) with actual
subsequent S&P 500 nominal total
returns than even the S&P 500 price / revenue ratio and
market capitalization / nominal GDP.
Among the valuation measures most tightly correlated
across history with actual
subsequent S&P 500 total
returns, the ratio of
market capitalization to corporate gross value added would now have to retreat by nearly 60 % simply to reach its pre-bubble average.
Last week, the U.S. equity
market climbed to the steepest valuation level in history, based on the valuation measures most highly correlated with actual
subsequent S&P 500 10 - 12 year total
returns,
across a century of
market cycles.
Indeed, even Robert Shiller's cyclically - adjusted P / E (CAPE) is much better correlated with actual
subsequent market returns,
across a century of
market cycles, when we account for the profit margin embedded in the 10 - year average of earnings.
While other historically reliable metrics carry a very similar message,
Market Cap / GVA has the highest correlation with actual
subsequent 10 - year S&P 500 total
returns than any other valuation ratio we've examined
across history.
Don't criticize historically reliable valuation measures that have maintained the same tight relationship with actual
subsequent 10 - 12 year
market returns that they've demonstrated
across a century of history.
Our perspective is straightforward: on the basis of measures that have been reliably correlated with actual
subsequent market returns in
market cycles
across a century of data, we estimate that the S&P 500 Index will be no higher a decade from now than it is today.
While other historically reliable metrics carry a very similar message,
Market Cap / GVA has the highest correlation with actual
subsequent 10 - year S&P 500 total
returns than any other valuation ratio we've examined
across history.