Monday, November 12, 2007

Welcome back to relative P/E valuations.

Something I regularly track are the P/E valuations on major indexes. They were doing just great until huge firms started missing numbers. Now they are extremely over inflated. The P/E in the DJIA more than doubled (from 18 to 46) as many companies lost tons (in the literal sense) of money this last quarter.


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The 30 components in the DJIA provide a sample for what might happen to the Nasdaq.

1 comment:

Orr2749 said...

Excellent highlighting of why PE ratios are so problematic in bear markets. Keep up the good work.

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