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ATM: Valuation is an Exercise in Faith with Aswath Damodaran

The Big Picture

 ATM: Valuation is an exercise in faith with Aswath Damodaran. October 9, 2024) Do you understand the difference between price and value? He has written numerous books on valuation and finance. He is often referred to as the Dean of Valuation for his extensive work in the area. Traders live on pricing.

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Validea’s Market Valuation Report: November 2024

Validea

Here is the latest update for November from Validea’s market valuation tool. Rather than focusing on market-cap weighted indexes like the S&P 500, our tool focuses on the valuation of the average stock relative to history. We use the median of our investable universe of 2700 stocks to perform the calculation.

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Validea’s Market Valuation Update – October 2024

Validea

Here is the latest update for October from Validea’s market valuation tool. Rather than focusing on market-cap weighted indexes like the S&P 500, our tool focuses on the valuation of the average stock relative to history. Using current year earnings estimates, valuations also rose slightly to 17.8.

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Validea’s Market Valuation Update: September 2024

Validea

Here is the latest update for September from Validea’s market valuation tool. Rather than focusing on market-cap weighted indexes like the S&P 500, our tool focuses on the valuation of the average stock relative to history. Using current year earnings estimates, valuations also fell from a PE of 18.1

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Validea Market Valuation Update – August 2024

Validea

Here is the latest update for August from Validea’s market valuation tool. Rather than focusing on market-cap weighted indexes like the S&P 500, our tool focuses on the valuation of the average stock relative to history. Using current year earnings estimates, valuations rose in a similar fashion.

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P/E10 and Market Valuation: October 2024

Advisor Perspectives

Here is the latest update of a popular market valuation method, Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio, using the most recent Standard & Poor's "as reported" earnings and earnings estimates, and the index monthly average of daily closes for the past month. The latest trailing twelve months (TTM) P/E ratio is 28.2

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Market Valuation, Inflation and Treasury Yields - October 2024

Advisor Perspectives

Our monthly market valuation updates have long had the same conclusion: US stock indexes are significantly overvalued, which suggests cautious expectations for investment returns. On August 4, 2020, the 10-year Treasury yield hit its all-time low of 0.52%. As of November 8, it was 4.30%.