Valuation Ratios and the Long-Run Stock Market Outlook
Author(s) -
John Y. Campbell,
Robert J. Shiller
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
the journal of portfolio management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 2168-8656
pISSN - 0095-4918
DOI - 10.3905/jpm.24.2.11
Subject(s) - valuation (finance) , stock market , financial economics , economics , stock (firearms) , business , monetary economics , finance , engineering , mechanical engineering , paleontology , horse , biology
The use of price--earnings ratios and dividend-price ratios asforecasting variables for the stock market is examined using aggregateannual US data 1871 to 2000 and aggregate quarterly data for twelvecountries since 1970. Various simple efficient-markets models of financialmarkets imply that these ratios should be useful in forecasting future dividendgrowth, future earnings growth, or future productivity growth. Weconclude that, overall, the ratios do poorly in forecasting any of...
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