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Revisiting the Market Valuation in the Wake of This Year’s Decline

Validea

With the S&P 500 now close to 20% off its highs, I thought now might be a good time to look to our market valuation tool to see where things stand. But before I do that, I wanted to first cover two caveats I always put in articles about market valuation. With that all being said, let’s look at the current valuation data.

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The Difference Between Stocks & Bonds

A Wealth of Common Sense

The 10 year Treasury yield recently hit 4.8%, its highest level since the summer of 2007. 1 The dividend yield on the S&P 500 has been falling for years from a combination of rising valuations and the increased usage of sh. That’s higher than the dividend yield on all but 53 stocks in the S&P 500. government bond.1

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Stock Market Can’t Ignore Impact of Rates on Earnings This Season

Advisor Perspectives

Stock markets that have refused to buckle under the highest yields since 2007 face a new test. Third-quarter results will shine a light on how much those rates are already hitting profits — and what they’ll do to lofty equity valuations.

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Is Value Investing Out of Favor or Out of Time?

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Between the 1970s and 2007, value investing—where investors identify stocks that are trading below their intrinsic value—reigned supreme for two generations of investors. Many investors hopped on his bandwagon and received outstanding returns for decades, until the financial crisis in 2007, the article relates.

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The Most Unattractive Stocks Have Looked Since 2008

Validea

The divide between the earnings yield for the S&P 500 and 10-year Treasurys is at its narrowest since Fall 2007—1.59%, according to an article in The Wall Street Journal. In October 2007, stocks had just reached record-high prices while the bond yields were at 4.8%—near near the current level. Now, some measures peg U.S.

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Dodge & Cox Go For A Bold Strategy

Validea

The hedge, now down to 2% amidst more appealing valuations, is still on, and has helped the fund outperform its peers, reports a profile on the fund and its managers in Barron’s. While DODBX is down 9.8% this year, that’s much less than the average balanced fund in Morningstar’s Allocation-50% to 70% Equity category, which are down 15.1%.

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Is October the Right Month to Invest? What do the Nifty Trends Show?

Trade Brains

Amid all the noise surrounding geopolitical issues, global valuations, and FII selloff, the Nifty bulls might be feeling a bit clueless about their next moves. The best month for Nifty50 returns was in May 2009, with an impressive 28.07%, and October 2007 was also remarkable, with a 17.51% gain. loss, due to the financial crisis.