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

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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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Strategy of the Week: The Peter Lynch P/E/Growth Investor Model

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By using the PEG ratio, Lynch sought to identify stocks that were not only growing quickly but also trading at valuations that made sense relative to that growth. S&P 500 +23.5%) 2013 : +47.6% (vs. This version of the model has been the best-performing variant among Lynch-based strategies on the Validea platform.

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Strategy of the Week: Ben Graham Value Investor Model

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His model is both conservative and disciplined, focusing on balance sheet strength and attractive valuations. Moderate Valuation (P/E 15) Limiting how much you pay for earnings ensures you dont overpay for future growth that may never materialize. Reasonable Price/Book Ratio (P/B P/E 22) A safeguard against excessive valuations.

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Strategy of the Week: The Motley Fool Small-Cap Growth Investor Model

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A companys price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio must be in line with or lower than its earnings growth rate to ensure valuation remains attractive. This strategy had big winning years like 2013 (+65.9%) , 2020 (+106.5%) , and 2021 (+51.7%) but also suffered steep declines, including 2008 (-27.0%) , 2011 (-16.7%) , 2015 (-9.6%) , and 2022 (-30.3%).

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Should I Time the Market?

The Irrelevant Investor

Given where valuations are, and that he has many decades ahead of him, would it make sense to wait for a better pitch over the next five years? We could have had the exact same conversation in 2013 as the market was approaching new all-time highs. In March 2013, at a CAPE of 22.5, And stocks weren't exactly a bargain.

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: Wastewater specialist Gradiant raises $225 mln despite slowdown in venture capital deals

MarketWatch

Gradiant, a Boston-based designer of water treatment solutions for the semiconductor, pharmaceutical and food industries, said it reached a valuation of $1 billion in its latest round of venture capital financing. The company said Wednesday it raised $225 million in Series D financing led by BoltRock Holdings and Centaurus Capital.

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Today in Market History

The Irrelevant Investor

Netflix has had triple digit returns in five of the last fourteen years, was the best performing S&P 500 stock in 2013, and 2015, and it's up 27% in 2017. I suppose a better way to say this is that it was cheap based on expectations, but expensive based on traditional valuation metrics.