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Stock Prices are Out of This World

Valuations Are at the Furthest Edge of the Financial Solar System

By Robert Prechter, excerpted from the January 2025 Elliott Wave Theorist.

Figure 1 updates our history of year-end valuations for stocks of S&P companies on two bases: price to book value (Y axis) and dividend yield (X axis). I thought the year-end 2021 overvaluation would never be surpassed. But as you can see, the year-end 2024 reading is both higher and further to the right. It is the highest multiple ever recorded for S&P Industrials’ price to book value and the fifth-lowest level for the S&P Composite’s dividend yield, the four lower readings all occurring in 1998-2001.

We have long called this our Pluto chart. Perhaps we should have expected another extreme valuation near that of 2021. After all, Pluto was discovered to be a planet pair.

Stock Valuations

The extreme readings of 1998-2001 stayed within the dashed-line channel, but the past six years’ closing valuations are all beyond it. In three of those years — 2021, 2023 and 2024 — price to book value was above that of 1999, the year of the all time high in stock indexes priced in real money (gold)…

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By Robert Prechter, excerpted from the January 2025 Elliott Wave Theorist. Copyright © 1997-2025 Elliott Wave International 

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