Market Valuation: The Q Ratio by Percentile
January 3, 2011

This chart below is an addendum to my monthly Q-Ratio update posted earlier today. There we saw that this metric of market valuation was 63% above the average (arithmetic mean) and 76% above the geometric mean.

A percentile analysis of monthly Q ratios since 1900 puts the current ratio in the 95th percentile. If we shorten the timeframe to the past sixty years, the overvaluation drops slightly to the 90th percentile.

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From now on I'll integrate the percentile analysis into the main Q update.


A hat tip to Paul Hanly in Australia for suggesting the addition of a percentile analysis.