Countries Ranked by Valuation

Here is a little proprietary research we did with the help of Ned Davis.  Market participants love focusing on the details while often avoiding the greater picture.  And almost always they find ways to justify whatever market stance they have. Most bulls are now finding holes in all the valuation metrics the same way most bears in 2008 and 2009 were finding ways valuation metrics were different that time.  They never are.

So, my argument to the CAPE ratio haters – fine, don’t use it.  Let’s substitute in book and cash flows, two totally different metrics.  Below are the rankings for all the countries in the world by the three metrics, and then by an average of all three.  Notice anything?

They all agree. (For the most part, not exact of course… )  Just a chart this time, no download:

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