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Monthly Archives: March 2015
A New-and-Improved Shiller CAPE: Solving the Dividend Payout Ratio Problem
A common criticism of Professor Robert Shiller’s famous CAPE measure of stock market valuation is that it fails to correct for the effects of secular changes in the dividend payout ratio. Dividend payout ratios for U.S. companies are lower now … Continue reading
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Using Total Return EPS to Decompose Historical S&P 500 Performance: Charts from 1871 to 2015
In this piece, I’m going to do five things: First, I’m going to clarify the purpose of Total Return EPS, what it’s trying to accomplish. In a single sentence, the purpose of Total Return EPS is to convert dividends into … Continue reading
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Introducing the Total Return EPS Index: A New Tool for Analyzing Fundamental Equity Market Trends
In late December of 2010, with the S&P 500 pushing through the mid 1200s on the heels of QE2 exuberance, my favorite financial economist–the great Robert Shiller–made what will likely turn out to be a very inaccurate prediction. To be … Continue reading
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