Chart of the Week: Valuations and Forward Returns

Price is what you pay.  Value is what you get. -Warren Buffett Here’s a chart showing the relationship between the S&P 500’s Price-to-Earnings (P/E) ratio and annualized returns over the next 2 years.  It simply shows that your expected return is high when you buy something cheap, and low when you buy something expensive.  On…

How to Produce Outsized Long-Term Returns from the Perspective of Value Investing

I’m going to let you in on a little secret: Wall Street doesn’t look out beyond 1 year.  That’s it.  Just 1… Wall Street is part of the brokerage industry and all that the brokerage industry cares about is making sure: 1) you remain invested in their expensive products, and 2) you continually churn your…