Friday, April 25, 2008

Sector valuation

Bespoke has provided some great graphs to help illustrate whether stocks are 'cheap' down at these current levels....

Valuation techniques should differ depending on what sector/industry you’re analyzing. For example, with utility stocks it might be appropriate to use a price to book ratio; whereas using the same valuation technique on tech stocks would not make any sense.

Price to earnings is a generally accepted valuation technique that when analyzing sectors on a whole, can be quite useful. Bespoke has done just that in the following analysis:
http://bespokeinvest.typepad.com/bespoke/2008/04/us-sector-pe-ra.html

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