Friday 17 June 2011

What is the Q-Ratio?

What Is The Q-Ratio, And Why Do People Think It's Predicting A Market Crash?

What is the Q-Ratio?

Doug Short has been on top of this, tracking it, and explaining it, so we'll use his words here:

The Q Ratio is a popular method of estimating the fair value of the stock market developed by Nobel Laureate James Tobin. It's a fairly simple concept, but laborious to calculate. The Q Ratio is the total price of the market divided by the replacement cost of all its companies. Fortunately, the government does the work of accumulating the data for the calculation. The numbers are supplied in the Federal Reserve Z.1 Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States, which is released quarterly.



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