Historical Sector P/E Ratios

As another post for our Charts and Tables category, we are highlighting the historical P/E ratios of the ten major US economic sectors of the S&P 500.  Below we highlight Financials, Industrials and Technology.  As shown in the charts, divergence has been created in all three sectors since the bull market began.  The P/E ratio of Industrials has continued to decline even as its price has gone up.  While Technology's P/E is much lower than it was during the bubble years, its P/E has remained flat for the past three years.  We'll be back with the rest of the sector charts shortly.

Comments

[One Way Stox]

absolutely brilliant.

can you do biotech companies next?
DNA, AMGN, GILD, IMCL, BIIB

THANKS

[Sanjay John Gandhi]

Good charts. Just like end of 1995, I think a major rally in the markets is coming because expectations are very low and people are still worried about a recession. Once they realize there isn't going to be one (great jobs report today) the market will shoot higher.

I personally like the defensive names-telecom, utilities, real estates in the US. Improving fundamentals plus lots of push from private equity-you are with the smart money on these sectors.

Sanjay
www.sanjayjohn.com

[Justin Sloss]

Any clue on the highest P/E ratio for a company ever recorded? And the highest P/E ratio for company as to date?

[Vish Viswanathan]

Can you provide a link for historical price and P/E ratio for individual stocks over last 50 years?

Thanks for your help.

Vish

[Blake]

Can anyone tell me where I can get sector historical P/E ratios in data form? I reall want to do some research using these metrics.

Thanks