Buffett Indicator: France Stock Market Valuations and Expected Future Returns
Updated at Sun, 24 Jan 2021 20:30:05 -0600
Country:
France (updated daily) check out
Global Overview for detailed methodology.
The Stock Market is
Fair valued.
Ratio of total market cap over GDP: Recent 20 Year Maximum - 157.01%; Recent 20 Year Minimum - 52.5%; current -
86.86%Expected future annual return:
2.8%ETF Used for dividend yield:
EWQ (Yield=
0.82%)
Market Index used:
CAC 40Current Annual GDP:
$3,004 billion US dollars or
2,474 in billions of national currency (GDP in Local Current Prices Annual Growth=
1.92%)
Data since year
1990
France Historical GDP Growth
Historical GDP of
France in billions of national currency. The GDP in local current prices has grown at the annual rate of
1.92% over the past 8 years. Please note this growth rate includes the effect of price inflation and it is NOT the real GDP growth rate. Current Annual GDP:
$3,004 billion US dollars or
2,474 in billions of national currency.
France GDP (Billion, National Currency)
Historical Stock Market Cap
Historical total market of
France in billions of national currency. This value is normalized using the data published by WorldBank.
CAC 40 is used for the normalization. Use CAC 40 as index, data goes back to 1990. Earliest quarterly GDP data goes back to 1949, in Euros.
France Total Market Cap (Billion, National Currency)
Historical Ratio of Total Market Cap over GDP (%)
The current ratio of total market cap over GDP for
France is
86.86%. The recent 20 year high was
157.01%; the recent 20 low was
52.5%. If we assume that the ratio will reverse to the recent 20 years mean of
87.49% over the next 8 years, the contribution to expected annual return is
0.09%. This is the detailed historical chart of the ratio.
France Ratio of Total Market Cap over GDP (%)
Based on these historical valuations, we have divided market valuation into five zones:
Ratio = Total Market Cap / GDP |
Valuation |
Ratio ≤ 61% |
Significantly Undervalued |
61% < Ratio ≤ 79% |
Modestly Undervalued |
79% < Ratio ≤ 96% |
Fair Valued |
96% < Ratio ≤ 114% |
Modestly Overvalued |
Ratio > 114% |
Significantly Overvalued |
Where are we today (2021-01-25)? | Ratio = 86.86%, Fair valued |
Predicted and Actual Returns
From the equation presented on the U.S. market valuation page,
Investment Return (%) = Dividend Yield (%) + Business Growth (%) + (Re/Rb)(1/T)-1
We can compute the predicted and actual returns of the France stock market over a given time period, T. In the calculation, we set T to equal eight years, the approximate length of a full economic cycle. The calculated results are presented in the chart below. The green line indicates the expected, or predicted return if the market ratio trends near the recent 20 years average ratio of 87.49% over the next eight years.
The blue line indicates the actual, annualized return of the France stock market over eight years. We use “CAC 40” to do the actual return calculation. We can see the calculations largely predicted the trend in the stock market as the blue line is closely parallel to the green line.
Predicted and Actual Returns of France
Conclusion
The stock market of
France is expected to return
2.8% a year for the coming years. This is from the contribution of economic growth in local current prices:
1.92%, Dividend Yield:
0.82% and valuation reverse to the mean
0.09%.
This is the projected return of the stock market in France relative to other countries. Click on each bar in the chart to go to other countries:
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