Singapore Stock Market Valuations and Expected Future Returns

Country: Singapore (updated daily) check out Global Overview for detailed methodology.

Ratio of total market cap over GDP: Maximum - 418%; Minimum - 92%; current - 119%
Expected future annual return: 18.3%

ETF Used for dividend yield: EWS (Yield=3.65%)
Market Index used: Straits Times Index
Current Annual GDP: $328 billion US dollars or 447 in billions of national currency (GDP in Local Current Prices Annual Growth=6.59%)
Data since year 1987

Singapore Historical GDP Growth

Historical GDP of Singapore in billions of national currency. The GDP in local current prices has grown at the annual rate of 6.59% 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: $328 billion US dollars or 447 in billions of national currency.

Historical Stock Market Cap

Historical total market of Singapore in billions of national currency. This value is normalized using the data published by WorldBank. Straits Times Index is used for the normalization. It tracks the performance of the top 30 companies listed on the Singapore Exchange.

Historical Ratio of Total Market Cap over GDP (%)

The current ratio of total market cap over GDP for Singapore is 119%. The historical high was 418%; the historical low was 92%. If we assume that the ratio will reverse to the historical mean of 215% over the next 8 years, the contribution to expected annual return is 8.02%. This is the detailed historical chart of the ratio.

Conclusion

The stock market of Singapore is expected to return 18.3% a year for the coming years. This is from the contribution of economic growth in local current prices: 6.59%, Dividend Yield: 3.65% and valuation reverse to the mean 8.02%.

This is the projected return of the stock market in Singapore relative to other countries. Click on each bar in the chart to go to other countries:


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