11/21/2010

CAPE Ratio vs Real Return for S&P500

From Robert Shiller's S&P500 data at http://www.irrationalexuberance.com/, the following chart shows the relationship between the cyclically adjusted price/earnings ratio and the annualized real return for the next 10 years (total return).


The trend line for the real return is r = 1.3056 / CAPE^0.076.