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by burgerquizz 2294 days ago
Can you explain what is the "Shiller P/E" , and why it matters?
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It is a measure of how valuable a company stock is (price-to-earnings ratio) but in contrast to the standard P/E which looks at data for only one year it looks at data for the previous ten years, so it's less volatile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclically_adjusted_price-to-e...