Quote from hermitage:
courtesy of brett arends at wsj
Share prices world-wide now trade for an average of about 1.5 times book or net asset value, the lowest level since 1985. They're less than 0.8 times annual sales, their lowest levels since 1992. The dividend yield -- if you trust it, of course -- is nearly at a quarter-century high. According to FactSet, a market data monitor, share prices world-wide average less than 10 times forward earnings, also the lowest levels since the bargain-basement era of the early 1980s.