Charts
Review: The Callan Periodic Table of Investment Returns 1993-2012
Every year Callan Associates publishes their famous Callan Period Table of Investment Returns. Recently they updated the table with data for the year 2012. The Callan Periodic Table of Investment Returns for 2012 is shown below: Click to enlarge Source: Callan Associates Some interesting observations from the table are: In 2012, the emerging markets beat U.S. [...]
Apple vs. Sony
Apple(AAPL) stock reached a peak of $705.07 earlier this year and became the most valuable company in the world. Yesterday it closed at $529.69 and the market capitalization stands at $498.3 billion. Japan’s Sony Corp’s (SNE) stock trading in Tokyo reached the lowest price since 1980, a year after the company introduced Walkman. Sony’s market capitalization [...]
Chart: Top 50 Global Drug Companies by Sales in 2011
Click to enlarge Source: Pharmaceutical Executive
List of Major U.S. and Foreign Futures Exchanges
Interesting table showing the Major U.S. and Foreign Futures Exchanges: Click to enlarge Source: Derivatives and Risk Management in the Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Electricity Industries, Energy Information Administration, Oct 2002
Historical Performance Charts of Select Asian Equity Indices
The long-term return charts of many equity markets is not easy to find online. This is especially true in the case of frontier and emerging markets. The following charts show the long-term performance of major equity indices in Asia. The risks with investing in emerging markets is confirmed by dramatic rise and falls of stock [...]
Historical P/E Ratio of the S&P 500 Index
The historical P/E ratio of the S&P 500 1926 to 2009 is shown below: Click to enlarge The Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio was at 10.22 in the beginning of 1926 and reached 20.61 in 2009—an average increase of 0.84% per year. The highest P/E ratio was 136.50, recorded during the bull market in 1932, [...]
