Investors can still find bargains here

Dusseldorf More than ten years of boom and a doubling of global prices since the Corona spring crash in 2020 have made stocks expensive. This is especially true for the papers of the popular large companies, the “blue chips”.

Handelsblatt calculations show that if you bet on the 100 most valuable companies in the world by market value and buy shares in them, for example in the form of an ETF, you will pay the corporations and reduce their shares with 25 times the annual net profit.

This key figure is even embellished a little, because with this median value, valuation outliers are less taken into account. The unweighted mean and valuation average are at a price-earnings ratio (P / E) of 31.5 – a high value.

On a long-term average, the top 100 in the world were only valued at 18 times the profit – and thus only almost half as expensive.

Attractively valued stocks that also promise potential are currently rare. The Handelsblatt portrays four promising candidates – and an overall market.

Those are the criteria