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There are several definitions of earnings floating about.
S&P trackes several of them, including forward (top-down) estimates:
http://www2.standardandpoors.com/spf/xls/index/SP500EPSEST.XLS
On an as-reported basis, the S&P P/E is approx. 22.5
Back in 1988, it was 11.7.
Barra tracks a lot of this data:
http://www.barra.com/Research/Fundamentals.aspx
and this app. will let you chart various fundamental values:
http://www.barra.com/Research/fund_charts.asp
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gray, Gabriel [mailto:Gabriel.Gray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 9:45 AM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: PE of S&P
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> There is always a lot of talk about what the historic average PE of the
> S&P is. I just downloaded the data of Bloomberg and the average from
> 4/4/1986 to 3/22/2004 was 23.10973 (median 22.245) with a standard
> deviation of 8.272614. That was a lot higher than I was lead to believe
> in the news, but they may have included earlier years. Just an FYI in
> case anyone was interested.
>
> Gabriel
>
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