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Nifty50 valuation hits all-time high as investors bid up share prices

Index is trading at 30.4 times its trailing 12-month earnings per share, highest since it began reporting its ratios in 1999

In March, the reading on the risk-love indicator was that of peak panic, suggesting it was time to buy
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The current valuation is 38 per cent higher than the 10-year average of 22x and over 50 per cent higher than the 20-year average of around 20x

Krishna Kant Mumbai
As equity investors bid up share prices on Dalal Street, the valuation of the benchmark indices has hit an all-time high.

At the close of trade on Wednesday, the NSE Nifty 50 index price-to-earnings (PE) multiple reached an all-time high of 30.4 times its trailing 12-month earnings per share (EPS).

The current valuation is 38 per cent higher than the 10-year average of 22x and over 50 per cent higher than the 20-year average of around 20x.

In comparison, the index was valued at 28.6x at its life-time high of around 12,355 on January 16 this year.

The Nifty 50 valuation ratios are available

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